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��and with Robert Henri, both in Paris ajid N.Y., bJso under Raphael Collin, Paris. Received di- ploma from Boston Art School. Exhibited in Paris Salon of 1900-01, Philadelphia, Boston and N.Y. City. Unitarian. Mem. Copley Soc. and Denison House (Boston).

PERRY, Edith Dean Weir (Mrs. James DeWolf Perry), Bishop's House, 3 Brown St., Provi- dence, R.I.

Miniature painter; b. New Haven, Conn., 1875; flau. Prof. John Ferguson and Mary (French) Weir: ed. private school; Yale School of Fine A-rts; N.Y. Art League; pupil ot Lucia Fairchild Fuller; m. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 2, 1908, Rt. Rev. James DeWoU" Perry (now Bishop of Rhode Island); children: James DeWolf, b. Nov. 3, 1908; Beatrice Weir, b. July, Idle. Ou Board of Managers of St. Mary's OiT>hanage, Providence; Board of ManagM^ of Providence Rescue Homa; Social Service Com. of Girls' Friendly Society; Com. on Girls' Friendly Society Lodge for Working Girls. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Progressive in polltioe.

PERRY, Emma Elizabeth, Dublin, Georgria.

Teacher; b. near Dublin, Ga., June 6, 1879; dau. J. B. and Charasta (Vanlandlngham) Perry; ed. in country school of village and Athens State Normal School (holds diploma). Since graduation in 1905 at State Normal, taught one year at Rabun Gap Ga. ; built Poplar Springs Industrial School, eignt miles from Dublin, and taught It six years (a school which, wa.3 the beginning of a great educational awakening In Laurens Co.); resigned May 13, 1812. Baptist. Taking post- graduate course at State Normal School.

PERRY, Julia B. (Mrs. Newton Perry), Sap't

Girls' Industrial School, Beloit, Kan.

Teacher; b. Stewart, O., Mar. 24, 1860; dau. Seth and Mary (Scptt) Bailey; ed. Marietta (O.) Coll.; m. (l&t) 1878, John B. Douglas; (2d) New- ton, Kan., 1885, Newton Perry; one son: John B. Douglas. For past 12 years sup't of State Institution at Beloit, Kan. ; prevloua to that time a public school teacher. Favors woman suf- frage. M«thodiat, PERRY, Lllla Cabot (Mrs. Thomas Sergeant

Perry), 312 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Artist, writer; b. Boston, Mass.; dau. Samuel and Hannah Lowell (Jackson) Cabot; ed. in Bos- ton schools; studied painting in Boston and at the Acadfmie Julian and Colorossi Studio In Paris; m. Boston, April 9, 1874, Thomas Sergeant Perry, author. Elxhibited at Paris Salon, 1889; Massachusetts Mechanics Ass'n Exhibition (silver medal), 1892, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 (bronze medal), and in other exhi- bitions. Translator of Tourguenleffs Poems In Prose. Author: Heart of the Weed; The Garden of Hellas; Impressions.

PERRY, Stella Georee Stem (Mrs. Georre Hough Perry), Hackensack, N.J., and San Francisco, Cal.

Writer; b. New Orleans, La., Dec. 8, 1877: dau. George and Carolyn (Silverstein) Stern; grad. Barnard Coll., A.B. '98, class poet (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi); m. N.Y. City, Sept 19, 1906, George Hough Perry. Sec. Consumers' League of N.J. ; vlce-pres. and chairman Relief Com. of Gen. Welfare Soc. of Hackensack; special Inspector of labor (volunteer). State of N.J. ; mem. N.J. Child Labor Com. Appeared before N.J. Legislature in behalf of several measures for working women and children; lecturer on child labor, moral prophylaxis and safeguarding girls; amateur gar- dener. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Go to Sleep (juvenile); Melindy (adult Action); When Mother Lets Us Act (Juvenile); also poems, Btories and special articles In many newspapers Rnd magazines; Introduction to Everygirls' Li- brary. Unitarian. Socialist. Mem. Women's Alli- ance of Unitarian and other liberal churches, Children's Relief and General Welfare Soc, Con- Bumers' League, Soc. of Moral and Sanitary Prophylaxis, Nat. Plant FYult and Flower Guild, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc., Socialist Party, Barnard Coll. Alunmae Ass'n, Alpha Omicron Pi Fraternity. Recreations: Gardening, walking. Mem. Women's Club of Hackensack.

��PETERS, Amelia C. (Mrs. Samuel R. Peters),

Newton, Kan.

Born Circleville, Ohio, Jan. 3, 1843; dau. Rev. John and Maria (McClellan) Doane; grad. high school with honors, Circleville, Ohio; m. Circle- ville, Ohio, Apr. 18, 1867. Samuel R. Peters (deceased); one son: Fletcher B., druggist. Resident of Kansas since 1873. Active mem. of the Home and Foreign Missionary societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Pres. of the Society of Associated Charities of Newton since 1905; mem. State Soc. of Charities and Corrections; mem. State Historical Soc. ; charter mem. Woman's Relief Corps; auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. Suffragist. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, and was its grand matron for the State, 1884-85. Sec. of the County Historical Soc. since its organization. Mem. Kansas State Fed. of Women's Clubs (pres. 1898-99); mem. Themian Club (literary) and was pres. for nine years.

PETERS, Eleanor Bradley (Mrs. Edward Mc- Clure Peters), 520 E. 2l8t St., Brooklyn, N.Y. ; summer: The Beacon, D«er Isle, Me. Born in Southborough, Massachusetts, daughter of Henry Hunter and Emily Cumminga (Bradley) Peters ; ed. Paris, France and Boston, Mass. ; m. N.Y. City, Feb. 2, 1892, Edward McClure Peters; one son: Edward McClure Peters Jr., b. Dec. 25, 1892. Interested In history and genea- ology. Favors woman suffrage; mem. N.Y. State Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Author: Hugh Peter, Preacher, Patriot, Philanthropist — A Mosaic (printed in Eissex Historical Collections), 1901; also Peters of New England, Bradley of Essex County, Mass. (local colonial history and gene- alogy). Episcopalian. Mem. Mary Washington Colonial Chapter D.A.R., N.Y. City; Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Woman's Auxiliary, Am. Scenic and Historic Soc., Red Cross Soc, Navy League, Audubon Soc, N.Y. Auxiliary of Southern Industrial Educational Ass'n, Washington Headquarters' Ass'n, N.Y. Historical Society.

PETERS, Gabriella Brooke Farman, 237 W.

Ninty-ninth St., N.Y. City.

Teacher; b. N.Y. City; ed. Miss Rayson's School, N.Y. City; holder of second Bryn Mawr Matriculation Scholarship for New York, New Jersey and Delaware, 1903-05; grad. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '07. Teacher In Miss Rayson's School, N.Y. City, since 1907. Mem, Governing B'd of Consumers' League of N.Y. City, 1908-09; sec. Pure Food Com., 1907-08.

PETERS, Grace Rarey, 891 E. Broad St.,

Columbus, O.

Teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '01; fellow in philosophy, 1902-02, M.A. '03. Teacher of history in Columbus (O.) East High School, 1904-06 and since 1907. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnse, Smith Coll. Alumnse Ass'n.

PETERSON, Anna I-ockwood, 1120 S. 28th St., Omaha, Neb.; home: Evanston, HI. Teacher of Latin and Greek in Omaha High School; b. Nevada, Iowa, Mar. 16, 1878; dau. James Henry and Celeste (Martin) Peterson; ed. Hyde Park High School, Chicago; Univ. ot Chi- cago, A.B. '99; grad. with honors In English, philosophy, Latin and Greek; Phi Beta Kappa '99. Interested in social service. One of found- ers of Omaha Social Settlement Ass'n; director, 1908—; sec, 1909-10; chairman Classes and Clubs Com., 1908-09; teacher, 1908-. Mem. Nat. Con- suaners' League. Sec. Omaha Political Equality League; mem. Omaha Suffrage Ass'n; chairman Mem'bersJiip Extension for Neb. Woman's Suf- frage A»«'n; actively engaged in work of State organiiation, 1913-14. Metn. Woman's Com. to AsBJst Neb. Legislative Com. in Investigation of Minlmu'm Wage for Women, 1913. Addressed Omaha Political EUiuality League on Minimum Wage, 1913; OmAha Charter Commission on Equal Suffrage, A Problem in Conservation, 1913. Unitarian. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Univ. ot Chicago Alumnse Ass'n, Bursar Nat. Fed. of College Women, 1912-13; Am. Classical Ass'n, Classical Ass'n of Middle West and Soutb,

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