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STREETER, Lilian Carpenter (Mrs. Frank Sherwin Streeter), 234 N. Main St., Concord, N.H.

Born Bath, N.H., July 22, 1854; dau Chief Jus- tice Alonzo P. and Julia A. (Goodall) Carpenter; ed. by private instruction and at St. Johnsbury (Vt.) Acad.; m. Bath, N.H., Nov. 14, 1877, Frank Sherwin Streeter, lawyer; children: Julia (now Mrs. Henry Gardner), b. Sept. 8, 1878; Thomas Winthrop, b. July 20, 1883. Chairman State Board of Charities of N.H., 1899-1911; mem. So- cial Service Commission of Episcopal diocese of N.H.; pres. Concord District Nursing Association. Founder and first president N.H. State Federa- tion Women's Clubs, 1895 (now hon. pres.). Chairman of Com. on Dependent Children of N.H. State Conference of Charities and Correc- tion. V/riter of magazine articles on social and charitable topics. Episcopalian. Mem. N.H. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America, Rumford Chapter D.A.R., Nat. Conference of Charities and Cor- rection, Am. Acad, of Political and Social Sciencn, Am. Civic Ass'n, Nat. Municipal League. Recreations: Gardening, photography. Clubs: Mayflower (Boston), Friendly, Women's, Shake- speare (Concord).

BTEEETEB, Stella Georg:iana, Cummington,

Mass.

Teacher; b. Cummington, Mass., Aug. 6, 1874; dau. Charles Cotton and Sarah (Hallock) Streeter; ed. Smith Coll., B.U '98; Columbia Univ., A.M. '03; fellow in botany. Smith Coll., 1910-11. Teacher of science in high school, Hempstead, N.Y., 1899-1902; teacher of biolQgy, high school, Trenton, N.J., 1904-07; teacher of botany, high school, Jersey City, N.J., 1907—. Author: Influence of Gravity in the Direction of Growth of Amanita (Botanical Gazette 48, 1909), and other short articles in botanical journals. Congregationalist. Mem. A.A.A.S., N.J. State Science Teachers Ass'n. Recreation: Summer biological laboratories. Mem. Woman's College Club of Jersey City.

8TBEETON, Nora Clench (Mrs. Arthur Stree- ton), care of Concert Society, 2 Hill Road, London, N., England.

Born St. Mary's, Ont. ; dau. Leon M. Clench; ed. Hellmuth Coll., London, Ont, and at Leipzig Conservatory under Brodsky, the famous Russian violinist. Has played in nearly all the countries of the world; m. 1908, Arthur Streeton, well- known Australian landscape painter.

STRICKI-AND, Teresa Hammond (Mrs. Charle- ton Hines Strickland), 423 W. 118th St., N.Y. City.

Born in South Carolina; dau. Judge Jacob Pinckney Reed and Teresa Caroline (Hammond) Reed (dau. of Judge William Hammond of Ga.); ed. by governesses and in private school; m. Charleton Hines Strickland (died 1898); children: Lily Teresa (musical composer), Vivian Ham- mond (magazine writer), and Cecil Howard (electrician). Early in life traveled extensively and settled in N.Y. City. Favors woman suf- frage. Author: Under the Ban, a romance of South Carolina; also numerous essays, poems and stories. Has given public readings and lec- tures on psychological subjects, of which she is a student. Mem. D.A.R., Daughters of the Con- federacy and Psyche Culture Club of S.C.

8TROBBIDGE, Idah Meacham (Mrs. Samuel Hooker Strobridge), 231 East Avenue 41, Los Angeles, Gal.

Writer; b. in Moraga Valley, Cal., June 9, 1855; dau. G. W. and Phebe A. (Craiger) Meacham; ed. Mills Seminary (now college), Ala- meda Co., Cal.; m. San Francisco, Sept. 3, 1884, Samuel Hooker Strobridge (deceased); children: Earl, Gerald. Kenneth (all deceased). Au- thoi*: In Miners' Mirage-Land, 1904; The Loom of the Desert, 1907; The Land of Purple Shadows, 1909. Founded the Artemisia Bookblndery In Los Angeles, 1901. Clubs: Friday Morning, Southern California Press. Mills Alumnae (Los Angeles).

��League of American Pen Women (Washlngicn, D.C.). Has received medals from expositions for artistic bookbinding. STROEBE, Lilian L,., Vassar College, Pough-

keepsle, N.Y.

Associate professor of German; b. Baden, Ger- many, 1875; Ph.D., Univ. of Heidelberg, '04. Teacher of German at Rye Sem., 1904-05; in- structor in German, Vassar, 1905-11; assoc. prof. German, Vassar, 1911 —. Founder and director of the German Summer School, Lakeville, Conn., 1912. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Pough- keepsie League for Equal Suffrage. .Author: (German Advanced Prose; Elementary German Prose, and Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur (all in collaboration with Marion P. Whitney); also Die altengllschen Kleidernamen, and various articles In German periodicals. German Prot- estant. Mem. Modern Language Ass'n of America. Recreations: Sport, travel. Mem. Women's University Club of N.Y. City.

STRONG, Adele M. Smith (Mrs. Joseph H.

Strong), 4454 Drexel Blvd., Chicago.

Born Illinois; grad. Rockford (111.) Coll., 1881; m. Joseph H. Strong, broker; two children. Has served as trustee of Rockford Coll. ; mem. and former pres. Rockford Coll. Alumnae Ass'n. Oc- casional contributor to various publications. Christian Scientist. Mem. Chicago Woman's Club. STRONG, Angrelia LongrfeHow (Mrs. Charles

Howard Strong), 120 E. Seventy-first St., N.Y.

City.

Bom Machias, Me., Feb. 24, 1865; dau. Clark and Amanda B. (Gardner) Longfellow; ed. public and private schools of Machias, Me. ; m. Boston, Mass., June 28, 1893, Charles Howard Strong; children: Margaret Longfellow, Frederick Longfellow. Interested in music and has been musical director in settlement work at the Friendly Aid House in N.Y. City. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. William Lloyd Garrison League for Equal Suffrage; delegate from 29th Assembly Dis't to suffrage conventions. Unitarian. Mem. Woman's Municipal League, Friendly Aid Ass'n, State Charities Aid Ass'n, Diet Kitchen Ass'n, Unitarian Club, Thursday Musical Club.

STRONG, Mrs. Ann Gilchrist, 271% Harris Av.,

Norwood, )hio.

Educator, social worker; b. Carthage, III., July 29, 1875; dau. Gen. Charles Allen and Lucy Ellen (Walker) Gilchrist; ed. Centenary Coll., Lam- pasas, Tex., 1890-92; Lutherville (Md.) Sem., 1893-95; Bucknell Univ., 1895-96; Abbot Acad., Andover, Mass., 1897-98; summer session, Clark Univ., Worcester, Mass., 1901; Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ., 1902-05; C^olumbia Univ., B.S., and diploma in household arts education; m. Ridgewood, N.J., June 18, 1907, Benjamin Rush Strong; one son: Benjamin (deceased). Teacher, Newbury (Fla.) private school, 1896-97; instruc- tor of backward and defective children in the Jacob Tome Inst., Port Deposit, Md., 1898-1902; prof, of home economics and dean of women at the Univ. of Tenn., 1903-07; appointed to chair of home economics at Univ. of New Zea- land, Christ Church. New Zealand, 1907; prof, of home economics in Summer School of the South, Knoxville, Tenn., 1903-04-05; director home eco- nomics dep't, Cincinnati Kindergarten Ass'n Training School, associated with the Univ. of Cincinnati, and cooperating with Public School System of Cincinnati, 1910-13; acting prof, house- hold arts education in summer session of Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ., 1912-13. Pres. Coll. Equal Suffrage League of Cincinnati, 0.; mem. Suffrage Party of Ohio. , Has written a chapter on household arts education in Dr. Paul Monroe's (Columbia Univ.) book on Secondary Education. Presbyterian. Progressive. Mem. Southern Ass'n of Coll. Women, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Nat. State and Cincinnati Home E5co- nomlcs Ass'ns, Consumers' League of Cincinnati, Soo. of Social Workers, Columbia Alumuaa .\ss'n, Woman Teachers' Ass'n, Cincinnati Woman's and College Clubs. Recreations: Musi- cal symphonies, reading. Educational work is training young women for home makers, or as teachers of home economics.

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