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��BTBACHAUEB. Gertrude Louise Hale (Mrs. Ar- thur C. Strachauer), 227 Oak Grove St., Min- neapolis, Minn.

Born Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 31, 1880; dau. Major William Dinsmore and Flora (Hammond) Hale; ed. Minneapolis public schools; Univ. of Minn.; New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and in Florence, Italy, and Paris, France (Kappa Kappa Gamma) ; m. Minneapolis, Minn., Dr. Arthur C. Strachauer; one son: Her- mann Hale. Interested in church work. Unity House (social settlement). Mem. D.A.R., Church of the Redeemer (Universalist).

STRAIGHT, Mrs. Johnson W., 6 34 Hagre St.,

St. Paul, Minn.

JBorn Griggsville, 111., Jan. 20, 1844; dau. Leon- ard Boone and Sliza Campbell (Key) Elledge; ed. Normal School, Bloomington, III.; m. Griggsville, 1865, Johnson W. Straight, of Bloomington, 111.; children: Leonard Arba, Herbert Marshall. Teacher of dramatic reading in Bloomington, 111., 1875-87. Pres. of Federated Club in St. Paul, Minn.; The Dames of the Round Table, belong- ing to both State and Nat. Federations; organized the club in 1901 and is still pres. Against woman suffrage. Christian Scientist. Recreations: Bridge whist, fishing, STRANGE, Mary Margaret (Mrs. John Strange),

East Forest Av., Neenah, Wis.

Born Neenah, Wis., Aug. 18, 1854; dau. Hugh and Catherine (Roberts) McGregor; ed. high school of Neenah; m. Neenah, Wis., John Strange (ex-Lieut. Gov. of Wis.); children: Katherine McMillen, Ethel M. McLaughlin, Hugh McGregor, John Paul. Mem. of State Board of Directors of Fed. cf V/ omen's Clubs of Wis.; pres. of Eccncmics Club of Neenah and Menasha, Wis.; vice-pres. Eighth Dist. -of Wis. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage. Pres- byterian. Republican. Mem. Twentieth Century Club of Oshkosh. Has summer home on Doty's Island in Lake Winnebago, occupying the old log house (still in excellent repair) which was for- merly owned by Gov. Doty, second Territorial Governor of Wisconsin. STRATHCONA, Baroness Isabella Sophia, 28

Grosvenor Square, London, W., England.

Dau. of the late Richard Hardistry; ed. Edin- burgh, Scotland; m. Hon. Donald A. Smith, afterward raised to the peerage as Baron Strath- cona (died Jan. 20, 1914); one daughter: Lady Margaret Charlotte Howard. In conjunction with her daughter gave $10,000 to McGill Univ. for the erection of a new wing to its Medical Building.

STRATHEARN, Sophia (Mrs. J. A. Strathearn),

South Kaukauna, Wis.

Born Lansing, la., Oct. 4, 1865; dau. L. M. and Guri (Aslagson) Nelson; ed. common schools; m. La Crosse, Wis., Mar. 27, 1889, J. A. Strathearn; children: Robert Merrie, b. 1891; John G., b. 1893; Janet, b. 1835. First sec. of the Dep't of Wis. Woman's Relief Corps, serving five con- secutive terms and again for one year in 1898; pres. of dep't, 1910-11; counselor, 1912; now Na- tional Patriotic Instructor of the W.R.C. Record- ing sec. of Wis. Consumers' League; sup't pri- mary dep't Congregational Sunday-school, sec. of Sunday-school County Organization. Congrega- tionalist. Mem. Woman's ReHef Corps, Woman's Missionary Soc. ; pres. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Con- gregational Church. Mem. Kaukauna Woman's Club (pres.). Pres. (formerly rec. sec, district vice-pres. and second vice-pres.) of the Wis. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Drama League of Wisconsin.

STRATTON, Anna Booth (Mrs. Alfred William Stratton), 31 Summerhill Av., Toronto, Can. Born Manchester, III., 1859; dau. William Mont- gomery and Sarah Ann (Knox) Simms; ed. Univ. of Chicago. 1895-1900; grammar schools, Man- chester, I'.l., and Normal, 111.; m. Bombay, India, November. 1902, Alfred William Stratton, Ph.D., register of Panjab Univ. and principal of Orien- tal Coll., Lahore. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Equal Suffrage Soc, Toronto. Has edited her husband's Letters from India, published in England a few years ago. Anglican. Recrea-

��tions: Walking, reading; interested in making converts to suffrage. Has done a little free- lance writing in the way of poems, journalistic articles, etc.

STRATTON, Anna Reese, 1112 Milton Av., S#issdale, Pa,; office, Pittsburgh Gazette- Times, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Journalist; b. Bryan, 0.; dau. Rev. Joel Van Meter and Elizabeth (Reese) Stratton; grad. Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1892. Treas. Soho Baths Settle- ment, Pittsburgh, since 1906. Baptist. Mem. League of Am. Pen-Women (Washington, D.C.), Pa. State Editorial Ass'n, College Club of Pitts- burgh, Mt. Holyoke AluomEe Ass'n, Wednesday Current Events Class (Pittsburgh), Consumers' League of Western Pa. ; chairman Press Com. State Fed. of Pa. Women.

STRATTON, Margaret Elizabeth, Stratford, Conn. Teacher (retired); b. Stratford, Conn., Apr. 17, 1844; dau. Marcus and Sarah Sophia (Curtis) Stratton; ed. Stratford Acad.; Oberlin Coll., B.A. '78, M.A. '82. Established and conducted schools for colored students, Florida and Virginia, 1866-76; assoc. principal of Oberlin Coll., 1878-81; prof. English language and rhetoric, Wellesley Coll., 1881-99; dean of Wellesley Coll., 1895-99; dean of women, Univ. of Colorado, 1901-04. Fa- vors woman suffrage. Congregationalist.. Rec- reation: Travel.

STBATTON-POBTEB, Gene (Mrs. Charles Por- ter), Limberlost Cabin, Geneva, Ind. Artist, author; b. Hopewell Farm, Wabash, Ind.; dau. Mark and Mary (Siiallenberger) Strat- ton; ed. privately; m. Wabash, Ind., Charles Porter; one daughter: Jeannette Helen Porter. Author and illustrator: The Song of the Cardinal; Freckles; What I Have Done with Birds; At the Foot of the Rainbow; Birds of the Bible; A Girl of the Limberlost; Music of the Wild; The Harvester; Moths of the Limberlost. Especially well known for work in photographing natural history subjects, birds, flowers and moths. Rec- reation: Water-color painting.

STBAUSS, A. J. (Mrs. Abe Strauss), 204 W.

Mitchell St., Kendallville, Ind.

Business woman; b. Kaiserslantem, Germany; dau. Jacob and Mathilde Steiner; ed. Metz, Germany, Antwerp, Belgium, South Chicago High School; m. Chicago, 1893, Abe Strauss; children: Alvin, Herman. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Rebekah Lodge, Mishawaka Orphan's Home Auxiliary, Shakespeare Club. Recreations: Card playing, dancing, tHeaters, lectures. Jewish. Against woman suffrage, except on school ques- tions. STBEAN, Maria Jndson, 130 "W. Fifty-seventh

St., N.Y. City.

Artist (principally miniatures); b. Washington, Pa. ; dau. Robert Fulton and Maria Judson (Greenleaf) Strean; ed. Washington Sem. Mem. Am. Soc. of Miniature Painters, Pa. Soc. of Miniature Painters, N.Y. Water Color Club, Woman's Art Club of N.Y., Union Internationale des Beaux-Arts et des Lettres of Paris. Presby- terian. Received honorable mention at Buffalo Exposition, 1907; exhibited in principal American cities, London and Paris. Favors woman suf- frage. STBEEPEB, Gertrude Mitchell (Mrs. John S.

Streeper), 128 Lexington Av., N.Y. City.

Physician; grad. Mt. Holyoke Coll., A.B. '84; Woman's Med. Coll. of Pa., Philadelphia, M.D. '92; graduate student in German and French, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-95; student Univ. of Vienna, 1902-03; m. ]906, John S. Streeper. Prac- tising physician, Washington, Pa., 1896-1904; Brooklyn, N.Y., 1906-07; school med. inspector for N.Y. B'd of Health, 1905-06. STREET, Ida 3Iaria, R.F.D. No. 5, Moscow,

Idaho.

Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa; dau. William B. and Parolina (Cobb) Street; ed. Oskaloosa High School, Vassar, A.B. '80; Univ. of Mic^i., A.M. '89. Head of dep't of English, Ferry Hall Sem., Lake Forest, 111.; teacher of English, East Division High School, Milwaukee, Wis., 10 years. Author: Ruskin's Principles of Art Criticism; George Eliot as a Representative of Her Time;

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