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��10; school librarian, Portland, Ore., since 1910; pres. Iowa Library Ass'n, 1909; instructor In summer library schools. Pres. Oregon Branch Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnas, 1913; mem. Board of Y.W.C.A., Portland. Mem. College Equal Suf- frage League. Baptist. Democrat. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n, Portland Professional Woman's League.

WOOD, Harrlette M. Johnston (Mrs. William H. Wood); office, 60 Wall St.. N.Y. City: resi- dence, San Remo Hotel, N.Y. City. Lawyer; b. Hector, N.Y.; dau. Rufus W. and Mary E. (Matthews) Johnston; ed. district school. Cook Acad.. Albany Law School and Woman's Law Class N.Y. Univ.; m. N.Y. City, Dec. 23, 1903, William H. Wood. Public speaker and writer; has prepared and presented to Legisla- ture laws to better conditions of women and children, and for health certificate before license to marry la granted. Author: Laws Discrimi- nating Against Women In the State of New York. Mem. State Bar Ass'n, N.Y. County Law- yers' Ass'n, D.A.R., Soc. of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, Alumnae Ass'n of Woman's Law Class N.Y. Univ., Progressive Party, Women Lawyers' Club, Pen and Brush Club, Women's Press Club, Manhattan Study Club. Recreations: Fruit farming on Seneca Lake (100 acres of peaches and grapes), fishing, preserving, pickling, canning. Jamming, jellying, cultivating flowers and gardening. Christian Scientist. Favors woman suffrage; mem. State and National Ass'ns. Woman Suffrage Party. WOOD, Helen Toss (Mrs. George Bacon Wood), 129 S. Eighteenth St., Philadelphia, Pa, Born N.Y. City, Dec. 1, 1872; dau. Rev. Cyrus David Fobs (Bishop in M.E. Church) and Amelia (Robertson) Foss; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.S. '94 (mem. Phi Sigma); Univ. of Pa., M.A. '03 (degree taken In sociology and economics) ; m. Phi'adel- rhla, Pa.. Oct. 2, 1906, George Bacon Wood, M.D. ; children: Helen, b. 1907; George Bacon Jr., b. 1909. Professional social worker before marriage. Director Philadelphia Soc. for Organ- izing Charity; vice-chairman Women's League for Good Government; director Bureau of Occu- pations for Trained Women. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. College Club, Civic Club.

WOOD, Mrs. Jessie Porter, 32 The Winston, Washington, D.C.

Assistant in Library of Congress; b. Syracuse, N.Y. ; dau. John Warren (lineal descendant of John Porter, one of founders of Windsor. Conn.) and Helen Mar (Stoddard) Porter (descendant of John Stoddard of Wethersfield, Conn.); paternal grandfather, John F. Porter, was first child born In Syracuse, N.Y.; ed. schools of Charlottesville, Va. ; studied at Metropolitan Museum Art School, N.Y. City, receiving two prizes, and at Art Stu- dents' League under J. Carrol Backwith and Wal- ter Shlrlaw; m. 1889, Thomas Thornton Wood, of Charlottesville, Va. Exhibited portraits at At- lanta Exposition, Providence (R.I.) Art Club and Washington Water Color (jlub. Professional genealogist and well-known heraldic painter. Appointed to Prints Division, Library of Con- gress, Sept. 18, 1897, later transferred to Reading Room. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R. through great-grandfathers on both sides of family, Co- lumbian Women of George Washington Univ., Washington Water Color Club. Favors woman suffrage.

WOOD, Joanna E., "The Heights," Queenstown,

Ont., Can.

Author; b. Lanarkshire, Scotland; came to Canada with parents in childhood; ed. in schools of Ontario. Author: A Martyr to Love; The Un- tempored Wind; Judith Moore; 'I'he Lynchpin SenFation;' A Daughter of Witches; Where Waters Beckon; Farden Ha'; Unto the Third Generation.

WOOD, Luole Pourher (Mrs. Edwin Dow Wood), care of General Electric Co., Provident Bank Building, Cincinnati, O. Born Rookport, Ind., May 26, 1880; dau. John

Poucher and Annie Martha (Cross) Poucher; ed.

De Pauw Univ., Greencastle, Ind., A.B. 1900,

A.M. 1901, Phi Beta Kappa (mem. Kappa Kappa

��Gamma); m. Petersburg, Ind., June 21, 1911, Edwin Dow Wood. Teacher of Latin; tutor De Pauw Univ. Acad., 1900-01; dep't head in high schools of Greensburg, Ind., 1901-02; Elwood, Ind., 1902-05; New Albany, Ind., 1905-11. Mem. Methodisi Episcopal Church. Mem. Falls Cities Alumnae Ass'n of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Mem. Fortnightly Literary Club (New Albany, Ind.). WOOD, Lydia Cope (Mrs. John Bacon Wood),

Pyne Poynt, Canaden, N.J.

Born Philadelphia, 1845; dau. William Morris and Eliza Cooper (Cope) Collins; ed. Philadelphia private school; m. Philadelphia, May 8, 1867, John Bacon Wood; children: Ellen Collins, Ho- ratio Curtis, Arthur Morris, Edward Cope. In- terested in religious, social and philanthropic work. Favors woman suffrage. Author: For a Free Conscience; The Haydocks; Testimony; A Missionary Penny; also short stories contributed to various papers. Mem. Orthodox Friends. Recreation: All out-door life. WOOD, Lydta Jefferies (Mrs. Henry Firth

Wood). 235 Eighty-fourth St., Bay Ridge,

Brooklyn, N.Y.

Bom New Brunswick, N.J., Aug. 30, 1862; dau. David T. and Sarah (Green) Jefferies; ed. Jersey City High School, Nat. School of Elocution and Oratory, Philadelphia; took first prize ($50 gold medal) and two honors at contest; m. Brooklyn, Feb. 19, 1883, Henry Firth Wood; children: Stacy Harolde Wood, artist, b. Nov. 25, 1887; Eunice Sayra Wood (at Wellesley), b. Sept. 3, 1893; Roland Armstrong Wood, b. June 16, 1897. Has been professional reader since 1881; traveled ex- tensively over U.S. and Europe. Presbyterian. Mem. Consumers' L.eague, Nat. Indian Ass'n, Red CroFs Soc, Missionary Soc. of church, Nat. Sunshine Soc, N.Y. Fed. of Women's Clubs, Sorosis, Bay Ridge Reading Club. WOOD, Mabel Janette, 515 N. Cayuga St.,

Ithaca, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Ithaca, N.Y., Jan. 1, 18S3; dau. Percy W. and Mary (Osman) Wood; ed. high school, Ithaca, N.Y. ; Cornell Univ., A.B., grad- uate work 1907-08. Taught in Evansville Sem., 1905-06; high school, Montrose, Pa., 1906-07; Ithaca High School, 1908-09. Mem. D.A.R. Methodist. WOOD, Mary Cralg-e (Mrs. Thomas Dewera

Wood), Bryn Mawr, Pa,, and "Florencitaa,"

Santa Barbara, Cal.

Born Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. John Lindsay and Elizabeth Brooke (Hubertson) Craige; ed. Chegaray Inst., Philadelphia, and in Germany and France; m. Philadelphia, April 27, 1887, Thomas Dewers Wood; children: Lindsay, Craige, Ruth Gilpin, Eleanor, Vincent Porter, Lillian Wayland Wood. Author: Old Records of Phila- delphia Families. ,.Iem. Morgaranto Klebus Club. WOOD, Mary I. (Mrs. George A. Wood), Ports- mouth, N.H.

Manager Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs Bureau of Information; b. Woodstock, Vt., Jan. 18, 18C6; dau. John L. and Jean Ainsworth (Brand) Stevens; ed. Black River Acad., Ludlow, Vt.; Vt. Acad., Saxtona River, Vt. ; private in- struction in language and ethics; m. Saxtons River, Vt., Oct. 14, 1884. George A. Wood; chil- dren: Helen (now Mrs. O. M. Campbell), Albert J., Mary E., Keith A. Ex-pres. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; ex-director General Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. State Board of Charities and Correction, local Board of Instruction; pres. of District Nursing Ass'n; director of Girls' Club Ass'n; vlce-pres. local society for Asso- ciated Charities. Author: History of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1912; has been editor of two different women's club magazines, and contributes articles to magazines upon the woman question. Mem. Graffort Club and Civic Ass'n (Portsmouth). Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; vlce-pres. local league; vlce-pres. Stats organization and chairman State (Tampai^ Com. WOOD, Mary Knight (Mrs. Charles Greenleaf

Wood), 150 W. Fifty-ninth St., N.Y. City;

"Wllchwood," Onteora Club, CatsklU Moun- tains. N.Y.

Musician and song writer; b. Easthampton, Mass., 1857; dau. Horatio Gates Knltht (LleU'

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