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Rh ed. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn; Smith Coll., A.B. '01; Pratt Inst, diploma in normal domestic science '07. Taught household economy at Hebrew Technical School for Girls, N.Y. City, and at Simmons Coll.; served for a year in the dep't of health and economics of the Nat. Electric Lamp Ass'n of Cleveland, O., investigating working conditions for the women employees in their factories; head of dep't of household economy at Bates Coll., 1911-12. Mem. Nat. Soc. for Promotion of Industrial Education, Alumnae Ass'n of Smith Coll. Recreations: Sailing, swimming, walking. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

BIRKS, Julia Miles (Mrs. Frederick M. Birks), 112 Roanoke Av., Peoria, Ill.

Born Peoria, Ill., July 31, 1874; dau. Hon. Philo B. and Maria Helen (Wrenn) Miles; ed. Peoria High School and Wells Coll., A.B. '97; m. June 6, 1901, Frederick Massey Birks. Devoted to the study of history, prominent in social life in Peoria. Mem. Visiting Nurse Com. of Associated Charities, Civic Fed. of Peoria; ex-pres. College Club of Peoria; ex-pres. Western Ass'n of Wells Coll.; mem. Friday Club, Amateur Musical Club. Recreations: Golf, flower gardening, motoring. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Suffrage Club of Peoria.

BISBEE, Genevieve, 38 E. Sixtieth St., N.Y. City.

Musician and teacher of piano; b. Rockford, Ill.; dau. Horatio and Martha Florida (Flotard) Bisbee: ed. Mrs. Kirk's School, N.Y. City: Berlin and Leipzig, Germany, and Leschetizky's School in Vienna, Austria. Teacher of piano by the Leschetizky method; composer. Has written a booklet: Leschetizky and His Method. Episcopalian. Mem. United Daughters of the Confederacy.

BISHOP, Alice Lyman (Mrs. Charles Alvord Bishop), Monrovia, Cal.

Born Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio, Mar. 6, 1872; dau. Richard H. and Emma A. (Wiley) Lyman; grad. Wyoming High School, Wyoming, Hamilton Co., Ohio, 1890; attended Mt. Holyoke Coll. (one year), 1890-91; m. Des Moines, Iowa, June 25, 1902, Judge Charles Alvord Bishop; one daughter: Alice Roxana Bishop, b. Sept. 5, 1903. Interested in Parent-Teachers' Ass'n work. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Republican. Recreations: Gardening, motoring, outdoor life. Mem. and recording sec. Monrovia Woman's Club.

BISHOP, Elizabeth Loraine, The Western College, Oxford, O.

Teacher; b. Hannibal, Wis.; dau. William M. and Harriette A. (Warner) Bishop; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '97, A.M. '98; Univ. of Chicago, grad. study. Prof. Latin in the Western Coll. for Women, Oxford, O. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Archaeological Inst. of America, Classical Ass'n of Middle West and South. Congregationalist.

BISHOP, Emily Montague (Mrs. Coleman E. Bishop), 600 W. 192d St., N.Y. City.

Lecturer, reader, health culturlst; b. Forestville, N.Y., Nov. 3, 1858; dau. Asa L. and Ann E. (DeWitt) Mulkin; ed. in Forestville (N.Y.) High School; m. Silver Creek, N.Y., Coleman E. Bishop. Dramatic reader; lecturer and teacher at Chautauqua Assembly, Chautauqua Lake, N.Y., since 1889; joint principal and director of health culture dep't in School of Expression; writer on literary and health topics. Author: Health and Self-Expresslon; Interpretative Forms of Literature; Seventy Years Young; Daily Ways to Health.

BISHOP, Harriette Anna (Mrs. William M. Bishop), 74 Pitcher St., Detroit, Mich.

Teacher; b. Burlington, Vt., Aug. 7, 1845; dau. William and Harriet B. (Leach) Warner; ed. Detroit High School; Vassar Coll., A.B. '67; m. Detroit, Mich., Oct. 13, 1870, William M. Bishop of Hannibal, Mo. (died 1878); children: William Warner, Helen Louise, Elizabeth Loraine. Teacher Detroit High School since 1878. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Phi Beta Kappa Soc., College Club of Detroit.

BISHOP, Helen Louise, 74 Pitcher St., Detroit, Mich.

Teacher; b. Hannibal, Mo., Nov. 7, 1872; dau. William Melancthon and Harriette Anna (Warner) Bishop; grad. Detroit High School, Vassar Coll., A.B. '97; Univ. of Mich., A.M. '04; American School of Classical Studies in Rome, 1900-01. Teacher in high school, Covington, Ind., 1898-99; Rockford Coll., 1902-03; Meredith Coll., Raleigh, N.C., 1905-07; Detroit Central High School since 1908. Author: The Fountain of Juturna in the Roman Forum. Congregationalist. Mem. Phi Beta Kappa, Ass'n Collegiate Alumna, College Club of Detroit.

BISHOP, Nelle Smith (Mrs. Alwood Lawrence Bishop), 52 Idlewood Av., Cleveland, O.

Born Des Moines, la.. May 21, 1877; dau. Lewis C. and Ida (Clapp) Smith; ed. West Des Moines High School and Rachel Clark's School for Girls, Des Moines; m. Des Moines, 1902, A. L. Bishop; one son: Alwood Lawrence Bishon Jr., b. 1903. Interested in women's departmental clubs and federation of clubs. Episcopalian. Recreation; Social life. Mem. Cleveland Olia Podvida Club, Cleveland Woman's Club (pres. three years, now resigned). Cor. sec. Cleveland Fed. Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage.

BISHOP, Susan Washburne (Mrs. William D. Bishop), 199 Courtland Hill, Bridgeport, Conn.

Born Raynham, Mass.; dau. Hon. Elihu B. Washburne (U.S. Senator, U.S. Minister to France, etc.) and Adele (Gratiot) Washburne; ed. in Europe; m. William D. Bishop; children: Natalie B. Reyburn, William D. Bishop Jr. Mem. Soc. of Colonial Dames, Huguenot Soc., Soc. of Mayflower Descendants.

BISPHAM, Caroline Russell (Mrs. David S. Bispham), 150 E. Thirty-fifth St., N.Y. City.

Daughter of late Gen. Charles S. and Anna Elizabeth (Fletcher) Russell; ed. Washington, D.C., and lived abroad for 23 years; m. St. Mark's Church, Philadelphia, April 28, 1885, David S. Bispham; children: Vida, b. Florence, Italy; Leonie A. F. Carnegie, b. London; David, b. London, Eng. Composer of songs and author of short stories and poems. Roman Catholic. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Gardening, driving. Clubs: York (N.Y. City), West Chester Country (West Chester, Pa.).

BISSELL, Bertha Abby Nichols (Mrs. Horace G. Bissell), East Greenwich, R.I.

Born East Greenwich, R.I., 1870; dau. John Champlin and Phebe A. (Rice) Nichols; ed. East Greenwich Acad., 1891; Smith Coll., 1891-92; Brown Univ., Ph.B. 1892-95 (Alpha Beta, charter mem.); m. East Greenwich, R.I., Nov. 8, 1905, Horace G. Bissell. Treas. East Greenwich branch of the Woman's Auxiliary (Episcopal Church); mem. District Nurse Ass'n of East Greenwich, Bethesda Circle of King's Daughters of East Greenwich. Mem. R.I. Soc. for the Collegiate Education of Women, R.I. branch Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Alumnae Ass'n of Brown Univ.; pres. Providence Fortnightly Club. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BISSELL, Mary Taylor (Mrs. Willard Parker Bissell), Marlborough-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Physician; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; dau. Rev. E. E. L. and Mary J. (Perkins) Taylor; ed. Vassar Coll., A.B. '75; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '81; m. Willard Parker Bissell (deceased); one son: Philip Bissell (deceased). Practised medicine in N.Y. City; medical director physical training for 10 years of Berkeley Ladies' Athletic Club, N.Y. City; prof. hygiene, N.Y. Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, five years; exec. sec. N.Y. State Consumers' League, 1908-11, Investigating health of working women, etc., in factories and stores. Established a Rest House for Semi-Invalids at Marlborough, N.Y., 1912. Author: Physical Exercise for Women; Manual of Hygiene, and various papers in Popular Science Monthly. Mem. State Med. Soc, Ulster County Med. Soc, Woman's Med. Soc. of N.Y. and vicinity. Woman's University Club, Vassar Alumnae Ass'n.

BISSELL, Marie Truesdale (Mrs. Richard M. Bissell), 351 Farmington Av., Hartford, Conn.

Born Terre Haute, Ind., Sept 14, 1879; dau.