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��UPTON— VALENTINE

��UPTON, Marian Barton (Mrs. Edward Lytton

Upton), Larchmere, Waukegan, 111.

Born Nunda, 111., Mar. 18, 1850; dau. Horace and Alice Erwin (Grlswold) Burton; ed. private schools, Waukegan, 111., and Emma Willard Sem., Troy, N.Y.; m. Waukegan, III., Oct. 27, 1875, Edward L. Upton (son of Clark W. Upton, judge Appellate Court of III.); children: Edward Clark, b. Sept. 10, 1876 (Yale, '99; died Oct. 30, 1909). One of the pioneers in promoting the phil- anthropic and civic work of the Chicago Women's Club, 111. Industrial School for Girls, small park system, social center public schools, art in public schools, education toward peace. Gad's Hill Set- tlement, Arden Shore, and others. Favors muni- cipal suffrage for women. Has contributed articles to various publications on forestry, con- servation, school gardens, landscape gardening, hedges, women in civic life, what women are doing for civic improvement in America, and others along the line of leaving the world more beautiful than it was found. Protestant Episco- pal. Republican. Mem. Conn. Soc. of Colonial Dames, Chicago Colonial Dames in the State of 111., Drama League of America. Mem. Chicago Friday Club, Chicago Woman's Club, Fed. Clubs of Waukegan (111), Gad's Hill Settlement Club (Chicago), Ravlnia Club; was pres. Chicago Woman's Club, 1908-10; first vice-pres., 1907-08; pres. Woman's Out-door Art Lieague Nat. Ass'n, 19C6-06; first vice-pres. League of Cook Co. Clxtbs, 1906-07; assisted in forming Drama League of America (chairman of Constitutional Com.), 1910; mem. Chicago Chapter, D.A.R. ; mem. Ass'n "Friends of Our Native Landscape"; has made many addresses before clubs and federations, including Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Wis. State Fed., Am. Civic Ass'n, and others. UBNEB, Mabel Herbert (Mrs. Lathrop Colgate

Harper), 36 Gramercy Park, N.Y. City.

Author; b. Cincinnati, June 28, 1881; dau. Will- lam Henry and Clarissa M. (Burton) Herbert; ed. at home; m. Boston, Mass., Mar. 12, 1912, Lathrop Colgate Harper. Mem. of and interested in Horse Rest Farm, Bide-a-Wee Home, Hu- mane Soc, and other organizations for the pro- tection and care of animals. Author: The Journal of the Neglected Wife, 1909; The Price Inevitable, 1912; Recreation: Horseback riding. Wrote story, The Dissembler, which won prize In the first Collier contest. Contributor to Every- body's, Cosmopolitan, Munsey's, Smart Set, The London, Strand, Pall Mall, and other American end E)nglish magazines. Joined N.Y. Journal and Chicago American staff 1910, contributing the Helen and Warren series in "Married Life" in the "First," "Second" and "Third Year." CRQUHAKT, Dr. Georgina Lily — see Crawford,

Georgina Lily Urquhart (In Addenda).

CSHEB, riorene© Wyman Bichardson (Mrs.

Roland Greene Usher), 57 37 Cates Av., St.

Louis, Mo.

Born St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 14, 1889; dau. James and Florence (Wyman) Richardson; ed. Mary Inst., Washington Univ.; m. St. Louis, June 9, 1910. Roland Greene Usher, head of dep't of his- tory, Washington Univ.; one daughter: Flwence, b. Apr. 14, 1911. Paid social worker at Self-Cul- ture Hall Ass'n, district visitor, 1909. Mem. Washington Univ. Student at Washington Uni- versity. Recreation: Music. Favors woman suffrage; planned suffrage organization In Mo.; located (spring of 1910) by private postcard campaign and personal house-to-'nouse canvas, those interested; formed first com. which issued call for organization of first permanent society in St. Louis; one of those responsible for the organization of the Mo. State Suffrage Soc; chairman of the Lecture Com. of Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis, 1911; mem. of Board of Governors, 1912. Progressive in politics.

USHER, Leila, 55 E. Fifty-ninth St., N.Y. City. Sculptor; b. Onalaski, Wis.; dau. Isaac L. and Susannah Coffin (Woodman) Usher; ed. La. Crosse, Wis., and Teachers Coll., Columbia Univ., N.Y. City; art, Boston, N.Y., Paris and Italy. Among her portraits of noted people for public institutions are: Medallion of Prof. Fran- cis James Child of Harvard Coll.; bronze casts.

��Child Memorial Library, Cambridge; faculty rooms, Harvard Ck>ll. and Johns Hopkins Univ. ; plaster casts at Bowdoin Coll. and Radcliffe Coll. ; bas-relief portrait of Dr. Horatio Stebbins at the Unitarian Building, Boston; bronze medal- lion of Susan B. Anthony, Bryn Mawr Coll. and Rochester Univ. ; bronze bust of Dr. Booker T. Washington at Hampton Univ. ; bas-relief por- trait of F>rof. Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Har- vard Univ. UZZELL, Mary Blaine (Mrs. Rudyard S. TJz-

zell), 53 Pineapple St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 3, 1877; dau. Allen Trimble and Laura (Cowan) Blaine; ed. Drury Acad, and public schools of Springfield, Mo.; Drury Coll., B.S. '98 with scientific honor; grad. student, Drury, 1898-99, scholarship in mathematics; Univ. of Pa., 1899-1900, A.M. 1900; m. Springfield, Mo., Feb. 14, 1906, Rudyard S. Uzzell (manufacturer and expert in park amuse- ment devices of N.Y. City); children: William Cowan, Rudyard Stephen. Teacher of mathe- matics in Springfield High School and Drury SuTrwner School until marriage. Interested in many educational, social and i)atriotlc activities. Congregationalist. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Camping, travel. Against woman suffrage.

��VATL, Mary Beals, Mills College, Cal.

Teacher; b. Port Washington, Wis., Oct. 2, 1860; dau. James W. and Celestia M. (Beals) Vail; ed. Milwaukee (Wis.) Coll., 1873-76; Hall- mouth Coll., London, Ont, 1877-79; Pratt Inst, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1893-95; Teachers Coll., Colum- bia Univ., 1899-1900, and summers of 1907-08; Univ. of California, 1911-12; diploma in domes- tic science normal course, Pratt Inst., 1895; Columbia Univ., B.S. '12. Teacher of home economics. Manual Training High School, In- dianapolis, 1895-99; Tome Inst., Port Deposit, Md., 1900-02; Instructor Teachers Coll., Colum- bia Univ., 1902-07; in charge of domestic science. Coll. of Industrial Arts, Denton, Tex., 1907-11; director of domestic science, Summer School, Univ. of Cal., 1912; head of home economics dep't. Mills Coll., Cal., since 1912. Author: Home Laundering. Republican. Recreation: Summer camp in the Sierras. Mem. Laurel Hall, San Francisco; chairman of home eco- nomics on San Francisco Dist. Board, 1912-14. Favors woman suffrage. VAIL, May Belle Sherriff (Mrs. John D. Vail),

411 South Third St., Marshalltown, Iowa.

Born Whitewater, Wis., Mar. 15. ISfil- dau. Charles and Elizabeth (Loxley) Sherriff; ed. Whitewater; Wis. State Normal School, 1876-79; Chautauqua course, 1888-91; m. Whitewater, Wis., Sept. 27, 1881, John D. Vail; children: EJtbel E., ValrosA Vivian. Active worker in civic improvement work In city, also public playgrounds movement. Was pres. Woman's Club, 1911-12. Organized two large mothers' clubs in ward schools. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian. Mem. Marshall County Historical Soc; mem. Marshalltown Woman's Club, Witenagemote Club, City Fed. of Women's Clubs (pres.). Education Com. of State Fed. of Women's Clubs. VAUXANT, Abby Angusta, 1 W. Sixty-fourth

St., N.Y. City, and Washington, Conn.

Bom Cleveland, O., 1872; dau. George H. and Maria (Wightman) Vaillant; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '94. Mem. Associate Alumnse of Vassar Coll., Collegiate Alumnge Ass'n, Women's Uni- versity Club. VALENTINE, Albertine Whitney Flershem

(Mrs. Joseph Loring Valentine), 1435 Dear- born Av., Chicago.

Writer; b. Chicago; dau. Lem Whitney and Mary Sophie (Greiner) Flershem; ed. Kirkland School, Chicago, '93; Smith Coll., A.B. '97; m. Chicago, Apr. 29, 1905, Joseph Loring Valentine; one son: John Wadsworth. Favors woman suf- frage; mem. Chicago Political Equality League, North Side Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Author (maga-

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