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Rh ); past regent Army and Navy Chapter, Nat. Soc. D.A.R.; mem. International Press Club; honorary mem. Federation of Clubs of D.C. Author: The City Beautiful (an illustrated tribute in verse to Washington, D.C.); Tucsonnie (an Indian story); An Episode in the Philippines; On the Lunetta; The Crimson Fire Tree; also many short stories; reporter for newspapers in U.S. and Philippines; contributor of verse and prote to magazines. Recreations: Walking, riding, gardening. Roman Catholic. Favors Progressive Party; mem. Teachers and Mothers Soc. (Washington); especially interested in the subject of patriotic education of the young.

BECKINGTON, Alice, Carnegie Hall, N.Y. summer, Scituate, Mass.)

Miniature painter; b. St. Charles, Mo., July 30, 1868; dau. Charles and Adeline (Cheney) Beckington; ed. Art Students' League, N.Y., and in Académie Julien and Académie Chas. Lazar, Paris. Awarded honorable mention Buffalo Exposition, 1901, bronze medal St. Louis Exposition, 1904; Instructor miniature painting at Art Students' League, N.Y. City. One of founders of the Am. Soc. of Miniature Painters; mem. Pennsylvania Soc. of Miniature Painters. In favor of woman suffrage.

BECKMAN, Nellie Sims (Mrs. William Beckman), 1027 L St., Sacramento, Cal.

Author; b. Jacksonville, Ill.; dau. Austin and Mary (Aired) Sims; ed. Jacksonville (Ill.) public school; Ill. Female Coll.; m. Sacramento, Cal., William Beckman. Prominent in society, and actively interested in all matters pertaining to the welfare of the people of Sacramento. World-wide traveler. Author: Backsheesh—A Woman's Wanderings; Unclean and Spotted from the World; Beckie's Book of Bastings; also contributor to newspapers and magazines on sociology, biology and wage-earning problems in Europe and America. Progressive Democrat. Charter mem. and first pres. of Tuesday Literary Club; mem. Women's Council, Saturday Club (musical). Ladies' Museum Ass'n.

BECKNER, Marie Warren (Mrs. Lucien P. Beckner), 142 W. Hickman St., Winchester, Ky.

Journalist, club worker; b. Harrodsburg, Ky., May 22, 1875; dau. William Warren and Jean Hamilton Daviess; ed. Caldwell College, Danville, Ky. (mem. Kappa Kappa Alpha); m. New Albany, Ind., Aug. 14, 1894, Lucien Pearson Beckner; children: Jean Warren, b. 1896 (died 1898); Elizabeth Taliaferro, b. 1837; Marie Warren, b. 1905. Engaged in journalism on staff of Winchester Sun. Interested in building hospital, and in all twenty-seven branches of the Ky. Fed. Women's Clubs. Mem. D.A.R. (vice-regent of Hart Chapter); worthy matron Order Eastern Star; mem. King's Daughters at Hospital Circle at Winchester, Ky.; mem. the Descendants of Colonial Governors, through Gov. John West and Governor Claiborne of Va.; mem. M.C. Club of Winchester (pres.). Ky. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Parents' and Teachers' Clubs. Mem. First Presbyterian Church. Favors woman suffrage.

BECKWITH, Cora Jipson, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Instructor at Vassar Coll.; b. Grand Rapids, Mich., Mar. 24, 1875; dau. William Griswold and Maria (Jipson) Beckwith; ed. Univ. of Mich., B.S. 1900; Columbia Univ., M.A. 1908 in biology; now studying at Columbia Univ. for the degree of Ph.D. in the dep't of zoology. Instructor in biology at Vassar, 1900-12. Has written two articles on science in the Biological Bulletin. Favors woman suffrage.

BECKWITH, Emma (Mrs. Edwin Beckwith), 9 Maiden Lane, N.Y. City.

Wholesale and retail optician; b. Cincinnati, O., Dec. 4, 1849; dau. Miohael and Laura M. (Sherman) Knight; ed. Toledo (O.) High School; m. Toledo, O., Jan. 30, 1868, Edwin Beckwith; children: Carmelita, b. Sept. 19, 1868; Arthur, b. Aug. 10, 1870; Betsy, b. Sept. 19, 1875. Was ed. under Free Thought religions (Spiritualist and Unitarian) in Toledo, O.; was pres. Spiritualistic Soc. in Brooklyn five years. Favors woman suffrage; held office of sec. of Woman Suffrage Soc, Toledo, O., and has always belonged to active women in suffrage cause; sec. for many years in N.Y. City; was seventh mem. of Soc. for Political Study, 26 years ago (now hon. mem.). First woman in business in Maiden Lane neighborhood in spring 1878. Republican. Mem. Daughters of Ohio in N.Y. (was fourth pres.); years ago was active mem. Peace Circle with Clara Barton, Belva Lockwood, Alfred Love and others. Was first pres. Rainy-Day Club; mem. Nat. Arts Club. Hundred Year Club; vice-pres. Shakespeare League, a new study club organized in endeavor to determine authorship as between Bacon and Shakespeare. Free Thinker. Republican. Was candidate of Equal Rights Party for mayor of Brooklyn in 1885 (received over 100 votes). Inventor of Excelsior lens drill for optical work.

BECKWITH, Jane Elizabeth Warfield (Mrs. Frank Edwin Beckwith), 40 Pleasant St., Westfield, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., Dec. 24, 1876; dau. Rev. Frank A. Warfield, D.D., and Mary Jane (Reade) Warfield; ed. Brockton High School, Wellesley Coll., B.A. '97; m. Milford, Mass., Oct. 21, 1908, Frank Edwin Beckwith; one daughter: Jane Elizabeth, b. Nov. 13, 1909. Congregationalist.

BECKWITH, Kate Keynolds (Mrs. Sidney Thomas Beckwith), Greenville, N.C.

Teaching; b. Frederickshall, Va., Feb. 24, 1865; dau. William and Barbara A. (Duke) Reynolds; grad. Woman's Coll., Richmond, Va. (then known as Baptist Female Inst.), M.A. '83; m. Middleton N.C, Feb. 22, 1888, Sidney Thomas Beckwith (lawyer in Washington, N.C); children: Gladys Hamner, b. June 10, 1889; Terry Welborn, b. July 17, 1895. Seven years principal in Louisburg Coll., N.C; one year dean of faculty of Columbia Coll., S.C. (re-elected, but health failed). Sup't graded school, Swan Quarter, N.C, 1907 and 1907-08; in charge of Am. Coll. of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 1908-09; lady principal of East Carolina Teachers Training School since Oct., 1909. Has written for school organs and local papers in furtherance of educational enterprises. Methodist. Interested in civic betterment work in the towns; charter mem. of Joe David Chapter, United Daughters of Confederacy, Louisburg, N.C, and Pamlico Chapter U.D.C, Washington, N.C. Recreations: Tennis, music, travel. Pres. Round Table Club, Greenville, N.C, since 1909. For over 25 years actively interested in educational work.

BEDDOW, Elizabeth Russell (Mrs. Charles Peter Beddow), Birmingham, Ala.

Born Winchester, Tenn.; dau. Haron and Mary (McDonald) Russell (old Virginia and Scotch ancestry); ed. Chattanooga, Tenn.; m. 1881, Charles Peter Beddow; children: Helen, Agnes, Noel, Roderick, Williams, Mary Elizabeth. Author: Oracle of Moccasin Bend, and a few Southern dialect poems. Methodist. Mem. Art and Literary Club.

BEDELL, Cornelia Frances, Nyack, N.Y.

Author; b. Nyack, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1876; dau. Charles S. and Caroline P. (Hering) Bedell; ed. at a private school at Nyack, N.Y. Associate mem. of the Woman's Board of Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church in America; mem. State Charities Aid Ass'n of N.Y., Woman's Auxiliary of the Nyack Hospital, Woman's Auxiliary of Y.M.C.A. of Nyack, N.Y. Believes only in municipal suffrage for women taxpayers. Author: Sea Secrets (a book of verses for children); A Syllabus of French History (987-1600). Mem. Reformed Church in America. Mem. Monday Shakespeare Class. Recreations: Reading (history, poetry and detective stories preferred), walking, music.

BEDELL, Mary Crehore (Mrs. Frederick Bedell), Cornell Heights, Ithaca, N.Y.

Born Cleveland, Ohio, 1870; dau. John D. and Lucy (Williams) Crehore; ed. Cleveland High School, Smith Coll., A.B. '92; Cornell Univ., M.S. '94; m. London, Eng., 1896, Frederick Bedell; children, Eleanor Crehore, b. 1897, Caroline Cunningham, 1904. Joint author; Studies of the Lime-light, by Edward Nichols and Mary L. Crehore (The Physical Review, Vol. II).