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��WOOD WORTH— WOOLSEY

��WOODWOBTH, Caroline Josephine Rodgers

(Mrs. James R. Woodworth).

Born Solon, O., Nov. 13, 1878; dau. John and Eliza Jane (McFarland) Rodgers; grad. Welles- ley Coll., B.A. '03 (mem. Zeta Alpha); m. Cha- grin Falls, O., Oct. 2, 1906, James R. Wood- worth; one daughter: Mary Caroline Woodworth, b. Dec. 1, 1907. Active worker in Sunday-school. Presbyterian. Recreations: Tennis, dancing, walking. Mem. Wellesley College Club, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae. Against woman sufifrage.

WOODWORTH, Margaret Kennard (Mrs. Ar- thur Verum Woodworth), 30 Chestnut St., Boston, Mass.

Bom Boston, May 24, 1875; dau. Charles War- ner and Charlotte Curry (White) ; grad. Smith ColL, B.L. '98; m. Framingham, Mass., Oct. 14, 1903, Arthur Verum Woodworth; children: Ken- nard, Alfred S., A. Verum.

WOODWORTH, Mary Parker (Mrs. Albert Bing- ham Woodworth), 39 Rumford St., Concord, N.H.

Born Lisbon, N.H. ; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. •70; m. Lisbon, N.H., Sept. 30, 1873, Albert Bing- ham Woodworth; two sons and one daughter. Actively interested in educational questions and the federated club movement. Chairman of the Scholarship F^nd Com. of the N.H. Federation of Women's Clubs.

WOOLLET, Mrs. Celia Parker, 3052 Wabash

Av., Chicago, 111.

Bom Toledo, O., June 14, 184S; dau. M. H. and Harriet M. Parker; grad. Coldwater (Mich.) Female Sem., 1866; m. Dr. J. H. Woolley, 1868. Writer, lecturer and social worker. In 1893 ac- cepted call to Unitarian pulpit of Geneva, 111.; ordained 1894; preached three years in Geneva and two in an independent church in Chicago. Author: Love and Theology; A Girl Graduate; Roger Hunt; The Western Slope. In 1905 founded the Frederick Douglass Center, 3032 Wabash Av., Chicago, organized in the Interests of colored people, of which she is still the president and head resident.

WOOLLEY, Helen Thompson (Mrs. Paul G. Woolley), 343 Bryant St., Clifton, Cincin- nati, O.

Director of Child Labor Research In Cincin- nati; b. Chicago, 111., Nov. 4, 1874; dau. David Wallace and Isabelle Perkins (Faxon) Thompson; ed. Univ. of Chicago, Ph.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '97; Ph.D. 1900; Univ. of Berlin and Univ. of Paris, 1901; fellow Univ. of Chicago, 1897-1900; traveling fellow Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, 1900-01 (the Mortar Board, Univ. of Chicago); m. Yokohama, Japan, Aug. 8, 1905, Paul G. Woolley; one daughter: Eleanor Faxon Woolley. Director Df Psychological Laboratory and prof, psychology, Mt Holyoke Coll., 1901-05; experimental psychologist to the Dep't of Education, Manila, P.I., 1905-06; instructor in philosophy, Univ. of Cincinnati. 1910-12; director of the Vocation Bu- reau, Cincinnati, 1911—. Interested in Hospital Social Service, Cincinnati. Author: Mental Traits of Sex, 1903; various publications In periodicals on phase of psychology, logic and child labor. Mem. Am. Psychological Ass'n, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, Nat. Child Labor Com., Nat. Soc. of Charities and Corrections. Mem. CJoUege Club and the Social Workers' Club, Cincinnati. Favors woman suffrage.

WOOLLEY, Mary Emma, South Hadley, Mass. Pres. Mount Holyoke Ck)ilege; b. South Nor- walk. Conn., July 13, 1863; dau. Joseph J. and Mary Augusta (Ferris) Woolley; ed. Wheaton Sem., Norton, Mass.; Brown Univ. A.B. '94; A.M. '95; honorary degrees: Litt.D., Brown Univ., 1900; L.H.D., Amherst Coll., 1900; LL.D., Smith Coll., 1910. Teacher at Wheaton Sem., 1887-91; instructor in Biblical history and litera- ture at Wellesley Coll., 1895-96; as&oc. prof. Bib- lical history and literature, Wellesley Coll., 1896-99; prof. Biblical history and literature, Wellesley, 1899-1900; pres. Mount Holyoke Coll., JJ900— . Mem. New England Territorial Com. y.W.C.A. ; vlce-pres. Am. Peace Soc; elector of

��Hall of Fame; senator United Chapters of PhJ Beta Kappa; mem. R.I. Soc. for Collegiate Edu- cation of Women; trustee Lake Erie Coll. Painesville, O. ; trustee Intemat Ck)ll., Spring- field, Mass.; mem. Advisory Council of Con- stantinople Coll., Turkey. Has written articles on education for various periodicals: Author ol monographs: Early History of the Colonial Poet Office; Development of the Love of Romantifl Scenery In America. Mem. Pawtucket chapter D.A.R., Soc. of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Am. Acad. Political and Social Science. Lyceum Club, London; Springfield College Club, Woman's Cosmopolitan Club, N.Y. City; Wheaton Sem. Club; honorary mem. of Boston College Club; Sorosis, N.Y. City; Woman's Club, Pawtucket, R.I. Recreation: Walking. Congregationaiist. Favors woman suf- frage; vice-pres. Mass. Equal Suffrage League.

WOOLLEY, Sue Dana, 101 Rodney Av., Buffalo,

N.Y.

Librarian, genealogist; b. Fort Ripley, Terri- tory of Minn., Jan. 4, 1857; dau. Charles Wood- ruff and Catawba (Sandford) Woolley; ed. private school of Miss E. Ann Gill at St. Paul, Minn. Engaged in writing the Botsford genealogy with the abject of publishing the family history. Sec. and treas. Band of Botsford. Father was a naval officer who served on the coast of Africa In 1851 and also participated in the occupation of Cali- fornia.

WOOLMAN, Mary Schenck (Mrs. Franklin Con- rad Woolman), 264 Boyleston St., Boston, Mass.

Professor household economics; b. Camden, N.J., April 26, 1860; dau. John Voorhees Schenck, M.D., and Martha (McKeen) Schenck; ed. Univ. of Pa.; Columbia Univ., B.S. '97; m. Camden, N.J., Oct. 18, 1882, Franklin Conrad Woolman. Taught in Teachers' Coll,, Columbia Univ., 1892- 1912; organized the Domestic Art Dep't, 1892; organized the Manhattan Trade School, N.Y. City, 1902; directed it until 1910, when it was taken over by N.Y. Board of Education; acting head of Household Economics' Dep't and prof, in Simmons Coll., Boston; pres. of Women's Educational and Industrial Union from February, 3913. Interested in improvement of condition of working women and better economics in the home, in the Camp Fire Girls and interests of hygiene and happy working lives. Favors woman suffrage. Author: A Sewing Course; Making of a Trade School; A Study of Textiles; also nu- merous pamphlets on social and educational sub- jects. Episcopalian. Mem. Am. Acad, of Politi- cal and Social Science, Nat. Child Labor Com., Women's Municipal League, Consumers' League, Armstrong Ass'n, Public Education Ass'n, Am. Home Economics Ass'n, Mary Anna Longstreth Alumnae Ass'n, Woman's Trade Union League. Recreations: Walking, camping, swimming. Mem. College Club and Business Women's Club, Boston. Lecturer on social economics and indus- trial and educational subjects.

WOOLSEY, Ida C, 212 W. Main St., Xenla, O. Physician; b. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 15, 1852; dau. William M. and Hannah C. (Hall) Woolsey; collegiate education; V^sar Med. Univ., Univ. of Mich. United Presbyterian. Practising physi- cian for several years at Xenia, O. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

WOOLSEY, Thomasene Harper Rigby (Mrs. Minthorne Woolsey), 250 W. Ninety-fourth St., N.Y. City. Born Vicksburg, Miss., Feb. 12, 1859; dau. Thomas and Mary A. B. (Jewell) Rigby; ed. Vicksburg, Miss., by private tutors; m. Minthorne Woolsey (banker of Selma, Ala., where they lived permanently until 1904, then moved to N.Y.); children: Mary Ella, b. Feb. 22, 1879 (now Mrs. James W. Reed); Thomasene Rigby, b. Feb. 22, 1881 (now Mrs. Alden Howell Jr.), both of Waynesville, N.C. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Charter mem. Alabama Colonial Dames; now residential mem. N.Y. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Colonial Governors, the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mem. Eclectic Club, Minerva Club, Rubinstein Club.

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