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Call, since 1905. Mem. Public Welfare Com. of Newark. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Political Union. Presbyterian. Mem. Alumnae Ass'n of Newark High School. Mem. Contemporary Club of Newark, Irving Club (pres.), N.J. Woman's Press Club (second vice-pres.).

CARTER, Mary Elisabeth, 519 W. 121st St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Albany, N.Y., Jan. 13, 1836; dau. Charles and Elizabeth Van A. (Anderson) Carter; ed. private schools; grad. N.Y. Univ. Woman's Law Class, 1895. Mem. Soc. for Political Education, Woman's Municipal League, Woman's Law Class Alumnae, Circle of Divine Ministry. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Millionaire Households; House and Home.

CARTER, Mary Lupton (Mrs. Thomas M. Carter), 5 Portland Place, St. Louis, Mo.

Born Warrenton, Va., Aug. 15, 1854; dau. Joseph and Margaret (Ricketts) Lupton; ed. Hardin Coll., Mexico, Mo.; Bourbon Inst., Paris, Ky.; m. Mexico, Mo., Oct. 8, 1872, Thomas Whitman Carter; children: Lemuel Ray, Clayton Le Roy, Clara Louise, Thomas W. Jr. Interested in all charitable organizations such as Methodist Orphans' Home, Provident Ass'n: director of Kingdom House. Clubs: Woman's, Country. Recreations: Writing, music. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Against woman suffrage.

CARTER, Orra Lee (Mrs. N. P. Carter), Fayetteville, Tenn.

Born Petersburg, Tenn., Oct. 21, 1855; dau. George F. and Ann (Metcalfe) Smith; m. June 8, 1875 Judge Nelson P. Carter; children: Mrs. John B. Rutledge, Nelson P. Jr., George F. Carter (Denver, Colo.), Mrs. Felix Bledsoe, Mrs. A. T. Williams, Mrs. J. M. Northrop. Episcopalian. Vice-pres. Middle Tenn Division of Tenn. Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. D.A.R.; pres. Round Dozen Club (organized 1900); pres. Lincoln Co. Library Ass'n.

CARTER, Sara Nelson (Mrs. H. Eugene Carter), Live Oak, Fla,

Born Bedford Co., Va., 1880; dau. Cleland Kinloch and Ella (Scott) Nelson; ed. public schools of Lynchburg, Va., and at Randolph Macon Woman's Coll., Lynchburg, Va., M.A.; m. Lynchburg, Va., July 2, 1907, H. Eugene Carter; children: Cleland Nelson, b. April 2, 1908; H. E. Carter Jr., b. Jan. 22, 1912. Identified with various religious, social and philanthropic activities. Mem United Daughters of the Confederacy, Live Oak Woman's Club. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage.

CARTER, Zoe Hamilton (Mrs. Frank Carter, Jr.), Anita, Iowa.

Teacher of china painting and librarian; b. Dayton, Ia., Sept. 17, 1889; dau. Jed Ellsworth and Victoria Ella (Scott) Hamilton; ed. West View High School, Lake City (honor student); grad. Drake Univ., Des Moines; m. Des Moines, June 15, 1910, Frank Carter, Jr. Teacher of Normal school music, Drake Univ.; supervisor of music and drawing in public school, Anita, Ia.; china painter; librarian, Anita Public Library. Interested in local civic improvement, established public library, Anita, Ia. Mem. Library Ass'n. Pres. of Anita Literary Club and Chautauqua Club.

CARTWRIGHT, Mabel, St. Hilda's College, Toronto, Can.

Teacher; b. Kingston, Ont., Can.; dau. John R. and Emily (Bouton) Cartwright; ed. Cheltenham Ladies' Coll., England; St. Andrew's, LL.A.; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, honors in final school of modern history, B.A., ad eundem; Toronto Univ. Assistant mistress, Oxford High School, England; sixth form mistress, Bishop Strachan School, Toronto; prin. St. Hilda's, Toronto, Can. Toronto Diocesan pres. of Woman's Auxiliary to Missions; mem. Cheltenham Ladies' College Guild; senior mem. of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford; Social Science Club, University Women's Club, Toronto. Recreation: Music. Anglican. Favors woman suffrage.

CARUS, Emma (Mrs. Harry James Everall), Mt. Vernon, N.Y.

Actress; b. Berlin, Germany, Mar. 18, 1879; dau. Carl Carus (theatrical manager) and Henrietta (Rolland) Carus (operatic prima donna); came to U.S. in 1883; ed. in Germany and in private schools in Brooklyn; m. (1st) N. S. Mattson; (2d) 1904, Harry James Everall. First sang in public in Berlin when 16 years old; made first professional appearance in U.S. at age of 15, appearing in minor parts in light opera and musical comedy until 1900, when played as Lady Muriel in The Giddy Throng at the New York Theatre, N.Y. City, continuing as mem. of the Musical Stock Co. of that theatre for three years, and during that time creating the parts of Nancy in The King's Carnival, and Jane Bowlingbrook in The Hall of Fame; later at other N.Y. theatres as Mrs. Jack Orchard in The Defender, Countess von Lahn in The Wild Rose, Princess Yo San in The Darling of the Gods, Jane Habicomb in The Medal and the Maid, Lady Peacock in Woodland, and Mary in Forty-five Minutes from Broadway; returned to the New York Theatre in The Follies of 1907, and the following season went into vaudeville.

CARUS, Mary Hegeler, Open Court Publishing Co., 623 S. Wabash Av., Chicago, Ill.

Born La Salle, Ill., Jan. 10, 1861; dau. Edward C. and Camilla (Weisbach) Hegeler; studied engineering at Univ. of Mich., and held B.Sc. (1882); also admitted by special permission of the Royal Government of Saxony to the School of Mines, at Freiburg, Saxony, to study mathematics and chemistry; m. March 29, 1888, Chicago, Dr. Paul Carus, editor of the Open Court and the Monist. Children: Edward C, Gustav, Paula, Elizabeth, Herman Dietrich, and Alwin Hegeler. Pres. of the Mathiessen-Hegeler Zinc Smelter Co., of La Salle, Ill.; trustee of the E. C. Hegeler Fund, and pres. of the Open Court Publishing Co. Recreation: Home life in the family circle.

CARUTHERS, Daisy Miller, Fort Smith, Ark.

Born Arkansas, 1875; dau. John G. and Mary Jane (Tresler) Miller; ed. Fort Smith (Ark.) schools, Northwestern Acad, and Univ., and Univ. of Ark.; finished in mathematics, Chi Omega; m. Pueblo, Col., 1903, Elmo Caruthers; children: Elmo Caruthers, Jr., Frances Caruthers. Interested in child welfare and education. Mem. Methodist Church South. Republican. Charter mem. and chapter registrar of local D.A.R. Mem. Wednesday Club (literary), Musical Coterie, Library Ass'n. Recreations: Reading, driving.

CARVER, Clara Belle Finney (Mrs. W. B. Carver), 151 Front St., Binghamton, N.Y.

Born Binghamton, N. Y., Dec. 9, 1872; dau. Erastus and Eleanor (Kipp) Finney; ed. Binghamton High School, 1891; Smith Coll., 1895, B.L.; m. Feb. 4, 1908, William Burgett Carver. Taught for ten years, 1896-1906, in Binghamton High School. Interested in industrial school for teaching sewing to poor children. Mem. Southern N.Y. Branch of the Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae, Y.W.C.A. Club: Monday Afternoon of Binghamton. Presbyterian.

CARVER, Priscilla, Highland Park, Ill.

Concert pianist; b. Highland Park, Ill., May 25, 1885; dau. Henry C. and Mary (Winchester) Carver; ed. Chicago, Berlin, Paris. Soloist five times with Chicago Symphony Orchestra and three times with N.Y. Symphony Orchestra; appeared in recitals in Chicago, Washington, St. Louis, New York, San Francisco. Protestant Episcopal. Mem. Amateur Musical Club of Chicago, Ossoli Club of Highland Park. Ill.

CARY, Anna May Gogley, 956 Church St., Indiana, Pa.

Missionary worker; b. Independence, Pa., June 24, 1869; dau. Rev. John G. and Hannah P. (Day) Gogley; ed. common schools, Pittsburgh Female Coll., and Beaver Coll. and Musical Inst.; m. April 19, 1888, Pittsburgh, Pa., Rev. Jesse W. Cary, D.D. Active in the work of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary socs. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being cor. sec. of the Home Soc. in the Blairsville District, Pittsburgh Conference. Represented, as delegate, the Pitts-