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��Ing present position with the Internat. Suuday- school Ass'n. Interested in Sunday-school work, especially in temperance dep't, social settlement and child welfare enterprises, juvenile courts and efforts for public health, prison reforms, especially welfare of girls and young women, and rational public schools. Favors woman suffrage. Has written no btjoks, but contributed to many periodicals. Congregationalist. Prohibitionist. Mem. King's Daughters, W.C.T.U. Recreations: Boating, gardening, tramping in woods, moun- tains, reading, pictures, music. Mem. Women's Council of Alton, 111.

STEVENSON, Feme Braddock (Mrs. Edgar Taft Stevenson), S21 Elk St., Franklin, Pa. Born Mt. Pleasant, Pa., Oct. 5, ISSo; dau. James Saunders and Anna Overholt (Frick) Braddock; grad. Bucknell Univ., A.B. '05 (mem. Pi Beta Phi) ; m. Mt. Pleasant, June 27, 1907, Edgdr Taft Stevenson; one son: James Braddock Stevenson, b. Mar. 23, 1911. Favors woman suf- frage. Presbyterian.

STEVENSON, Florence Day (Mrs. J. Ross Stevenson), 1316 Park Av., Baltimore, Md. Born Chicago, 111., June 12, 1874; daa. Thomas Charles ar.d Katharine (Huntington) Day; grad. Smith Coll., Northampton, Mass., A.B. 't!7; m. Inrlianapolis, May 16, 18S9, J. Roes Stevenson (D.D.); children: William Edwards, Donald Day, Theodore Dwight. Mem. Y.W.C.A. ; mezz. Board Woraan's Home Missionary See. of the U.S.A., Consumers' League, Civic League; intereuted and active in movements for betterment and social purity all over the city of Baltimore, and in many church organizations and prayer circles. Presbyterian.

STEVENSON, Katharine Lent (Mrs. James Stevenson), 541 Massachusetts Av., Boston, Mass.

Speaker, writer; b. Copake, Columbia Co., N.Y.; dau. Marvin Richardson and Hajinah (Longada) Lent; grad. Amenia Sem., N.Y., '75; Boston Univ. School of 1'heology, '81; m. N.Y. City, Feb. 14, 1882, James Stevenson. Elected cor. sec. Mass. W.C.T.U., 18S1; cor. sec. Nat. W.C.T.U., 1893; prts. Mass. W.C.T.U., 1898. Appointed sup't of Christian Citizenship in V/orWs W.C.T.U., 1900; V/orld's V/.C.T.U. repre- sentative for a tour of the world, 1908. Spent nearly two years traveling 40,000 miles and ad- dressing audiences of thousands in Hawaii, Japan, China, Australia, New Zealand, India, Burma, Ceylon. Has always written and spoken on suf- frage. Author: A Brief History of the W.C.T.U. Contributor to magazines. Methodist. Prohibi- tionist. Mem. Woman's Home and Foreign Mis- sionary Societies, Chautauqua Woman's Club, Mass. Equal Suffrage League. Recreations: Fish- ing, boating, motoring. Delegate to the Ecumenical Conference of Methodism in Toronto, Oct., 1911; also the Methodist Episcopal General Conference in Minneapolis, May, 1912.

STEVENSON, ILetitia Green (Mrs. Adlai Ewing

Stevenson), Bloomington, 111.

Born Allegheny City, Pa., Jan. 8, 1843; dau. Lewis Warner Green (D.D.) and Mary A. (Fry) Green; ed. at Sayre Inst., Lexington, Ky. ; V/al- uut Hill, Fayette Co., Ky., and Miss Hayne's Select School, Gramercy Park, N.Y. City; m. Chenoa, McLean Co., 11!., Dec. 20, 1866, Hon. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (many years Congress- man, and Vice-President of U.S., 1893-97); chil- drsn: Lev/is Green, Kary, Julia, Letitla. Inter- ested In Bureau of Asiociated Charities, ai;d all other charities looking to the uplift of humanity. Presbyteriac. Was the second pres. gen. of Nat. Soc. ct the D.A.R., served four years, being elected four times (now hon. pres. general); char- ter mem. Colonial Dames of America in 111.; pres. Army and Navy League of McLean Co., Spanish Am. League of Biocmingtoc, lU. ; a, em. Board of Dire<:'-ors of the V^oman'3 Mat. Demo- cratic League; mem. Mary Washington Monu- ment Ass'n. First p'-es. V/oman's Ciub cf Bloomlngton, 111., and served four years; charter mem. of the Congress of Mothers (now hon. vice-pres.); College Alumnae Club of N.Y. City. Organized the Day Nursery and Social Settle- ment Work in Bloomlngton, 111.; charter mem.

��History and Art Club. Bloomlngton; was pres. Heme Missionary Soc. of Second Presbyterian Church, Bloomlngton, and organized the Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. of Little Girls.

STEVENSON, Louisa Stone, 45 Princeton St.,

Lowell, Mass.

College instructor; b. Lowell, Mass.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; graduate scholar, 1901-02, Vassar, graduate student, 1903-04; Babbott fel- low, 1909-10, Cornell Univ. Ass't in chemistry, Vassar Coll., 1902-03; teacher in Glen Cottage (N.J.) High School, 1904-05; instructor Vassar Coll., 1905-09; instructor in chemistry, Wellesley Coll. since 1910.

STEVENSON, Marcia J. (Mrs. Samuel Kirkwood Stevenson), 90S Washington St., Iowa City, la. Lecturer; b. Galena, 111., Mar. 25, 1875; dau. Prof. Henry Hayes and Elizabeth (Stephens) Jacobs; ed. high school. Cedar Rapids, la.; State Normal School, Pla*teville, Wis.; State Univ. of Iowa, B.A. '98; m. Cedar Rapids, la., Aug. 2, 1898, Samuel Kirkwood Stevenson. Interested in col- lege girls and their problems and in missions. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. King's Daughters, Y.W.C.A., Presbyterian Home and Foreign Missionary Societies, Charles Dick- ens Fellowship, London. Mem. Art Circle, State Univ. of Iowa Philosophical Club.

STEVENSON, Matilda Coxe (Mrs. James Steven- son), care Bureau of Am. Ethnology, Smith- sonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Ethnologist; b. San Augustine, Tex.; dau. Alexander Hamilton and Maria Matilda (Coxe) Evans; ed. Miss Anable's, Philadelphia; m. Washington, D.C, Apr. 18, 1872, James Steven- son (died in 1888). With her husband, who was a distinguished ethnologist and also engaged for 13 years in explorations of the Rocky Mountain region for the Am. Bureau of Ethnology, made special studies of the mythology, legends, lan- guages, industries and sociology of the Zuni and other Pueblo tribes; since 1889 on staff of the Am. Bureau of Ethnology. Mem. Washington Acad, of Sciences, Anthropological Soc. of Wash- ington, Nat. Soc. of Fine Arts, A.A.A.S., Arch- ffiological Inst, of America, Washington Club. Author: Zuiii and the Zuiiians; Religious Life of the Zufii Child; Tusayan Legends of the Snake and Flute People; Zuiii Scalp Ceremonial; A Chapter on Zuiii Mythology; The Sia, Zuiii An- cestral Gods and Masks; Zuiii Games; The Zufii Indians. Has made extensive explorations in the Rocky Mountain region.

STEVENSON, Nellie Strong (Mrs. J. Houston Stevenson), The Clendening,' 202 W. 103d St., N.Y. City.

Pianist, teacher; b. Rockford, 111.; dau. George P. Strong, lawyer in St. Louis, and Melinda P. (Fales) Strong; grad. St. Louis High School; educated in music in St. Louis, Mo., bv a Rus- sian, Richard Poppen ; later in Beethoven Con- servatory under Hermann Lawitzky and Robert Goldbeck, graduating with highest honors and chief prize; at Royal Conservatory, Leipzig, Germany, under Weidenbach and Reinccke. and took Helbig prize there; studied with Liszt in his summer class at Weimar; in later years studied the Virgil method with A. K. Virgil and the Leschetitzky method with one of his finest exponents, Mme. Varette Stepanoff oi Berlin, Germany, and taught for a year in that city. Began teaching at a very eany age, first at the Beethoven Conservatory, St. Louis; then had her own studio and a large class of pupils there; has since followed her profes- sion in Boston and N.Y. City; m. St. Louis, Mo., June 6, 1894, John Houston Stevenson, lawyer and son of Gen. John D. Stevenson. First pres. of the Missouri Music Teachers' Ass'n. Was on music com. for St. Louis for the World's Fair at Chicago, 1893, and gave an address at the World's Music Congress held at that time. Played at a reception tendered the famous artisr, Paderewski, in St. Louis, his piano concerto uy his special request, and he played the orchestral accompaniment with her himself on a second piano. Was pres. Tuesday Musical Club, vice- pres. Union Musical Club and member Wednes- day Club, St. Louis; vice-pres. Boston Dorches-

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