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Medical Coll. and Hospital for Women; ass't surgeon, adjunct prof. of gynaecology, staff dispensary physician, pres. Woman's Medical Club. Mem. Medical Soc. of County of N.Y., Alumnae of N.Y. Med. Coll. and Hospital for Women. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.

BOYD, Cora Dunham (Mrs. W. W. Boyd), The Kingsbury, St. Louis, Mo.

Born St. Louis, Nov. 22, 1860; dau. John Samuel and Emily (Peckham) Dunham; grad. Mary Inst., St. Louis, '79; m. St. Louis, June 2. 1880, Dr. W. W. Boyd; children: Willard W. Jr., Frank Dunham. Favors woman suffrage; cor. sec., 1912, of Mo. Equal Suffrage Ass'n; mem. St. Louis Equal Suffrage League, Mary Inst. Alumnae Ass'n, Wednesday Club. In 1898 was State chairman of correspondence of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, and director of Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, 1902-04.

BOYD, Elizabeth Clarke (Mrs. Gaston Boyd), Newton, Kans.

Professor of voice and physical culture; b. London, England; dau. Robert and Mary (Rowbottom) Clarke; grad. New England Conservatory; Frances Shimes School of Chicago Univ.; Am. Inst, of Normal Methods, and pupil of Bassini, of Randegger, of Madame Hall, of Charles R. Adams, of Lyman Wheeler and others; m. June 1, 1887, Gaston Boyd. Pres. of Kansas World's Fair Music Board; made mem. of World's Musical Council; director of large choruses; head of voice dep't Bethany Coll.; State director of music for W.C.T.U.; educational sec. of Woman's Auxiliary for Diocese of Kansas; mem. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; pres. Woman's Auxiliary of St. Mathew's parish; mem. board of directors of Newton Free Library; mem. Nat. Educational Ass'n (former vice-pres.). Has written for the press, notably a series of articles upon music in the public schools in Western School Journal. Has traveled in U.S. and abroad; only woman delegate from Kansas who attended World's W.C.T.U. Convention in Glasgow, Scotland. Protestant Episcopal. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Has written several suffrage songs, which have been adopted by the W.C.T.U.; has written words and music for several songs and hymns, and has assisted in the compilation of standard musical works. Mem. Kansas Authors' Club.

BOYD, Emma Louise Garrett (Mrs. Warren N. Boyd), 194 Washington St., Atlanta, Ga.

Born Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 29, 1876; dau. William J. and Mary (Wallace) Garrett; grad. Vassar, A.B., with honors (Phi Beta Kappa) '99 (pres. Southern Club, '98; pres. Students' Ass'n, '99) ; appointed commencement speaker (resigned because of ill-health), student of Greek tragedy at Oxford, 1902-03; m. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3, 1903, Warren Newcomb Boyd (died May 11, 1905); one son: Spencer Wallace. Pres. Southern Ass'n of College Women, 1908-10; formerly first vice-pres. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae; mem. Board of Directors Am. Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality; mem. Advisory Com. on Education Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; worker and writer for the abolition of child labor and for the adoption of compulsory education laws. Has published articles in newspapers and magazines, principally on educational and social reforms; mem. Women's University Club, N.Y. City, Atlanta Woman's Club, History Class of Atlanta and others.

BOYER, Ida Porter (Mrs. Alvah H. Boyer), Centralia, Pa.

Artist, lecturer; b. Middleport, Pa., 1859; dau. Capt. John R. and Elizabeth (Kleckner) Porter; ed. chiefly by private tutors; m. Alvah H. Boyer; one son: Richard Porter-Boyer, b. 1885. Unitarian. Mem. League of Am. Pen Women, Pa. Conservation Ass'n, Order of Eastern Star, Women's Relief Corps; pres. Collective Club of Centralia, Pa.; mem. Oklahoma Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Columbia (Pa.) Woman's Club. Field sec. Pa. Woman Suffrage Ass'n; active in woman suffrage campaigns as campaign manager for Oklahoma, in press work in Oregon campaign; engaged at headquarters and as lecturer in Ohio campaign; organizer for Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n.

BOYER, Winifred B. (Mrs. Edward A. Boyer), 1428 Twenty-third St., South Omaha, Neb.

Born Worden, Ill., 1883; dau. Firman N. and Mary (Baumgartner) Coar; ed. Ill. State Normal School; m. East St. Louis, Ill., 1909, Edward A. Boyer. Principal of East St. Louis public schools, 1906-09. Active in club work. Pres. South Omaha (Neb.) Century Literary Club, 1911-12. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.

BOYKTN, Caroline Morris (Mrs. Richard Manning Boykin), 685 Irving St., Portland, Ore.

Born "Fernbank," West Chester, Chester Co., Pa.; dau. J. Cheston Morris, M.D., and Mary E. (Johnson) Morris; ed. by governess and Misses Hayward's School, Philadelphia, Pa.; m. Philadelphia, Jan. 26, 1909, Richard Manning Boykin, of Boykin, S.C.; one daughter: Mary Morris. Against woman suffrage. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Acorn Club of Philadelphia.

BOYLAN, Grace Duffie (Mrs.), 509 E. Seventy-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Born Kalamazoo, Mich.; dau. Captain Phelix and Juliette (Smith) Duffie (father was one of the Irish officers distinguished for bravery in the Civil War); ed. in schools of Kalamazoo, and took special course of study in Radcliffe Coll., and oratory in the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass. Has spent many years as a journalist and a traveler. Author: The Kiss of Glory; Yama Yama Land; Kids of Many Colors; The Steps to Nowhere (the latter a juvenile with the Panama Canal as its subject).

BOYLAN, Rose Marion (Mrs. Robert Jerome Boylan), 717 N. Twenty-fifth St., East St. Louis, Ill.

Journalist; b. Pittsburg Hill, Ill., Aug. 13, 1872; dau. M. R. G. and Marie Ellen (Brushier) Marion; grad. East St. Louis High School, '90 (valedictorian); special student Univ. of Ill., 1889-1900; Cook Co. Normal, 1896; m. East St. Louis, Ill., April 18, 1906, Robert Jerome Boylan; children: Josephine, Robert Jerome. Began writing for papers at twelve years; special writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1901-08; pen-name "Rose Marion." Has been sec. Ill. Free Employment Office at East St. Louis since 1907. Favors woman suffrage. Roman Catholic. Votes in school elections. Mem. Ill. Historical Soc., Queen's Daughters, Y.W.C.A., East St. Louis High School Ass'n, Univ. of Ill.; Soc. of St. Louis, Altar Soc. St. Elizabeth's Church. Recreations: Walking, children's games, French. Pres. East St. Louis Woman's Club, 1911-12; vice-pres. 22d Dist. Ill. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1912-13. Taught school 1890-1902; began in the Pocket School; resigned from East St. Louis High in 1902 as teacher of English; was first woman pres. of St. Clair Co. Teachers' Ass'n; held offices in State and Southern Ill. teachers' organizations; was stationed at the St. Louis World's Fair for the Post-Dispatch throughout the Exposition, 1904.

BOYLE, Margaret E. Cottman (Mrs. James W. Boyle), 218 E. Eager St., Baltimore, Md.

Born Baltimore, Md.; dau. James Stuart and Elizabeth McE. (Boogs) Cottman; ed. N. H. Morison's Acad., Baltimore, Md.; m. Mar. 17, 1870, James W. Boyle. Spent 20 years as private sec. to a university professor, and translated many foreign languages; has taught whist (bridge and auction) for many years; does foreign translations for business offices. Interested in civic matters; mem. of the Women's Wilson League of Md. Mem. D.A.R., United Daughters of the Confederacy. Club: Country, Arundel Whist. Recreations: Walking, traveling. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

BOYLE, Virginia Frazer (Mrs. Thomas R. Boyle), 1045 Union Av., Memphis, Tenn.

Poet, novelist and short story writer; b. near Chattanooga, Tenn.; dau. Charles Wesley and Letitia S. (Austin) Frazer; ed. Higbee School, Memphis, Tenn.; studied literature and law with father, who was a prominent lawyer of Memphis; m. Thomas R. Boyle, a young lawyer of Memphis. Organized Junior Confederate Memorial Ass'n, 1904; also J.C.M. Drum and Fife Corps same year, of small boys in ass'n, now the leading drum and