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��■woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mom. Colonial Dames, Mayflower See, D.A.R., U.S. Daughters of 1812, United Daughters of Confederacy, Hugue- not Sec, Daughters of Holland Dames. WILLIA>lSON, Mary Lynn (Mrs. M. White

Williamson), New Market St., Shenandoah

Co., Va.

Teacher 30 years; b. Midway, Albemarle Co., Va., May 4, 1850; dau. Dr. Peachy Rush and Mary FraJices (Rodes) Harrison; ed. Farmville Female Coll., 1863-65; special student in classics at Univ. of Va., under Dr. Francis H. Smith and Mary Stuart Smith, 1865-68; Richmond Fe- male Coll., Va., 1868-69; m. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2, 1874, M. White Williamson; children: Mary, Rush Harrison, Martha White, Isabel Hereford. Teacher in Georgetown Female Coll., in New Market Home School and New Market High School. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee for Children; The Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson ("Stone- wall") for Children; The Life of Washington; The Life of Major Gen. J. E. B. Stuart for the Young; also fugitive magazine articles. Episco- palian. Mem. Woman's Memorial Soc. of the Lost Cause, New Market, Va. (pres.). WXLMS, Eola, 72 Tradd St., Charleston, S.C.

Artist; b. Dalton, Ga.; dau. Major Edward and Elizabeth Louise (Hammond) Willis; ed. Charles- ton Female Sem. (first honor), and in N.Y. City; ground work of art study at Charleston Art School, and four years in N.Y. City at Art Stu- dents' League and The Centenary; studied under William M. Chase; later also in Paris. Artist and lecturer on art; pictures have received hon- orable mention at two expositions. Pre«. Advent Guild of St. Michael's Church; pres. of Arts and Crafts; mem. Carolina Art Ass'n. Favors equal franchise. Editor two years on a Southern pub- lication. Press correspondent from Paris for local papers; contributor to Century and other magazines and newspapers. Episcopalian. Mem. Huguenot Soc, D.A.R., Governing Board of People's Forum, Century Club. WILLIS, Gwendolen Brown, 941 Lake Av., Ra- cine, Wis.

College professor; ed. Univ. of Chicago, A.B. '96- Bryn Mawr Coll., Ph.D. '06; graduate student Univ of Chicago, 1900-01; American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1901-02; fellow in Greek Bryn Mawr Coll., 1902-04; student Columbia Univ., 1910-11. Professor of Greek in Milwaukee-Downer Coll., and teacher of Latin in the Milwaukee-Downer Sem. since 1904. WIT-LIS, Mary Jasper (Mrs. Richard B. Willis),

206 North East St., Fayetteville, Ark.

Teacher, writer; b. Washington, D.C.; dau. John Holmes and Sarah M. (Komper) Bocock; ed. Ann Smith Acad., Lexington, Va. ; Mary Baldwin Sem., Staunton, Va. ; Kemper Family School, Boonville, Mo.; received at the Mary Baldwin Sem certification and graduation in Latin, French, English; m. Hampden-Sidney, Va., Dec. 15 1886 Rev. Richard B. Willis, D.D.; children: Marguerite K., b. 18S9; Richard Bocock, b. 1805. Was pres. of the Phoenix Club of Searcy, Ark., for four years; pres. of the Ark. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1906-08; State historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for nine years, now State pres. of the Ark. Division, U.D.C.; regent Marion Chapter D.A.R. in Fayetteville; chairman Historical Com. of Ark. Fed. of Wo- men's Clubs; pres. Twentieth Century Club; mem Advisory Board Y.W.C.A. of State Univ. Author: History in the South; The Poster Girl; The Old Education as Compared with the New (Arkansas Gazette); has written poems, given by the Little Rock Chapter United Daughters of Confederacy as souvenirs at the Gen. United Daughters of Confederacy Convention in l.-ilO; other poems and cl'jb papers that have been read throughout the State. Has been in ■ two notable debates in the Ark. Fed. ; was on the program of the Gen. Fed. in 1908 in Boston; has frequently addressed high school students on Southern literature and kindred subjects. Mem. D.A.R., Scholarship Club, Fayetteville, Ark.; pres. Twentieth Century Study Club. Recrea- tions: Tennis, horseback riding, Tennyson,

��Browning, George Eliot. Presbyterian. Against

woman suffrage.

WILLISTON, Constance Bigelow, 15 Berkeley

St., Cambridge, Mass.

Teacher; b. Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 18, 1873; dau. Lyman Richards and Annie E. (Gale) Wil- liston; ed. Smith Coll., B.L. Teacher in Miss Ingols' School, Cambridge, 1896-1905; principal ol Berkeley St. School, Cambridge, 1905-12; head of Lower School, Cambridge School for Girls, Inc., 1912 — . Interested in societies in connection with church, single tax, suffrage. Mem. Smith College Alumnffi Ass'n, Ass'n Collegiate Alumnee, Rad- cliffe Union. 'Tliursday Club and various church clubs. Recreations: Photography, walking, thea- tre, music. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Cambridge Political Equality Ass'n. WIIXITS, Mary, 144 East Thirty-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Syosset, Long Island, N.Y., 1863; dau. William S. and Fannie N. (Hewlett) Willits; grad. Swarthmore Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '84 (valedictorian of class); med. course at Wom- an's Med. Coll., N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children, M.D. '98. Since graduation engaged in general practice of medicine in N.Y. City. Fa- vors woman suffrage.

WILLOUGHBY, Edythe Fuller (Mrs. Hugh de Laussat Wllloughby, Jr.), Mandalay, Sewall's Point, Fla., and 269 Kent Road, Wynnewood, Pa.

Born Milwaukee, Wis., July 22, 1883; dau. Oliver Clyde and Kate Fitzhugh (Caswell) Ful- ler; ed. Milwaukee-Downer Coll. and Misses Ely's School in N.Y. City; m. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 6, 1906, Hugh de Laussat Willoughby Jr.; one son: Hugh de Laussat Willoughby 3d. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Recrea- tions. Golf, motor boating. Mem. St. Augus- tine (Fla.) Golf Club.

WILLSON, Almyra Henderson (Mrs. Howard T. Wlllson), Goodland Place, Virden, 111. Born Virden, 111.; dau. John Provine and Maxie Z. (Bronaugh) Henderson; ed. Mt. Vernon Sem., Washington, D.C. ; New England Conserva- tory of Music, Boston, and Paris, France; m. Goodland Place, Virden, 111.; Sept. 28, 1898, How- ard T. Willson. Mem. Art Com. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; ex-chairman Art Dep't III. Fed. Women's Clubs; chairman Educational Dep't Vir- den Woman's Clubs. Mem. Christian Church. Mem. Am. Fed. of Arts, Washington, D.C; Va. Historical Soc, Chicago Soc. of Etchers. Active in Amateur Musical Club and the Country Club (Springfield, 111.), Virden Women's Club and Clio Club (Virden). Favors woman suffrage. WILMABTH, Mary J. Hawes (Mrs. Henry M. Wilmarth), Congress Hotel, Chicago, III. (sum- mer. Lake Geneva, Wis.).

Born New Bedford, Mass., 1837; dau. Shubael and Nancy B. (Smith) Hawes; ed. Friends Acad, and other schools in New Bedford; grad. Kimball Union Acad., Meridian, N.H., and pursued later studies in France and Italy; m. Meriden, Conn., May 21, 1861, Henry M. Wilmarth; children: Fanny, Stella, Anna. Was one of the first board of trustees of Hull House; delegate to the Nat. Convention of the Progres-sive Party, 1S12; chair- man of the Woman's General Cora, on the Edu- cational Congress of the World's Columbian Ex- position, Chicago, 1893. Favors v/oraan suflrage. Congregationalist. Progressive in politics. Mem. Consumers' League of 111., Political Equality League. Recreation: Reading. Mem. Fortnightly, Women's, Woman's City (honorary pres.). Wo- man's Athletic and Twentieth Century Clubs of Chicago.

WILMEB, Margaret Elizabeth, 354 E. Eigh- teenth St., Flatbush, L.I., N.Y. Writer; dau. Lambert A. Wiler (judge, author and journalist) and Sidney A. Wilmer. Contrib- utor of articles, stories and poems to various magazines and periodicals; has done editorial work for several newspapers. Author: The Glass Cable; The Nine Prizes; The Lestrange Family; Eva's Engagement Ring; The Dumb Traitor; Haunted Islands; Little Girl in Black; Prince of Good Fellows; Sliver Castle; for several years on regular staff of writers for the Nat. Temperance

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