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��Independent Republican. Mem. Advisory Coun- cil of Peace Society of N.Y.; mem. American Civic Ass'n; N.Y. delegate for League (Nat.) of Am. Pen Women. Recreations: Out-door life. Pres. Pen and Brush Club for last 14 years; director of MacDowell Club; mem. N.Y. Wom- an's Press Club, Wednesday Afternoon Club, Lyceum Club of London.

SEVERAN'CE, Emily A. (Mrs. S. L. Severance), 8S21 Euclid Av., Cleveland, O. Born Kinsman, Ohio, June 9, 1840; dau. Dr. Dudley and Janet M. (Frame) Allen; ed. Cleve- land Female Sem. ; m. Kinsman, Ohio, S. L. Severance; children: Julia W. (Mrs. B. L. Milli- kin), Prof. Allen D. Severance. Mary H. Inter- ested in home and foreign missions and various philanthropic oiganizations of the city and country; pres. Board of Lady Managers of the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. Pres- byterian.

SEVEKANCE, Lena Lilian (Mrs. Frank Hay- ward Severance), 150 Jewett Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Bom Isle La Motte, Vt. ; dau. Henry C. and Cornelia (Scott) Hill; grad. from classical course of Oswego Normal School, (Cornell '80; completed the course in three years of Science and Letters; m. Isle La Motte, Aug. 19, ISSo, Frank Hayward Severance (editor of Buffalo Sunday E.xpress; sec. of Buffalo Historical Soc. Author: Old Trails on Niagara Frontier; The Story of Joncaire; Studies of the Niagara Frontiers, etc.); children; Hay- ward, Merriam, Mildred, Edith Lilian. Inter- ested in educational legislation to advance the profession of teaching, through payment of better salaries and a pension system in the State Normal Schools of N.Y. As chairman of committee on Educational Legislation of the Collegiate Alumn.«, has .secured the passage of the first civil pension law of New York, cotamit- tinjj the State to the policy of pensioning Its Normal School Teachers; has assisted to secure a scholarship for Miss Tsuda's school in Tokio to permit a Japa.nese woman to do post-graduaLo work In America; Is a.ssisticg to maintain the Deaconess Home in Singapore, and endeavoring to form a committee and secure funds for the preservation of Phiise. Life m.ember of the Buf- falo Historical Society; mem. Ass'n of ColL AlumiiEe, Am. Ecocomic Ass'n. Recreations: Travel; has made three trips across Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans, visiting Europe, Africa, Japan, Straits Settlements, India, Bur- mah, Java. Episcopalian. Favors woman suf- frage. Republican.

SEVERANCE, Mary Francis (Mrs. Cardenio A. Severance), Cedarhurst, Cottage Grove, Minn., and St. Paul Hotel, St. l"'aul,M inn. Philanthropist; b. Somerset, Vv'is., May %, 1863; dau. General Samuel and Fidelia (Faning) Harri- man; ed. preparatory dep't Carleton Coll., North- field, Minn.; Weile^lcy Coll., B.S. 'So; post-grad. course in Univ. of Ziirich; ra. Cottage Grove, Minn., June 26, 1SS9, Cardenio A. Severance (lawyer). Mem. St. John's Episcopal C3hurch, St. Paul; mem. Board Protestant Orphan Asylum; mem. Soc. for PreventloQ of Cruelty, Woman's Welfare League, Graduate Council of Welleslcy Coll., St. Paul Inst. Author: Guide to American Citizenship, a guide-book for foreigners; col- lected and edited The Indian Legends of Minne- sota. Mem. thfi Assembly of St. Paul, College Club Ass'n, Ck)llegiate Alumnae, Town and Coun- try Club, Current Topics Club, Schubert Club. Recreations: Riding, walking, gardening. Episco- palian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Welfare League. SEVEK-iNCE, Sarah M., San Jos«, Cal.

Teacher; b. Cazenovia, N.Y., Sept. 22, 1835; dau. Apollas and Rhoda E. (Johnson) Severance; grad. Oneida Conference Sem., Cazenovia. 1857. Preceptress In Ellington Acad., N.Y. ; went to Cal. in 1S62; taught in San Jose Inst, until 1868; opened a sciiool in Gilroy, Cal., and conducted It until 1887. In early years a worker for-aboliflon of slavery; for years a church worker, also worker in benevolent societies in temperance, purity, peace and societies for the town in which she lives. Has lectured and written much for suffrage and temperance. For 20 years State

��sup't of suffrage W.C.T.U. ; now hon. pres. of State Suffrage Soc. and sec. local Suffrage Soc. Has written on reform subjects for newspapers, also many entertainments as: Jury Trials; Extra Session of California Legislatures, etc. Mein. Society of Friends. Prohibitionist. Patron Crit- tenton Rescue Home; mem. State Woman's Press Ass'n, W.C.T.U., Benevolent Soc, Coffee Club, two missionary societies, Ladies' Ass'n, Nat. Peace and Nat. Purity Ass'n. Mem. Suffrage Club, Civic Club, State Press Ass'n.

SEVIER, Clara DriscoU (Mrs. Henry H. Sevier),

37 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Burn St. Mary, Texas; dau. Robert and Julia (Fox) Driscoll; ed. Miss Peebles and Thompson's School, N.Y. City; Chateau Dieudonne, France; m. N.Y. City, 1906, Henry H. Sevier. Pres. Texas Club of N.Y. City; pres. Catholic Woman's Edu- cational League of Texas. Became interested in preserving the site of the historic Alamo Mission for the organization of the Daughters of the Republic cf Texas, and when the money for Its purchase could not be raised otherwise, put up the money for ihe property ($75,000) herself; was afterward reimbursed by a special act of the Twenty-ninth Texas Legislature and was made honorary custodian of the Alamo by the organi- zation. Author: The Girl of La Gloria; In tJtie Shade of the Alamo; also the opera Mexicana. Catholic. Clubs: Woman's Democratic, Pa- triotic Women of America, Dixie, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Minerva, Pen and Brush, N.Y. Chapter United Daughters of the Con- federacy.

SEWALL, Hannah Robie, Forest Glen, Md.

Economist; b. Boston, Mass., Oct. 22, 1861; dau. Joseph Sewall and Mary Vashon (Wright) Sewall; ed. in schools of St. Paul, Minn.; Univ. of Minn., A.B. '84. A.M. '87, Ph.D. '98; fellow in history, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1888-89; fellow by_ courtesy li599- 90. Interested in^hild labor reform and woman suffrage. Author: The Theory of Value Before Adam Smith, a monograph; Child Labor in the United States. Unitarian. Mem. Nat. Child Labor Com., Just Government League of Mary- land, Civic Study Club of Forest Glen, Md. Present chief activity is keeping bees.

SEWAXJL, Helen Sidney Ditnmrs (Mrs. Millard Freeman Sewell), 195 S. Commerce St., Bridgeport, N.J.

Born Philadelphia, Apr. 2, 1881; dau. Frazler R. and Emma J. (Douty) Ditmars; ed. Phila- delphia High School, 1895-99, Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '09; m. Philadelphia, June 30, 1306, MUlard Freeman Sewell, M.D. ; children: Helen, b. Oct, 1907; Mildred Freeman Sewall Jr., b. Dec, 1908. Teacher of Latin in Wlssahickon Heights School, Philadelphia, 1903-04; Latin, Gerraan and m&th<^• matios, 1904-05; substitute teacher in the Girls' High School, Philadelphia, 1905-06. Recre.iti.--n: A student of smging. Protestant Episcopal.

SEWALL, May Wrigrht (Mrs. Theodore T.ovei.t Sewall), Meadowyld Cottas>', Eliot, Mp. Teacher, writer, lecturer; b. Greenfic-ld, Mil- waukee Co., Wis.; dau. Philander Montague and Mary Weeks (B/ackett) Wright; ed. in academies at Wauwatosa and Bloomington, Wis.; North- western Univ. (Chicago), B.L., A.M.; m. In- dianapolis, lud., Oct. 30, 1880, Theodore Lovett Sewall. Was the first woman sup't of schools (town schools) in Mich (at Plainwell); principal of high school, Franklin, Ind. ; teacher of Ger- man, Indianapolis High School; co-founder, with her husband, and principal of Girls' Classical School, Indianapolis, 1SS2-1907. Interested in the higher education and political enfranchisement of women, in literature and the humanities and in moral and social reform (especially the Peace movement). Founder of the Art Ass'n of In- dianapolis, the Propylajum Ass'n and the Indian- apolis branch of the Alliance Francaise, also the local Council of Women, Indianapolis; the Na- tional Council of Women (U.S.), and the Interna- tional Council of Women (now honorary pres. of both), the chief object of which is the "promotion of Internationalism. A suffrage leader; for eight ycais chairman of Exec Com. of Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; sec. Equal Political Rights Soc. for many years; worked in suffrage

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