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ARMSTRONG—ARNOLD

pearances included dual roles in Hoodman Blind, and leading r61es in The Still Alarm and The Burglar, and then under Charles Frohman as leading lady in stock company playing in Men and Women, and The Girl I Left Behind Me.; leading lady of the Empire Theatre Stock Co. from 1893 until marriage, when she retired from the stage.

ARMSTRONG, Zella, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Writer, publisher; b. Chattanooga, Tenn.; dau. John McMillan and Martha (Turnley) Armstrong. Pres Tenn. Woman's Press and Authors' Club; chairman Exec. Board Southern Woman Writers' League; editor and publisher The Lookout, a journal of Souhern society. Interested and active in social affairs, philanthropic matters and civic duties of women. Author: Purple and Fine Linen; The Vantage Ground of Truth. Clubs: Chattanooga Golf and Country, Kosmos, Scribblers. Presbyterian.

ARNOLD, Abby Noyes, 325 Adams St., North Abington, Mass.

Teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '92; Radcliffe Coll., student of Latin, Greek, English and pedagogy. M.A. '98. Teacher Attleboro (Mass.) High School, 1892-95; Abington (Mass.) High School, 1895-96; Boston Girls' High School since 1898.

ARNOLD, Alma C. (Mrs. C. D. Arnold), The Nevada Apartments, Broadway and Seventieth St.. N.Y. City.

Drugless physician; b. Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 9, 1871, dau. Frederick and Matilde (Jurgens) Cusian; grad. Privat Schule, Hamburg, Germany; widow by law of C. D. Arnold, of Cedar Rapids, Ia.; one daughter: Nina (now Mrs. James Lee Bost, Washington, D.C.). Graduate of Am. Coll. of Chiropractic, Cedar Rapids, Ia., has practiced drugless healing since 1903; originator and president of The Healtharium, Washington, D.C. As such was attacked by Am. Med. Ass'n and won medical freedom for District of Columbia in 197. Removed to N.Y. City, 1909. Favors equal suffrage. Recreations: Traveling, horseback riding. Mem. A.A.A.S., Woman's Press Club, Nat. First Aid Ass'n, Nat. Med. Freedom League, Anti-Vivisection League.

ARNOLD, Anna E., Cottonwood Falls, Kan.

Educator; b. Whiting, Kan.; dau. B. S. and Martha (Brammer) Arnold; ed. high school, State Normal, State Univ. Teacher in grades and high school; four times elected county sup't of schools. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Civics and Citizenship—the text in Civil Government that is adopted for use in all the common schools of the State of Kan. Mem. State Teachers and Pupils' Reading Circle Board, also Educational Legislative Commission; vice-pres. of the State Teachers' Ass'n. Mem. Women's Kansas Day Club.

ARNOLD, Edith Sarah, 6 Helen St., Plattsburgh, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Peru, Clinton Co., N.Y., June 1, 1876; dau. E. Stephen and Martha A. (Straight) Arnold; grad. Cornell Univ. A.B. '99. Teacher of Greek and German, Columbia High School, Columbia, Pa., 1908; teacher of Latin, Atlantic City High School, 1912. Mem. Sennightly Soc. of Cornell; mem. Woman's Club of Columbia, Pa., 1908-11 (resigned 1911); formerly a mem. Cornell Alumnae Club of N.Y. City. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Does not favor woman suffrage.

ARNOLD, Elizabeth Maclay Tittle, 565 Sheridan Road, Winnetka, Ill.

Born Johnstown, Pa., Mar. 3, 1864; dau. John S. and Jane Findlay (Maclay) Tittle; ed. schools in Johnstown, Pa., and Vassar Coll.; m. Charles C. Arnold, Feb. 14, 1894. Spent early part of life in Johnstown, where she was born, but since her marriage her home has been in Winnetka, a suburb of Chicago. After Johnstown was destroyed by the flood, May 31, 1889, acted as chairman of the Red Cross Committee that distributed the supplies sent by the Red Cross Ass'n. Interested in the social settlements of Chicago; has been pres. Commons Woman's Club for 8 years; active in the work of humane societies, in church and philanthropic work generally, and woman's club work. Congregationalist. Mem. D.A.R., Anti-Cruelty Soc, Audubon Soc, Consumers' League, missionary societies, Chicago Woman's Club. Favors woman suffrage. Has written for magazines and newspapers.

ARNOLD, Mrs. Ellen M., Ashland. Mass.

Librarian; b. Revere, Mass.; dau. George C. and Charlotte Hadley Stowers; ed. in public schools of Everett, Mass., and also has taught most successfully in the Everett High School until her marriage; m. 1885, William J. Arnold, prominent business man, and lived in Kansas City, Mo., 8 years; his health failing, they returned to Massachusetts, where he died in 1905. Took private course in library training under expert librarian; took charge of the reorganized library in new Carnegie building at Ashland, Mass., in 1904. Gives school lectures and travel talks, having traveled extensively in U.S. and abroad. Unitarian. Mem. Order of the Eastern Star. Has successfully directed many choirs and ladies' glee clubs; formerly church singer; gives much time to the young singers wherever she may be helpful. An active and later an honorary member of the History Club of '82, Kansas City, Mo.; strongly interested in club work in Ashland, Mass.

ARNOLD, Grace Louise Russell (Mrs. Harry Bartley Arnold), 1584 Hawthorne Park, Columbus, O.

Graduate Smith, B.L. 1900; m. May 26, 1910, Harry Bartley Arnold. Teacher in N.Y. Collegiate Inst., 1906-08; ass't directress of the Art Students' Club in Paris, France, 1908-09.

ARNOLD, Julia Isabel, 115 Park St., Braintree, Mass.

Social worker, teacher; b. Massachusetts; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '97; student of pedagogy, Brookline (Mass.) Training Class, 1900; Simmons Coll. School for Social Workers, 1908. Connected with Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Boston, 1906-07, and ass't director of Appointment Bureau until 1910; since 1910 teacher of Latin in Miss McClintock's School, Boston. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

ARNOLD, Kate Lewis (Mrs. William H. Arnold), Texarkana, Ark.

Born Calhoun, Ark., Dec. 9, 1887; dau. Peter H. and Mary (Clay) Lewis, of Bellview, Mo.; ed. Magnolia, Ark., Peabody Coll., Nashville, Tenn., 1900-02, and afterward teacher in Texarkana public schools; m. Texarkana, Feb. 17, 1903, William Hendrick Arnold; one son, Richard Lewis Arnold, b. Dec 30, 1906. Active in the social and club life of Texarkana; pres. Wednesday Music Club; pres. Texarkana Kindergarten Ass'n.

ARNOLD, Sarah Louise, Newton Centre, Mass.

Dean Simmons College, lecturer; b. North Abington, Mass.; dau. Jonathan and Abigail (Noyes) Arnold; ed. public schools; grad, Mass. State Normal (Bridgewater); Tufts Coll., A.M. '02. Taught in schools of Mass., Pa. and other States; became principal of Teachers' Training School at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., afterward supervisor of schools at Minneapolis seven years, and Boston seven years; since 1903 dean of Simmons Coll., Boston. Lecturer; mem. Advisory Com. on Education of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Board of Visitors to Jackson Coll. of Tufts Univ. Author: Waymarks for Teachers; Stepping Stones to Literature; Reading—How to Teach It; The Mother Tongue (in collaboration with George L. Kittredge).

ARNOLD, Winifred, Wyoming, N.Y.

Writer, educator; b. Wyoming, N.Y.; dau. Osman L. C. and Emma (Keith) Arnold; grad. B.M.C. Durfee High School, Fall River, Mass. (valedictorian); grad. Vassar '96 (commencement speaker—Phi Beta Kappa), held fellowship in modern languages at Vassar '96-97; been teacher at St. Mary's School, Garden City, N.Y., and Columbia School, Rochester, N.Y.; essay critic, Rochester Univ. Author: Mis' Bassett's Matrimony Bureau, 1912; writer of magazine stories, articles and poems. Presbyterian. Mem. Women's Educational and Industrial Union, Rochester,