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��prof, biology and director of the museum. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Occasional contributor to newspapers, magazines and Bulletin of the Charleston Museum. Protestant Episcopalian. Mem. Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Charleston Nat. History Soc., Charles.ton Library Soc. Rec- reations: Motor -boating, tennis, swimming, tramping, camping, canoeing. Mem. Civic Club, Intercollegiate Club of S.C.

BEA, Mary Kathleen Coyle (Mrs. Ira Rea), Cal- gary, Alberta, Can.

Writer; b. Eatonville, Liscard, Cheshire, Eng- land; dau. James and Mary Coyle; grad. Wands- worth College, London, England (LL.D. St. An- drew's Univ., 1906); m. May, 1904, Ira Rea of Drew, Ontario. Contributor to newspapers and magazines.

BEAD, Abigail Dickinson Dreer (Mrs. Frank

Read), 4105 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.;

summer home, Twilight Park, Haines Falls,

N.Y.

Born Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Frederick A. and Louisa (Greble) Dreer; private education; m. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 31, 1901, Dr. Frank Read; one son: Clifford Jonathan Dickinson. Mem. Colonial Dames of America, New England Soc, D.A.R. (three times delegate to annual con- gress at Washington, D.C.) ; mem. of Philadel- phia Browning Soc, Geographical Soc; charter mem. "Plays and Players"; life mem. of Fair- mount Park Art Ass'n (and its city branch); stockholder Pennsylvania Acad, of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; vice-pres. and chairman Com. of Productions and Program of the Soc. of Arts and Letters; mem. Drama League; director Philadephla Orchestra; stockholder Academy of Music; pres. Woman's B'd of the Philadelphia Chest and Throat Clinic; mem. Matinee Musical Club, White Marsh Country Club. Episcopalian.

BEAD, EflSe Alberta, Bureau of Chemistry, De- partment of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Physician; b. Haverhill, Mass.; dau. Albert F. and Myra A. (Davis) Read; ed. Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1896-98; Cornell Univ., A.B. (Sigma XI), '03; M.A. '06; Ph.D. '07; George Washington Univ., M.D. '12. Ass't in zoology, Mt, Holyoke Coll., 1898-1901; ass't in histology, Cornell Medical School, Ithaca, N.Y., 1903-07. Microanalyst, Dep't Agriculture (Bureau of Chemistry), Washington, 1907. Contributions to anatomy published In Journal of Anatomy. Mem. A.A.A.S. Episco- palian. Favors woman suffrage. BEAD, Flora AUce, 88 S. Main St., Fond du Lac, Wis.

Physician; b. Lily Lake, 111., 1862; dau. Albert and Catherine E. (Sweet) Read; grad. Rockford Coll., B.A. '86; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Medical School, Chicago, M.D. '95. Has prac- tised profession in Fond du Lac since 1895. Sec Fond du Lac County Med. Soc. since 1902. Mem. Fond du Lac Equal Suffrage Soc. Congregation- alist. Mem. Wis. State Med. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n, Woman's Club of Fond du Lac.

BEAD, Helen ]L<««ib, Rlverbank Court, Cam- bridge, Mass.

Born St. John, N.B., 1864; dau. Guilford and Ella P. (Berryman) Shaw; ed. In schools of Boston and Cambridge, Mass.; Radcliffe Coll., A.B. '90. First winner of Sargent prize of Har- vard for tbe best translation of an ode of Horace, Book III, ode 29. For many years, until recently, mem. of Exec. Com. of Boston Associated Chari- ties. EJspecially interested in young girls; spare time given to the help of individuals not helped by organizations. Author: Miss Theodora (novel), 1898; Brenda, Her School and Her Club, 1900; Brenda' s. Summer at Rickley, 1901; Brenda's Cousin at Radoliffe, 1902; Brenda's Bargain, 1903; Irma and Nap, 1904; Amy in Acadia, 1905; Brenda's Ward, 1906; Napoleon's Young NeJgh- bor, 1907; Irma in Italy, 1908; also articles in various magazines, poems and stories in periodi- cals. Vice-pres. Boston branch of Am. Folk- Lore Soc, Woman's Education Ass'n, Mass. branch of Women's Auxiliary Civil Service Re- form I>eague, Am. Peace Soc, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Circolo Italiano, Boston Deutsches Gesellsdiaft, Drama League, Copley Soc, Poetry Soc. of London, Atlantic tfnlon (London), etc.

��Recreations: Travel, photography, music. Mem. College Club, Authors' Club, Musical Art Club (Boston), Lyceum Club (London), Authors' League of N.Y. City, College Equal Suffrage League, Women's Municipal League, Equal Suf- frage Ass'n for Good Government, Radcliffe Aiumnse Ass'n, Animal Rescue League. BEAD, Katharine Bell, Hampton Inst., Hamp- ton, Va., also 18 Westminster Av., Roxbury, Mass.

EJxecutive sec; b. South Deerfleld, Mass.; dau. George Mumford and Ellen Hadley (Bowdlear) Read; ed. Howard Sem., West Bridgewater, Mass.; Wellesley Coll., B.A. (mem. Zeta Alpha). Teacher; sec. academic dep't Hampton Inst., Va. Interested In settlement work, child labor legisla- tion, the advancement of the negro and foreign missions. Favors \voman suffrage. Congrega- tionalist. Republican. Mem. College Settlements' Ass'n, Wellesley Coll. Alumnae Ass'n, Nat. Child Labor Com., Missionary Education Soc. Recreation: Travel.

BEAD, Lnella Jane, 302 West St., Shenandoah, Iowa- Born Shenandoah, Iowa, May 8, 1878; dau. Thomas H. and Ermina (Allphin) Read; ed. Ann Arbor High School, Tabor ColL, Univ. of Mich., A.B. '02, Ph.D. '10; Univ. of Berlin, Germany. Mem. Public Library B'd; chairman of Book Com.; sup't Congregational Sunday-school; mem. State Sunday-school Com. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n, Religious Education Ass'n. Rec- reations: Automobile driving, photography. Mem. Art Study Club. Teacher, Shenandoah High School, 1898-1900; dean of women and teacher of German, South Dakota State Normal School, 1904-06; active in promoting educational work; gives addresses on travel, literary and religious subjects.

BEAD, Mary Lillian, 620 West End Av., N.Y. City.

Educator; b. Cedar Rapids, la.. Mar. 1, 1878; dau. John A. and Mary Elizabeth (Barlow) Read; ed. High School, Peoria, 111.; Univ. of Chicago; Clark Univ.; Teachers Coll. of Columbia Univ., B.S. Teacher in public and private schools, Wash- ington, D.C; Buffalo, New York and Brooklyn. Social investigator for Federal Immigration Com- mission, N.Y. Child Welfare Com.; organized school of Mothercraft, 1911. Active in resident work In social settlements; lecturer on eugenics. Magazine writer on topics relating to children and social welfare. Mem. Ass'n for Prevention of Infant Mortality, Eugenics Educational Soc, Home E>conomlcs Ass'n, Religious Educational Ass'n, Women's Municipal League. Recreations: Walking, tennis, rowing, camping, gardening, music.

BEAD, Buth Sears (Mrs. Edward Read), 24 Highland St., Cambridge, Mass. Born Boston, Oct. 12, 1S62; dau. Willard Thomas Sears (architect) and May (Motte) Sears; ed. private school, Boston; m. Boston, Jan. 8, 1889, Edward Read (Harvard, '69); chil- dren: Edward Sears, b. 1890; Marian Motte, b. 1893. Director in various religious and philan- thropic activities. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Cambridge Political Equality Ass'n. Unitarian.

BEBASZ, Enrlth Trabne Pattlaon (Mrs. William Mortimer Rebasz), 1 Livingston Road, Roches- ter, N.Y.

Seminary principal; b. New Orleans, La., Oct. 25, 1360; dau. Robert Trabue and Mary Ann (Glennon) Pattlson; ed. in French School of Mme. La Franc, New Orleans, and in Rochester, N.Y., at Livingston Park Sem., grad '79; m. Rochester, Sept. 4, 1S79, William Mortimer Rebasz. Engaged in teaching; since 1900 prin- cipal of Livingston Park Sem.; mem. Board of Supervisors of Rochester Homceopathic Hos- pital. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R.

BEBEB, Anna Marie Walton (Mrs. Joel Howard Reber), Ridley Park, Delaware Co., Pa. Born Philadelphia. Pa., Oct. 7, 1882; dau.

Charles Whitman and Margaxetta V. (Dubois)

Walton; ed. Philadelphia public schools; - m.

PhUadelphla, Mar. 3L 1902, Joel Howard Reber.

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