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Rh teacher Miss Brackett's School for Girls, N.Y. City, 1888-89; Misses Ely's School, Brooklyn, 1889-92; principal of private school for girls, Brooklyn, 1892-1903; since 1909 matron and proprietress of sanatorium at Rutland, Mass.

BOERICKE, Edith Gertrude Schoff (Mrs. John James Boericke), 112 Beacon Lane, Merion, Pa.

Born Newtonville, Mass.; dau. Frederic and Hannah (Kent) Schoff; ed. Friends Central School and Walton School, Philadelphia; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '98; graduate student Univ. of Pa., 1899-1900; student of music, 1900-03; demonstrator in geology, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1903; m. 1906, John James Boericke; children: Ralph, b. June 5, 1907; Frederic Schoff, b. Nov. 7, 1909; Edith Clara, b. July 11, 1911. Sec. West Philadelphia Com. of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1904-06. Mem. Church of the New Jerusalem. Mem. Mothers' Club.

BOERICKE, Helene, 6375 Woodbine Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Musician; b. Philadelphia; dau. Francis E., M.D., and Elsie M. (Tafel) Boericke; grad. Univ. of Pa., degree Bachelor of Music; studied with Michael H. Cross and W. W. Gilchrist, Philadelphia; in Conservatory of Music, Leipzig, Germany; Madame Falchi, Rome, Italy; Miss McEvilly and de Reszke, Paris. Teacher of voice, theory and chorus at Music Settlement School, Philadelphia; chorus of children at College Settlement, Philadelphia. Mem. New Jerusalem Church. Mem. Manuscript Music Soc (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Music Teachers' Ass'n, Ladies' Aid Ass'n of New Jerusalem Church.

BOERICKE, Johanna Magdaline, 6375 Woodbine Av., Philadelphia, Pa.

Artist and sculptress; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 13, 1868; dau. Francis Edmund and Eliza (Tafel) Boericke; grad. West Green St. Seminary; studied at Pa. Acad. of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; water colors at Rome, under Enrico Nardi; portraiture in Paris, under Renard; miniature painting at Julien's, Paris. Mem. New Jerusalem Church. Mem. fellowship of the Pa. Acad, of Fine Arts, New Church League, Ladies' Aid Soc., Plastic Club.

BOGARDUS, Estella Mae, Thompson Publishing Co., Syracuse, N.Y.

Publisher; dau. Everadus and Mary Jane (Little) Bogardus; grad. Keble School. Started business, April, 1895, with Francis Hendricks & Co., art dealers; in 1898 assumed management of the publishing dep't of Earl Thompson Publishing Co. (pres., sec. and director). Inventor of the blue print system of studying art in American schools and has built up an extensive enterprise in supplying schools with blue prints for the study of art and literature by her method. Mem. Professional Woman's League, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Eastern Art Teachers' Ass'n. Mem. Kanatenah, Round Table and hon. mem. Social Art Club.

BOGGS, Christina Marie (Mrs. John Lawrence Boggs), 44 Spruce St., Newark, N.J.

Born N.Y. City; dau. Charles Whiting and Jeannie (Wilson) Newton; m. Washington, D.C., 1892, John Lawrence Boggs; children: Cornelia Paterson, Christina Newton. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

BOGGS, Lucinda Pearl, 811 W. Illinois St., Urbana, Ill.

Educator; b. Tuscola, Ill., Nov. 18, 1874; dau. Benjamin Franklin and Mary (Armstrong) Boggs; ed. Univ. of Ill., A.B. '94; Univs. of Jena, Berlin, and Halle, Germany, 1897-1900 (Ph.D., Halle, 1900); honorary fellow, Cornell, 1902-03. Principal Oakland High School, 1894-95; preceptress and instructor in Greek and Latin, Rue Collegiate Inst., Paxton, Ill., 1895-97; principal Primary Training Dep't, State Normal, Ellensburg, Wash., 1901-02; also instructor in psychology and education, Western College for Women, Oxford, O., 1906-07; director of normal training, Methodist Episcopal Mission schools in Central China, 1910-12. Leader in local option campaigns in Urbana, 1908 and 1910. Secured appointment of probation officer for county; assisted in organizing Child Welfare Conference, 1909. Pres. Dist. Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc, 1909-10; Ill. State delegate to World's Congress on Home Education at Brussels, 1910; sec. Com. on Eugenics, Nat. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, 1909-10. Lecturer on professional and popular subjects. Author: Das Interesse u. seine Anwendung in der Pedagogik, 1900 (Docter's thesis, Halle), and a Series on Interest (Journal of Philosophy), 1904-06; The Physical Accomplishments of Feeling (Psychological Review), 1904; Home Education (Proceedings Child Welfare Conference), 1910; Chinese Womanhood, 1913; also articles on educational and social topics in various Chinese magazines and newspapers. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. A.A.A.S., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Am. Home Economics Ass'n, W.C.T.U., Public Health Ass'n, Child Welfare Conference (ex. sec), Anti-Tuberculosis League, Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of Methodist Episcopal Church. Recreations: Music, out-door sports. Favors woman suffrage.

BOGUE (Mrs. Arthur Hoyt), (see Bell, Lilian).

BOHAN, Elizabeth Baker (Mrs. Michael Bohan), 1844 Santa Cruz St., Los Angeles, Cal.

Journalist; b. Birmingham, England, 1849; dau. Joseph and Martha (Boddington) Baker; ed. Milwaukee (Wis.) public and private schools; m. Milwaukee, 1872, Michael Bohan; children: Arthur Baker, Edmonde Russell, Martha Boddington, Florence Claire. Lecturer to women's clubs on civic reforms, especially that which includes a reconstruction of penal system; works for the establishment of municipal farms for the down-and-out and petty offenders. Author: The Dragnet (book); and serial stories: The Burro Girl, and The Strength of the Weak. Has written for the West Coast Magazine as staff writer for past five years; also occasionally for Chicago Tribune, Simmons' Magazine, Munsey's, Milwaukee Sentinel, Youth's Companion, National New Thought Monthly, The Club Woman and others. Clubs: Southern Cal. Press, Cal. Badger. Recreations: Work with pencils, brushes, water color, oils and black and white illustrations. Favors woman suffrage. Progressive.

BOHN, Maud Thompson (Mrs. William E. Bohn), 206 N. Maple Av., East Orange, N.J.

Teacher and lecturer; b. Cincinnati, 1870; dau. Charles L. and Mary (Boyd) Thompson; grad. Wellesley, B.A. '01, M.A. '02; Yale, Ph.D. '06; student at Columbia Univ., 1897-99; Durant scholar, Wellesley, 1901 (mem. Agora); m. William E. Bohn; one daughter: Rhoda Thompson Bohn. Teacher of Greek and Latin at Irving Coll., Mechanicsburg, Pa., 1902-04; teacher of Latin and history at Detroit (Mich.) Sem., 1906-08. Lecturer on suffrage and socialism, 1908-13. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League, Women's Political Union of N.J. (mem. Exec. Board, 1912-13), Mich. State Suffrage Soc. (vice-pres. 1908-09), Socialist Party, Classical Ass'n of Middle West, Intercollegiate Socialist Soc.

BOLDS, Augusta W. (Mrs. W. V. Bolds), 470 West 7th St., Superior, Wis.

Teacher, Prohibition worker; b. New York; dau. Judge H. Van Renssalaer and Beth (Brownson) Wilmot, formerly of New York, later of Kansas; grad. Wesleyan Univ. and after graduation took course in theology under tutor; m. Port Washington, Wis., W. V. Bolds. Since graduation active in club, patriotic and philanthropic work; mem. Wisconsin Industrial School (for girls) Board; speaker from pulpit and platform. Nat. pres. Woman's Prohibition Club of Am., a federation of clubs working for the legal abolition of the traffic in women and intoxicants and sex discrimination at the ballot-box. Mem. Wis. Federation of Women's Clubs (organizer and former vice-pres.), Humorous Hour Club, Superior, Wis.; vice-pres. Internat. Prohibition Confederation of the World (with headquarters in London) representing the United States. Author of poems and sketches, contributions to periodical press and editor The National Woman's Advance Guard. Congregationalist.