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��WINTERBUBN, Florence Hull (Mrs. George W.

Winterburn), 2 St. Nicholas Place, N.T. City.

Author, editor; b. Chicago, 111., June 8, 1S58; da,u. Captain Stephen Chester and Laura (Bell) Hull; ed. Female Inst, in Washington; special studies in psychology, biology and modern philosophy; m. N.Y. City, Jan. 25, 1893, Dr. George W. Winterburn, physician, editor, writer (died Nov. 18, 1911). Went to N.Y. City, 1891, to do literary work and became special writer on child training. After marriage associated with husband in the conduct of the magazine Childhood, the pioneer in the field of child study which has since become popular; subsequently editor of departments on this topic in various magazines. At one time editor of Godey's and of Home and Country; six years editorial writer on the Woman's Home Companion; one year managing editor of historical magazine Ameri- cana. Essayist, writer of snort stories for mag- azines, collected In a volume: Southern Hearts. Author: Nursery Ethics; The Child's Standpoint; The Children's Health; Vacation Hints. Occa- sional lecturer. Has passed several years abroad, especially in Paris, where she went to study psychology and literature.

WINTERS, Helen Clegs: (Mrs. Valentine Win- ters), 319 W. First St., Dayton, O. Born Dayton, Dec. 6, 1869; dau. Charles B. and Harriet (Pease) Clegg; ed. Cincinnati and N.Y., Miss Nourse, Misses Peebles and Thompson Schocls; m. Dayton, Feb. 2S, 1889, Valentine Winters; children: Valentine (deceased), Harriet Helen and Jonathan Harshman Jr. Episcopalian. Treas. Woman Suffrage Ass'n of Montgomery Co. Mem. Dayton, Dayton Country and Mozart clubs.

VVITHAIH, Kose Adelaide, 15 Westport Av., Kansas City, Mo.

Principal of girls' private school; b. Boston, May 30, 1873; dau. Jason G. and Bessie T. (Tay- lor) Witham; ed. Thayer Acad., South Braintree, Mass.; Smith Coll., A.B. '95; post-grad, work Brown Univ. and Radcliffe Coll. (mem. Alpha, Greek club, Smith). Teacher of English, Fitch- burg High School, 1895-97; Somerville Latin School 1897-1901; Providence Classical School, 1901-05; editor at Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1905- 07- assoc principal the Barstow School, Kansas City Mo., 1907—. Editor of editions of: Silas Marner; Vicar of Wakefield; Irving's Life of Goldsmith; Tale of Two Cities; DeQuincey's Essays; Lamb's Essays; Old English and Scotch Ballads- author of children's short stories and plays Mem. Nat. Ass'n of English Teachers, College Club of Boston, Country Club (Kansas City), Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnas. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

WITHEKBEE, Mary Rhinelander Stewart (Mrs.

Frank Spencer Witherbee), 4 Fifth Av., N.T.

City.

Born N.Y. City, Mar. 3, 1859; dau. Lispenard and Mary Rogers (Rhinelander) Stewart; ed. Miss Green's School, Miss Ayer's School, and by professors at home; m. N.Y. City, Apr. 25, 1883 Frank Spencer Witherbee; children: Lispenard Stewart, b. June 1, 1886 (died Feb. 8, 1907); Evelyn Spencer, b. July 9, 1889. Actively inter- ested in social life and in various charitable societies; mem. of Grace Church, N.Y. City; director of Nursery and Child's Hospital; treas. Washington Square Auxiliary of Stony Wold Sanatorium. Since 1895 directs and supports en- tirely a cooking school of 80 members for the miners' children at Mineville, Essex Co., N.Y. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Colonial Dames.

WITHERS, Mrs. Jennie B. Barnes, Bureau of Statistics, Dep't of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Born Leavenworth, Kan., Mar. 3, 1863; dau. Delos N. and Caroline (Wilson) Barnes; grad. Leavenworth High School, June, '79, two years post-graduate work in languages; m. Aug. 3, 1882 Thomas Withers of Denver, O)lo. ; children: Lieut Thomas Withers, U.S.N. ; Midshipman Noble Withers, U.S.N. ; Cleeman, a page in House of Representatives, Washington, D.C, and Jennie. Many years a mem. Monday Literary

��Club of Denver; charter mem. Woman's Club of Denver; first vice-pres. Woman's Democratic Club of Colorado. In 1896 organized the Woman's Club of Cripple Creek, and the following season established a free reading-room and public library for the town of Cripple Creek. In 1900 was appointed State chairman for the Democratic women of Colorado, first to hold that position In the United States. Conducted the campaign for William J. Bryan, as far as the women's votes were concerned, after his first nomination in Colorado. Has been delegate in many county and two State conventions; three times delegate to the Nat. Fed. of Women's Clubs. At present a professional stenographer employed in the Bureau of Statistics, Dep't of Agriculture, Wash- ington, D.C. Has delivered many lectures and addresses in the interest of women and children and stands for the unqualified suffrage for women.

WITHERSPOON, Pauline F., The Belgravia,

Louisville, Ky.

Social worker; b. in Va. ; dau. Rev. Thomas Dwight Witherspoon (D.D., LL.D.) and Charlotte Vernon (Ingram) Witherspoon; ed. Bryn Mawr Coll. and Univ. of Chicago. Teacher of chemis- try and later, head of physics dep't. Girls High School, Louisville, Ky. ; director of social cen- tres in public schools of Louisville; ass't director Child Welfare Exhibit, Montreal, Can., June- Sept., 131'<J. Chairman of Educational Ckim. and mem. Board of Managers of the Woman's Club; mem. (College Club of Louisville, Conference of Social Workers Social Center Ass'n of America; chairman of Entertainments Section of Louisville Child Welfare Exhibit. Director of "The Cathe- dral House," of Louisville. Favors woman suf- frage. Presbyterian. Progressive in politics.

WITHERSPOON, Ruth Helene Miles (Mrs.

Charles R. Witherspoon), 20 Dartmouth St.,

Rochester, N.H.

Born Rochester, N.Y. ; ed. Rochester Free Acad., private tuition and Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '02; m. Rochester, N.Y., Dr. Charles R. Wither- spoon. Mem. College Club of City of Rochester (pres. 1905).

W^THrNGTON, Alfreda Bosworth, Pittsfield,

Mass.

Physician, surgeon; b. German town. Pa., Aug. 15, 1860; dau. James Harvey and Alfreda (Bos- worth) Withington; ed. by private instruction and Cornell Univ., A.B. '81; post-grad, scientific work Cornell Univ.. '83; Woman's Med. Coll., N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '87, with first award of merit. Resident physician, N.Y. Infirmary for Women and Children, 1887-88. Instructor in physiology, Woman's Med. Coll., 1887-88; student at Vienna, Prague and Dresden, 1888-90; resident Czechish Nat. Obstetrical Hospital, Prague, 1889 (by special grant of the Bohemian Ministerium — first woman physician). In metflcal practice in Pittsfield, Mass., since 1891. Attending physician and surgeon. House of Mercy Hospital, since 1892. Tuberculosis Hospital (Board of Managers); volunteer, Labrador Medical Mission, summer of 1907; officer and mem. of various social and philanthropic activities. Contributor and trans- later medical journals and Transactions; collabo- rator and biographer in Cyclopedia of Am. Med. Biography, 1912. Mem. Kappa Alpha Theta, Am. Med. Ass'n, Mass. Med. Soc. (ex-pres. Berkshire Co. branch). New England Pediatric Soc. Rec- reation: Winter sports. Mem. college and local clubs. Favors woman suffrage.

WITHROW, Winifred Warren (Mrs. Edward Chase Withrow), 103 Denver St., Sterling, Colo. Born Schroon, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1876; dau. Arthur W. and Augusta E. (Bump) Warren; ed. public school of Sterling, Greeley Normal of Colorado; m. Sterling, April 29, 1897, Edward Chase Withrow; children: F. Vivian, Alice Adelle. Mem. Methodist Ladies' Aid, Woman's Home Mis- sionary Soc, Sterling Franklin Parent Teachers' Ass'n, Order of Eastern Star. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church, Zeta Zeta Club. WITTENMTER, Clara K.. Mills College, Cal.

Dean of Mills Coll.; b. Sycamore Valley, Cal.; dau. Lewis Cass and Helen Mar (Russell) Wit-

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