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Rh BLANCHARD, Amy Ella, Redding Ridge, Conn.; summer, Bailey Island, Me.

Author; b. Baltimore, Md., June 28, 1856; dau. Daniel Harris and Sarah L. (Reynolds) Blanchard; ed. by private instruction at home and in private schools, 18 months in High School, Baltimore, and special courses at art schools, Harvard Summer School and elsewhere. Took first prize In Metropolitan Museum of Art School, 1885 (life class). Taught drawing and painting at Sem., Plainfiejd, N.J., two years, afterward moved to Philadelphia, where engaged in literary work. Believes in equal suffrage. Episcopalian. Has traveled in principal countries of Europe. Recreations: Music, painting. Author: Two Girls (series); Three Pretty Maids (series); Four Corners (series); War of the Revolution (series); War of 1812 (series); A Gentle Pioneer (series); A Journey of Joy (series); Wit's End; A Glad Lady; Talbot's Angels.

BLANCHARD, Elizabeth Miller, Bellefonte, Pa.

Worker in Bellefonte basket shop; b. Bellefonte, Pa., 1865; dau. Evan Miles and Eliza (Thomas) Blanchard; ed. Bellefonte Academy, Bryn Mawr College, B.A. '89; fellow in mathematics, Bryn Mawr, '90. Teacher of mathematics in the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore; Misses Shipley School; Bryn Mawr; Miss Irwin's School, Philadelphia. Chairman Municipal Com. of Board of Trade, Bellefonte, Pa. Pres. Woman's Club, Bellefonte, Pa. Mem. Soc. of Friends. Socialist; mem. Socialist party. Mem. Ass'n Coll. Alumnae, Bryn Mawr Coll. Alumnae, Coll. Club of Philadelphia. Recreations: Camping, walking, cards. Pres. Suffrage League, Bellefonte, Pa.; Coll. Suffrage League.

BLANCHARD, Ethel West (Mrs. Ferdinand Quincy Blanchard), East Orange, N.J.

Born Boston, Mar. 13, 1874; dau. Charles Foster and Elizabeth (Buckley) West; ed. Newton (Mass.) grammar and high schools; Smith Coll., B.L. '99; m. Newtonville, Mass., June 19, 1901, Rev. Ferdinand Quincy Blanchard; one son: Edward Richmond. Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist.

BLANCHARD, Dr. Frances S. Carothers (Mrs. Charles A. Blanchard), 523 Howard St., Wheaton, Ill.

Physician; father Scotch-Irish; mother a descendant of the Whitneys of Vermant; grad. Wheaton Coll., A.B. '80, A.M. '85; Northwestern Univ. Med. School, M.D. '85; m. Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 19, 1896, Rev. Charles Albert Blanchard, D.D., LL.D., pres. of Wheaton Coll. Practised medicine in Iowa until marriage, since then in Wheaton, Ill. Congregationalist. Prohibitionist.

BLANCHARD, Irene M., Willard Hall, Evanston, Ill.

Teacher; b. Lower Waterford, VL, 1876; dau. Enoch and Susan (Bugles) Blanchard; ed. Univ. of Mich., A.B. '98; grad. student, Univ. of Mich., 1911-12 (mem. Kappa Alpha Theta). Teacher Latin and Greek, Battle Creek (Mich.) High School, 1898-99; Latin and English, Ill. State Normal Univ., Normal, Ill., 1899-1910; acting dean of women, Northwestern Univ., 1912-13. Favors woman suffrage; sec. Equal Suffrage League, Normal, Ill., 1910-11. Presbyterian. Mem. D.A.R. and Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

BLANCHARD, Mary Miles, Bellefonte, Pa.

Born Bellefonte, Pa., July 22, 1867; dau. Evan Miles and Eliza Thomas (Harris) Blanchard; ed. Bellefonte Acad., A.B. '89; Bryn Mawr Coll., Master Craftsman in Basketry conferred by the Arts and Crafts Soc. of Boston. Owner, manager and designer of the Basket Shop at Bellefonte. Mem. Women's Civic Club of Bellefonte, Pa.; secretary of Auxiliary of Bellefonte Hospital; mem. College Club of Philadelphia, Arts and Crafts Soc. of Boston, Detroit, Baltimore; Nat. Soc. of Craftsmen of N.Y. Mem. of Society of Friends. Identified with and teacher of women's Bible class in a mission school. Favors woman suffrage.

BLANKENBURG, Lucretia L. (Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg), 214 West Logan Sq., Philadelphia, Pa,

Social reformer and suffrage worker; b. New Lisbon, O., May 8, 1845; dau. Thomas E. and Hannah E. (Myers) Longshore (mother was a pioneer woman doctor, grad. from the Woman's Med. Coll., Philadelphia, 1850; practised medicine forty-five years); ed. in Philadelphia Friends' Central School; m. Philadelphia, 1867, Rudolph Blankenburg of Lippe Detmold, Germany (now reform Mayor of Philadelphia); three children (all deceased). Mem. Society of Friends. Has been interested in the evolution of the woman movement and the growth of liberal religious views; for sixteen years pres. Pa. Woman Suffrage Ass'n (now honorary pres.). Author of short articles and leaflets in regard to suffrage or other activities among women. Life mem. Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Recreation: Travel. Mem. New Century Club, Working Woman's Guild, Civic Club of Philadelphia. First vice-pres. General Federation of Women's Clubs.

BLANKENSHIP, Georgiana Mitchell (Mrs. George E. Blankenship), 1503 Columbia St., Olympia, Wash.

Newspaper correspondent; b. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 17, 1860; dau. George Martin and Elizabeth (Penniman) Mitchell; ed. public schools; m. Olympia, Wash., 1892, George E. Blankenship; children: Frank D., Marion Ruth. Newspaper correspondent for State House News, Associated Press, Portland Oregonian, Seattle Post-Intelli- gencer. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Relief (woman's) Soc. Mem. Woman's Club of Olympia, Eenati Club; second vice-pres. State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Recreations: Out-door sports. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage (voter); pres. Thurston Co. Suffrage Ass'n.

BLASAR, Jeanette (Mrs. Joseph Blasar), 100 S. Thirteenth St., Kansas City, Kan.

Born Hudson, Mich.; dau. Lyman L. and Philana (Manning) Wright; ed. Toledo (O.) Normal School; m. (1st) Mattoon, Ohio, 1869, Edwin Dimick; (2d) Neosho, Mo., 1895, Joseph Blasar. Has been identified with churches as sup't; pres. of Ladies' Aid at Thompson Falls, Mont., 1892; organized first Sunshine Branch in Springfield, Mo., later in Kansas City home. Organized seven branches of Internat. Sunshine Soc; organizer for 10 years of State of Kansas Sunshine Soc. (incorporated), called Kansas Division; was pres. Mo. State Division. Organized three branches in Kansas City. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Progressive in politics. Mem. Grand Army Circle, Ladies' Circle of Loyal Order of Moose; pres. One Kindness Branch of Internat. Sunshine Society.

BLATCH, Harriot Stanton, 315 W. 97th St., N.Y. City.

Reformer; b. Seneca Falls, N.Y., Jan. 20, 1856; dau. Henry Brewster and Elizabeth (Cady) Stanton; grad. Vassar Coll., B.A. '78; honors in mathematics (Phi Beta Kappa), A.M. '94; student Berlin '80, Sorbonne, Paris, '82; m. London, Eng., 1882, William Henry Blatch; children: Nora Stanton, b. 1883; Helen Stanton, b. 1892. After marriage in 1882, lived twenty years in England. Active while there in Women's Industrial Union, suffrage organizations, Liberal Ass'n and on executive of Fabian Soc.; trustee of evening schools; associated with Charles Booth, the statistician, in collecting facts of village life which formed basis of thesis for degree of M.A. Life mem. of the N.Y. State Suffrage Ass'n of the Coll. Equal Suffrage League; pres. of the Women's Political Union; mem. Women's Univ. Club; mem. Society of Ethical Culture.

BLAUVELT, Lillian (Mme.), 744 Kenmore Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Prima donna soprano; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Mar. 16, 1873; dau. Peter and Elizabeth Augusta Blauvelt; ed. public schools of Brooklyn; student of violin from age of seven; musical education (voice) at Nat. Conservatory of Music, N.Y. City, and in Paris under Jacques Bonby; m. (1st) Royal Smith; (2d) N.Y. City, William F. Pendleton. Sang in concerts in France and Belgium and afterward with the Philharmonic Soc. in Moscow; debut in opera at Theatre de la Monnaie, Brussels, in Mirelle; returned to U.S., singing in concerts, oratorios, etc., under Seidl, Thomas Damrosch, and other leading conductors