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88 and is authority on sociological problems. Favors woman suffrage. Editor of W.C.T.U. State paper; contributor to many papers and magazines. Presbyterian.

BEAUCHAMP, Virginia Carter Halstead (Mrs. William Thomas Beauchamp), 1608 W. Nineteenth St., Little Rock, Ark.

Born Boonville, Cooper Co., Mo., 1841; dau. Jackson and Maria (Mallory) Halstead; grad. the Misses Young School (Memphis, Tenn.), with highest honors, 1857; m. Memphis, Tenn., 1861, William Thomas Beauchamp, of Elkton, Ky.; children: Stonewall Jackson, Gabriella Lee Beauchamp (now Mrs. Claudius Jones), Claude, Costin. Interested in clubs, City Hospital, United Charities, Y.M.C.A., and Y.W.C.A.; mem. Memorial Chapter United Daughters of Confederacy. Mem. the First Christian Church (teacher of class of young ladies in Bible school work 57 years. Has been newspaper correspondent and society editor; represented Ark. in the Nat. Household Economics Ass'n; was chairman of the State Household Economies Dep't 13 years; now chairman of the Little Rock Dist. in the Ark. Fed. Women's Clubs; cor. sec. of several societies. Democrat. Recreations: Painting, embroidery, visiting sick. Mem. AEsthetic Club, Current Events Club, State Historical Ass'n, State Museum Ass'n; mem. Woman's (Congress of Waterways.

BEAUMONT, Carrie B. (Mrs. John F. Beaumont), 481 E. Fiftieth St., North, Portland, Oregon.

Pianist and teacher of piano, harmony, sight reading; b. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 21, 1868; dau. Willlam and Kate (Burdick) Wilder; ed. public schools in Chicago, Douglas School, and South Division High School; studied music under Silas G. Pratt, Neally Stevens, Madame Rounseville and August Hyllested; has teacher's and post-graduate certificates in music from Gottschalk Lyric School, Chicago, in which she taught for 16 years; has World's Fair medal and gold medals; m. (1st) Chicago, Nov. 12, 1890, Clifford K. Crane (died Feb., 1892); (2d) Aug. 21, 1897, Dr. John F. Beaumont, and, since July, 1908, has resided In Portland, Ore. Has done concert work as piano soloist and accompanist for years. Taught for years in Chicago, and now in Portland, Ore.; accompanied Camilla Urso, the great violinist, and many of Chicago's best professional people; in 1894 won a Hallet and Davis piano in a yearly contest; was pres. Hyllested Soc. of Music. In 1899 became mem. Chapter A., P.E.O., Chicago (secret society of women); mem. Chapter C. P.E.O., Portland. In 1904 joined Chicago Chapter D.A.R.; in 1908 transferred to Multnomah Chapter, Portland, Ore.; in 1911 demitted to accept regent's office of the new Willamette Chapter, Portland; resigned that office to become State regent D.A.R. of Oregon, which office she now holds. Recreation: Country life; spends summer on her 20-acre ranch in Hood River.

BEAUX, Cecilia, Gloucester, Mass.

Artist; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. John Adolph and Cecilia Kent (Leavitt) Beaux; pupil in art of William Sartain of Philadelphia and in Paris of Académie Julien and the Atelier Lazar; received honorary degree of LL.D. from Univ. of Pa., 1908. Frequent exhibitor at Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, which has four times awarded her the Mary Smith prize and also Temple gold medal; Nat. Acad. of Design, Dodge prize; Carnegie Inst., Pittsburgh, gold medal; gold medal of Paris Exposition, 1900; exhibited at Salon on Champs de Mars, Paris, 1896. Elected Academician of Nat. Acad, of Design, 1902; mem. Am. Artists' Soc., Paris, and Société Nationals de Beaux Arts, Paris.

BEAVER, Mollie E., Daingerfield, Tex.

Teacher; b. Henderson, Tenn., Aug. 23, 1846; dau. Thomas and Eliza (Lott) Beaver; ed. in academy at Gilmer, Tex. (since developed into Georgetown Coll.), and Mansfield (La.) Coll., A.B. Engaged as teacher for 36 years, also several years member and part of time president of Board of Examiners; many of the most prominent Texans have been her pupils. Took active part in promoting the first high school building at Daingerfield. Occasional contributor to local press. Honorary mem. Twentieth Century Club of Daingerfield and of the Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian Missionary Societies. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Against woman suffrage.

BEAVERS, Genevieve W. Blythebourne, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Civic worker; b. N.Y. City April 25, 1883; dau. George W. and Rosetta Alois (Cullen) Beavers; grad. Adelphi Coll., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1907 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). In 1907-08 investigator for Y.W.C.A. on Nat. Study of Wage Earning Women (results published in Wage Earning Women, by Dr. Annie M. MacLean); on staff 1908-12 of Bureau of Municipal Research, N.Y. City; sec. Robert L. Stevens Fund for Municipal Research in Hoboken, 1910-12; executive sec. League for Civic Education of Women, N.Y. City, 1912. Active in civic and woman's club work in N.J. Favors woman suffrage. Contributor to newspapers and magazines on subjects of civic interest. Published Charities Directory for Hoboken.

BECK, Clara A., 319 Swede St., Norristown, Pa.

Literary work; b. Lapatcong, Warren Co., N.J., Nov. 28, 1860; dau. John P. and Anna (Boyer) Beck; grad. Bucknell Univ., 1877 (hon. degree). Began writing Oriental stories, took up editorial work, reviewed for publishers, did exchange reading, wrote for trade journals; general writer. Chairman of publication committees, mostly religious; engaged in social work, studying conditions and writing about them. Favors woman suffrage. Lutheran. Mem. Historical Soc. of Montgomery County, Pa., Pennsylvania Women's Press Ass'n. Especially interested in history and biography, also in featuring for magazines and journals; has done this work for newspapers, illustraed journals and books.

BECK, Irma Wanda, 2021 San Jacinto St., Dallas, Tex.

Teacher; b. Geyer, Germany, Dec. 26, 1881; dau. Max and Minna (Frank) Beck; grad. Denison (Tex.) High School, Kidd-Key Conservatory of Music, Sherman, Tex., 1903. Studied piano and harmony abroad under Prof. Richard Burmeister, Berlin, Germany, 1907-09. Teacher, Harthan Conservatory, Dallas, Tex., 1910-11; director of music, Presbyterian Coll,, Durant, Okla., 1912-13.

BECK, Jennie Florence (Mrs. Stewart Beck), Atkinson, Neb.

Born Marietta, O., Dec. 25, 1848; dau. Eli and Anna (Blockley) Wiggins; ed. in public schools of Jefferson Co., Iowa; Lutheran Coll., Fairfield, Ia.; m. Fairfield, Ia., Oct. 25, 1869, Stewart Beck; children: Albert Earl David, Charles Steel, A. Elizabeth, George, James, Roy, Lucy, Harold. Teacher at Fairfield, Ia., five years. Interested in orphans, nurses the sick and needy, and solicits for children's homes. Writes poems and prose for the various societies to which she belongs. Mem. and sec. foreign and home missionary societies, and church auxiliary, W.C.T.U. and County Sunday-school Ass'n. Clubs: Press, Woman's Country. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BECK, Rachel Wyatt Elizabeth Tongrate (Mrs. William Henry Beck), The Portner, Washington, D.C.

Born Whitehall, Ill.; dau. John Thomas and Elizabeth (Wyatt) Tongate; educated in private and public schools, and partial course in Ill. Woman's Coll., Jacksonville, Ill.; m. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 21, 1863, William Henry Beck, brig.—gen. U.S.A. (died Nov. 26, 1911); children; William Henry Jr., b. May 19, 1864 (died Oct. 11, 1885); Mary Rachel, b. Nov. 28, 1867 (m. Jan. 14, 1890, Ass't Surgeon P. G. Wales, U.S.A., and died in Philippines, Dec. 19, 1904); John Rogers, b. Nov. 11, 1869 (died Sept., 1899); Paul Ward (now captain U.S.A.), b. Dec. 1, 1876. During husband's Indian service lived many years on the frontiers and was deeply interested in the welfare of the Indians. Favors woman suffrage, but not actively. Past pres. League of A.m. Pen-Women; vice-pres. Short Story Club of Washington, D.C; mem. Am. Federation of Arts (