(Sammis) Colton; grad. Packer Coll. Inst. Authos: Annals of Switzerland; Annals of Old Manhattan. Congregationalist, Against woman suffrage.
COMAN, Charlotte Buell, The Vandyke, 939 Eighth Av., N.Y. City.
Artist; b. Waterville, N.Y.; dau. Chauncey and Sarah (Winchell) Buell; studied in Paris with Harry Thompson and Emille Vernier, and painted in France and Holland; widow. Artist in landscape; won Shaw memorial prize, Washington Soc. of Artists' prize. Represented in permanent collection of William T. Evans in Nat. Art Gallery of Washington, in the Metropolitan Museum, N.Y. City, and in permanent collection of Denver, Colo.; in San Antonio, Tex., and in exhibits in various cities. Favors woman suffrage. Christian Scientist. Has been awarded general art prizes in Woman's Art Club. Clubs: Water Color, Ass'n of Women Painters and Sculptors (formerly Woman's Art Club), Pen and Brush, Art Workers'.
COMAN, Katharine, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
College professor, author; b. Newark, O., Nov. 23, 1857; dau. Levi P. and Martha (Seymour) Coman; grad. Univ. of Mich., Ph.B., '80. Prof, history and economics, Wellesley Coll., 1883-1900; prof, political economy and of political and social science, Wellesley, since 1900. Author: The Growth of the English Nation, 1895; History of England, 1899; History of England for Beginners, 1901; Industrial History of the United States, 1905; Economic Beginnings of the Far West— How We Won the Land Beyond the Mississippi (two vols.), 1912; also (in collaboration with Prof. Katharine Lee Bates) English History as Told by English Poets, 1902.
COMAN, Mary (Mrs. Charles Wynkoop Coman), Covina, Cal.
Born Philippopolis, Bulgaria, Aug. 27, 1861; dau. William Ward and Susan (Dimond) Herlam; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '84; m. Newark, O., Nov. 27, 1884, Charles Wynkoop Coman; children: William, Mary Caroline, Harriet Mosher, Ellis Seymour, Edward Charles. Interested in general writing, newspaper and magazine work; State editor of Southern Cal. W.C.T.U. White Ribbon since 1906; long identified with club work; pres. of Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, 1907-08; active in establishment of kindergartens and manual training work in Pasadena schools; on press com. of Nat. and State Mothers' Congress; many years pres. Southern Cal. Wellesley Club. Lecturer on domestic economy. Officer for years in Humane Soc. of Pasadena. Recreations: Camping, mountain climbing, studying, investigating public amusements. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage. Prohibition; progressive. Mem. of board College Woman's Suffrage Club of Southern Cal.
COMER, Cornelia Atwood Pratt (Mrs. William D. Comer), Box 575, Seattle, Wash.
Journalist, author; b. Bryan, O.; dau. Albert Mansfield and Elizabeth C. (Atwood) Pratt; grad. Vassar, A.B. '87; m. April 26, 1905, William D. Comer. Magazine and newspaper writer; was on staff of N.Y. Critic; later editorial writer St. Paul Globe and Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Author: A Book of Martyrs; The Daughters of a Stoic; A Letter to the Rising Generation; Preliminaries, and Other Stories.
COMFORT, Anna Manning (Mrs. George Fisk Comfort), 160 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.
Physician; b. Trenton, N.J., Jan. 19, 1845; dau. Alfred Curling and Elizabeth (Price) Manning; general education in Boston; grad. N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women, M.D. '65; traveled extensively in Europe, visiting hospitals and other medical institutions in 1887 and again in 1891; m. Jan. 19, 1871, Prof. George Fisk Comfort, L.H.D., LL.D (educator and art critic; died May 5, 1910); children: born— Ralph, Frederick, Arthur; by adoption— Silas, Grace. Was first woman medical graduate to practise medicine in State of Connecticut; afterward became lecturer in gynecology in N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women and practised medicine as specialist in gynecology in N.Y. City and in Syracuse, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage. One of the pioneer leaders in the cause of woman suffrage. Author: Woman's Education and Woman's Health, and contributions on medical subjects to the professional journals, also in prose and verse to various publications. Pioneer club woman; mem. Sorosis since 1878.
COMFORT, Bessie Marchant (Mrs. J. A. Comfort) — see Marchant, Bessie.
COMFORT, Marian Coleman, la Bruselas, No. 5, Mexico City, D.F., Mex.
Teacher; b. Juarez, Mex., April 19, 1884; dau. Roy Edward and Amelia (Coleman) Comfort; grad. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '06. Teacher of sciences in Spanish in Methodist Mission School for Girls. Works in the English Methodist Church in Mexico City; has composed plays to make money for the society. Studies singing, and has sung in amateur productions of operas; sings in church choir; interested in housework and sewing; attends many receptions, dinners, parties, etc. Mem. Ladies' Aid of church. Recreations: Golf, dancing, bridge, traveling. Mem. College Club, Country Club, Current Topics Club.
COMINGS, Lydia J. Newcomb, Fairhope, Ala.
Born Spring Lake, Mich., July 25, 1850; dau. John H. and Frances (Sinclair) Newcomb; ed. Chicago grammar and high school and Mrs. L. H. Stone's Sem., Kalamazoo, Mich.; m. Chicago, 1902, S. Huntington Comings (died 1907). Teacher Ravenswood (Chicago) public school, 1876-85, Moravian Sem., Bethlehem, Pa., 1895-98 (elocution and physical culture). Lecturer on physical culture, dress, voice and kindred subjects from 1898. Now lecturing on Organic Education. Founder and incorporator (with 5 other women) of the School of Organic Education, Fairhope, Ala., 1907; pres. Board of Trustees from its inception (this is an experimental school for both day and boarding pupils where there are no requirements for the younger pupils and but few for the older ones, where no books are used until pupils are 9 or 10 years of age and health and individuality are preserved, and cultivated above all else). Author: Muscular Exercises for Health and Grace. Pres. Fifth Thursday Club of Fairhope, Ala., since its beginning in 1904. This club is a Federation of the various clubs in Fairhope. Recreations: An eighteen months' stay in Europe, Italy, Vienna and Germany, with a series of lectures in Naples and Rome. Pres. Library Ass'n of Fairhope. Favors woman suffrage.
COMMANDER, Lydia Kingsmill (Mrs. Herbert N. Casson), winter, St. George Hotel, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.; summer, Pine Hill-in-the-Catskills, N.Y.; office, Room 2307 Woolworth Bldg., N.Y. City.
Author, editor, minister, lecturer; b. Clinton, Ontario, Can.; dau. Charles Richard and Lydia (Kingsmill) Commander; ed. Collegiate Inst., Stratford, Ont.; Western Univ., London, Ont.; took course of Meadville (Pa.) Theological Coll. under tutors, privately; m. Ruskin, Tenn., Mar. 5, 1899, Herbert Newton Casson. Ordained pastor Free Congregational Church (Unitarian), 1897; in 1898 went to Ruskin, Tenn., a co-operative colony based on the ideas of Bellamy's Looking Backward; with her husband edited the colony paper, The Coming Nation; in 1899 went to Toledo, O., assisted in the election of the "Golden Rule Mayor," Samuel M. Jones. Was one of the speakers at the International Congress of Women at Berlin, 1904; Germany and Toronto, Can., 1909; organized a committee to help the women thrown out of employment as a result of the panic of 1907, and secured positions for 2,000; has lectured on this subject at the State Fair at Syracuse, N.Y.; delegate to Nat. Peace Conference, N.Y. City, 1907; Chicago, 1909. Author: Marred in the Making, 1902; The American Idea, a Study of Race Suicide, 1907; has written many pamphlets and articles in magazines on social problems. Mem. Am. Sociological Soc, National Peace Soc, Woman's Trade Union League, League for Political Education; life mem. of the Nat. Council of Women of America, Lyceum Club of London, England. Recreations: Architecture, farming; is building
