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burgh Conference in the nat. meeting of the soc. at Wichita, Kan., in 1911. Mem. D.A.R. Mem. Nat. Geographic Soc. Mem. New Century Club, Indiana, Pa., pres. 1911-12 and 1912-13, The Ingleside, Indiana, Pa.

CARY, Annie Louise (Mrs. Charles M. Raymond), 20 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.

Singer; b. Wayne, Me., Oct. 22, 1842; grad. Female Sem., Gorham, Me., '62; studied music in Milan, Italy, under Giovanni Corsi; Baden-Baden, with Madame Viardot-Garcia; Paris, under Signor Bottisini; m. 1882, Charles Monson Raymond. Made first appearance at Copenhagen and Christiania; Italian Opera at Stockholm; later in Royal Swedish Opera, Italian Opera, Brussels; Drury Lane Theatre, London; September, 1870, in America, singing at Steinway Hall, N.Y. City, with Nilsson, Vieuxtemps and Brignoli; following 12 years in opera and concerts with Carlotta Patti, Mario, Albani and others. Went to Moscow and St. Petersburg; after that in America singing in opera with Clara Louise Kellogg and Marie Roze each winter until marriage in 1882, when retired from stage.

CARY, Elisabeth Luther, 204 S. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Writer on art; b. Brooklyn, May 18, 1867; dau. Edward and Elisabeth (Luther) Cary; ed. privately. Became owner and editor of The Scrip in 1905; art critic of N.Y. Times since 1908. Translator: Recollections of Middle Life (by Francisque Sarcey), 1893; Russian Portraits (by Vte. Melchior E. Vagué), 1895; The Land of the Tawny Beasts, 1895. Author: Alfred Tennyson—His Homes, His Friends and His Work, 1899 Robert Browning, Poet and Man, 1899; The Rosettes, Dante, Gabriel and Christina, 1900 William Morris, 1902; Ralph Waldo Emerson 1904; Artists, Past and Present, 1905. Mem American-Scandanavian Soc. Clubs: Barnard Twentieth Century (Brooklyn), Women's Cosmopolitan. Episcopalian.

CARY, Martha Bryant (Mrs. James E. Cary), Schaller, Iowa.

Grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '81; m. Oct. 8, 1883, James Hussey Cary; children: Alice (Mrs. James Andrew Newlands), b. Aug. 16, 1884 (A. B. Smith, 1906). Since 1908 actively engaged in the effort to secure for Esperanto due recognition by press and leaders of public opinion in the U.S.; sec. U.S. Esperanto Ass'n.

CASE, Anna Hubbell Lathrop (Mrs. Almon G. Case), 408 Rockton Av., Rockford, Ill.

Former teacher; b. Rockford, Ill.; ed. in schools of Rockford and Vassar Coll., A.B. '83; m. Rockford, Ill., May 5, 1897, Almon G. Case. Teacher Rockford High School two years and in Rockford (Ill.) College for two years.

CASE, Frances Powell, Wainscott, L.I., N.Y.

Author; b. Newburgh, on the Hudson; dau. Robert Ludlow and Marian (Gibson) Case; ed. at home. Against woman suffrage unless could have restricted vote. Author (pen-name "Frances Powell"): The House on the Hudson; The By Ways of Braithe; The Prisoner of Orrinth Farm; Old Mr. Davenant's Money; An Old Maid's Vengeance. Episcopalian.

CASE, Katherine E. Le Mar (Mrs. Alonzo Case). Route 2, Box 146, Redlands, Cal.

Teacher; b. Lancaster, O., May 25, 1844; dau. John and Barbara A. (Swayne) Le Mar; ed. Spring Valley (O.) High School, and Normal School. Lebanon, O., m. Warrensburg. Mo., Dec. 30, 1889, Alonzo Case. Taught in public schools of Ohio and Missouri 18 years. Favors woman suffrage. Has written for newspaper publication. Methodist. Democrat. Mem. W.C.T.U., Chautauqua; pres. Crafton Woman's Club.

CASE, Marian Ward Ingersoll (Mrs. William Warren Case). Hubbard Woods, Ill.

Born St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 26, 1868; dau. Daniel Wesley and Marian Meigs (Ward) Ingersoll; ed. Burnham Classical School, Northampton, Mass.; Miss Ely's, Brooklyn, N.Y.; m. St. Paul, Minn., June 15, 1892, William Warren Case; children: Marian Elizabeth, Isabel Burr Winthrop Warren, Emily Ingersoll. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Chicago Woman's Club, Winnetka Woman's Club.

CASE, Mary Emily, Wells College, Aurora, N.Y.

College professor; b. N.Y. City, Sept 23, 1857; dau. Albert Spencer and Jane (Huntington) Case; ed. Oberlin Coll., A.B. '79, A.M. '90. Prof. Latin, Wells Coll., since 1883. Author: The Love of the World, 1892; contributor to reviews and magazines.

CASEY, Ellenor Fairfax (Mrs. Lewis E. Casey), Covington, Ky.

Born Carlinville, Ill.; dau. Isaac and Mary (Dashiell) Greathouse (lineal descendant of Lady Fairfax and the Dashiells of Maryland; maternal grandfather was Rev. George Dashiell, who organized St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Baltimore over 100 years ago); m. Covington, Ky., Col. Lewis E. Casey. Presbyterian. Vice-regent of Soc. of Colonial Daughters. Against woman suffrage.

CASEY, Mary Catherine Martin (Mrs. Joseph J. Casey), 13 E. 130th St., N.Y. City.

Born Salem, Tenn.; dau. Dr. Charles Kennon Venable and Fanny Holder (Williams) Martin; ed. private tuition at home; Nashville Female Acad.; m. N.Y. City, Nov. 15, 1873, Joseph J. Casey; children: Fanny Callaway Holder and Kellogg Kennon Venable. For 19 consecutive terms since the founding of the soc., register-general of the Daughters of the Revolution, refusing a continuance in office. She verified by personal researches the eligibility of every applicant for membership and her reports were never disputed. Episcopalian. Charter member D.A.R., one of the five founders of Daughters of Revolution (a distinct soc.), Knickerbocker Chapter; mem. Daughters of 1812, Daughters of Confederacy, Huguenot Soc, Colonial Dames of Virginia, Order of the Crown, Dixie Club. On her mother's side, great granddaughter of Fanny Callaway, who, with her sister, Elizabeth (both daughters of Col. Richard Callaway), and Jemima Boone, were captured by the Indians, outside of Boonesborough, 1776. On father's side are noted Richard Kennon, the Hillsborough delegate; Charles Lewis of the Byrd; Charles Venable, grandson of the emigrant; Augustine Warner; Col. George Reade, sec of the Colony and Governor (Va.); Robert Smith, founder of Port Royal. Recreations: Oil painting, china painting and care of flowers.

CASGRAIN, Marie Emma (Mrs. E. Casgrain), 51 St. John St., Quebec, P.Q., Can.

Surgeon dentist; b. Montmagny, P.Q.; dau. J. B. and Caroline (L'Etourneau) Gaudreau; ed. Montmagny Convent Sisters of Congregation (mem. College of Province of Quebec); m. Montmagny, 1879, Dr. E. Casgrain. Grad. as surgeon dentist at the Provincial Board of Examiners in Montreal and since then in practice in city of Quebec Against woman suffrage. Roman Catholic.

CASLER, Anna Delia, 301 Law Bld'g, Charlotte, N.C.

Sec. Y.W.C.A.; b. Little Falls, N.Y., May 4, 1874; dau. Alonzo O. and Helen A. (DeWitt) Casler; ed. High School, Little Falls, N.Y.; Smith Coll., B.L. 1897. Teacher English Dep't Little Falls High School, 1898-1901. Principal Normal School, Asheville, N.C, 1901-05. Gen. sec. Y.W.C.A., Washington, D.C., 1905; State sec North and South Carolina Com., 1906-08; executive sec. Virginia-Carolina Territorial Com., Y.W.C.A., 1908-12; exec sec Atlantic Field Com. of Nat. Board of Y.W.C.A. (headquarters 600 Lexington Av., N.Y. City) since 1912. Interested in general civic affairs and in educational and industrial problems in the South. Presbyterian. Mem. Blue Ridge Ass'n (executive com.). Recreations: Tennis, horseback riding, walking, reading and good friends.

CASSARD, Frances Wallace (Mrs. Herbert Cassard), The Belgravia, Philadelphia, Pa.

Born Chicago, Ill., June 1, 1859; dau. John Seeley and Sarah Minerva (Rich) Wallace; ed. Dearborn Sem., Chicago; Hellmuth Coll., London, Can.; m. Chicago, Oct. 5, 1882, Herbert Cassard of Baltimore, Md. Interested in social and philanthropic activities. Episcopalian. Recreations: Horsetoack riding, walking, automobiling.