"BLUE BOOK OF NEBRASKA WOMEN;" BY WINONA REEVES (1916); PAGES 7 - 50 The following information was transcribed by Charmaine Keith from "The Blue Book of Nebraska Woman" by Winona Evans Reeves, Missouri Printing and Publishing Company (1916). Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, February, 1999, by Charmaine Keith (charmain@southwind.net). USGenWeb Project NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial researchers, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format for profit, nor for presentation in any form by any other organization or individual. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than as stated above, must obtain express written permission from the author, or the submitter and from the listed USGenWeb Project archivist. *************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 7 MRS. KEENE ABBOTT Surnames: Abbott, Rundell, Avery Mrs. Keene Abbott, author, is known in the literary world as Avery Abbott. Mabel Avery Abbott was born in Iowa City, Iowa, the daughter of Le Roy Rundell and Alice Avery. She attended the public schools of Iowa City, graduating from the high school, after which she took special work in the University of Iowa. She was a member of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority. On August 29, 1905, she was married to Keen Abbott, an editor and author, who was for several years a tutor of English Literature in the University of Iowa. He established in 1902, with his brother, The Lariet, a daily newspaper, at Lawton, Okla. In 1903 he went to Omaha and has been on the staff of the World Herald since that time. He is the author of “ A Melody in Silver,” “Silent Battle,” “Indian Character Studies,” “Yon, a Small Town Girl”. Both he and Mrs. Abbott have contributed to leading magazines. Mrs. Abbott is the author of “Captain Martha Mary,” “Youth’s Cross Roads,” “Jim’s Woman,” “The Purple Mark,” “The Governor’s Lady,” “The Verdict” and “The Way Out” beside many other stories. Her style is charming and her work has received very favorable criticism. In religious faith she is a Unitarian. She belongs to the Omaha Press Club, and has had some practical news paper experience. She spent one year in Europe in study and travel and has visited most places of interest in this country. Personally she is a very pleasing woman, and much of the charm of her personality is reflected in her writing. Her home is at 531 So. 25th Ave., Omaha. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 8 MRS. A. H. BROOKE Surnames: Brooke, Strunk, Baugh Alice Baugh Brooke was born in Somerset, Ky., Sept. 22, 1866. She is the daughter of Eli and Ann B. Strunk Baugh. Her father was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, a member of the 13th Kentucky cavalry. Her mother's father was a slave owner and a Confederate soldier. She attended the public schools in Kentucky and in Nebraska and for eight years taught school, four of which were in the country in a sod school house, such as used to be common on the Nebraska prairies. Her professional training she received in the optical department of the Lincoln Medical College, graduating with the degree of Doctor of Optometry. On June 6, 1892, she was married to A. H. Brooke, in Hastings, Neb., which is still their home. They have two sons, Donovan Albert, age 22, and William Henry, age 16 years. Mrs. Brooke has successfully practiced her profession as Optometrist for the past seventeen years, and has been honored by being chosen Secy. Treas. Of the Nebraska State Optical Association for three successive years. She has had a prominent part in many local organizations, she is chairman of the Civic Board of Charities, a member of the Board of Education, Secretary of the Humane Society, member of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Club. She suggested and assisted in promoting the establishment of the Sunnyside Home, a home for dependent old people. She was delegate at large from Nebraska to the General Federation of women's Clubs at its meeting in Chicago. She is a member of the First Congregational church and for the pset two years has been superintendent of the Sunday school. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 9 MRS. ALBERT E. BRYSON Surnames: Bryson, Hamilton, Parker Carrie Parker Bryson, of Fullerton, Neb., was born in Watseka, Ill., the daughter of Judge George W. and Ellen Hamilton Parker. She was educated in the schools of Omaha. She was married in Omaha to Albert Edward Bryson of Lindsay, Ontario. They have two sons, Albert Edward, Jr., and Richard Parker Bryson. Mrs. Bryson is a member of the Presbyterian church and is a member of the Board of Trustees. She is a prominent member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, being regent of Pawnee chapter, and chairman of the state committee on Welfare of Women and Children. In the latter capacity she had an active part in the Belgian relief work which the D. A. R's. did in 1915. On July 4, 1916, the Pawnee chapter unveiled a marker in the Nance county court yard in commemoration of the last home of the Pawnee Indians. Mrs Bryson presented the boulder to the county on behalf of the D. A. R. chapter. The bronze tablet on the boulder bears the D. A. R. insignia and relief medallion of White Eagle, one of the best of the Pawnee Chiefs. The marker will serve as a permanent record of an event in Nebraska's history, which is worthy of member. Mr. Bryson is a member of the Pythian Sisters, of which she is Past Chief. She is also a member of the Eastern Star, of the Fullerton Woman's Club, and of the Querie Club, a literary organization. She has traveled extensively in the United States and in Canada. While all the interests mentioned claim her time and attention to a degree, yet she find her greatest pleasure and keenest interest in her home and this is her chief occupation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 10 FANNIE ARNOLD Surnames: Arnold, Lee Fannie Arnold, director of music in the Central high school of Omaha, was christened Frances Lee Arnold. She was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, the daughter of Dr. William Arnold and Lucia Russell Lee. Her father belonged to the illustrious line of Arnolds which produced Dr. Arnold of Rugby, who was his cousin. Her mother was a great niece of Bishop Philander Chase and a cousin of Salmon P. Chase of Lincoln's cabinet. Her education was acquired under private tutors. She pursued her musical study in Boston and in New York with further study in London and Paris. She specialized on public school music and is a graduate of the American Institute of Normal Methods in Public School Music. She has very successfully directed many church choirs and musical clubs, prominent among the latter is the Wagner Chorus of Women. She has held a number of positions in connection with the music of the public schools of Omaha, having been director of music in the high school, assistant supervisor and later supervisor of music in the grade schools. For the past twenty-nine years she has been director of music in the Central High School. During her student days she did some newspaper work and wrote delightful letters from Boston and New York, which were published in various newspapers. In religious faith she is an Episcopalian, having been confirmed in that church when a little girl. She is an ardent suffragist. Her life is devoted to her art, and to her music means work, and in it she finds her greatest joy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 11 MRS. OTHMAN A. ABBOTT Surnames: Abbott, griffin Elizabeth M. Griffith Abbott, prominent suffragist and charity worker, is the daughter of James and Emeline Gardner Griffin. Her parents were Quakers and were strong abolitionists and peace advocates in the turbulent times preceding the Civil War. Mrs. Abbott was graduated from Rockford College in the class of 1868. Following her graduation she was a high school teacher for several years, after which she married Othman Ali Abbott, a lawyer by profession. Mr. Abbot has a prominent part in the two conventions in which the state constitution of Nebraska was formulated and was elected the first Lieutenant Governor of the state. They have four children, Othman, Edith, Grace, and Arthur. In religious faith she is a Unitarian and was a delegate to the National Unitarian Conference at its meeting in Saratoga in 1885, and is active in the interest of the church. When the public library was established in Grand Island in 1880 she was elected a member of the Board of Trustees, and is still a member. For several years she was president of the board. For a number of years she was a member of the State Board of Charities and Correction. For six years she was a member of the Visiting and Examining Board of the Nebraska Soldiers' Home. She has served the Woman's Club, the Woman's suffrage Club and the Ladies Park Association as president with great efficiency. She has had a prominent part in all social service measures in here home city. Besides being identified with these measures in their wider aspect in the state. Her two daughters, Edith Abbott and Grace Abbott, are social service workers by profession, and are daughters worthy of their mother. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 12 MRS. WILLIAM V. ALLEN Surnames: Allen, Mott, Young, Lynch, Wetzel, Dowling, Wells Blanche Mott, only daughter of Aaron J. Mott and Sarah Young Mott, was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, August 17, 1847; and removed with her parents to Fayette, Iowa, in 1857. She was educated at Upper Iowa University. May 2, 1870, she was married to William V. Allen and in September, 1884, they removed to Madison, Nebraska, where they have since resided. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are the parents of four children: Lulu Emogene Lynch, wife of Daniel D. Lynch, a banker at Afton, Wyoming, who is the mother of five children, Allen T, Lynch, Kathryn A. Lynch, Blanche Lynch, William V. Lynch and Marjorie Lynch; Henry Barlow Allen, deputy internal revenue collector of Omaha, Nebraska, married to Emma Louise Wetzel, and is the father of Virginia May Allen; Willa C. Dowling, wife of william L. Dowling, a lawyer of Madison, Nebraska, who is the mother of Imogen Dowling, Lyle r. Dowling, John W, Dowling, and Allen V. Dowling; Mrs. Edith May Wells, the wife of John T, Wells, a banker at Afton, Wyoming, and the mother of John T, Wells Jr. Mrs Allen is a member of the Episcopal church and of the Woman's Club of Madison, Nebraska, of which she has been president. She is also a member of the Eastern Star but devotes her time largely to the interest of her family. She is decidedly of a domestic disposition. Mr. Allen has served on the bench of the Ninth Judicial District of Nebraska, and also as Untied States Senator from Nebraska from March 4, 1894, to March 27, 1901. He is one of the prominent and influential men of the state and the family in its different branches is well known in Nebraska. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 13 GRACE ABBOTT Surnames: Abbott, Griffin Grace Abbott, director of Immigrants' Protective League, writer and lecturer on the question of immigration in its different phases, is a woman of whom Nebraska is justly proud. She was born in Grand Island in 1878. Her father, Othman Ali Abbott, a very able lawyer, was the first lieutenant governor of Nebraska and a member of both constitutional conventions. Her mother Elizabeth Griffin Abbott, is a Rockford College graduate, is president of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Island public library, prominent in the work of the State Suffrage Association and with various charity organizations. Miss Abbott is a graduate of the Grand Island College B. Ph., and of the University of Chicago, M. Ph. She is a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority. She has all her life been interested in sociological questions and is director of the Immigrants Protective League of Chicago. She was secretary of the Massachusetts State Commission on Immigration. She has written on various aspects of the immigration question for the Journal of Sociology, for the National Municipal League Review, and for the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. She was a member of the Woman's National Peace Conference held at the Hague in April, 1915. She is a member of the Woman's City Club of Chicago, The Woman's Trade Union League, National Association for Advancement of the Colored Race, Chicago Political Equality League, and of the Woman's Peace Party. She has lectured on Immigration in the University of Chicago and in the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, and is an authority on the subject. She has been a resident of Hull House since 1890. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 14 EDITH ABBOTT Surnames: Abbott, Griffin Edith Abbott, associate director of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, is the daughter of Othman A. and Elizabeth M. Griffin Abbott, of Grand Island. She is a native Nebraskan, having been born in Grand Island, Sept. 25, 1876. She received her preparatory education at Brownell Hall, Omaha, after which she attended the University of Nebraska, being graduated with the class of 1901 (A.B.), was graduated from the University of Chicago (Ph.D.) in 1905. She is a graduate student of the Landon School of Economics, 1906-7. She has been a resident of Hull House for many years. She is the author of Women in Industry, as study in American Economic History, which was published in 1910. She is joint author of the Delinquent Child and the Home, which was published in 1912. She has contributed to many periodicals, notably to the Journal of Political Economy and to the Journal of Sociolgy. She gives all her time to a study of sociological questions and to the betterment of social and economic conditions. She is a member of the Woman's Trade Union League, the American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, Association for the Advancement of the Colored Race, the Woman's City Club of Chicago, the Consumer's League and the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association. Miss Abbott has a very forceful character and comes from a family which for generations has protested against unjust conditions of Colonial times and in the days of slavery. True to the family traditions she devotes her time to social service in many phases. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 15 MRS. JAMES E. BEDNAR Surnames: Bednar, Daughters Mrs. James E. Bednar, nee Brintannia Daughters, daughter of William Turpin and Sarah Elmira Daughters, comes of Scotch-English stock. She was born on a farm near Mooreshill, Indiana, but at an early age moved with her parents to Allen county, Kansas, again locating on a farm near Bronson. Here she attended the public schools, taught in the rural schools, and was assistant postmistress of Bronson. Her determination to continue in educational work resulted in her entering the preparatory school of the State University at Moscow, Idaho. While doing her collegiate work here she served as home missionary for two years, was president of the University Young Women's Christian Association and took an active part in debating public speaking. Her untiring efforts at this institution won for her the Kauffman Scholarship. Circumstances later necessitated her removal to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she completed her undergraduate work in the University of Nebraska in 1905, and was graduated from the College of Literature, Science and Arts with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. The following years she taught in the schools of Washington, but later returned to the University of Nebraska to take up graduate work in the Sociology Department. She made a special study of and wrote extensive theses on several subjects pertaining to Sociology and Political Economy, among them being "Garden City Movement," "Juvenile Court in Nebraska," "Conditions Among Working Girls" and kindred subjects. She was also an assistant and scholar in the Child Study Department in 1909 and 1910. While a graduate student at the University of Nebraska she was a charter member and prominent among the organizers of Alpha Chapter of Achoth Sorority, having drafted its ritual and instituted its second chapter at Iowa City, Iowa. Besides her college sorority she is affiliated with the Presbyterian church, Woman's Club, Order of the Eastern Star, White Shrine, and Association of Collegiate Alumnae. She favors Woman's Suffrage and was an active worker in the recent campaign of suffrage in Nebraska. She spends her summers at the Seymour Lake Country Club and claims golf as her favorite pastime. She was Married in 1910 to James E. Bednar, a practicing attorney at Omaha. They have two sons, James E. Bednar, Jr., and Brice Renwick Bednar, born August 3, 1916. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 17 MRS. S. E. BREWSTER Surnames: Brewster, Gaylord, Noyce, Hibbard Sarah Abia Gaylord Brewster is the daughter of the Rev, Reuben Gaylord who was the first Congregational minister in Nebraska, organizing the first Congregational church in Omaha in May, 1856. He belonged to that band of pioneer ministers well known in the history of Congregationalism who came west from the Yale Divinity school in 1838 and established that church in Iowa. He was ordained at Plymouth, Conn., in August and on October 13, 1839, their daughter, Sarah Abia, was born. On Sept. 24, 1840, Mrs. Gaylord died, at the age of twenty-three years. The family then moved to Danville, where they lived until December, 1856, when they came to Nebraska. The journey was made overland in a carriage for there were no railroads in those days. When the family took up their residence in Omaha it was a village of five hundred inhabitants. She taught in the first Congregational Sunday school established in Nebraska. She taught in the public schools and also in a private school until her marriage, July 17, 1862, to Sardius C. Brewster. They lived together for fifty-three years, until Oct. 3, 1915, when Mr. Brewster died, leaving behind him the memory of a life of honor and Christian service. Early in their married life they moved to a farm near Irvington, where they lived for more then fifty years. Seven children were born to them, five of whom are living; Mrs. G. T. Noyce, Crete, Neb.; E. L. Brewster, Lindsay, Okla.; S. R. Brewster, Irvington, Neb.; Mrs. C. S. Hibbard, Omaha; C. G. Brewster, Benson Neb. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 18 ABBIE C. BURNS Surnames: Burns, Hess Miss Abbie Cornelia Burns bas born in Plainfield, Ill., the daughter of Martin and Malvina Cornelia Hess Burns. Her father's ancestors were early settlers of New England; her mother's ancestors came from Germany at the time of the American Revolution and were drafted by the English. They deserted the English army however and fought on the side of the Colonists, believing in the justice of their cause. She received her early education in the public schools of York county, later attending York college. She was graduated from the Nebraska Wesleyan University, B. A. and M. A.; from the University of Nebraska B. A. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Sorority. She has been a very successful teacher since graduating. For four years she was professor of Modern Language and Literature in York College; for nine years she was professor of Modern Language and for the past eight years has been professor of Germanic Language in the Nebraska Wesleyan University. For eleven years she has been secretary of the faculty in N. W. U. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in University Place, which is her home, and has been for many years a teacher in the Sunday school. She is a prominent member of the P. E. O. sisterhood and has served the local chapter as corresponding secretary, vice-president and president. She has been recording secretary, vice-president, and president of the Nebraska Grand Chapter of P. E. O. She is a member of the Women's Faculty Club and of the Woman's Wesleyan Educational Council. She has traveled extensively in the United States and spent a part of a year traveling in England, France, Germany and Switzerland. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 19 MRS. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Surnames: Bryan, Dexter, Baird Mary Elizabeth Baird was born at Perry, Ill., June 17, 1861, the daughter of John and Lovina Dexter Baird. The Baird family came to America in 1628, her ancestors having a prominent part in the Settlement of Pennsylvania. Her mother's family was founded in America by sir Gregory Dexter who was special commissioner to England to secure the charter for the colony of Rhode Island. She attended Monticello Seminary at Godfrey, Ill., and was graduated with honor from the Presbyterian Academy at Jacksonville, Ill., in the class of 1881. She took special work in the Illinois College and in the University of Nebraska. On Oct. 1, 1884, at Perry, Ill., she was married to William Jennings Bryan and went to Lincoln, Neb. To live. They have three children: Ruth Baird, William Jennings, Jr., and Grace Dexter. In order to be more companionable to her husband in his work Mrs. Bryan took the Union College course of law and was admitted to the bar in 1887. About this time Mr. Bryan left the practice of law and entered politics, so she did not carry her legal studies farther. She has traveled extensively, going with her husband in a journey around the world, beside making several trips to Europe, the Mediterranean and the West Indies, and one winter was spent in South America. She is a Presbyterian and a devoted church woman. She and Mr. Bryan are both interested in missions and are educating eight children in different countries of the Orient. She has taken an active interest in club work in Lincoln, having organized Sorosis. And is a member of the Woman's Club, the Fortnightly Club and the Y. W. C. A. they have a beautiful home, Fairview, near Lincoln. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 20 MRS. J. H. BELL Surnames: Bell, Stewart, Scott, Semons Ida May Stewart Bell was born May 23, 1864, in Keithsburg, Ill. Her father was the Rev. John Wesley Stewart, who during the Civil War was Major of the 64th Illinois regiment. The family resided in Illinois until 1872, when they moved to Nebraska and for thirty-three years the Rev. Mr. Stewart preached in this state in some of the most prominent churches. An interesting incident in the life of her grandfather Stewart, who was a native Scotchman was that he was present at the banquet given in honor of Sir Walter Scott, where acknowledged his authorship of the Waverly Novels. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Georganna Semons, descended from a family prominent in colonial history. Mrs. Bell is a graduate of the Neb. Conference Seminary (Ph. B.) and of the Nebraska Wesleyan Uyniversity. On January 10, 1884, she was married in Omaha to James Hanson Bell, of Aurora, which city was their home until 1899, when they moved to York. They have four children: Dr. Herbert O. Bell, Dr. James Stewart Bell, Lucille Bell, domestic science teacher, and Hazel Lillian Bell, a kindergarten teacher. She is a member of the M. E. church and prominent in all of the church activities. She was a charter member of the 19th Century Club of Aurora and served as its president. She is a member of the Avon Club, the Review and Art Club and of the Woman's Club. She has been chairman of several committees of the State Federation and in 1914 and again in 1916 was delegate to the general Federation. She is a member of the D. A. R. and for four years was chairman of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 21 MRS. E. J. BURKETT Surnames: Burkett, Webster, Wright Fannie Fern Wright Burkett was born Sept. 16, 1869, in Glenwood, Iowa. She is the daughter of Appler Reuben and Sarah Ann Webster Wright. Her father was a captain in the Civil War and served in the Iowa legislature for three terms. Her ancestors on her father's side took up their residence in this country in South Carolina and her mother's family originated in New York and Massachusetts. She attended public schools in Glenwood. She graduated from the Conservatory of Music of Tabor College and also attended Gates College. On Sept. 1, 1891, she was married at Glenwood to Elmer J. Burkett, as very successful attorney of Lincoln, which city is their home. For twelve years they lived in Washington D.C., during a part of which time Mr. Burkett was a member of Congress, later being a member of the United States Senate. Three daughters have been born to them: Lenore Catherine Burkett, Josephine Sarah Burkett, Helen Frances Burkett. She is a member of the Trinity M. E. church and has a prominent part in its activities. She is a member of the Lincoln Woman's Club, one of the oldest clubs in Nebraska, having been organized in 1895. She is a member of the Woman;s Relief Corps, Joining on the service of her father, Captain Wright, and belongs to various church societies church societies. She believes in the slogan, "See America First," for she has traveled in every state in the union and has traveled extensively in Canada. She finds one of her chief pleasures in music and is found of society. The church, however, claims her greatest activity outside her home. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 22 MRS. CHARLES E. BANKS Surnames: Banks, Mooney, Henry Charlotte Mooney Banks, vocalist and choral director, was born in New Albany, Indiana, the daughter of William R. Mooney and Charlotte Henry. Her mother came from that family to which Patrick Henry belonged. Was educated in public and private schools in Boston and in Keokuk, Iowa. Her musical education was acquired in the Boston Music School. In 1874 she was married in Chariton, Iowa, to Charles Edwin Banks. They have two children, Lillian Carroll and Edwin H., adopted in 1882. The daughter is an artist and musician and studied in Paris under Isadore Philipp and in New York under the late Josefy. Mrs. Banks is a member of the Baptist church and choir director. She is active in the women's organizations of the church, having been president of the missionary and aid societies. She is a member of Sorosis and has served as its president. She is an honorary member of the Woman's Club. For six years she was director of the Falls City Chorus, which on three occasions sang with Carl Busch's Chorus in Kansas city to the accompaniment of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. She is now conductor of a men's chorus. Besides being a choral director, she is a successful teacher of voice and has appeared professionally in many recitals. She is a writer of short stories, poems and feature articles on subjects of the day as Rights of the Child, Pronunciation in Singing. She wrote a series of descriptive articles of the World's Jubilee, held in Boston in 1872 and a series of music letters for the Peoria Saturday Evening Call. In 1915 she wrote an account of the Lincoln Jubilee held in Chicago. She is an ardent advocate of equal suffrage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 23 MRS. DAVID GEORGE CRAIGHEAD Surnames: Craighead, Duncan, Barclay Jean Duncan Craighead was born March 25, 1867, in Aberdeen, Scotland She is the daughter of William Duncan and Caroline Barclay, both of Aberdeenshire. Her father was a descendant of the old Scotch Covenanter stock and was prominent in his community in religious and educational work. He was a member of the Established church of Scotland; was superintendent of the Sunday school and assisted the minister in many ways. He did many things to stimulate the higher education of the community, organizing and leading debating societies, writing papers on current events, and otherwise keeping up interest which tended to broaden the lives of his fellowmen. The education of his children was one of his chief interests. He taught them at home every evening and thereby kept them in advance of their classes. Her mother, too, came of a family of school teachers and so it was not to be marveled at that she was born with a desire to know. She attended the public schools on the outskirts of Aberdeen, receiving a grade certificate at the age of ten years. She attended the high school until she was old enough to be apprenticed as a pupil-teacher, teaching and studying and at the end of four years received a first-class teacher's certificate. She was married to David George Craighead, June 5, 1885, and in 1889 came to America and to Omaha, which city is still their home. The have three children, William Duncan, Mable K. (a teacher in the Omaha public schools) and Louise Mary, who was graduated from the high school in 1916. For many years she was a member of the Presbyterian church. With which her family is still connected. In recent years she has taken up the study of Practical Christianity, and is particularly interested in the healing work. She is a member of the W. C. T. U., the Omaha woman's Club, being assistant leader of the Social Science department. She is first vice-president of the Omaha Philosophical Society and takes an active part in the programs. She is a member of the Political Equality and Omaha Suffrage societies and was a speaker during the suffrage campaign, both in Omaha and out in the state. Years ago she took an active part in behalf of union labor and was the first woman invited to speak before an International Typographical convention, speaking at Birmingham, Ala., in 1901, urging the formation of women's auxiliaries to labor unions. About that time she did much in behalf of regulating child labor and wrote a number of articles for labor periodicals on the subject, and wrote also on the value of the union label. She assisted the Omaha Typographical Union in its struggle to establish the eight hour day. With a committee of two others she interviewed the business men of Omaha to ascertain their attitude toward the union and toward the shorter work day. Later she published a story of these interviews. She was chairman of a committee of women who assisted the legislative committee of 1913 to investigate the condition of working girls and women, with a view of considering a minimum wage bill; she drew up the resolution which was presented to the legislature. She was assistant chief of the engrossing and enrolling department of the senate of 1915 and had the final reading of every senate bill before it went to the governor for signature. In July, 1915, she was appointed by Gov. Moorhead a member of the State Board of child Labor Commissioners. She is a strong suffragist; her legislative experience has convinced her that it is quite hopeless to expect good progressive moral legislation until the liquor interests are put down and until women get the vote and can assist good men in the struggle, which under present conditions seems a losing one. Reading and music are her chief recreations and she enjoys all of God's out-of-doors. She has all her life considered the interest of others and the tendency of her life is summed up in this modest statement: "I am sure my small efforts are not worth a page of history, I have simply tried to be of some service, as I consider that the highest ideal of any soul." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 26 MRS. M. D. CAMERON Surnames: Cameron, Jennings, Sousley Aldrich Mrs. M. D. Cameron, prominent club woman of Omaha, is a native of Indiana, having been born in South Bend, July 29, 1875. She is a daughter of the late Rev. Jesse w. Jennings, D. D. LL.D., and Lydia A. Sousley Jennings. Her father was a minister of the M. E. church in Nebraska for more than thirty years. For four years he was superintendent of the Omaha District, when he was appointed manager of the Kansas City Repository of the Methodist Book Concern, which position he held until his death, which occurred Jan. 27, 1911. He collected a genealogy of the Jennings family which is on file in state libraries, at Yale University and elsewhere. The genealogy contains this interesting record of the branch of the family from which Mrs. Cameron is descended: "John Jennings commanded a division of the English army under Queen Elizabeth, which about 1560 rendered aid to the Protestants in France. He also commanded a division of the English Army under the Earl of Essex in Ireland during the O'Neil Rebellion. At the time of the Crusade wars one of the family headed an expedition to the Holy Land and was captured by the Turks. The ancient arms of the Jennings' commemorates this fact. The family originated in Carnarvonshire, Wales, from whence it spread over England, following the 11th century; also later into Ireland, France, Germany, and then the United States." The collaborator was a descendant of the East New Jersey Jennings family, whose wills were recorded at Trenton, N. J., in the early part of the 18th century. She was graduated from the Norfolk high school in 1894, after which she attended the Nebraska Wesleyan University for three years, which in 1912 conferred upon her the honorary degree of Master of Letters. On Sept. 8, 1898, she was married to Melville DeLeal Cameron, at that time a banker at Schuyler, and now vice-president of the Peter's Trust Co. of Omaha. She is a member of the First M. E. church. She belongs to the various women's societies of the church, having been president of the aid society and secretary of the local missionary society, and of the Omaha District Home Missionary society and also of the North Nebraska Conference Woman's Home Missionary Society. She is a member of the Omaha Woman's Club of which she was Rec. Sec. 1906-1908, and president 1910-1912. She is a member of the local club Civil Service Reform committee, 1912; chairman program committee Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs, 1913; chairman State Federation Civil Service Reform committee 1914-1915, and is now recording secretary of the Nebraska State federation. She is a member of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts; Tuesday Morning Musical; sustaining member of the Settlement Association and the Y. W. C. A. of the Frances Willard W. C. T. U.; Omaha Center of Drama League. She was the first woman to be appointed on the Board of Trustees in the Nebraska School for the Blind at Nebraska City and the School for the Deaf at Omaha, having been appointed in 1912 by Gov. Aldrich. She served two years when government by the Board of Control went into effect. As chairman of the Civil Service Reform Committee of the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs in 1915, she collected photographs and had a series of slides made giving views of the State Institutions of Nebraska. These were used by the Women's Clubs throughout the state and gave much information concerning the institutions. It was the first collection of this nature assembled in Nebraska. She has contributed articles dealing with club matters and civic affairs to local papers of the state. She is one of the very efficient club women of the state. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 29 MRS. THOMAS A. COLBURN Surnames: Colburn, Ingersoll, Coder Anna Coder Colburn was born in Meadville, Pa., June 17, 1869, the daughter of Daniel R. and Ellen J. Ingersoll Coder. Her father was Brevet Major in the Civil War, receiving his commission for gallant service in the Battle of the wilderness. He was in the service three years, twice severely wounded and was for three months in Libby prison. She is descended from Daniel Turner, who gave distinguished service to the colonies in the Revolutionary War. She was graduated from Allegheny College, A.B., 1892; A.M. 1895, afterward taking graduate work in the University of Nebraska. She was a successful teacher for four years, one year in the high school at Meadville and for three years she was head of the Latin and French departments of the Missouri Wesleyan College at Cameron, Mo. she was married July 30, 1896, to Thomas A. Colburn, of Lincoln, which city is their home. Their children are Dorothy Jane, born Jan. 24, 1898; Reed Coder, born Dec. 27, 1899, died Sept. 15, 1900, and Beatrice Adel, born April 27, 1901. In 1915 her daughter, Dorothy received the first prize in the Seabury Peace Essay contest which was open to all seniors in high schools in the United States and foreign countries. Her essay which won the prize was on The Influence of the United States on International Peace. Mrs. Colburn is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in the various branches of church work. She is interested in social settlement work, is a member of the woman's club of Lincoln, of Tau alumnae of Kappa Alpha Theta, of the Outlook Club of which she was the organizer and first leader. She is a life member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 30 MARY CRAWFORD Surnames: Crawford, Wolfe Mary Crawford, associate professor of English, Nebraska State Normal School, was born at Bangor, Maine, although she insists that she is a real Nebraskan, having lived in this state since infancy. She is the daughter of Daniel Snyder Crawford and Emmeline Wolfe Crawford. Her father was a lawyer by profession, and is of Scotch-Irish descent, his family having lived in America for five generations. Her mother was on the maternal side descended from an old Dutch family, the Van Horn's. Miss Crawford is a graduate of the State Normal school at Peru, 1904, studied in Chicago University in 1906, graduate of the University of Nebraska, A.B., 1907, graduate of University of Nebraska, M.A., 1912, specializing in English and Germanies. She has been very successful in her teaching experience in high school, in the University of Chicago with scholarship, University of Nebraska with teaching fellowship, in the Kearney State Normal, assistant professor of English, and since 1910 as associate professor of English. She is the author of "The Laboratory Equipment of the Teacher of English" and of "English Interjections of Fifteenth Century." The latter is a thorough and authoritative work of much interest to students of English. She is an active member of the National Council of Teachers of English, and served as secretary of the literature section of the Nebraska State Teachers' Association in 1915. In 1915 she was appointed to act as judge in a state-wide literary contest. She is a member of the Congregational church, and advocate of Equal Suffrage and a leading educator of the state. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 31 MRS. JOHN N. CURRIER Surnames: Currier, Lovejoy, Wilson, Shedd Adella Lovejoy Currier was born Feby. 12, 1864, at Markesan, Wis. She is the daughter of Edwin S. and Mary Wilson Lovejoy. Her father was a scholar and writer of ability and her mother was a gentlewoman of English birth. She received her education in the schools of Wisconsin. On March 11, 1884, she was married at Markesan to John W. Currier. Immediately after their marriage they came to Clover Hill, a country place near St. Edwards, Nebr., which is still their home. The have four children, Henry C. Currier, and electrical engineer by profession, residing in California; Edwin Lovejoy Currier, Professor of Astronomy of the State College at Bozeman, Mont.; Mary, who is the wife of Prof. C. K. Shedd, of Ames, Iowa, and Robert Malcolm, who is still a boy in school. In religious faith she is a Presbyterian and is devoted church woman. She is a member of The League of American Pen women, and is the Supt. Of Temperance and Missions in W. C. T. U. She is the author of "Clover Bloom," a delightful collection of verses, and of many poems published in periodicals. The following, "One Perfect Day," illustrates her style: There comes to all one perfect day When nature wears a rosy hue, And all things old seem strangely new And touched with golden ray. It come to you---a day long passed, He told the olden tale anew, With promise to be real and true As long as life should last. Or was it when your baby's eyes First met your own, and filled your breast With tender joy and sweet unrest And thought of paradise? Or after years of parting pain You saw once more your mother's face; You felt her tender fond embrace, And seemed a child again. No perfect day has come to cheer Your life, you say? If that be true Ah, then I almost envy you, For it is coming dear! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 33 MRS. FREDERICK HUGH COLE Surnames: Cole, Pierce, Gilmore Emma Virginia Alicia Pierce Cole was born at Warren, Ill., and is the daughter of Dr. Byron Cordon Pierce and Alicia Gilmore Pierce. Her father, who was a cousin of President Franklin Pierce, was a graduate of the University of Michigan and of the rush Medical College of Chicago. In the civil War he was Surgeon Major of the 96th Illinois regiment. He is a prominent Mason. Her mother was a graduate of the Georgetown, Ky., Female Seminary. She was an artist of ability and was a contributor to magazines. Mrs. Cole attended the high school at Warren, Ill., and studied also under private tutors. She was an honor graduate of the Young Ladies Institute at St. Joseph, and took a special course in Political Science in the University of Omaha. On Dec. 18, 1888, she was married at Warren, Ill., to Frederic Hugh Cole of Omaha. She is one of the most prominent among Nebraska club women. She was a charter member of the Omaha Woman's Club and was its president for two years. She has served also as leader of the Literature department, secretary of the Music department, and chairman of the civil Service committee. She is a charter member and for one year president of the woman's Auxiliary Railway Mail Service. She was for three years National president of the Womans' Aux. Railway Mail Service. For two years she was president of the Nebraska State Federation of Women's Clubs, during which time she was instrumental in founding the State scholarship and student loan fund. She is now serving her sixth year as chairman board of trustees of the same. She was general federation secretary for two years. She was the first chairman of the civil Service Reform committee for Omaha and state clubs, which place she held for six years. She is now chairman of the Civil Service Reform committee of the general federation. She is a charter member of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts and belongs to the Tuesday Morning Musical Club. For a number of years she was a member of the board of directors of the Old People's Home. She is first vice-president of the Nebraska society of Charities and Correction and was twice chairman of the program committee. She is first vice-president of the Nebraska Child Labor committee; is a member of the Nebraska Conservation committee, of the Equal Franchise society, of the social Settlement and of the Francis Willard Union. She served as chairman and speaker on Civil Service Reform at the San Francisco meeting of the General Federation of Women's clubs. She was a member of the National Prison Congress held in Omaha, 1913, and spoke before the Congress. She spoke on the subject of Civil Service Reform before the biennial at Cincinnatti, at Portland Council and before a number of state federations. She worked for the establishment of the State Board of Control in Nebraska and for better laws for children and for better labor conditions. She compiled and issued in 1915 "Opportunities for women in the Federal Service" and has been a frequent contributor to the General Federation Magazine and has contributed articles to newspapers on club topics. She is a member of the Episcopal church and served as president of the Clarkson Hospital Association, the hospital being an Episcopal institution. She favors equal suffrage and prohibition. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 35 MRS. HELEN M. DRAKE Surnames: Drake, Anglim, Bradley, Brownson Helen M. Bradley Drake, president of the Supreme Chapter P. E. O. and Vice- Regent Nebraska Society Daughters of the American Revolution, was born in Cuba, New York, the daughter of James S. and Elizabeth Anglim Bradley. Her father is descended from the Van Valkenburgs, a Holland Dutch family, early settlers on the Hudson. The revolutionary ancestor upon whose service she belongs to the D. A. R. was Col. Gideon Brownson of Vermont. She received an academic and normal school education which was supplemented by a course in music and by wide reading and extensive travel. On June 11, 1884, she was married to Ellet Grant Drake of Bradford, Pa. Later they came to Beatrice, Nebr., where Mr. Drake is a prominent business man. They have three children, Ellet Bradley Drake, Helen Drake and Elizabeth Drake, all of whom are graduates of the State University of Nebraska, and the younger daughter spent a year at Smith College. Mrs. Drake is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. She is regent of Elizabeth Montague chapter D. A. R. and is state vice-regent. She is president of Chapter Z of P. E. O., has served the Nebraska Grand Chapter P. E. O. as president, has served the Supreme Chapter as organizer, and now holds the highest office in the gift of the sisterhood. She was president of the Beatrice Woman's club for ten years, a director of the Civic Improvement League, a director of the Y. W. C, A., charter member Vesper Chapter O. E. S. She was a member of the school board for six years and president of the board for three years. She is a very handsome woman with a delightful personality and a woman of unusual executive ability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 36 CLARA BEWICK COLBY Surnames: Colby, Bewick, Willingham, Chilton, Medhurst, West, Cady, Stanton, Anthony, Chamberlain, West Clara Bewick Colby, author, lecturer, and Nebraska most prominent suffragist was born in Gloucester, Eng. She came as a child to this country and is a naturalized citizen in her own right. Her father, Thomas Bewick, was related to Thomas Bewick, the naturalist and founder of modern wood engraving. Her mother was Clara Willingham Chilton, niece of Walter Medhurst, D. D., pioneer missionary to China. She was graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Ph.B., and is a Phi Beta Kappa. She belongs to the Federal Suffrage Association of the United States and is corresponding secretary and chairman of the Congressional work, making her home the greater part of the year in Washington, D.C. she is a patron of the National Council of Women of the United States. She is a life member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. From 1883 to 1898 she was president of the Nebraska State Woman Suffrage Association and is now honorary president. Since 1890 she has been a member of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association which is the oldest woman suffrage association in the world. She is honorary vice-president of the International New Thought Alliance. She is vice-[resident of the League of World Peace. She is an honorary member of the Higher Thought Center, London, England. She is vice-president for Oregon of the National woman's Press Association. She is a member of the State Woman's Press Club of Oregon. For two years she was corresponding secretary of the Nebraska State Historical Society. She founded the public library of Beatrice, Neb., and maintained it for six years. She has traveled and lectured in most of the states of the union, and for four years has given courses of lectures in Washington, D. C. She spent a year in England, Ireland and France, giving lectures and interpretative readings. Her lectures are on philosophy, history, literature and feminism. Shortly after graduating she taught history and Latin in the University of Wisconsin. In 1883 she founded the Woman's tribune in Nebraska. In 1888 she published the paper in Washington as a daily to report the First International Congress of Women. She continued the publication there until 1904 when she moved it to Portland, Ore., to further the cause of woman suffrage along the Pacific coast. In all she published the paper for twenty-five years. In 1899 she was a delegate to the International Congress of women in London, Eng. In 1908 she was delegate to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Amsterdam, Holland. She was that same year delegated by Gov. Chamberlain of ore. To the First International Moral Education Congress held in London. She was also a delegate to the International Peace Congress at the meeting in London. In 1910-1911 she participated in the woman suffrage movement in England. In 1913 she was delegated by Gov. West of Oregon to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance at Budapesth, Hungary, and was a delegate to the International Peace Congress at the Hague. In 1915 she was chairman of the Federal Suffrage Congress held in connection with the Panama-Pacific Exposition and of the Federal Suffrage day to the San Diego Exposition. For several years she was appointed by various governors of Nebraska as a delegate to the National Conferences of Charities and Correction. She has addressed the legislatures of Nebraska, Missouri, Michigan, Rhode Island, in behalf of Woman Suffrage. She has written for many magazines and is the author of The Song of the Plains, London Past and Present. History of woman's Suffrage in Nebraska for the History of woman's suffrage written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Perhaps the work in which she is most interested is the effort to secure an act of congress which would enable women to vote for members of congress. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 39 MRS. CHARLES HERBERT AULL Surnames: Aull, Mitchell, baker, Kellogg, Thatcher, Guernsey, Mrs. Charles Herbert Aull, State Regent of Nebraska D. A. R., was born in Allegheny, Pa. Her maiden name was Annie Mitchell, the daughter of Daniel Patrick and Eliza (Baker) Mitchell. Her father was a native of West Virginia and was a very prominent minister in the Methodist church. Shortly after the civil War he went west and did much to establish Methodism in Kansas. Her mother, too, came from a line of Methodist ministers. Her brother, Charles Bayard Mitchell, is a bishop in the Methodist church. Her oldest sister, Mrs. J. M. Kellogg, was the first woman admitted in the bar in Kansas and for years was a practicing lawyer in that state. Another sister, Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, is state regent of the Daughters of the Anerican Revolution in Kansas and has done much to promote the patriotic work of the National Society D. A. R. On February 21, 1884, in emporia, Kansas, Annie Mitchell was married to Charles Herbert Aull of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where they resided until 1898, when they came to Omaha, which city is still their home. Tow children were vorn to them, both dying in early childhood. Mrs. Aull is a member of the Methodist church, a member of the Omaha Woman's club, Tuesday Morning Musical Club, Fine Arts Club and the Equal Franchise Club. He is a member of the D. A. R. and has held most of the local chapter offices, has been vice-regent of Nebraska and is now State regent of Nebraska. She is actively identified with the work of the Y. W. C. A., visiting Nurse Association, Child Saving Institute, and is on the board of the Social Settlement. She has traveled extensively in America and Abroad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 40 MARY C. GRAHAM Surnames: Graham, Seabrook Mary C. Graham, Dean of Women of the University of Nebraska, was born in Dayton, Ohio, Jan. 30, 1887. She is the daughter of William Ross and Minnie Loretta (Seabrook) Graham. Both her father and mother were born in Frederick county, Maryland, moving to Dayton, Ohio, when they were married. Miss Graham received her early education in the Dayton schools and was graduated from the high school. She completed the course in a business college in Dayton, after which she entered the University of Nebraska, from which she was graduated A. B. in 1909 and received also a teacher's certificate. While in the University she was elected to membership in the Black Masque, a senior honorary society. She is a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. For two years after graduating she was an instructor in the chemistry department of the University. At the expiration of that time she went to Dayton to teach chemistry in the Manual Training High School. In 1913 she returned to the University of Nebraska as Dean of women, which position she still occupies. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Lincoln, and a member of the advisory board of tha University Y. W. C. A. She belongs to the Lincoln Woman's club and is the University Counselor of the Association of Collegiate Allumae. She is an advocate of Woman suffrage and gave efficient help to the suffrage cause in Ohio during the campaign. She has also aided in Nebraska in its effort to secure the franchise for women. Miss Graham in her sympathy and understanding of girls is particularly efficient as dean of women. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 41 MRS. ANDREW K. GAULT Surnames: Gault, Cox, Mayhew, Miller, Horton, Cumming Story Lilliam Mayhew Cox Gault was born in St. Peter, Minn., Oct. 24, 1864. She is the daughter of Eugene St. Julien and Mariah H. (Mayhew) Cox. Her father Judge Cox, (the son of William Sitgreaves Cox, on of the first settlers of St. Paul) was prominently identified with the early history of Minnesota. At the time of the Sioux Massacre in August, 1862, he organized a company to go to the relief of New Ulm, which was surrounded by Indians, and without this timely help would have fallen into the hands of the savages. He served as First Lieut. of Co. E., Second Minnesota Reg. During the civil War. Mrs. Gault's mother is a descendant of Thomas Mayhew, proprietory governor of Martha's Vineyard and owner of Nantucket and Elizabeth Islands. Gov. Mayhew sold Nantucket Island in 1641 "for thirty pounds and two beaver hats, one for myself and one for my wife." The Mayhew family coat-of-arms (three crowns and a unicorn's head) was granted under Queen Elizabeth. By virtue of this ancestry she is a member of the descendants of Colonial Governors. She was married Aug. 18, 1891, at lead, So. Dak., to Andrew K. Gault, a civil engineer by profession. They lived for many years in Omaha, where Mrs. Gault was prominently identified with the club and social life of the city. They are now living in St. Paul, Minn. She is a member of St. Barnabas Episcopal church, Omaha, and was president of the woman's Auxiliary of the Episcopal church of the diocese of Nebraska for three years. She is now secretary-treasurer of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Province of the Northwest which includes the Dioceses of Montana, North and South Dakota, Duluth, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado. She is a member of the Omaha Woman's Club and during her residence there was its secretary and the leader of the domestic science department o the club. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and was regent of the Omaha chapter, and was state secretary of the Nebraska society D. A. R. She was vice-president general from Nebraska and in that capacity presided at the Continental Congress in Washington, D. C., at the session in which Mrs. John Miller Horton and Mrs. William Cumming story were nominated for president general. She is a member also of the U. S. Daughters of 1812. She is an authority on parliamentary law and has taught classes in Iowa, Minnesota, and Nebraska. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 43 MRS. T. J. GIST Surnames: Gist, Darrington, Reavis Annie Reavis Gist was born in Falls city in 1865 and has lived there all her life. She is the daughter of Isham and Annie (Darrington) Reavis who were Nebraska pioneers. She was educated in the College for Women at Jacksonville, Ill., graduating with highest honors in the classical course. She took a course also in the musical conservatory in connection with the college. She is a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority, joining it when it was known as the I. C. sisterhood before it became a Greek Letter sorority. She was married in Falls City in 1888 to Thomas J. Gist. They have four children Reavis, Frank, Annie Margaret, and Elizabeth. Mrs. Gist is one of the most prominent club women in Nebraska. She has served the Nebraska Federation in many officers and was state president. She has been general federation state secretary and is Nebraska's reporter for the General Federation Magazine. She has represented Nebraska many times at the meetings of the General Federation and has served on state and national committees. She is a frequent contributor to American Motherhood and to other periodicals. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Order of the Eastern Star. She is a member of Sorosis, of the Falls City Woman's Club and of the Shakespeare Club. Her church affiliation is the Methodist Episcopal church, in which she has an active interest. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 44 MRS. F. E. GEORGE Surnames: George, Mullen, Leslei Blanche Leslie George was born near Janesville, Iowa, the daughter of Thomas Hill and Caroline (Mullen) Leslie. Her father was of Scotch descent and was a soldier in the Union army during the Civil War, and was a teacher in the public schools of Iowa. Her mother was the daughter of John. H. Mullen, who was prominent in church affairs in northern Iowa in pioneer days. She received her early education in the public schools of Janesville, after which she attended the Waverly high school. She received her college training in the Upper Iowa University, from which she was graduated in 1892 L.B. At the time of her graduation she received also a diploma from the art department of the same school. Until her marriage she was a public school teacher in the grade schools at Janesville, Iowa, and in the high school at Eldon and Albia, Iowa and in West Point, Neb. In 1896 she was married to Frank Elton George, a graduate of Harvard University and during the time she attended the Upper Iowa University he was a member of the faculty. For fifteen years after their marriage he was city superintendent of schools in five different cities. She is a member of the first Methodist church of Omaha and an active church woman. She is a member of the P.E.O. sisterhood and of the O.E.S. Her father died in her infancy and to her mother she says, she owes all that she is, for through her mother's inspiration and aid she was educated in spite of many diffculties and hardships. The pleasure and inspiration from this companionship with her mother forms on the high lights in the picture of her life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 45 LUCILE EAVES Surnames: Eaves, Weir Lucile Eaves, Associate Professor of Practical Sociology of the University of Nebraska was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, Jan. 9, 1869. She is the daughter of David William and Anna C. (Weir) Eaves. She received her education in the high school of Peoria, Ill., at Stanford University, being graduated in 1894 A.B. she took a graduate course in the Chicago University. She received a degree M. Sc. From the University of California, after which she took a course in Columbia University with the degree Ph. D. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa sorority. She taught for several years in the San Diego, Cal., high school as head of the department of history, after which she was Professor of History in the Stanford University. She gave courses of lectures in the Extension department of the Chicago University. In San Francisco she was head resident of the South Park Social Settlement. During her residence in San Francisco she was director of the Industrial Bureau of relief work, and a fellow of Economies in the University of California. She has specialized on the labor question, being one of the best informed women in the country on the labor question and on labor legislation. She is a member of the American Association for Labor Legislation, of the National child Labor Commission, of the American Prison Association. She is an officer of the Nebraska State Conference of Charities and Correction, and of the Nebraska Child Labor Commission. She is a member of the Nebraska Suffrage Society and has lectured and worked for the cause of woman suffrage. She is the author of "A History of California Labor Legislation" and is a frequent contributor to periodicals on labor and sociological questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 46 ALICE VIRGINIA DAVIS Surnames: Davis, Clark, Lockwood, Swayne, Banz Alice Virginia Davis, concert pianist, of Omaha, was born at North Platte, Dec. 5, 1889. She is the daughter of George Warren and Alice (Clark) Davis. She is eligible to the society of the Mayflower descendants and to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, one of the founders of the National society of D.A.R., is her aunt. She was graduated with honors from the Omaha high school, south side, in 1907. In 1910 she went to Paris where she spent two years studying music, a pupil of Wager Swayne. In 1914 she again went to Europe, spending several months coaching with the Weiss pianist, Rudolph Banz. Her studies were interrupted by the conditions occasioned by the declaration of war and she returned to her home in September, 1914. She has appeared as concert pianist in many cities of this country, opening her season this year in the Princess Theater, New York. She maintains two studios in Omaha certain parts of the year where she teaches pupils in piano and theory. Musical critics have pronounced her a pianist of great talent and with a future full of promise. Her playing is marked by intelligence and discernment and brilliant technique. She is a member of the Tuesday Musical Club and of Chapter M P.E.O. and in her church membership is a Presbyterian. She has given illustrated lectures on art and has given many travel talks on the scenic spots of France, England, Switzerland and Italy. In her playing she is absolutely without pose or affection in her attitude toward her audience, her playing is straight forward, frank, and simple, but very artistic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 47 MRS. AL-FREDDIE DE LONG Surnames: DeLong, Leavett, McCausland, Eddy Mrs. Al-Freddie DeLong of Omaha is the daughter of Nathaniel Leaman and Carloing Godfrey (Leavett) McCausland. She attended the public school, after which she was graduated from the State Normal College of Massachusetts. On April 25, 1877, she was married at Peshtigo, Wis., to Charles Henry DeLong, D.D.S. They have two sons, Ralph Leaman DeLong, who is president of a Wholesale Cooperage Company in St. Louis, and Claud Leavett DeLong, who is a Christian Science practitioner of Omaha. At the age of fifteen Mrs. DeLong united with the Presbyterian church and was an active member of that church for thirteen years when she united with the Church of Christ, Scientist, of Oconto, Wis., which organization had the distinction of erecting the first church building in the world, to that denomination. In 1894 she accepted a call from the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Omaha, to become it pastor, which position she filled until Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy ordained the Bible and the Christian Science text book, Science andHealth with Key to the Scriptures, as the only pastor of the Christian Science churches throughout the land. She was then elected First Reader of the Omaha church, which position and that of Second Reader she filled for a number of years. She is a graduate of the Metaphysical College, Boston, C.S.B. She is president of the Association of Christian Science students. She has contributed a number of articles to various Christian Science journals and publications. For twenty-eight years she has been a practitioner and teacher of Christian Science and maintains an office at 334 Bee Building, Omaha. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 48 MRS WILLIAM M. DUTTON Surnames: Dutton, Bean, Laughridge, Green Maria Jane Laughridge Dutton was born in Oskaloosa, Ia., May 20, 1860, the daughter of the Rev. John Mitchel and Emily (Bean) Laughridge. Her father was a minister of the United Presbyterian church, but resided on a farm in Appanoose County, during her childhood days. She was the only daughter in the family and had seven brothers. She attended the district school, later attending the Oskaloosa high school, from which she was graduated on June 1, 1883. She taught in the country schools and in the grade school of Centerville, Ia., the last year she was a ward principal. On Nov. 24, 1887, she was married to William Manderville Dutton at the home of her grand-mother, Mrs. William Bean, in Council Bluffs. They went directly to their home in Hastings, where they still reside. They have four children, Florence May (Mrs. Barton Green of Lincoln), George Reynolds, Armilda and William Manderville, Jr. Mrs. Dutton is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is active in all lines of church work and charities. She joined the P.E.O. sisterhood in Centerville in September, 1884. In 1889 she helped to organize the P.E.O chapter in Hastings and was its first president. In 1892 she was one of the P.E.O's. who met in DesMoines to help establish the Supreme chapter of the sisterhood. She served the Nebraska Grand Chapter as first vice-president and as second vice-president. She was one of the six women who organized the Hastings Woman's Club and for six years was chairman of the physical culture department. She was a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition, being second vice-president of the Bureau of Education. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 49 MISS EFFIE E. DETRICK Surnames: Detrick, Andrews, Effie Eldora Detrick was born at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, July 13, 1866. She is the daughter of Horton M. and Caroline Virginia (Andrews) Detrick. She came with her parents to Nebraska when a child, the trip to York county was made in a covered wagon. Their first home was a sod house and Miss Detrick has seen York grow from two sod houses to the present modern city of seven thousand inhabitants. She was graduated from the York High School, after which she attended the Nebraska State Normal at Peru, York College, and the Nebraska Wesleyan University from which institution she was graduated, June 7, 1906, B.A. following her graduation she taught in the grades in the York schools and in the Lexington high school. She was for some time bookkeeper and assistant manager of Nebraska newspaper Union. For four years she was assistant registrar and accountant for the Nebraska Wesleyan University. She was later assistant registrar and expert accountant for the College of Pacific at San Jose, Cali., until called home because of the illness of her mother, who died July 1, 1915. She is prominently identified with the clubs, being president of the York Woman's Department Club. For three years she has been president of Chapter A, Nebraska P.E.O., and is associate conductress of Grace Chapter O.E.S. She is a friendly visitor for the Civic League. She is an active member of the Methodist Episcopal church and is president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. She is a progressive thinker and believes and has demonstrated by her own ability, that women ought to be given the franchise. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 50 MRS. LELA G. DYAR Surnames: Dyar, Leavitt, Swart Mrs. Lela Grace Dyar of boone, Neb., corresponding secretary of the State W. C. T. U. and prominent temperance worker, was born Aug. 6, 1874, in Leroy, Boone County, Ill. She is the daughter of Albert Clinton and Ella Clara (Leavitt) Swart. She attended the high school at Sharon, Wis., and was a public school teacher until her marriage. She was married at Sharon, Wis., on Aug. 7, 1895, to Walter J. Dyar, and has lived all her married life in Nebraska. They have one daughter, Shirley Hazel Dyar. In religious faith she is an Episcopalian and is active in all the branches of church work, in the choir and Sunday school and various women's organizations. Her principal work outside of home and church has been in behalf of the W. C. T. U. She has held most of the offices in the local auxiliary. For four years she was state secretary of Young People's Work, for three years she was state recording secretary and for the past two years has been state corresponding secretary. She has held several offices also in the county W. C. T. U. organization. In her official capacity she has had a prominent part in the state conventions. She has had some journalistic experience in contributing to the state paper of W. C. T. U., and as a newspaper correspondent. She emphatically believes in the justice of equal suffrage and has worked hard for the advancement of the woman suffrage cause in Nebraska. She finds her greatest pleasure in advancing the cause of temperance to which she has for many years given so much time.