"BLUE BOOK OF NEBRASKA WOMEN;" BY WINONA REEVES (1916); PAGES 51 - 100 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. 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She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and is an exemplary church woman, prominent in all of the activities. She has served the Aid society and the Missionary society as president. She was for sometime a member of the Executive Board of the Woman's Council of the Nebraska Wesleyan University. When she was a young girl she joined the P.E.O. sisterhood and has given to its administration many years of service. She was president of the Lincoln chapter as recording secretary and later, president of the Nebraska Grand chapter, and for several terms the recording secretary of the Supreme chapter. She served in these offices with great efficiency. She was one of the charter members of the Lincoln chapter and one of the most active P.E.O's. in its organization. To these three activities her home, the church and to P.E.O. she devotes much of her energy. She is a very charming postess in her home, is a woman of broad charity and one possessed of any friends. Her's is a life of success if we may take Hale's definition, "The making of friends who are real friends is the best token we have of one's success in life." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 52 MRS. C. F. BALLARD Surnames: Ballard, Henderson, Adams, Bradford, Stone Mrs. Lora A. Ballard of Havelock, Nebraska, was born December 29, 1856, Cass County Michigan. Her parents were Charles Henry Henderson, and Hannah (Adams) Henderson, both of New York State. On her mother's side, Mrs. Ballard is a descendant of William Bradford, second governor of Plymouth Colony, and Samuel Adams, of Revolutionary fame. In 1861 Mrs. Ballard moved to Plum Grove, Indiana, with her parents. Received her common school education at Plum Grove, attended T. H. Ball's School for Girls at Crown Point, Indiana, and graduated from the Valparaiso (Indiana) Normal School, 1879. After teaching in Indiana two years, she came to Grafton, Nebraska, taught school in Fillmore and York counties and in 1882 was married to Dr. C. F. Ballard of Grafton. Two children were born to them, Clara May and John Frederick. In 1892 they moved to Havelock, Nebraska, where Dr. Ballard is now surgeon for the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney Railroad locomotive shops. Mrs. Ballard is a member of the Congregational Church; Deborah Avery Chapter D.A.R., Lincoln; Chapter A., P.E.O., Havelock; Past Worthy Matron, Martha Washington Chapter, Eastern Star, and is interested in Equal Suffrage. She is interested in bird lore and is actively engaged in improving the conditions for birds. Mrs. Ballard's schidren ate graduates of the University of Nebraska. Her daughter, Clara M. Stone, taught in the Havelock Rushville, Ord and Fairbury high schools and now resided in Olathe, Colorado. Her son, whose home is in New York city, received a degree of Master of Arts from Harvard University and is the author of "Believe Me, Xantippe," "Young America," and other plays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 53 MRS. WILLIAM BRADDOCK Surnames: Braddock, Tow, Jacobson Julia Anna Jacobson Braddock was born March 10, 1879, on a farm near Navada, Iowa, the daughter of John H. and Theodore (Tow) Jacobson. Her parents moved in her early childhood, to Sheridan county, Nebraska. Here the family passed through the thrilling experiences which come to pioneers who lived in the land of the Sioux Indians. Bands of Indians often came to Rushville, the settlement near the home of the Jacobsons. Mrs. Braddock says the most vivid recollection of her childhood is of a visit of Sioux Indians to their home, wearing feathers and beads with their faces painted and streaked. The squaws rode on ponies and each had her papoose in a basket swinging from a pole which dragged beneath the pony. In the first years in which they lived in Nebraska there were few schools, but a few log school houses were built on the prairies and here she received her first schooling, going a little later to attend the public school in Rushville. She taught school several years. On March 28, 1899, she was married to William Braddock of Chadron, Nebraska, which town is their home. The have two daughters, Gladys Enid, born April 24, 1900, and Wilma Doris, Born Feby. 10, 1906. They spent the first eight years of their married life on a ranch eighteen miles north of Chadron. The Chadron Woman's Club was organized in Mrs. Braddock's home, and she has been every since on of its active workers, serving two years as president. She is a member of the Chadron Culture Club, the oldest club in the town. She is a member of the board of Education and a commissioner on the board of the County Fair and has an active interest in all work for the betterment of the community. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 54 MRS. E. M. CORRELL Surnames: Correll, Perry, Bunker Lucy L. Correll, for twenty-six years editor and publisher of the Hebron Journal, is a descendant of the Bunker family, original owners of Bunker Hill, and she can trace her American Ancestry from 1634. She is a Nebraska pioneer, having lived in Hebron since 1869. In 1868 she was married to E. N. Correll, and in 1871 her husband established the Hebron Journal, and to aid him she wrote for the paper and assisted him in other ways about the office. In 1890 Mr. Correll assumed the management of the Ogden Daily Commercial, and Mrs. Correll became editor and business manager of the Hebron Journal, which she has successfully conducted ever since. In 1881-1 she assisted her husband in the management of the Woman's Tribune, which was a pleasure, rather than a task, as she has always been interested in the activities of women. In 1895 her husband died, bringing to a close their years of happy companionship. There are three children, one daughter resides in Los Angeles, another at Fairbury—Mrs. Lulu Correll Perry, past state regent of Nebraska D. A. R., and a son, Ernest E. Correll, who is associate with his mother in the newspaper work. She organized the Oregon Trail Chapter D. A. R., and is the regent and is state historian of Nebraska D. A. R. She is a P. E. O. and for seven years served as president of the chapter. She has traveled extensively in this country, but to her, Nebraska is the best land— "Out where the skies are a trifle bluer, Out where friendship's a little truer, Out where everything is newer— That's where the West begins." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 55 MRS. ISAAC E. CARPENTER Surnames: Carpenter, Cloud, Batchelder, Lockwood, Barker, Kiewit Carrie Mary Batchelder Carpenter was born in LaCross, Wis., Nov. 10, 1858. She is the daughter of the Rev. James L. and Margaret P. (Cloud) Batchelder. Her father was a graduate of Amhurst College and at the time of his death at the age of ninety-three, was the oldest alumnus. He was a minister, educator, editor and author. He was editor of the "The Journal and Messenger," a religious paper published in Cincinnatti, and was the author of a number of books dealing with religious subjects. He was a strong abolitionist and sheltered many run-away slaves during the Civil War period. On October 13, 1881, she was married in Chicago to Isaac W. Carpenter, who is president of the Carpenter Paper Co. of Omaha, one of the largest paper houses in the west. He is a Christian business man, interested in many charities and holds many positions of influence and responsibility. Their children are Mrs. Melinda Maxwell (Carpenter) Lockwood, Mrs. Olive Wood (Carpenter) Barker, Mrs.Nell Batchelder (Carpenter) Kiewit, and Isaac White Catpenter. Mrs Lockwood is a widow and a woman of rematkable Christian Character and a deep Bible student. She has a Bible Class of fifty young women, in whose lives she has an enduring interest. She has twice refused the office of Dean of women in two well known colleges. Like Doreas of old, she "is known for her good works." Mrs. Barker was educated in violin at Oberlin, Ohio, and her husband is an artist, author and violinist of note. Mrs. Kiewit is a Welesley graduate and taught English in college for a year after graduating. Their son, J. W. Carpenter, Jr., is a graduate of Dartmouth College, afterward taking a graduate course in Harvard. All of the family are members of Calvary Baptist church and are active in its various departments. Mrs. Carpenter has been president of the Woman's Missionary Society and of the Aid Society for twelve years. For several years she was vice-president and secretary of the National Foreign Missionary Society of the Baptist church. She is president of the Mu sigma Literary Club, which is the oldest club in Omaha. She has traveled in most of the countries of Europe, and made a trip to the Holy Land. She has visited most of the interesting and scenic spots in America. She is interested in literary topics, is a great reader and a delightful conversationalist. The dominant characteristic of her life is her devotion to her religion and to the church. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 57 MRS. J. H. CORRICK Surnames: Corrick, Pease, Trowbridge, Culbertson Jeannette R. Trowbridge Corrick, of Culbertson, Neb., was born in Hamilton, Ohio, Nov. 26, 1861, daughter of the Rev. William A. and Mary A. (Pease) Trowbridge. She received her education in the Cincinnati, Ohio, high school, and in the California State Normal. For ten years she lived in California, teaching and acting as society editor on one of the An Jose papers. On Sept, 26, 1885, in Ottumwa, Iowa, she was married to John H. Corrick, a member of the editorial staff of the Burlington Hawkeye. In 1898 they moved to western Nebraska, where Mr. Corrick now owns and publishes "the Culbertson Banner" and "The Palisade Times." Mrs. Corrick is associate editor of both papers and is a member of the Nebraska State Press Association. She has contributed to a number of magazines in addition to her newspaper work. She is prominently identified with the Rebekah assembly I. O. O. F. of Nebraska, have served with much efficiency as state president in 1904-5. She was one of the pioneer workers for the I. O. O. F. home located at York. She is a member of the W. C. T. U., woman's Relief Corps, the Tuesday Club and the Woman's Club of Culbertson. She was a member of the Executive Board of the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs, 1911-13. For three years she was chairman of the Fifth district N. F.W. C. and for the past two years has been State chairman of the Constitution committee. She was one of the chief promoters in the establishment of the public library in her home city. She is a member of the Christian church and interested in ever movement which has for its object the betterment of mankind. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 58 WILLA CATHER Surname: Cather, Boak Willa Siber Cather, editor and author, began her literary work in Nebraska when she was associate editor of the "Courier," a Lincoln paper devoted to society, literature, art and the polite world in general. That was in 1895 when it was said that her work helped to make the "Courier" the brightest and most readable paper in Nebraska. She was born in Winchester, Va., Dec. 7, 1875, but moved with her parents to Red Could, Neb., in 1885. She is the daughter of Carles F. and Mary Virginia (Boak) Cather. When she was fifteen years old her father bought the "Red Cloud Republican" and she was installed as editor and business manager. She conducted the paper for six months, when she entered the University of Nebraska, from which she was graduated in 1895. While in the University she edited the college paper, "The Hesperian," for a year, and was managing editor for a year. During the last two years in the University she was dramatic critic for the "State Journal." From 1897-1901 she was on the staff of the Pittsburg Leader, since then she has been associated editor of "McClures Magazine," She is the author of "April Twilight," 1903; "the Troll Garden," 1905; "Alexander's Bridge," 1912; "The Bohemian Girl,' 1912; "Six Pioneers," 1913. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 59 DR. GERTRUDE CUSCADEN Surnames: Cuscaden, Jones, Howe, Stanton, Livermore Gertrude Jones Cuscaden, a successful physician of Omaha, was born on a farm eight miles east of Chillicothe, Ohio, May 20, 1849. Her father was Henry Jones, whose grandfather, a Quaker shoemaker of Philadelphia, came west to Ohio because he found the income from his trade insufficient for the needs of his wife and children. They took up a homestead on a slope of Rattle Snake Knob. In this vicinity his twelve children lived and owned land in the fertile valley below the original homestead. They cleared the heavy timber and tilled the fertile soil, prospering as farmers and farmers' wives. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Jones, whose mother was of Dutch stock, and her father was of native of Wales. Dr. Cuscaden was graduated from the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1870. In March, 1874, she received her M. D. from Ann Arbor, Mich., and in June, 1874, recived the degree, P. C., from Ann Arbor. Following graduation she spent a year in the New England Hospital for Women and Children. She was married to John Alexander Cuscaden, March 20, 1884, in the Episcopal church at Aurora, Ind. Three children have been born to them---Alexander, Corothea, who died in infancy, and Thomas Scott. Her husband died Nov. 18, 1914. True to the tradition of the quakers, she believes in the equality of men and women socially and politically. She says she "was brought up on Julis Ward Howe, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Livermore and the principles they taught, and I have always wished to vote." For forty-one years she has successfully practiced her profession and has been a good wife and devoted mother; her's have been years filled with usefulness and good works. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 60 CHATTIE COLEMAN Surnames: Coleman, Farmer, Miss Chattie Coleman is editor and publisher of one of the best county newspapers in Nebraska, "The Headlight," published at Stromburg. Twenty years ago she purchased this paper, then a small folio with little patronage. She applied good judgment and sound business principles to its management and today it is conceded to be one of the best county papers in the state, in a new office building splendidly equipped. Few newspaper publishers in the state, either men or women, have made a parallel success in the face of the difficulties and discouragements which Miss Coleman has overcome. She has versatile pen and her editorials and newspaper stories are well written. She was born in Dallas County, Iowa, July 5, 1871, the daughter of Jacob H. and Niccy L. (Farmer) Coleman. She is descended from a long line of pioneers, men and women who kept close to the border of civilization. Her grand father helped to build the first frame house in Chicago. Her ancestors have lived in America since before the Revolution and the family has been represented in all of the great wars, the Revolution, War of 1812, Mexican, Blackhawk, and Civil War. Miss Coleman attended the public schools and a business college, receiving most of her practical education in the school of experience. She is a member of the Houe Commercial Club and of the Community Welfare Association, and of the Nebraska Press Association, which she has twice served as corresponding secretary. She organized the Elijah Gove Chapter D. A. R. and has been its regent since organization. She is state auditor of Nebraska D. A. R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 61 MRS. JAMES C. DAHLMAN Surnames: Dahlman, Chick, Abbott Harriet Abbott Dahlman was born April 21, 1860, at Winterfort, Maine. She is the daughter of Dr. Charles and Harriet Newel (Chick) Abbott. Her father was surgeon of the Twenty-Sixth Volunteer Regiment of Maine, during the Civil War. She received her preparatory education in private schools. She attended Wellesley College four years and was graduated in the class of 1879. She taught school from 1881 to 1883. On Dec. 20, 1884, she was married at Union, Iowa, to James C. Dahlman, and came to Omaha to live. They have two children, Ruth and Dorothy. She is a member of All Saints Epicsopal church and is a devoted church woman. She is a member of a number of prominent clubs of Omaha, of the Omaha Woman's Club of the Fine Arts Club, the Tuesday Morning Musical Club and of the Wellesley club of Nebraska. She is a member of the colonial Dames of America and is an associate member of the "A. C. A." Since 1913 she has been treasurer of the Creche. She has had a prominent part in the administration of may charities. She is found of travel and has visited every section of the United States and Canada. She is a widely read woman, finding much pleasure in books. She enjoys the our-of-doors and her favorite amusement is out-of-doors sports---golf, tennis, and other games played in the open. Her husband, James C. Dahlman, is mayor of Omaha, and has for years had a prominent part in promoting the growth and progress of the city. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 62 RHETA CHILDE DORR Surnames: Dorr, Michel Rheta Childe Dorr, author and lecturer, was born in Omaha, the daughter of Dr. Edward P. and Lucie (Michel) Dorr. She was educated in the schools of Nebraska and after her marriage went east to live. From 1902-1916 she was editor of the women's section of the "New York Evening Post." From 1900-1910 she was on the staff of "Hampton's Magazine" and a writer of feature articles. She has been for ten years a frequent contributor to "Everybody's Magazine," the "Century," "Saturday Evening Post," "Scribner," and other magazines. She is an active club woman, particularly in the Woman's Club, and has served on a number of general Federation committees, notably the Industrial Committee, of which she was chairman for two years. She is a member of the Woman's Political Union of New York and the Woman Suffrage Party, and has delivered many speeches in behalf of Woman Suffrage. Politically she is a Socialist. She is the author of one book, "What Eight Million Women Want." She is a member of the Woman's Trade Union League and is an advanced thinker on the question of union labor. She finds her pleasure and recreation in walking and in gardening. She is fond of music and the theater and is a wide traveler. She has one son, Julian Dorr, who was born in 1896. Her home is in New York City. She is one of many Nebraska women who have found their greatest activity outside their native state, but Nebraska is proud to claim still as her own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 63 MRS. GEORGE B. DARR Surnames: Darr, McCoy, Kirkpatrick Kate Estella Kirkpatrick Darr was born Aug. 3, 1859, at Peoria, Ill., the daughter of John Alexander and Francis Catherine (McCoy) Kirkpatrick. She came to Nebraska among the early settlers and has seen the state grow from a sparsely settled territory and almost barren country to its present foremost rank among the states. She received her education at Morris, Ill., and in Auburn, N. Y. she taught several years before her marriage in the schools of Grand Island and for one year was principal of schools at Loup City. For fifteen years she was president of the Lexington Bank at Lexington, Neb. She was married to George B. Darr at Grand Island. Their home has been in Omaha for many years. Two children were born of them, Kate Ethel and George B., Jr., both deceased. She is a member of the First Presbyterian church. She is a member of the Omaha woman's Club and is assistant leader of the Art, Literature and Oratory department of the club. She is a member of the Happy Hollow Club, of the Browning Club, P.E.O., Daughter of the American Revolution, U.S. Daughters of 1812, W. C. T. U., and Equal Franchise Club. She has served the P. E. O. chapter as its president for four years, and was for four years president of the Daughters of 1812, and is now the Honorary president. She is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution through the service of her grandfather, who migrated from Scotland, and who came on the same ship with her great grandmother, when they were both very young. She has served the Omaha Chapter D. A. R. as vice-regent and as historian. She has traveled extensively in Europe and visited most of the places of interest in America. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 64 MRS. GEORGE W. DOANE Surnames: Doane, Greenhow, Russell, Keller No one is more entitled to a place in the written history of Nebraska women then is Mrs. George William Doane, who came to Nebraska in 1859, a bride, twenty years old, and who with other pioneer women endured the hardships necessary to the conditions orf the times and who were quite as much as the men builders of the state. Emily Russell Greenhow was born in Vincennes, Ind,. Oct. 13, 1839. She was the daughter of James William Greenhow of Richmond Va., and Augusta (Russell) Greenhow of Louisville, Ky. She was ecucated in private schools and in a convent, receiving unusual educational advantages for the times. She was married in Keokuk, Iowa Oct, 25, 1859, to George William Doane, then district attorney for Nebraska, afterward judge of the sidtrict court. They were both Episcopalians and were prominently identified with the early work of the church in Omaha. In recent years Mrs. Doane has been a Christian Scientist. Seven children were born to them, five of whom are living, Cora Alexine (Mrs. Charles B. Keller of Omaha), Guy Russell, William Greenhow, Daisy C., and George William Jr. Judge and Mrs. Doane had fifty-three years of life together, all of it spent in Nebraska with the exception of one year spent in Cincinnati, Ohio. When they came west their home was in Blair for a short time before they settled permanently in Omaha. Mrs. Doane has never been a club woman, but is progressive in her ideas and a good suffragist, a member of the Equal Franchise Society of Omaha. She is a gentle woman in every characteristic, a gracious, charming old lady. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 65 MRS. LOUISE VIRGINIA M. HOPKINS Surnames: Hopkins, Hall Louise Virginia Martin Hopkins, writer, was born in Nebraska city, Oct. 2, 1860. She is the daughter of David M. and Elizabeth (Hall) Hopkins. She was married in Crete, Neb., Feb. 21, 1884, to Albert Wade Hopkins. Three sons were born to them, Ray Martin Hopkins of Tacoma, Wash.; Paul Ellsworth Hopkins and Louis S. Hopkins, both of Saratoga, Wyo. She is the author of several books dealing with frontier life in the early days of settlement of the great plains. Among them, "Signal Lights," a story of life on the Nebraska prairies; "A Wagon Trip Trough Yellowstone National Park" "Frontier Days in Cheyenne," "Ranch Life in Wyoming." "Frontier Days in Cheyenne," "Ranch Life in Wyoming." She has written many short stories for magazines and newspaper syndicates, dealing for the greater part with frontier life. Her parents moved in 1854 from Indiana and took a farm three miles from Nebraska City, and so she knew the pioneer life in Nebraska from personal experience and out of this experience most of her stories are written. Of recent years she has lived in Villisca, Iowa, and has spent her summers in Wyoming. Beside her literary work she has done what she could in public welfare work. She is a trustee of the public library, is vice-president of the Progress Club, is a member os a Shakespeare club. In her church affiliation she is an Episcopalian. She takes her recreation like Walt Whitman, "Just loafing and inviting my soul." She is a suffragist and has aided in the cause of woman suffrage wherever she has lived. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 66 WINIFRED HYDE Surnames: Hyde Winifred Hyde, assistant Professor of Philosophy in the University of Nebraska was graduated from that university in the class of 1900, B. A., with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She has held the following appointments: Scholar of Philosophy, University of Nebraska; Scholar of Philosophy, Cornell University, Ithaca, new York; Fellow of Philosophy for two years in Bryn Mawr, 1902-04. She was Traveling Fello for the Boston Woman's Educational Association 1905-06. She studied at Jena, Germany, under Rudolph Encken, receiving in 1911 the degree Ph. D. Since 1911 she has been teaching in the University of Nebraska and is assistant professor of Philosophy. She has traveled extensively in this country and on the continent. She is particularly fond of music and is very discriminating in her musical taste. She is fond of out door sports, particularly swimming, and in long walks. She is the author of a number of treatises on philosophy. She is an enthusiastic advocate of equal suffrage. In religions faith she is a Methodist and is a very scholarly woman. Her home is in Lincoln. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 67 MRS. CHARLES W. HAYES Surnames: Hayes, Paxson, Williams, Morehead, Aldrich Mary Ellen Paxson Hayes was born in Manchester, Iowa, Nov. 29, 1861. She was the oldest daughter of Charles Paxson, pioneer banker of Manchester, of sturdy Quaker family and of Mayr Williams Paxson, of direct Manx lineage. Mrs. Hayes has rendered distinguished service in club, philanthropie, and civic work in her home city, Omaha, where she has lived for twenty-five Years. Her Husband, Dr. C. W. Hayes, was a prominent Omaha physician, who died in California, March 7, 1910, whither the family had gone for his health. One Child, charles Paxson Hayes, was born to them July 27, 1892. He is connected with the "Merchants; Trade Journal" of Des Moines and is also editor of the "News Boys' World." Mrs. Hayes attended the Manchester Academy and later the Philadelphia Art School. She is a member of the Omaha Woman's Club and has served as the second vice-president and president. She was leader of the current Topies department and of the Political and social Science department. She was state delegate to the General Federation in 1914 and a delegate in 1912. In 1913 by appointment of Gov. Morehead she was a member of the committee which made the program in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of peace in Nebraska. In 1911 she was appointed by Gov. Aldrich a delegate to the National Prison Congress. She is chairman of the Legislative Committee of the N. F. W. C.; vice-president of the State Peace Society, and a member of the General Federation Legislative Committee and vice-president of the Omaha Civic League. She is a member of the Y. W. C. A., W. C. T. U., O. E. S., the Tuesday Morning Musical Club, and the Visiting Nurse Association. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 68 MRS. CLARENCE WAYNE HARVEY Surnames: Harvey, Hazley, Knight Dorothy Eunice Knight Harvey of Fairfield, Neb., was born in Evanston, Wy., Aug. 16, 1892. She is the daughter of Jesse and Mary LeMira (Hazlep) Knight. Her father was Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming from 1898 to the time of his death, 1905. Her father and mother both came from families who were pioneers. Her father came to Nebraska in the 70's, going after a few years on west to Wyoming. Her mother's family came to Ohio when that state was "out west" and were strong abolitionists and gave shelter and aid to fugitive slaves during the Civil War. She received her education in the Cheyenne high school, Brown County Academy, St. Martin, Ohio; Grove City college, Grove City, Pa.; Denver University and the University of Nebraska, being graduated from the latter A. B. She is a member of the Pi Beta Phi sorority. On June 19, 1915, she was married in Cheyenne to Clarence Wayne Harvey. She is a member of the Episcopal church. She is a member of the Children of the American Revolution and is eligible to D. A. R. She is a member of the Fairfield Woman's Club and is its president. She is a member of the Suffrage Club and one of its most active members, She christened the U. S. S. Wyoming and is a member of the Sponsors Society of the Ships of the United States Navy. This Society meets annually in Washington, D. C., and has for a philanthropie object the education of navy orphans. She spent 1910 in Italy and Germany studying history and art and witnessed the Passion Play. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 69 MRS. MARTHA A. HUNTER Surnames: Hunter, Barlow, Beck, Venner, Farnsworth Martha Angeline Beck Hunter was born on a farm near Walshville, Ill., in 1858. She is the daughter of Moses and Emily Caroline (Barlow) Beck. Her parents were both of a high type of Christian character. Of Mr. Beck, his pastor said, "He as fully meets God's description of a good man (Isaiah 33:15-17), as any one I ever knew" Her mother was the daughter of a pioneer Presbyterian minister. In this Christian home were the Blue Laws of the Presbyterian church were indeed law, Mrs. Hunter grew to womanhood. In 1877 she was married to Robert A. Hunter and two daughters were born to them, Violet Pearl (Mrs. O. H. Venner of University Place), and Ivy Maud (Mrs. Thad Farnsworth of Grand Island). In 1889 the family moved to Custer county to a homestead which is now a part of the Hunter ranch, Sunny Dell Cattle Ranch, near Broken Bow. The family lived here until 1894 when they became residents of Broken bow. Mrs. Hunter is a member of the Presbyterian church and an exemplary church woman. For many years she has taught a young men's Bible class in the Sunday school. She was the first president of the Custer Co. W. C. T. U., and has spoken at many public meetings in behalf of temperance. She was a charter member of Chapter S. P. E. O. and has served as vice-president of the Nebraska Grand Chapter of P. E. O. She was a member of the Women's Board of the Transmississippi Exposition held in Omaha in 1898. For a number of years she taught Grammar school. In 1915 she published "The Story of the Four Gospels for Boys and Girls," and a temperance drama, "Weighted in the Balance" she is a woman of the greatest sincerity and wishes only to serve her day and generation and to merit the "Well done." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 70 MRS. JESSIE WOODRUFF HUBBARD Surnames: Hubbard, Scott, Woodruff Jessie DeFroest Woodruff Hubbard was born in Grandview, Ind, Aug. 26, 1881, the daughter of Rev. Johnathan Forest and Margaret (Scott) Woodruff. Her father was of English descent and came from a family of professional men, he himself being a Methodist Episcopal minister. Her mother's parents came to this county from Scotland and she is a direct descendant on the paternal side from Sir Walter Scott. Mrs. Hubbard attended school in Indianapolis and at Moorsville, Ind. She was married Jany. 16, 1901, at Mooresville, to Charles Jaben Hubbard, who is a cousin of the late Elbert Hubbared. In religious faith she is a methodist and a member of the First M. E. church of Omaha. Being the daughter of a minister has always taken an active part in the Sunday school and various societies of the church. She has taken a course of study in a Bay View Club, is a member of the Dundee Woman's Club and is its treasurer. She is a member of the Just For Work Club, a local charity organization. She is an active worker in the Y. W. C. A. and in a number of philanthropic organizations. She spent two years in New Mexico at one time and has spent several winters in California and visited many places of interest in the Unisted States. She is rather indifferent on the question of equal suffrage. She is a tennis enthusiast and ture to her English heritage is a untiring walker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 71 MRS. THOMAS P. HARGRAVE Surnames: Hargrave, Cromwell, Towner Addie Davis Cromwell Hargrave was born in Columbia, Mo., June 3, 1861. Her father was Richard Cromwell who was born in the family home in Mayrland, on a grant of land given the Cromwells by the King in Colonial days. The Land is now withing the corporate limits of Baltimore. The family lineage goes back to Oliver Cormwell. Mrs. Hargrave's mother was Mary Jane Towner, born in Fairfax county, Virginia. The two families in pioneer days moved to Missouri and were owners of plantations and slaves and after the Civil War suffered the loss and stress which came to all who lived in the south. Mrs. Hargrave attended the State University of Missouri and Hardin College in Mexico, Mo., from which she was graduated B. A. On Jan. 23, 1884, she was married to Thomas Pyle Hargrave of Mr. Pleasent, Iowa, and as a bride moved to Wymore, Neb., where her husband was engaged in the mereantile business until his death, which occurred Feby. 1, 1813. Two sons were born to them, Mark Comwell Hargrave, born Oct. 10, 18890; Thomas Jean Hargrave, born Dec. 5, 1891. Both are graduates of the University of Nebraska, and the younger is a graduate also of the Harvard Law School and is a practicing attorney in Rochester, N. Y. She has adopted in love, a daughter, Edith May Hargrave, who is still in college. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and active in all of its departments. She has served as president of both the Home and Foreign Missionary societies. She is a P. E. O. and has served as president of her chapter, and has been a member of the Literary club and of the Fortnightly Musical ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 72 JOY M. HIGGINS Surnames: Higgins, O'Conor, O'Higgin, Montogomery Campbells Joy Montgomery Higgins was born in Columbus, Neb., the daughter of John Gonegal and Anna Long (O'Conor) Higgins. Her father is a descendant of a well know Irish family, the O'Higgin, of Mayo afterward of Donegal. Gen. Richard Montgomery of Washington's army, a native of Ballyshannon Donegal, was a first cousin. Both the Montgomerys of Rapho and the O'Higgins of Ballyshannon intermarried with the Campbells of Argyle. Her mother was an O'Conor of Rosscommon, the daughter of Andrew O'Conor, who is a first cousin of Charles O'Conor of New York. Miss Higgins is a member of St. Barnabas Episcopal church of Omaha. She is head of the St Barnabas' Branch of the Girls' Friendly Society of America. She is an active worker in the Omaha Social Settlement and is a member of its board of directors. She is a trustee of the Nebraska Humane Society. She founded the Nebraska Andubon Society and is its secretary. She is a member of the Nebraska State Ornithological Society, of the Omaha Equal Franchise Society. She is a member of the Dramatie League of America and is active in amateur theatrical work and often gives monologues and shits which she has written nerself. She has written many delightful poems which have been published in magazines and various periodicals. One Poem, "The Puppet," appeared (1915) in the New York Times and was pronounced by critics the best war poem of the year. She has written and arranged pageants and masques as well as dramas and prose feature articles. She has has some business experience in Civil Service employ and is a zealous advocate of equal suffrage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 73 MRS. CARRIE R. HAPEMAN Surnames: Hapeman, Russel, Calkins, Few Nebraska women were more widely known or universally loved than was Mrs. Carrie R. Hapeman, and in her death which occurred April 24, 1915, a very useful life was closed. Carried R. Russell was born Oct. 14, 1860, at Wyoming, N. Y., the daughter of Rev. A. A. and Ersula (Clakins) Russell, her father being a biptist minister. She attended school at Polo, Ill., in Minneapolis, and later attended Wells school of Oregon, Ill. On Oct 14, 1883, she was married at Polo, Ill., to Dr. Harry Hapeman. They came to Minden, Neb., in 1884, where Dr. Hapeman is a prominent physician. The Hapeman home which was built a few years ago is one of the handsomest residences in Nebraska, and notwithstanding all the honors and the outside interest which come to Mrs. Hapeman, she found in this home her chief happiness. As a child she united with the Baptist church, but later joined the Presbyterian church and was one of the most active workers. It was characteristic of her interest in the young people, that when their new home was built a large room in the basement was fitted up for the young people that they might hold their social affairs there. She was a prominent P. E. O., holding many positions of honor and trust. She was a charter member of the Minden Chapter, was president of the Nebraska Grand Chapter and president of the Supreme chapter, Which is the highest office in the sisterhood. She wrote the installation ceremony which is used in all P. E. O. chapters, was a member of the committee which adopted the star ceremony to the initiation and presided at the Lincoln Convention where the constitution was revised. Her advice and aid were called into all of the important work of P. E. O. at every convention she attended. She was a skillful and artistic painter of china, there was nothing of the amateur in her work, which was exhibited at the Columbian Expedition in Chicago and at the Omaha Exposition and elsewhere in ceramic exhibits. Her work is listed in the China Painters Blue Book, published in Boston and in other journals of ceramics. She enjoyed travel, and had a particular fondness for the Hawaiian Islands, to which she went again and again. She was a woman of may social graces, and a woman of broad charity and deep love for humanity. She was naturally a leader, but was very modest of her own attainment. She was a loyal friend and to have known her in this capacity is to have had a richer life and a wider vision of the influence of a good woman's life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 75 MRS. JOHN R. HUGHES Surnames: Hughes, Scheer, Washington, Tyson, Grimm, Clark Bertha Estella Clark Hughes was born July 3, 1880, in Bethany, Ill., the daughter of Zedock Hudson and Emma Josephine (Scheer) Hughes. On her father's side her lineage is traced to the Revolutionary War, his great grandfather having been on Gen. Washington's staff. Her great Uncle, James Tyson, was an author and historian, his best known work being "The Political and Social Life of George Washington" and "Biographical Sketches of the Lives of the Fifty Six Signers of the Declaration of Independence." Her mother is descended from the Grimm-Scheer families who came from Alsace-Lorrane. A brother, the Rev. J. E. Scheer, is a prominent minister of the M. E. church. In the early 80's the Clark family moved to Nebraska where they still reside. Mrs. Hughes was educated in the schools of South Omaha, being graduated from the high school in 1899. In 1901 she was graduated from the Cumnock School of Oratory of the Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. For six years she was a special teacher, one year she was director of oratory and physical culture i9n Tobin College, Fort Dodge, Iowa, and for five years she taught English and Elocution in the So. Omaha high school. For fifteen years she has been a reader in a professional and semi-professional way. She has read before chautauquas, conventions, and state teachers' associations, and given dramatic impersonations for church and charity benefits. She has a varied repertoire and her interpretations are given in an unusually artistic style and altogether without affectation. Among her reading which have pleased many audiences are "The Mansions," "The Lost Word" and "The Other Wise Man," all by Van Dyke, Longfellow's "King Robert of Sicily, and "As You Like it," and "The Merchant of Venice," from Shakespeare. She has selections from Browning and Kipling and Riley and a host of others. On Jan. 5, 1907, she was married in South Omaha to John Rutherford Hughes, a graduate of the Ann Arbor Law school. They have a country home, Rutherford Ridge, south of Omaha, on Fort Crook Boulevard, where Mr. Hughes is engaged in the live stock business. They have one child, Mary Jane Hughes. Mrs. Hughes is a member of Brace M. E. church and an active church woman. She is a P. E. O. and has served Chapter M as president for three years. Was organizer for the Nebraska Grand Chapter P. E. O. for two years, was vice-president one year and president one year. She has many time represented the state as a delegate to Supreme convention of P. E. O., and has appeared frequently on its programs. She is a member of the Omaha Woman's Club, the Scottish Rite Woman's Club, the Story Tellers league. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 77 MRS. FLORENCE LININGER HALLER Surnames: Haller, Newman, Lininger, Thomas, Millspaugh Florence Lininger Haller belongs to one of the oldest and most prominent families in Omaha. She was born in Peru, Ill., the daughter of George Washington and Caroline (Newman) Lininger. Her grandfather, George Newman, was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. In 1872 the Lininger family moved to Council Bluffs and later to Omaha, where Mr. Lininger established the Lininger Implement Co., on of the largest wholesale establishments in the west. Mrs. Haller was educated at Brownell Hall. In 1880, because of ill health, she went to Europe, where she spent a year, studying art and music, as her health permitted. She was married in Omaha to Mr. F. L. Haller by Bishop Millspaugh. They have one daughter, Florence, who is now Mrs. Frederick Thomas of Omaha. Mrs Haller is found of travel and has traveled throughout America and made seven trips to Europe. She has spent much time in Italy and has studied extensively the art work of Florence, having particular interest there, because her parents named her for that city. In Rome she has been blessed by two Popes. She is one of the few American women to have taken a journey in an aeroplane. She is a charter member of the Omaha Woman's club. The club having been organized in the Lininger art gallery. She has been offered the presidency of the club and the leadership of the music and art departments which she refused. Preferring to serve the club in a more modest way. She is a member of Trinity Episcopal church and was for year's a teacher in the Sunday school. The Hallers live in the fine old Lininger mansion, and Mrs. Haller devotes much time and thought to the art gallery, which her father in November, 1888, opened free to the public. Mrs. Haller and her mother were art students and through their inspiration he began making the collection which includes exquisite ivories and porcelains. The collection is of rare merit and includes original painting by Guido Reni, Rubens, Valazques, Donzello, and others of equal fame. The collection is admirably placed in a large gallery in the fine old mansion at 224 N. 18th St., which has for more than fifty years been the family home. Mr. Lininger also loaned to the Omaha Public Library a rare Egyptian collection. His interest in art continued throughout his life. His generousity to the public in sharing with them his art treasures is a beautiful memorial to him. He died in June, 1907. Mrs. Haller has helped to make two catalogues for the gallery, which is listed in Baedeker's guide book. She presented to the Y. W. C. A. a collection of pictures which fills one room of their building. The collection was begun while she was one of the vice-presidents of the association. On one of her trips to the Holy Land she wrote a series of letters from Jerusalem which were published in an Omaha paper. She is a talented musician and within the last year has written a number of songs which have been set to music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 79 MRS. WILLIAM E. HARDY Surnames: Hardy, Lawrence, Laws Gertrude Hardenberg Laws Hardy was born Feb. 24, 1871, in Richland Center, Wis. She is the daughter of Gilbert La Fayette and Josephine (Lawrence) Laws. She is a graduate of the University of Nebraska B. A. in the class of 1890, with Phi Beta Kappa Honors. She was a charter member of Rho Chapter, Kappa Alpha Theta. On January 9, 1895, she was married to William Edwin Hardy. Their home is in Lincoln. In religious faith she is a Unitarian. She is an active club woman, a member of the Lincoln Woman's Club, of the Social Service Club, Sorosis, and the Copper Kettle Club, a local literary organization. While in the University she was elected to the Black Masque. She is a member of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae. She is a prominent Nebraska suffragist and is state treasurer of the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association, beside being a member of the Campaign Committee of the State. She has given most efficient service for the cause of woman suffrage in Nebraska. She belongs to the Lincoln Woman Suffrage Association and to the College Equal Suffrage League, and for the latter is state treasurer. She has traveled extensively in the United States, in Europe and in Africa. She is a golf enthusiast and enjoys motoring. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 80 MRS. LETA STETTER HOLLINGSWORTH Surnames: Hollingsworth, Danley, Stetter Leta Stetter Hollingsworth, Clynical Psychologist in the Department of Public Charities in New Your City, was born in Dawes county, Nebraska, May 25, 1886. She is the daughter of John G. and Maggie (Danley) Stetter, who were Nebraska pioneers, going there before railroads were built, and this daughter Leta was the first child born in Dawes county. In 1902 she was graduated from the high school in Valentine, Neb. Received the degree B. S. from the University of Nebraska in 1906, receiving Phi Beta Kappa honors. In 1912 she entered Columbia University in New York and in 1913 received the degree M. A. and in 1915 received the degree Ph. D. from the same university. For one year she taught in the De Witt, Neb. High school, and for a year in the McCook high school. On Dec. 31, 1908, she was married to Harry L. Hollingsworth in New York. They were class mates in the University of Nebraska. He is now Professor of Psychology in Columbia University. After they were married they began housekeeping in a small flat on Columbia Heights. The flat was too small to hold a maid if they had been able to afford one, and so Mrs. Hollingsworth did the housework. As she swept and dusted and cooked and put the garbage off and on the dumb waiter. She thought a good deal. She knew that she had the same type of mind as her husband and that she had the same education; marriage had not changed his status except to improve it, and it had made of her a domestic, doing manual labor worth in the market of industry about twenty-five dollars a month. She knew that her position was irrational. Opportunely, at this juncture, a woman psychologist in the employ of the city, went on her annual vacation, and Mrs. Hollingsworth was engaged as a substitute. Her duties were the application of modified Binet tests to determine degrees of retardation in feeble minded charity patients. The work was interesting and she saw in it a prospect of escape from domestic labor. With the money earned she paid her fees into post graduate psychology courses in Columbia University. While reading for her master's degree, and later for her doctor's degree, the idea came to her to specialize in women's psychology. She followed up every possible reference in women's mental status, women's physical functions, their capacities and limitations. The result of all this study is a book Functional Periodicity which she published in 1914. In 1913 she took up the work of examining and classifying abnormal children at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York City, and in 1914 she was appointed clinical psychologist in the Department of Public Charities, which is a municipal position. The duties are to examine and classify abnormal individuals who are applicants for institutional care at public expense. She holds the first position of the kind created in the city. She is a member of the Feminist Alliance, which is an organization formed for the purpose of furthering the interests of women, and of fostering their advancement into full equality of opportunity with men. She is a member of the advisory committee of this Alliance. She is a member of New York Woman Suffrage Party and works a ctively for suffrage. She is a member of the Woman's Faculty club of Columbia University. She is a woman of very unusual ability, one who by the logic of her position will raise the status of women everywhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 82 MRS. CAROLINE HERRICK JOHNSON Surnames: Johnson, Herrick, King, Smith, Saltonstall, Caroline Herrick Johnson, real Daughter of the American Revolution, was born in Bedford county, Pa., March 9, 1826, and died in Hastings, Neb., Jan. 16, 1916. She was one of the very few real daughters living in Nebraska. She was the youngest child of Ebenezer Herrick and his second wife, Hannah King. He was well along in years when this daughter was born and died when she was sixteen years old. He was a blacksmith by trade and she remembers his shop by the side of the road. Well patronized. Their home was of hewn logs, the best in the community, because it was two stories high. Church services were held here and once a young minister was here ordained. Ebenezer Herrick was born in Preston, Conn., and at the age of ten entered the service of the Revolutionary War as camp boy; he helped cook and wash dishes and was generally useful about the camp. While still very young he enlisted in the 8th Regiment Conn. Militia, under the command of Lieut. Oliver Smith. The regiment was called into service Sept. 8, 1776, under Brigadier General Saltonstall. The troops were very young, poorly equipped and undisciplined and were soon discharged. His service was rather of the camp than the field. He later fought in the war of 1812. On Dec. 11, 1849, Caroline Herrick was married to William Johnson of Tioga county, N. Y. To them were born eight children, seven of whom are living. The Johnson family moved to Hastins, Neb., in 1876. Mrs. Johnson joined the Niobrara Chapter D. A. R. in 1911 and took a keen interest in the chapter's work. The chapter gave a reception in her honor shortly before she died and had much pride in having a real daughter among its members. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 83 IDA B. JOHNSON Surnames: Johnson, Gibson Ida Beecher Johnson of Lincoln is the daughter of Walter Samuel and Sarah B. (Gibson) Johnson and was born at Centerville, Iowa. Her father, an attorney by profession, served for four years in the civil War, an officer in the 36th Iowa Infantry. His family were Quakers who settled in a colony near Indianapolis, Ind., and founded Beech Grove Seminary, known later in history as Horton's Academy, and it was here her father received his early education. Her mother's people were Kentuckians, the family dating back to old plantation days. Miss Johnson was graduated from the Centerville, Iowa, high school, and the Lincoln Normal University. She attended Hasting College, the Nebraska State University and the National Kindergarten College, Chicago. Since her graduation she has been a very successful teacher, being a kindergarten director in Lincoln. She has also taught in the teachers' training work in the State Normal and the Bay View, Michigan, summer school. She is a prominent member of the P. E. O. sisterhood, having been president of the Lincoln chapter, president of the Nebraska Grand Chapter and chairman of the Board of Trustees governing the P. E. O. Record, the official magazine of the sisterhood. She has been president of the Lincoln Kindergarten Association and of the Kindergarten section of the Nebraska State Teachers Association. She has been a member of the Lincoln woman's Club, the Story Tellers' League, and the Travel Club. Since childhood she has been a member of the Methodist church. She is particularly fond of travel and has visited most the places of interest in this coutry and has traveled in eight foreign countries. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 84 MRS. F. R. KINGSLEY, Jr. Surnames: Kingsley, Jones, Armstrong Clair Armstrong Kingsley of Minden, is a native Nebraskan, having been born in Fairbury, March 2, 1885, the daughter of Thomas Richard and Ella Gertrude (Jones) Armstrong. She received her preparatory education in the Fairbury high school, after which she attended the Nebraska Wesleyan University and the conservatory of music connected with it. One Jany. 6, 1912, she was married to Frederie R. Kingsley, Jr. She is a member of the Minden Woman's Club and a member of the State Art Committee of the Nebraska Federation of Women's clubs. She is president of the Art Club and is a member of P. E. O. For two years she was assistant treasurer of the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Mrs. Kingsley is justly proud of her ancestry. Her father is descendant of John Armstrong, who was born in Carlisle, Pa. In 1758. He was an American General in the Revolutionary War; he was U. S. Senator from New York, 1801-4; he was U. S. Minister to France, and also to Spain; he was Secretary of War, 1813-14; he was appointed Brigadier General in 1812 and wrote a "History of the War in 1812." An ancestor, whose name was Goober, brought the first peanuts from Ireland to this country, and started their cultivation in Georgia, where they were called "Goober Peas." Her mother is a direct descendant of the French family of De Coursea, one of the prominent families of the nobility during the reign of Louis XVI, and whose family mansion still stands in Paris. She is also a descendant of Sir William Jones, noted English linguist, who was judge of the high court of Calcutta in 1783. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 85 MRS. CHARLES T. KOUNTZE Surnames: Kountze, Denman, Burns May Denman Burns Kountze was born in Omaha in 1873 and through all her life that city has been her home. She is the daughter of Samuel and Mary Esther (Denman) Burns. Her father was born at Dunganon, Ireland, and was for many years a prominent business man of Omaha. Mrs. Kountze is a graduate of Mt. Auburn Institute of Cincinnatti, O. On Feb. 5, 1896, she was married to Charles Thomas Kountze. They have two children, Denman Kountze and Elinor Koontze. Mrs. Kountze is president of the Omaha fine Arts society, which has been a great agent in educating the public to an appreciation of art. Under the leadership of Mrs. Kountze the society has grown in numbers and in influence. For seven years the society has annually brought to Omaha splendid art collections, which exhibits have been visited by hundreds of people and have beeen an artistic success. Mrs. Kountze is herself a collector of fine pictures. She has served the Tuesday Morning Musical Club as president. She is a member of the Equal Suffrage Society and belongs to the Daughters of the American Revolution and to the colonial Dames. In religious faith she is an Episcopalian, belonging to the Trinity Cathedral parish. She is fond of travel and has made three trips abroad. She enjoys society and is one of the prominent and very popular society women of Omaha. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 86 MRS. HARRY L. KEEFE Surnames: Keefe, Davis, Hodgson Frances Louise Davis Keefe was born Dec. 10, 1870, at High Bentham, York, Eng., and came with her parents to this country in 1872, coming west to Springdale, Iowa. He father, Septimus Robson Davis, was a lecturer for British workmen, speaking frequently on temperance, and for fifteen years was a missionary in the City of York. Her mother was Anne Hodgson Davis, an English woman, and a member of the Society of Friends in the George Fox withdrawal from the Established church. The family lived at Springdale, in Cedar county, which was a Quaker settlement and a place of historical interest in the annals of that church. Mrs. Keefe received her preparatory education in the high school and in the Springdale Seminary, and was graduated from the University of Iowa Ph. B., in the Class of 1895. She was a member of the Hesperian Literary Society and of the Delta Gamma Sorority. She taught school for seven years, two as high school principal. On Nov. 22, 1898, she was married at Springdale to Harry L. Keefe, a graduate of the State University of Iowa, Ph. B., '95; L.L.B., '96. Immediately after their marriage they moved to Bancroft, Neb., and now reside at Walthill, where Mr. Keefe is a successful attorney. Mrs. Keefe has been president of the Walthill Woman's Culb since 1898; chairman Third District N. F. W. C., 1904-1916; President Neb. Federation of Women's Clubs, 1906-1908; Director General Federation, 1908-1912; Recording Secretary Genl. Federation 1912-1916. She is a member of the Board of Education and treasurer of the same, 1908-1917. She is president of the Library Association and past president of the Nebraska State Home Economies Association. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 87 MRS. JOHN L. KENNEDY Surnames: Kennedy, Pritchett, Hanscom Mrs. John L. Kennedy, whose home is at Fairacres, Omaha, was before her marriage, Margqerite Pritchett. She was born in Omaha, May 19, 1883, the daughter of George Edward and Herriett Georgia (Hanscom) Pritchett. Her father was second Lieutenant in New York regiment during the Civil War. Her grandfather, Andrew Jackson Hanscom, was one of the first white men to settle in Nebraska, and was speaker of the First House of Representatives when the Capitol was at Omaha. She was educated at the Sacred Heart Convent at Omaha and at the Misses Masters' school at Dobbs Ferry on the Hudson, New York. On Nov. 29, 1905, she was married at Omaha to John Lauderdale Kennedy, who was born in Scotland, but came to this country at the age of nineteen. He attended Knox College at Galesburg, Ill., for three years, and was graduated from the Law department of the State University of Iowa in 1882. In December, 1882, he came to Omaha, where he has since been engaged in the practice of law. He represented the second Congressional district in Congress, 1905-07, and is now (1916) a nominee for the United States Senate. The have three children, John Hanscom Kennedy, Edward Lauderdale Kennedy, and Katherine Virginia Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy is an active suffragist and is a member of both the Equal Franchise Society and the Political Equality League. In the campaign for suffrage in Nebraska in 1914 she was chairman of the Dundee precinct of Douglas county; the precinct carried by a large majority. She is a member of the first Presbyterian church, a director of the Creche, and a member of the Society of Fine Arts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 88 MRS. I. S. LEAVITT Surnames: Leavitt, Pennock, Page Florence Pennock Leavitt, (Mrs. I. S. Leavitt) born at Stillwarter, Minn., January 28, 1855. Daughter of Rev. Ames C. Pennock and Elixabeth Page Pennock. Their home was ever a school room, every child was brought up an earnest Christian worker with every educational advantage. Miss Pennock graduated from the Wisconsin State University in the experimental class, co-education, 1874, with the degree Ph. B. Was married to Rev. I. S. Leavitt, D. D., alumnus of the same institution, July 7, 1874, at the home of her parents in Madison, Wis. Two children have been born to them, Bessie Maud, deceased, and Henry P., an attorney. She was president of Omaha W. C. T. U. for three years, also president and vice-president of Dundee Woman's Club. In early life she became a charter member of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. And has three times represented the Sosiety in their national conventions. She has kept up systematic study, several years in Chautausqua and twelve years in Bay View courses, always taking the written examinations. She has visited nearly every state in the union, Canada and Cuba, also ten European countries, frequently gives art talks and travelogues on various points of interest. Since girlhood, Mrs. Leavitt has written much, both in prose and poetry, for special occasions, and has been a frequent contributor to the public press. During the past year she has written nine songs for various organizations. She has always been a strong advocate of Equal Suffrage and Prohibition. She has mothered and educated a number of homeless girls. Mrs. Leavitt resides in Omaha, but with her husband, spends her winters in Los Angeles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 89 MRS. F. A. LONG Surnames: Long, Miller, Albright Maggie E. Miller Long is the daughter of Samuel and Catherine A. (Albright) Miller and was born in Allentown, Pa., Nov. 12, 1862. She came with her parents to Nebraska in 1878, living at Fremont, and later at West Point. Where she was a teacher in the public schools for five years. On Dec. 2, 1884, she was married to Dr. F. A. Long, a prominent physician of Madison. Dr. Long is one of the foremost workers in the Nebraska State Medical Association, of which he was president in 1906-7. He has represented Nebraska in four different conventions of the American Medical Association and has also been delegate to several national conferences of medical legislation and medical education,. Mrs. Long has accompanied her husband to most of these conventions and is in consequence one of the best known physicians' wives in the state. Dr. and Mrs. Long have three children, Frances L. Long, instructor in the Botany department in the University of Minn., Herriett C. Long, for the past five years in the County Library Extension work in California, and Margaret A. Long, who is her father's office assistant. All three young women are graduates of the University of Nebraska. Mrs. Long has served as President of the Woman's Club of Madison, has been president of the third District U. F. W. C. and Cor. Secy. Of the Nebraska Federation, 1914-15. She has served on many state committees and was a delegate to the general Federation in 1916. She was active in the establishment of the Madison public library, has been on the library board since its organization and is now the president. She has spoken in many Nebraska towns and before the State Library Association and the State Federation meeting on the establishment of libraries. She was chairman of the committee which was instrumental in introducing domestic science in the Madison public schools, and was active in having music introduced into the schools. She is a member of the Presbyterian church and was for years superintendent of the primary department of the Sunday school. For twenty years she was chairman of the charity committee and is secretary of the Aid Society of the church. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 91 ALICE M. LOOMIS Surnames: Loomis, Anderson Alice Marie Loomis is head of the Department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska. She was born Jany, 21, 1880, at Berks, Neb. Her father is Theron Loomis, a descendant of Joseph Loomis, who came to Windsor, Conn., in 1639. Her mother's maiden name was Julis Georgiana Anderson, born at Rugby, England. Miss Loomis began her education in the rural school at Berks, Neb., and attended the high school at Crete. She attended the State Normal School at Peru, and was graduated B. S. from the Kansas State Agricultural College. She took a course in Columbia University and was graduated with the degree M. A. from the University of Wisconsin. Before entering college she taught in the grades and high schoool. After graduating from the State Agricultural College of Kansas she taught in the preparatory department of that school. She introduced Home Economics in the Nebraska State Normal. She was substitute, associate Prof. Of Home Economics in the Rhode Island Agricultural College. For three years she was instructor in the Home Economics department of the University of Wisconsin. Since 1912 she has been in charge of the Home Economics Department of the University of Nebraska. She was the first president of the Home Economics section of the Nebraska State Teachers' Association. She is counselor of the American Home Economics Association and has served as its secretary. She has had journalistic experience as editor of the Kansas State Agricultural College alumni publication. She had made many addresses before clubs and educational organizations on her specialty and on general educational themes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 92 MRS. MILLARD LANFELD Surnames: Lanfeld, Gutman, Ash Elizabeth Ash Lanfeld was born in Baltimore, Md. December 12, 1872. She is the daughter of Louis and Emma (Gutman) Ash. Her parents were natives of Germany. Her father was an Americanized citizen and prominent in the business life of Baltimore for more the seventy years. Her mother come from Hanover and was an aid and inspiration to all who knew here. Mrs. Langfeld was graduated B. A. in 1894 from the Woman's College of Baltimore and was graduated in 1896 M. A. from the University of Pa. Before her marriage she was for some time superintendent of the Clara de Hirsh Home for working girls in New York City. She also taught a private schools in Baltimore and did private tutoring. On Sept 19, 1899, at Baltimore, she was married to Dr. Millard Langfeld, a prominent physician and surgeon of Omaha. The have two sons, Daniel Ash Langfeld and Millard Lanfeld, Jr. Mrs. Langfeld is a member of the Omaha Woman's Club, the Omaha Society of Fine Arts and the Tuesday Morning Musical Club. For several years she was leader of the Literature Department of the Omaha Woman's Club and has had morning classes in the fine Arts club. She has had some newspaper experience and other journalistic work. She is a member of the Jewish church. Personally she does not wish for equal suffrage but economically she believes it is right. And believes it to be a future certainty. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 93 HATTIE A. LITTLE Surnames: Little, Updike, Lovelace, Taft, Roosevelt Miss Hattie Agnes Little was born in Charles City, Iowa, May 8, 1869, the daughter of William Lrving and Emeline (Updike) Little. Her father was born in Scotland and come to this country at the age of seven years. He was a typical Scotchman and had the religious stand fastness of the Scotch Covenanters. Her mother's father came from Holland, the name being originally ObDycke, but in course of time became in America, Updike. On the maternal side she is descended from Lord Lovelace, her grandmother's name being Lovelace. Miss Little was graduated from the high school of Exeter, after which she took a course in the business college at Lincoln. For two years she was a public school teacher, then entered a lawyer's office as private secretary, which position she held for nine years. For five years she was assistant postmaster; she was appointed post-master by President Roosevelt and reappointed by President Taft. She has the honor to be the only woman in Nebraska at the head of a post-office of the second class. In the beginning of her tenure of office the Geneva post-office was in the third class and at that time only two women in the state presided over an office of the third class. Miss Little is a prominent member of the P. E. O. sisterhood. She has served her local chapter as president, has been treasurer. Recording secretary and president of the Nebr. Grand Chapter and for four years was recording secretary of the Supreme Chapter. She is a member of the Congregational church and superintendent of the Sunday school. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Public Library. She is a woman of splendid business ability and does with marked efficiency whatever work she undertakes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 94 MRS STEPHEN C. LANGWORTHY Surnames: Langworthy, Bennett, Valentine, Jans Mrs. Stephen Langworthy of Seward has long been prominent in women's organizations in Nebraska. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Caroline Bennett. She was born in Orleans Co. New York, Oct. 22, 1837, a daughter of Jacob and Caroline (Valentine) Bennett. She is a real grand-daughter of the Revolution' Her paternal grandfather, Jacob Bennett, served in the Revolutionary War and was taken prisoner by the British and held as a prisoner six months off the coast of Quebec. Her father was a lineal descendant of Aneke Jans of New Amsterdam fame. Her education was begun in a district school of New York state. She attended the Academy at Janesville, Wis., and was later graduated from Hamlin University then located at Red Wing, Minn. On June 21, 1858, she was married to Stephen C. Langworthy at Red Wing, Minn. To them were born six children, Ida May, Alice, William Ernest, Stephen Clark, Frederick B., and Bertrand Langworthy. She has all her life been active in the work of the church. In 1891 she helped to organize the History and Art Club and has ever since been its president. In 1894 she sided in the organization of the Nebraska Federation of Woman's Clubs and served as its first secretary, later she served as president of N. F. W. C. She has been state regent of Nebraska D. A. R. and during her regency organized the Margaret Holmes chapter at Seward and others in the state. She was in 1893 a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. For several years she was a member of the school board in her home city. She is a widely traveled woman in this country and has made several trips to Europe. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 95 HARRIET S. MAC MURPHY Surnames: MacMurphy, Paddock, Sheldon, Shallenberger, Morehead, Ward, Dakin, Barrett, Peattie Harriet S. MacMurphy who was the woman in America to hold office of food inspector is a woman of remarkable accomplishment along many lines. Nebraska was the first of the states to have on her state food commission a woman inspector, and the first bill introduced in Congress for a national pure food law was introduced by Senator paddock of Nebraska. The sentiment in favor of a pure food law was created largely in the beginning by Mrs. MacMurphy, who interested other women in Nebraska and throughout the country. It came about in this way: when the Omaha woman's Club was organized back in the early '90;s, a small group of women asked for a Domestic Science department and Mrs. MacMurphy was chosen as leader. She undertook the work with the intention of really accomplishing something, and that the "something" should be a nationwide movement for pure food, was beyond their wildest fancy. When the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs was formed Mrs. MacMurphy was made chairman of the household economics department of the state and later was made secretary of the House Hold Economics department of the General Federation. When the Trans-Mississippi Exposition was held in Omaha in 1898 she had charge of the model kitchen, which was installed to show the many ways in which corn products could be used as food. When the commissioners of the Fair went to see Mrs. MacMurphy to talk to her about the model kitchen, they asked her " In how many ways can you cook corn?" She answered, "In a hundred ways," and true to her promise, she cooked and served corn after one hundred different recipes. Her cornbread became famous and to all who visited the kitchen she taught a gospel of wholesome pure food. She represented Nebraska at the buffalo Exposition, demonstrating there her one hundred corn recipes. In Nebraska she had met only housewives, but in Buffalo she met scientists, and heard for the first time, earnest scientific discussion of the adulteration of food. When she returned home she went to the club women of the state, knowing that there she would find the thinking, progressive women. Whenever she was asked to speak she talked on pure food and how much Nebraska needed a pure food law. She demonstrated how food could be adulterated and every speech she made carried conviction with it. She addressed a circular letter to every club in the state on the subject. The manufacturers who were putting adulterated food on the market heard this babel of women's voices and went up to the legislature and killed the pure food bill. In the meantime the Nebraska senator had introduced the pure food bill in congress, and while the General Federation of Women's Clubs was in session in St. Paul a message came to them that the bill was about to be killed. A protest from the five thousand women at the biennial was sent to congress and every delegates sent personal telegrams to her senator and congressman imploring them to vote for the bill. And the avalanche of telegrams saved the day and the bill became a law. The next session of the Nebraska Legislature, a bill, both comprehensive and drastic, was passed. Mrs. MacMurphy determined to be food inspector, that the law passed at the cost of so much labor should not be a dead letter. At the meeting of the State Federation she said: "This is a woman's bill. We helped to have it passed. I believe we inspired it. It effects us more directly than it does the men. I want to be food and durg inspector for the state." The club women and the women all over the state who knew Mrs. MacMurphy and her ability set about to have her appointed and Gov. Sheldon was too wise a politician to disregard such a universal demand and she was accordingly appointed. She held the office under Govs. Sheldon, Shallenberger and Aldrich, and for a shor time under Gov. Morehead's administration. He finally, however, declined to have a woman in such capacity, having no other excuse than that she was a woman, he appointed a man to succeed her above the protest of the women of the state. She became one of the best informed inspectors to be found in any state. For six years she traveled over the state of Nebraska inspecting all sors of food except milk. Later the food and drugs were combined, which included liquors, and Mrs. MacMurphy visited most of the saloons in the state to ascertain that the amount of alcohol was printed in plain figures on the bottle or the cork, and inspect the measures and the sanitary condition of the saloon. She started her inspection with the great packing houses, then visited the creameries, and cold storage plants and then the local shops, groceries, meat markets and bakeries. Everywhere she turned the white light of publicity on the conditions, if they were good she said so, and if they were bad she reported that. Her work is conceded by every one to have been of inestimable value. After reading of the work which she has done you will be interested to know some of her personal history. Her full name is Harriet Sherrill MacMurphy, and she was born in Waukesha, Wis., Dec. 12, 1849, the daughter of Charles Rufus and Julia (Ward) Dakin. Her great grandfather and her great-great-grandfather were in the Concord fight, the latter, Col. James Barrett, was commander of the Minute Men. By virtue of their service she is a Daughter of the American Revolution. She came to Nebraska Territory in 1863, driving a single buggy behind the mover wagon which her father drove, for over two hundred miles over Iowa prairies, not seeing a house from morning until night. She was thirteen years old at that time and kept a journal of the journey, her first literary attempt. She was educated at Brownell Hall, Omaha. In 1867 she was married at Decatur, Neb., to John Alexander MacMurphy. A union soldier and a newspaper man who conducted papers at Blair, Plattsmouth, Schuyler, Wauhao, South Omaha, Geneva, and Beatrice. Most of the time Mrs. MacMurphy helped him. She knows a newspaper in all of its departments, from the composing room to the editorial sanetum, and has done everything about it from inking the roller to writing editorials, and did it all well. She has conducted departments on the various Omaha papers and her articles are widely read and quoted. She is a particularly keen observer. And Elia W. Peattie says: "She can be relied upon for the most accurate information concerning pioneer times that is to be found outside the pages of the reports of the Nebraska Historical Society." She is the author of "The Story of the Fontenelles," and has written a good deal for the State Historical Society. She is a member of the Episcopal church, of the W. C. T., the Y. W. C. A., was a charter member of the Omaha Woman's Club, belongs to The Political Equality League, the Academy of Sciences and the Nebraska Pioneers Association. During the last three years that she was food inspector she took a homestead of 480 acres in the sand hills and named it Dakin's Ranch. She fenced those acres, helped to build her own claim shanty; she had cement blocks made on this ranch to build a cement block house. She helped to cook for the men who did the building. She rode twenty miles from railroad to homestead every two or three months and back to her work of inspection, and thus held the claim, when she ways she has passed some of the happiest days of her life. Personally she is a charming woman, very feminine in all her instincts, possessed of course, of a strong mind and determined will, or she would not have accomplished all that she has. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ page 100 MRS. SAMUEL R. McKELVIE Surnames: McKelvie, DeArnold, Groves, Hamilton Mrs. Samuel R. McKelvie, wife of the Lieutenant Governor of Nebraska, was, before her marriage, Floss De Arnold, and was born in Smithville, Mo., Sept. 28, 1886, the daughter of Willard and Inantha Josina (Groves) De Arnold. On her mother's side she is a great, great, great, granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington) and his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler. Her Great, Great grandfather, Dr. Joseph Hamilton, was the first surgeon to use an anesthetic in operating. She has a family lineage on her mother's side traced back forty-two generations, dating to the time of Parthia, 500 B. C. She has many family heirlooms, which are cherished possessions. Mrs. McKelvie, in her study specialized in music and art. She was graduated from the conservatory of music in connection with the University of Nebraska, took a special course in the State Normal at Peru, in the University of Nebraska, Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Minneapolis Art Academy, Chase's Summer Art School at Carmel-by-the-Sea. For two years she taught music and art in the Nebraska Conservatory. She has had the honor of having a picture accepted and hung in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, which received complimentary notice by Critics. She maintains an art studio in Lincoln. She has contributed a number of articles to motion picture magazines and has written five plays which have been produced in moving picture theaters. She is a collector of minerals and jems. Which Prof. Barbour, State Geologist of Nebraska, has specially commended. She is one of a few women in the United States to make such a collection, which she expects to present to the state museum. She has traveled widely in the United States and Canada, for the greater part keeping away from the beaten paths of travel. Always adding to her collection. One June 19, 1904, at Lincoln, she was married to Samuel Roy McKelvie, who is a native Nebraskan, having been born and reared on a farm in Clay county. At the age of twenty-one he took a position on the Omaha Bee and a few years later purchased "The Nebraska Farmer," which he sell publishes. He has been active in Nebraska politics for several years. His first office was that of city councilman, after which he was elected to the legislature, and two years later was elected Lieutenant Governor. His term expired Jany., 1917. He has held prominent offices in state and national advertising clubs and is president of the Association Farm Papers of America. Mrs. McKelvie is much interested in the Nebraska Ladies' Legislative League and has had a prominent part in its activities. Their only daughter, Dorothy McKelvie, died in childhood, and they have since adopted Josephine McKelvie, as their daughter.