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Rh was sent as a delegate to the convention in Richmond, Va. She was a delegate to the labor conference in Indianapolis in 1886, and in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887, where she made brilliant addresses. She has abandoned the practice of law and devotes her time to lecturing. In 1886 she wrote a small volume on " Protective Tariff Delusion." In 1890 she published a volume entitled "Professor Goldwin Smith and his Satellites in Congress," in answer to Professor Smith's article on "Woman's Place in the State." She did much editorial work on the Chicago "Express" several years ago. She has recently completed another book, entitled "Pizarro and John Sherman." After living for some time in Chicago, she removed to Eaton Rapids, Mich., where she now makes her home.

'''TODD. Mrs. Minnie J. Terrell,''' woman suffragist, born in Lewiston, N. Y., 26th November, 1844. Her father, a member of the Stacy family, of Somersetshire, England, removed to New York in 1841, and was married to an American woman of good family. Both parents were interested in the fugitive slave question and gave protection to and fed day or night the fleeing slaves. Born under these influences, at a time of great agitation, she inherited a strong love and sympathy for the unfortunate.

She began early in life to show marked interest in the distressed, a quality that has remained with her and influenced to a great extent her life and the lives of others. On 14th September, 1865, she became the wife of Davison Todd, of Toronto, Canada. For some years after marriage she was fascinated with housekeeping and devoted to the duties of wife and mother, but she found she could respond to the needs of others without neglecting home, and many a life was made happier by her help. She is one of Nebraska's stanchest woman suffragists, and was at one time president of the sixth district She is a member of the State Board of Charities, and in her own town is an enthusiastic leader in literary and art clubs and in every reformative and progressive movement.

TOURTILLOTTE, Miss Lillian Adele, author, born in Maxfield, Penobscot county. Me.,

28th April, 1870. She is the youngest of three daughters of Franklin and Mary Bryant Tourtillotte. The Tourtillottes are of French descent, and the family is first mentioned in this country in 1682, when Gabriel Tourtillotte came from Bordeaux and settled in Rhode Island Miss Tourtillotte's maternal ancestors were English. Her mother is a relative of the family to which William Cullen Bryant belonged. The daughter's schooling was obtained at home and in Foxcroft, Me Her talent for poetical composition showed itself very early, in the singing of improvised songs to her dolls and the production of poems before she could write. Her first published attempt in verse appeared in 1885, since when she has written both poetry and prose. In 1887 she taught school, but recently, having learned the art preservative of all arts, she has been doing editorial and other work in a printing-office. Her home is now in Boston, Mass.

TOUSSAINT, Miss Emma, author and translator, born in Boston, Mass., 13th July, 1862. Her mother was German and her father Belgian, although the family are purely and anciently French, with Austrian intermarriages. The lineage entitled them to entertain royalty. When she was seven years old, her parents removed to Brookline, Mass., which place is now her home. Through the panic of 1874 her father lost his fortune. Miss Toussaint is a fluent linguist, an able scholar and a ready thinker, as well as writer. Her short stories have been published over the pen-name "Portia." Her most important work has been the translation of the volume entitled "A Parisian in Brazil," by Madame Toussaint-Samson, which was published over her own name, and which received very favorable notices. She has also translated and