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��Ohio; Southern Normal, Huntingdon, Tenn.; took teacher's commercial scientific and classic courses; m. Huntingdon, Tenn., Feb. 20, 1899, Dr. Clyde Edison Purcell; children: Ewarc E. G. (deceased), S. LaVerne, E. Lois. Teacher for twenty years in graded schools and universi- ties; conducted Teachers' Institutes, Summer Normal; mem. Board of Examiners for Teachers, twelve years; mem. Board of Education, Padu- cah, Ky. Author: Settlements and Cessions of Louisiana; Kentucky Kernels; A History of Livingston Co., Ky.; An Outline of American Literature, 1608-1913; Paducah in History, also numerous poems. Introduced resolution in local cluh that secured indorsement of city, county and State health oflBcers, that resulted In law pro- hibiting public drinking cups in Ky. Interested in the Woman's Hospital League (founder and pres. since organization; recently elected pres. for life), chairman Year Book and of Education in United Daughters of Confederacy; mem. Board of Education of Paducah, Ky. ; mem. of Jefferson School Improvement League. Mem. Church Furnishing Soc, Woman's Club of Paducah, Ky. Democrat. Chairman of the Leg- islative Com. State Fed. of Women's Clubs of First Congregational District of Ky. Favors woman suffrage.

PUBDON, Josephine Wilson (Mrs. James Pur- don), 541 Commonwealth Av., Boston, Mass. Born Boston, June 28, 1874; dau. Cecil P. and Josephine (Nourse) Wilson; ed. Mrs. Quincy Shaw's School, Boston; Paris, France; m. Bos- ton., Dec. 12, 1905, James Purdon; one daughter: Josephine Nourse. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recreations: Singing, painting, tennis.

PURDUE, Ida Pace (Mrs. Albert Homer Purdue), 1805 Eighteenth Av., South, Nash- ville, Tenn.

Born Harrison, Ark., Jan. 4, 1869; dau. William Fletcher and Sarah Jane (Howell) Pace; ed. Univ. of Ark., B.A., '88 (mem. Chi Omega), grad stu- dent Cornell Univ., 1894-95; Univ. of Chicago, '97; m. Harrison, Ark.. Dec. 22, 1898, Dr. Albert Homer Purdue; children: Branner Pace, Richard Howell. Teacher Union Coll., Oxford, Miss., 1890-91: Valley Sem., Waynesboro, Va., 1891-92; Central Coll., Lexington, Mo., 1893-94; Univ. of Ark., 1895-98. Editor of Eleusis of Chi Omega, 1899-1904; Nat. pres. of Chi Omega, 1904-10. Pres- byterian. Mem. United Daughters of the Con- federacy.

PUKINGTON, Beulah Frances, 9A Mechanic

St., Attleboro, Mass.

Teacher; b. Mechanic Falls, Me., July 5, 1883; dau. Francis O. and Addle P. (Smullen) Purington; grad. Colby Coll., A.B. 1906, magna cum laude. Phi Beta Kappa (mem. Chi Omega). Taught in South Paris (Me.) High School, 1906- 07; Llvermore Falls (Me.) High School, 1907- 1910; Edward Little High School, Auburn, Me., 1910-11; head of English Dep't, Attleboro (Mass.) High School, 1911 —. Congregationalist. Mem. Attleboro Teachers' Ass'n, Attleboro Woman's Club.

PURINGTON. Louise C. (Mrs. D. Purington),

23 AUston St., Dorchester, Mass.

Temperance worker; b. Madjson, N.Y., July 3, 1844; dau. Isaac and Harriet (Putnam) Chamber- lain; grad. Mt. Holyoke Sem. (now college), '64; Hahnemann Med. Coll., Chicago, M.D. '74; post- graduate study in New York hospitals. Ac- tively interested in temperance work since medi- cal college days, colaborer with the late Frances Willard In the early movements and efforts; ap- pointed Nat. Sup't of Dep't of Health and Heredity of the Nat. W.C.T.U.; edited mission- ary W.C.T.U. papers; appointed at World's W.C.T.U. Convention in Geneva, Switzerland, as World's Sup't of Cooperation with Missionary Societies. Writer of numerous manuals, book- lets and magazine contributions on many phases of the temperance question. Always a suffragist.

PUBINTON, Alice »Iaj, Waterville, Me.

Bom Waterville, Me., Apr. 15, 1877; dau. Hor- ace and Clara M. (Preble) Purlnton; ed. Colby Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa), '99; Boston Normal

��School, kindergarten dep't (mem. Sigma Kappa). Sec. Waterville Woman's Club, 1910-12. Baptist. Taught in Boston, Mass., public kindergarten, Charlestown district, 1902-04; now engaged in clerical work with Horace Purinton Company.

PUBSELL, Anna Ford (Mrs. Charles W. Pur- sell). 916 Hays St., Boise, Idaho. Born Maineville, O., Feb. 27, 1860; dau. Nathaniel and Mary E. (Smith) Ford; descendant of Mayflower ancestors (James Chilton and Stephen Hopkins); ed. Washington High School; m. Washington C.H., 0., Jan. 6. 188U, Charles W. Pursell; children: Georgia, Harry Burton, Helen. Student of literature; interested in phil- anthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Meth- odist. Republican; takes active interest in poli- tics. State regent of D.A.R. (formed the first chapter in Idaho).

PUBVIN, Jennie Franltlin (Mrs. Moses L. Pur-

vin), 4019 Lake Av., Cliicago, 111.

Born Chicago, Aug. 23, 1873; dau. Henry B. and Hannah (Mayer) Franklin; ed. North Divi- sion High School and Univ. of Chicago; m. Chi- cago, Oct. 19, 1899; children: Janet Fredericka, Nata Jule. Club woman; chairman, 1911-12, Oakland School Parents' and Teachers' Ass'n; mem. and sec, 1909-11, Ruth Home for Work- ing Girls. Favors woman suffrage; mem. 111. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Departmental editor. The Sentinal, weekly Chicago paper. Jewish. Mem. Woman's City Club; pres., 1911-15, Chi- cago Woman's Aid, an organization of 935 women interested in civic and philanthropic activitieE; mem. Advisory Board Oakland Branch of the Juvenile Protective Ass'n; chairman Civic Com., 111. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1912-14.

PUTEBBAUGH, Margaret May Lohr (Mrs.

William L. Puterbaugh), MilledgevUIe, 111.

Born Mt. Carroll, 111., Oct. 26, 1873; dau. Solo- man and Sarah Belle Puterbaugh; grad. Mt. Car- roll High School and Frances Shimer Acad., Mt Carroll; m. St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 23, 1901, William L. Patei'baugh. Deeply interested in Sunday- school work, teaching an organized class of 60 women. Favors woman suffrage; sup't suffrage dep't in local W.C.T.U. Mem. of the Brethren Church. Recreations: Walking, automobiling. Charter mem. and now cor. sec. Milledgeville Woman's Club; sec. Household Science Dep't Carroll Co., 111., Farmers' Inst, past three years.

PUTN.4JVI, Bertha Haven, Mount Holyoke Coll.,

South Hadley, Mass.

Teacher; b. N.Y. City, Mar. 1, 1872; dau. George Haven and Rebecca (Shepard) Putnam; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '93; Columbia Univ., Ph.D. '09. Instructor in history at Mount Holyoke Coll., 1908-12; on leave of absence for a year, and engaged in historical research work in London, 1912-13, and holder Alice Freeman Palmer me- morial fellowship; teacher Latin, Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore, Md., 1893-95; Brearley School, N.Y. City, 1895-97. Favors woman suffrage. Au- thor: The Justices of Labourers in the Fourteenth Century, 1906; The Enforcement of the Statutes of Labourers During the First Decade After the Black Death, 1908. Mem. Am. Economic Ass'n, Am. Historical Ass'n, Am. Ass'n for Labor Legis- lation, Selden Soc. (England), N.Y. Consumers' League, College Settlements Ass'n, Ass'n of Col- legiate Alumnae, Bryn Mawr Alumnae Ass'n. Clubs: N.Y. Women's University, N.Y. Bryn Mawr.

PUTNAM, Bessie Lucina, Harmonsburg, Pa.

Born Harmonsburg, Pa., Aug. 2, 1859; dau. Levi and Elizabeth (Whiting) Putnam; ed. Alle- gheny Coll., Meadville, Pa., A.M. '88 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Contributor to Scientific American, Suburban Life, Llppincott's Magazine, Housekeeper, Forest and Stream. Out-door Life, Success, Good Housekeeping, Delineator, Modern Priscilla, MeClure's syndicates. Mothers' Maga- zine, Park and Cemetery, Education, Journal of Education, Botanical Gazette, etc., and many agricultural and other papers. Recreations: Botany, natural history In all phases, birds (an advocate of their protection). Has edited dep'ts in several educational periodicals and furnished editorial copy regularly to others.

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