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��Brackett's School, N.Y. City; The Brearley School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, 1899, John Van Vorst. Began literary work as correspondent for the N.Y. Evening Post in 1S9S; has since con- tributed to the leading American magazines and the Revue des Deux Mondes, Paris, and engaged as novelist, her first novel, "Bagsby's Daughter," being written in collaboration with Miss Marie Van Vorst, and published in 1901, as also was her second, "The Woman Who Toils," 1903. Author: Issues of Life— a Novel of the American Woman ol To-day, 1903; Letters to Women In Love, 1906; The Cry of the Chil- dren, 1908. Translator, from the French of Robert Charles Henri Le Roux, of "Magda, Queen of Sheba," from the Ancient Royal Abyssinian Manuscript, 1907. Episcopalian. VAN VORST, Marie, 4 Place du Palais Bour- bon, Paris, France.

Author; b. N.Y. City; dau. Hon. Hooper C. Van Vorst, Judge of Supreme Court of State of N.Y., and Josephine (Treat) Van Vorst; pri- vately educated by tutors at home. Contribu- tor of stories and verse to the magazines, and of correspondence to N.Y. Evening Post and other high-class publications. Sent to Europe by Harper & Bros, to write series upon Rivers of the Old World, including Tiber, 1907; Nile, 1908; Danube, 1909; Seine, 1909. Author: Bags- by's Daughter (with Mrs. Bessie Van Vorst), 1901; Philip Longstreth, 1902; The Woman Who Toils (being the Experience of Two Ladies as Factory Girls), with Mrs. Bessie Van Vorst, 1903; Poems, 1903; Modern French Masters (ar- ticles on De Chavannes, Cazin, Rodin, Besnard, and Steinlen, 1904; Amand of the Mill, 1905; Miss Desmond— An Impression, 1905; The Sin of George Warrener, 1906; The Sentimental Ad- ventures of Ji mm y Bulstrode, 1908; In Ambush, 1909; First Love, 1910; The Girl from His Town, 1910; The Broken Bell, 1912.

VAN WAGENEN, Anna Komeyn (Mrs. Theo- dore F. Van Wagenen), 1221 Sherman St.. Denver, Colo.

Born Albany, N.Y., Aug., 1849; dau. Stephen B. and Harriet (Stafford) Gregory; ed. Brooklyn (N.Y.) private schools. Packer Inst., Vassar Coll. one year special course; m. Oct., 1874, Theodore F. Van Wagenen; children: Ethel Phillipa, Richard Gregory, Hugh, Romeyn, Kenneth Dur- yea. Charter mem. Woman's Club of Denver, Colo, (chairman social science dep't, 1901); organizer of Consumers' League of Colo. ; pres. Colo. Branch Nat. Congress of Mothers, 1910-11 ; mem. Equal Sufifrage Ass'n of Colo., Public Service League. Democrat.

VAN WAGENIN, Kathrina Holland, Alstead Centre, N.H.

Social worker; ed. Miss Florence Baldwin's School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '04; student in Winona Bible School, N.Y. City, 1906-07. Mem. exec. com. of Y.W.C.A. of the States of New York and New Jersey, 1904-07; B6C. of literature and manager of Woman's B'd of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, N.Y. City, 1907-09.

Wti WERDEN, Helen B. DcKalb (Mrs. Louis P. Van Werden), Leon, la.

Business woman, b. DcKalb, la., June 29, 1869; dau. Benjamin Drew and Margaret A. (Smith) DeKalb; ed. Keokuk (la.) High School, Humes- ton (la.) Normal Cksll. (valedictorian of class); m. DeKalb, la., June 29, 1S98, Louis P. Van Werden; children: Charles DeKalb, Benjamin Drew DeKalb, Helen DeKalb. Cashier Bank of Weldon, Weldon, la., for nine years; has done a loan business for past 25 years. Much interested In schools and measures for their improvement. Methodist. Pres. Cemetery Ass'n. Leon, la.; mem. New Century Club; sec. Civics Ass'n. V.\N WERT, Su.san Evens, 3ie W. 112th St., N.Y. City.

Teacher; b. Jamestown, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1875; dau. Moses Elan and Eunice (Hastings) Van Wert; ed. Cornell Univ., A.B. '98 (mem. Alpha Phi). Preceptress Cooperstown (N.Y.) High School, lSCS-1902; East Orange (N.J.) High School, tcarher of Latin, 1902-0.'?; head of Greek dep't, 1903-04; Normal Coll. High School, N.Y. City, tutor in Latin, 1904-12; acting head In

��Latin Dep't, 1912-13. Favors woman suffrage. Clubs: Avon (Jamestown, N.Y.), Sennightly (Cornell). Cornell Women's (N.Y. City). VAN WINKLE, Mrs. Charles u., 272 McDonough

St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born New Liondon, Conn., Sept. 12, 18CG; dau. Jonathan S. and Martha T. (Benham) Bishop; ed. public schools of New London, Conn.; m. New London, June 20, 1S89, Charles D. Van Winkle; children: Edgar Bishop, Allan Foster. Interested in Brooklyn Home for Consumptives. Fa\ors woman suffrage; mem. Woman Suffrage Party. Episcopalian. Mem. Soc. Mayflower De- scendants, Soc. Colonial Daughters of the Sev- enteenth Century, D.A.R., Soo. of New England Women. Heoreations: Opera, theatre, lectures, bridge. Mem. Clvltas Club. VAN WTCK, SaUi« Floyd (Mrs. Stephen Van

Wyck), 346 W. Seventy-second St., N.Y. City.

Bom Norfolk, Va, ; dau. Thomas and Elizabeth E. B. (Floyd) Bottimore; ed. Augusta Female Sem., Staunton, Va. ; m. (1st) Charles F. Taylor; (2d) Stephen Vac Wyck; children: Charles Botti- more Taylor, Floyd Thomas Taylor. Interested in New Thought. Mem. D.A.R. VAN ZIT.E, Marj- Bulkeley (Mrs. Edward S.

Van Zile), 404 W. Twentieth St., Chelsea

Square, N.Y. City.

Born N.Y. City; dau. William H. and Emma (Gurney) Bulkeley; ed. private schools and gram- mar and high schools, Hartford, Conn., m. Hart- ford, Conn., Deu 8, 1886, Edward S. Van Zile, author; children: Mary (Mrs. Gerald A. Cun- ningham), b. Oct. 2, 1887; Edward Bulkeley, b. Dec. 22, 188«; Sally, b. June 9, 1890; Harriet, b. Sept. 18, 1892; Winifred, b. Feb. 19, 1902 (died Apr. 29, 1902). Active in many educational and civic movements; mem. Woman's Municipal League, and chairman of Chelsea branch of League since 1911, mem. Woman's Auxiliary to New York Dep't of Health Tuberculosis Clinics, Com. on Education and Publicity of the N.Y. County Com. of the Progressive Party, Exec. Com. of Chelsea Neighborhood Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman Suffrage Party. Mem. Connecticut Soc. Colonial Dames of Am., Woman's Cosmopolitan Club (N.Y. City). VAKNEY, Alice Lucy (Mrs. Sidney J. Varney),

La Salle, Colo.

Born Hudson, C>., July 4, 1836; dau. Salmon and Abiah (Cook) 'Thompson; ed. Hudson Sem.; Oxford Coll., Ohio; Rockford Coll., 111., grad. 1SC2; m. Hudson, O., Mar. 21, 1864, Sidney J. Varney; children: Helen A., Sidney R., Salmon J., Julia A., Samuel J. Interested in Presby- terian Church work, Sunday-school, missionary and aid societies; active worker in W.C.T.U. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Prohibi- tionist and Democrat. Recreations: Letter writ- ing, reading, travel. Mem. Social Ethics Club, Idaho Springs, Colo. In June, 1912, attended fiftieth anniversary of her graduation at Rock- ford College. VAUDRY, Mary Olive, Lennoxvllle, Quebec,

Can.

Educationist; b. Shefford. Quebec; dau. Hypo- lite and Martha Olive (Craig) Vaudry (father's family from Dieppe, Normandy; mother's family United Empire Loyalists); ed. Waterloo Acad.; St. Francis Coll., Richmond; McGill Univ., Mon- treal, B.A. '96, .M.A. 1900 (pres. McGill Univ. Y.W.C.A., 1895-96); M.A. ad eundem. Lennox- vllle Coll., 1905. Began teachingjn 1S96; taught two years In Chicago; principal Lennoxville Acad., seven years; principal Knowlton Acad., two years. Interested In church union and tem- perance reform. Favors woman suffrage. Au- thor: Jerusalem, the Golden; The United Empire Loyalists in Shefford Co., Quebec. Protestant. Pres. Lennoxvllle W.C.T.U. VAUGHAN, Hattle Buckley (Mrs. Thomas

VauBhan), 317 W. 119th St., N.Y. City.

Born Spencer, N.Y., Mar. 14, 1853; dau. Miles and Caroline E. (Bierce) Buckley; ed. Spencer Acad.; m. Ithaca, N.Y., 1873, Thomas Vaughan. Interested In church work and missions, city, foreign and doroestic. Mem. Women's Missionary Societies, foreign and domestic, Clio Club. Rec- reations: Music, literature. Mem. Dutch Re- formed Church. Favors woman suffrage.

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