Page:Woman's who's who of America, 1914-15.djvu/666

 678

��REED— REID

��BEKD, Bosa Aurelia Nichols (Mrs. Charles Lincoln Reed), 35 Riverview Road, Brighton,

Born Osceola, Mo., Dec. 10, 1870; dau. Rev. Alpheus R. and Sarah Adelaide (Ransom) Nichols; ed. Boston Univ., 1888-89; Smith Coll., 1889-92, B.A. ; m. Monson, Mass., Dec. 29, 1897, Charles Lincoln Reed; children: Constance Tyler, Emily, Lucy Adelaide. Congregationalist. Mem. Smith College Alumnse Ass'n. Mem. Brightelm- Btone Club (recording sec. 1912-13). REED, Mrs. Stanley Forman, Maysvllle, Ky.

Bom in Kentucky, 1887; dau. James Withers and Mary Sharp (Hord) Elgin; ed. in Kentucky and Paris; one son: John A. Reed. Pres. Mays- vllle Woman's Club; chairman of Food Sanitation Ck>m. tor Ky. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. REEL, Estelle, The Arlington, Washington, D.C.

Educator, Grovernment official; b. Pittsfleld, III., 1866; ed. in schools of Chicago and St. Louis. Engaged in teaching; elected county sup't of public schools in Wyoming, 1887; State sup't of public instruction of Wyoming, 1894, serving until appointed in June, 1898, to present position of gen. sup't of Indian schools of U.S. REES, Ruby Almeda, 117 West Eighty-second St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Indianapolis, Ind. ; dau. Rotert H. and Caroline L. (Shipp) Rees; ed. Chicago Fe- male Coll., Morgan Park, 111. Founder and vice- pres. Daughters of Indiana in New York; sec. Auxiliary No. 6, Stony Wo!d Sanatorium Ass'n; chairman of a booth at annual Little Mothers' Aid Ass'n Bazaar. Has written many special ar- ticles and short stories. Mem. Young Women's Missionary Soc, Manhattan Study Club, Asso- ciated Clubs of Domestic Science. Mem. of the Pour Subscription Dances. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman Suffrage Party, Woman's Political Union, Nat. Inst, of Social Science.

REEVE, Katharine Roosevelt (Mrs. J. Stanley Reeve), Boggestowe House, Haverford, Pa. Born N.Y., April 18, 1887; dau. Alfred and Katharine (Lowell) Roosevelt; ed. Boston and aibroad; m. Boston, April 17, 1909, J. Stanley Reeve; children: J. Stanley Reeve Jr., Lawrence Lowel Reeve. Author; Covertside Courtship, 1909. Recreations: Out-door life, hunting. REEVE, Margaretta Willis (Mrs. Augustus Henry Reeve), Moorestown, N.J. Born Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 12, 1871; dau. Henry and Kate Irving (Dayton) Baldwin; ed. Miss Randolph's, Baltimore; m. Oct. 7, 1891, Augustus Henry Reeve; children: Katharine, Augustus Henry, Richard Henry. Pres. N.J. Congress of Mothers; special agent U.S. Office of Public Roads; mem. N.J. Conference of Charities and Correction, N.J. Consumers' League, Moores- town Current Events Club, Camp Fire Girls of America. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian. REEVES, Elizabeth Hoffman (Mrs. Charles F. Reeves), 40 E. Av., Bridgeton, N.J. Born Gloucester City, N.J., Jan. 15, 1862; dau. Edmund and Mary Adams (Gaunt) Hoffman; ed. Friends' Central School, Philadelphia; m. Glou- cester City Dec. 10, 1884, Charles F. Reeves; children: Edmund Hoffman, Henry Kennedy, Charles Fithian. Organizer of Bridgeton Hos- pital in 1898 (pres. Board of Managers since or- ganization). Interested in church work and mem. of choir. Against woman suffrage. Pres- byterian Mem. Bridgeton Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Recreations: Music, euchre club. Mem. Seven Oaks Club, Bridgeton Civic Club* (both federated),

REEVES, Winona Evans (Mrs. Harry J. Reeves), 520 North 5th St., Keokuk, la. Born Big Mound, la., Aug. 14, 1871; dau. Dr. James McFarland and Helen Isabel (Lusk) Evans- ed. Whittier Acad., Iowa Wesleyan Univ 'b.S. M.S. '91 (mem. P.E.O.); m. Salem, la Dec 23 1897, Harry J. Reeves; children: Helen Lusk, Agnes Evans. Taught in Platts- mouth Neb., and Omaha high schools as teacher of Latin tor two years; taught mathematics four years Mem. First Westminster Presbyterian Church. Has been prea. of the Iowa Grand ChaDter of P.E.O.; was national pres. 1909-11;

��has served on State and national committees ol D.A.R. ; was chairman of State com. which se- cured the passage of the bill in Iowa Legislature in 1913 to protect the flag from desecration and improper use. Has been sec. and regent of the Keokuk Chapter D.A.R. ; pres. of the Civic League (local organization having 200 members). Favors woman suffrage. Has written for news- papers and magazines; has spoken on various subjects before conventions and conferences and at many public meetings at Keokuk. Sjxike be- bore tlie Southeastern Iowa Teachers' Ass'n, 1913; has spoken at club federations. State con- ferences of D.A.R. twice and before P.E.O. State conventions In eight different States. Recrea- tion. Social life. Mem. Current Events Club, Keokuk Woman's Club, Travel Club, Keokuk Country Club; a director of Keokuk Y.W.C.A. since 1905. Extensive traveler. REGAX, Mary Lncinda, 91 Elm St., W. Spring- field, Mass.

Teacher of piano; b. Hopedale, O., Jan. 24, 1863; dau. Edwin and Flora (Krum) Regal; grad. Oberlin Coll., A.B. '83; Oberlin Conservatory ol Music, Mus.B. ; studied piano in Berlin, Ger- many; pupil of Moritz Moszkowski and of HaroW Bauer. Taught Latin in preparatory school ol Oberlin Coll., 1883-87; taught piano in Ohio Wes- leyan Univ., 1889-90; in Harcourt Place School for Girls, Gambler, O., 1890-94; in 189G introduced course in appreciation of mu.sic into High School of Springfield, Mass. Private teacher of plane and of music appreciation and harmony in Central High School, Springfield. Has appeared often as pianist and lecturer in public and in private. Has contriibuted original articles, criti- cisms, literary and musical, and translations tc various magazines and newspapers. Recreation: Walking. Mem. Springfield C!ollege Club. BEHAN, Ada, 164 W. Ninety-third St., N.Y. City.

Actress; b. Ck>uni,y Limerick, Ireland, Apr. 22, 1860; parents, who were named Crehan, brought her to U.S. in 1865 and settled in Brooklyn, where she attended the public schools. First appeared on stage at Newark, N.J., in 1873, as Clara in Across the Continent, followed by a New York appearance at Wood's Museum in Thoroughbred; then joined the stock company of the Arch St. Theatre in Philadelphia, and in 1875 the Barney McAuley Stock Company In Louisville; in 1877 was at Albaugh's Theatre in Albany, and in 1879 in N.Y. City as Mary Standish in Augustin Daly's play of Pique, and as Virginie in Augustin Daly's dramatization of Zola's L'Assommoir. From the time of the opening of Augustin Daly's Theatre, Sept. 17, 1879, until the death of Mr. Daly, June 7, 1899, she was leading woman of that company and a foremost exponent of Shakespearian and other high class comedy, notably: Katharine in The Taming of the Shrew, Rosalind in As You Like It, Mistress Ford in "The Merry Wives of Wind- sor, Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Lady Teazle in Sheridan's School for Scandal, Julia in The Hunchback, Juliana in The Honeymoon, Miranda in The Tempest, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, and other roles -in which she had great success both in America and Great Britain. In 1900-01 went on tour in several of her leading parts; then re- tired from the stage for two years; played in season of 1903-04 with Otis Skinner as co-star, and for a short engagement In 1905 with Charles Rlchman as leading man. Since then has made few stage appearances.

REID, Alberta Bancroft (Mrs. James Steele Raid), 6440 Colby St., Oakland, Cal. Writer; b. San Francisco, Mar. 2, 1873; dau. Albert Little and Fannie (Watts) Bancroft; ed. privately by German governess and in private school, San Francisco; the Sophienschift, Weinar, Germany; grad. Ogontz (Pa.) School, '93; m. in Cal., July 24, 1901, James Steele Reid (lawyer). Author: Royal Rogues, 1901; frequent contributor of articles and short stories to Sunset Magazine. Presbyterian. Republican. Mem. D.A.R., Town and Country, Century and Fortnightly Clubs.

�� �