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110 William T. Blow. Mem. Civic League of St. Louis. Pres. Carondolet Women's Club. Recreation: Artistic pursuits. Against suffrage, as non-Scriptural.

BLUM, Charlotte, M.D., 293 E. 10th St., N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Odessa, Russia, May 26, 1882; dau. Harris and Golda (Rabinowitz) Blum; general education in Russia; grad. Cornell Univ. Med. Coll., M.D. '06. Engaged since graduation in general practice of medicine in N.Y. City. Hebrew. Favors woman suffrage.

BLUMENSCHEIN, Mary Shepard Greene (Mrs. Ernest L. Blumenschein), 50 Orange St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Artist; b. New York; dau. Rufus and Mary I. (Shepard) Greene; ed. Adelphi Acad., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Pratt Institute; studied art under Prof. Whittaker and Herbert Adams, of Brooklyn, and Raphael Collin, of Paris; m. Paris, June 29, 1905, Ernest L. Blumenschein, artist; children: Ethan Allen (died in infancy), Helen Greene Blumenschein. Studied in Paris 1892-1909; awarded in Paris Salon, 1900, medal of third class; in 1909, medal of second class; St. Louis Exposition, silver medal. Mem. Woman's Art Club.

BLUNDON, Ada C. Pollock (Mrs. Frank C. Blundon), Baton Rouge, La.

Teacher; b. Patria, N.Y., April 11, 1863; dau. Jesse W. and Mary (Dagget) Pollock; grad. Albany State Normal, '86; m. Baldwin, La., Feb. 9, 1889, Rev. Frank C. Baldwin. With husband organized, 1889, the Live Oak School for Colored People in Baton Rouge, La., which they have conducted ever since; enrollment 485 in 1912, the school being supported chiefly by the freewill offerings of Christian people of the North. Favors woman suffrage.

BLUNT, Katharine, Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass.

Chemist, teacher; b. Philadelphia, Pa.; dau. Stanhope English Blunt (now colonel U.S.A.) and Fanny (Smyth) Blunt; grad. Vassar Coll., B.A. '98; graduate student Mass. Inst. of Technology. 1902-03; graduate student Univ. of Chicago, 1902, 1905-07, Ph.D. '07 (holder of Babbott fellowship, 1905-06). Teacher Pratt Inst., Brooklyn, N.Y.; instructor in chemistry, Vassar Coll., 1903-05, and 1908-13; associate prof, chemistry, School of Education, Univ. of Chicago, 1913—. Mem. Am. Chemical Soc.; fellow A.A.A.S.

BLUNT, Olive M., 508 S. Prairie St., Jacksonville, Ill.

Teacher, missionary, lecturer; b. Mason Co., Ill., Aug. 21, 1859; dau. Robert C. and Mary J. Blunt; ed. Wesleyan Coll., Bloomington, Ill., and examinations by correspondence for foreign field. Has lectured on Japan and on temperance in every State except nine. Routed for eight months for State W.C.T.U. of Kansas, for Texas three months, and five months for Nebraska, to give public addresses and to organize. Taught five years in Ill., eight in public schools of Kansas City, Mo.; was sent to Japan by Baptist Women's Board of Chicago to open girls' school and spent seven years in Japan. A. year after retiring entered lecture field for Japan and temperance. Returned to Japan in 1905 at own expense from lectures. On way spent three months in Honolulu, where served as sec. Y.W.C.A., having had experience as sec. in Kansas City, where she was the first sec. Traveled from North to South Japan, addressing 27,000 students, and was chaperone for nine students upon return to this country. Has written much for local papers and a pamphlet: Gone Before (the narration of the life and death of a Japanese pupil). Baptist. Prohibition in politics. Mem. W.C.T.U., State chairman of Ill. Woman's Prohibition Club; mem. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc.

BLYE, Birdice, 5424 Washington Av., Chicago, Ill.

Piano virtuoso; dau. J. M. and Annie Blye; of English ancestry (grandparents came from England and settled in New York); educated in London, Paris and Berlin; completed her musical studies with Anton Rubinstein. As a child played in London and Continental cities when only ten years of age. Has played before the royal families of England and Germany and for two administrations at the White House in Washington. and has given recitals in the principal cities of the United States. Has contributed articles to various magazines on musical subjects and on distinguished people she has met. Mem. of several clubs and societies. Protestant Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

BOAK, Mabel, Valhalla, N.Y.

School principal; b. N.Y. City; ed. in schools of N.Y. City; Vassar Coll., A.B. '01; Columbia Univ., A.M. '02. Teacher, Allentown, Pa., 1902-07; Worcester, Mass., 1907-08; preceptress, 1908-09, and principal since 1909 Chappaqua Mountain Institute.

BOARDMAN, Anne Calef (Mrs. Francis Boardman), Riverdale, N.Y. City.

Born Boston, Mass., Aug. 5, 1881; dau. Benjamin Shreve and Annie (Macdonald) Calef; ed. private schools, Boston, Dresden, Germany, 1899; N.Y. School of Philanthropy, 1908; m. Boston, June 8, 1910, Francis Boardman; children: Elizabeth, William Hall. Mem. Board of Directors of the N.Y. College Settlement. Episcopalian.

BOARDMAN, Mabel Thorp, 1801 P St., Washington, D.C. (Summer, Windcliffe, Manchester-by-the Sea, Mass.)

Red Cross official; b. Cleveland, O.; dau. William Jarvis Boardman (grandson of Hon. Elijah Boardman, an early U.S. Senator from Conn.) and Florence Shefield Boardman (dau. Joseph Earl Shefield of New Haven, after whom the Shefield Scientific School of Yale was named); ed. Cleveland and N.Y. schools and abroad; resident of Washington since 1889; received A.M. from Yale Univ. 1910. Was given decorations of the King's Order by King of Sweden, 1909; received gold civic crown from Italian Government, 1909, and honorary decoration from Japanese Red Cross, 1912; U.S. delegate to the Eighth International Red Cross Conference, London; mem. Com. of One Hundred of A.A.A.S. to Promote Public Health, and especially to establish Nat. Dep't of Health. Mem. Exec. Com. and chairman of the Nat. Relief Board of the Am. Red Cross. Mem. Congressional Club of Washington.

BOAS, Harriet Betty (Mrs. Emil L. Boas), Bonniecrest, Greenwich, Conn.

Born Boston, Mass.; dau. Adolph and Charlotte (Leviseur) Sternfeld; ed. in N.Y. private schools; m. N.Y. City, March 20, 1888, Emil L. Boas (died May 3, 1912); one son: Herbert Allan. Trustee City History Club of N.Y., of which was pres. for several years; Nat. Alliance of Unitarian Women of which was vice-pres. five years; N.Y. League of Unitarian Women (pres.); Auxiliary of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Soc; mem. Thursday Musical Club; Mary Washington Memorial Ass'n; Children's Charitable Union; Public Education Ass'n; Seaman Home (Hoboken); also many charitable organizations and philanthropic enterprises. Has translated many songs for well-known composers, also written several articles both in English and German for American and European magazines. Especially interested in civic matters, particularly city history; has received from the Sultan of Turkey, Great Star of the Order of the Nishan-i-Shefkat. Recreation: Music. Clubs: MacDowell, Sorosis, Nat. Society New England Women. Favors woman suffrage. Plans much for charity in settlements, etc., and particularly interested in American composers, most of whom she knows personally.

BODMAN, Ida M. (Mrs. Edward Cushman Bodman), 835 Madison Av., N.Y. City.

Daughter of Peter F. and Maria (Waite) Berdan; grad. N.Y. Univ., L.H.M.; m. Toledo, O., 1878, Edward Cushman Bodman; children: Herbert Luther, George Melnine Bodman. Pres. Advisory Com. of School of Pedagogy of N.Y. Univ. Clubs: Cosmopolitan, Barnard.

BODMAN, Rose Maria, Maple Lodge, Rutland, Mass.

Sanatorium proprietor; b. Massachusetts; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '87. Private teacher, 1887-88;