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��Congregationalist, Ladies' Home Journal, Wom- an's Home Companion, N.Y. Evening Post and various other publications. Congregationalist. Mem. Vassar Alumnas Ass'n, Vassar Students' Aid Soc, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, Nat. Geographic Soc. Recreations: Mountain climb- ing, boating. Mem. (Jet Together Club, Brook- line Friday Club, Boston College Club. BANOU8, Dora Knowlton (Mrs. William V.

Ranous), The Nat. Alumni, 34 Union Sq., N.T.

City.

Elditor, translator; b. Ashfleld, Mass.; dau. Alexander and Augusta (Knowlton) Thompson; ed. private schools and tutors; m. Whitby, Can., May 26, 1881, William V. Ranous; one daughter: Alice Knowlton Ranous. Entered upon literary work, 1898, as editor of educational text-books for Silver, Burdett & Co.; later joined D Appleton & Co., and contributed to Appletou's Annual Cyclopedia and to The Criterion magazine. Edi- tor and translator for M. Walter Dunne of the first complete editions of works of Guy dc Mau- passant (15 vols.) and Gustave Flaubert (10 vols.), and edited a 20-vol. edition of Benjamin Dis- raeli, Earl of Beaconsfleld. For the Maison Mazarin (N.Y. City), under sanction of the Academle Franealse, became editor and translator of The Immortals (20 vols.), masterpieces of French fiction by academicians of the 19th century. In 1906 was editor and translator (with Rossiter Johnson) for the Nat. Alumni (N.Y. City) of The Literature of Italy (16 vols.), also of The Authors' Digest (20 vols.); mem. of edi- torial staff of Funk & Wagnalls' new Standard Dictionary, 1911-12. Author: The Diary of a Daily D6butante, 1910 (first edition published anonymously). Favors woman tuffrage. RANSOM, Alice Ruth Carter (Mrs. Paul C.

Ransom), Rainbow Lake, Franklin Co., N.T. ;

winter: Pine Knot Camp, Cocoanut Grove,

Fla.

Patroness and owner of Adirondack-Florida School; b. Williamstown, Mass., Sept. 17, 1865; dau. Franklin and Sarah Leavenworth (Kings- bury) Carter; ed. Miss Porter's School, Farming- ton, ConiL; m. Orange Mountain, N.J., July 25, 1893, Paul C. Ransom. School year of 1901-02 spent in educational work in Hampton Inst., Hampton, Va. Interested in the Adirondack anti-tuberculosis work and in Bishop Gray's work for Seminole Indians in Southern Florida. Writer of plays published in Harper's Bazar. Olubs: Women's Cosmopolitan Cluto, N.Y. City. Recreation: Canoeing. (Congregationalist. Against woman suffrage; mem. N.Y. State Ass'n Opposed to Woman Suffrage.

RANSOM, Ann Baldwin (Mrs. Charles A. Ran- som), 100 North Munn Av., E. Orange, N.J.

Born Jan. 30, 1871, Baltimore, Md. ; dau. J. Ferdinand and Ann L. C. (Baldwin) Passano; grad. from the Misses Reinhardt's School, Balti- more, 1889; m. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 17, 1907, Chaj-les A. Ransom. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Southern Society of the Oranges. RANSOM, Marlon, Highland Av., Piedmont,

Cal.

Teacher; b. San Francisco, Oct. 5, 1866; dau. Blisha and Mary (Wilson) Ransom; ed. Miss West's School, San Francisco; Vassar A.B. '88; Univ. of Cal.; Radcliffe, 1898-99. Principal Miss Head's School, Berkeley, 1900-04; principal Miss Ransom's School, Piedmont, since 1906. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Republican Pro- gressive. Mem. Vassar Students' Aid, Century Club of San Francisco, Collegiate Alumnae (California Branch), Sierra Club. RANSOME, Amy Cordoba Rock (Mrs. Frederick

Leslie Ransome), 14B5 Belmont St., Washing- ton, D.C.

Born Argentine Republic, April 25, 1872; dau. Miles and Susan (Clark&on) Rock of Lancaster, Pa ; graduated from Washington High School, '88, and Bryn Mawr College, A.B. '9S; ass't In chemical laboratory and grad. student Bryn Mawr Coll., 1893-94; fellow in chemistry, 1894-95; student Univ. of Heidelberg, 1895-96; Univ. of Berlin, 1896-97; in music, Anton Gloetzner, 1881- 65; in Berlin, Frau Joachim, 1896; m. Washing-

��ton, D.C, May 25, 1899, Frederick Leslie Ran- some; children: Janet, b. 1900; Susan, b. 1901; Violet, b. 1903; Alfred Leslie, b. 1910. Made ad- dress before House Com. on District Affairs in Congress in behalf of the Intermunicipal Re- search Com. and of the Ass'n of CoUegis-te Alumn« of Washington, D.C, resulting in pasage of a law for regulation of employment agencies; address before Secretary Wilson and Pure Food Board at public hearing, protesting against bleaching flour, in behalf of House- keepers' Alliance. Interested in constructive philanthropy, social service and especially in the conservation of the home and children's welfare; interested in eugenics, spelling reform, and the Montessori method of educating young children. Author: The Social Service of Homemakers in Washington, D.C. (Bryn Mawr Quarterly), 1905; Relation of the Housewife to the Baker (in sev- eral bakers' journals), 1911. Mem. College Set- tlement Ass'n, Bryn Mawr Alumnae Ass'n, Wash- ington branch of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnee (pres. of branch, 1909-10). Instrumental in found- ing Housekeepers' Alliance (delegate from same to cooperate with Civil Service Council of Wash- ington, D.C); mem. Neighborhood House (Wash- ington) Day Nursery for Colored Children. Mem. Friday Morning Music Club, Washington Bryn Mawr Club, College Woman's Club. Recreations: Singing, music, rythmic dancing, gardening, bird study, natural history (all with the children). Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage Ass'n of Washington, D.C. Democrat. BANSOM-KEHLER, Mrs. Keith, 419 Lake Boule- vard, St. Joseph, Mich.

Lecturer, teacher; b. Dayton, Ky. (Nannie Keith Bean); grad. Vassar, A.B. '98; Albion Coll., A.M. 1904; student Univ. of Mich., summer, 1904; m. (1st) Ralph Ransom; (2d) Mr. Kehler; two daug'hters by first marriage. Prof. English liter- ature in Albion Coll., 1904-05; teacher Niles (Mich.) High School, 1909. Author: Municipal Ownership in St. Joseph, Mich. BATHBUN, Mary Jane, Hammond Court, Wash- ington, D.C.

Curator U.S. National Museum; b. Buffalo, N.Y., June 11, 1830; dau. Charles Howland and Jane (Furey) Rathbun; ed. grammar schools and high school, Buffalo, N.Y. Employed by U.S. Fish Commission, 1884-87; since 1887 in U.S. Na- tional Museum as assistant curator of marine invertebrates. Elas published various papyers in Proceedings of U.S. Nat. Museum, Proceedings of Biological Soc. of Washington, P*roceedlng3 of Washington Acad, of Sciences, Bulletin and Memoirs Mus«um of Comparative Zoology of Harvard Coll., Transactions of Lhmean Soc. of London, Nouvelles Archives Museum d'Hlstolre Naturelles, Paris., etc. Unitarian. Mem. Bio- logical Soc. of Washington, Washington Acad, of Sciences, Soc. of Am. Naturalists; fellow A.A.A.S. Recreation: Walking. RATTENBUBY, Bertha, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Heroine; b. Charlottetown, June 30, 1894; dau. Nelson and Martha J. (Pearden) Rattenbury; ed. Prince Street School, Charlottetown, and now at- tending Mt. Allison Ladles' Coll., Sackville, N.B. English origin. The family was prominent In Okehampton, Devonshire, in 1600. Methodist. Recreations: Swimming, boating, riding, Cana- dian hockey, basketball, tennis. Was aw&rded a silver medal and the sum of $2,000 for educa- tional purposes by the Carnegie Hero Fund Com- mission, November, 1909; also the Canadian Hu- mane Soc. medal and a valuable gold watch and chain from Mrs. W. W. Wellner and family In recognition of her heroism In saving Miss Abigail J. Wellner from death by drowning In Charlotte- town Harbor, Aug. 6, 1909.

RAUH, Flora Mayer (Mrs. Henry Rauh), 2044

N. Illinois St., Indianapolis, Ind.

Bom Cleveland, O., Mar. 7, 1870; dau. Leopold and Rosa (Hexter) Mayer; ed. public schools, 1876-89, and Normal Training School of Cleveland; teacher in Cleveland schools; m. Cleveland, O., Jan. 23, 1900, Henry Rauh. Mem. Indianapolis Civic League, Indianapolis Boys' Club, Falrview Settlement, Children's Aid Afis'n, ConsamerQ'

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