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��Cornell Campus Club. Ass't prof. In Dep't of Home EJcoQomlcs, Coll. of Agriculture, Cornell, for three years, lecturing on subjects relating to house planning and household art.

VOUNG, Helen Louise, Normal College, Sixty- eighth St. and Park Av., N.Y. City. Teacher; b. Marion, N.Y., July 20, 1877; dau. Rev. Conway Wing and Mary (Barnum) Young; ed. Marion (N.Y.) Collegiate Inst., 1892-96; Cor- nell Univ.. Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1900, A.B. 1900, and 1905-07; Yale Univ., Ph.D. '10. Teacher in Hol- lidaysburg Sem., 1900-01; Circleville High School, 1901-05; in Tarrytown High School, 1907-08; dur- ing 1909-10 engaged in literary work in N.Y. City, and In 1911 became instructor in the Normal Coll. of the City of N.Y. ; now teaching modern European history. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n, Cornell Women's Club of N.Y. City. Presby- terian. Favors woman suffrage.

YOUNG, Ida Clarke (Mrs. Newton Clarence Young), 609 Eleventh St., South, Fargo, N.Dak.

Born Iowa City, la., Mar. 16, 1867; dau. Charles Franklin and Julia (BroTvn) Clarke; ed. Iowa State Univ., B.Ph., A.M., Phi Beta Kappa (mem. Kappa Kappa G^mma) ; m. Iowa City, la., June 2, 1887, NeTvton Clarence Young; chil- dren: Laura Bird, Horace Clarke, Dorothea Pres- ton. Director Fargo Associated Charities; pres. State Fed. Women's Clubs. Author: Literature of North Dakota; The Boy in the Small Town; some poems and songs: The Prairie Women; Sunset; Boat Song; also many addresses to clubs and State federations. Mem. Round Table Club, Fine Arts Club, Writers' Section. Congrega- tlonalist.

i'OCNG, Josephine Bowen (Mrs. Claude Shevel- ton Young), 519 East Crockett St., San An- tonio, Texas.

Bom Detroit, Mich., Nov. 18, 1876; dau. Wil- lard J. and DeEtte (Kingsley) Bowen; grad. Univ. of Mich., A.B. 1899, followed by two years of study In the law dep't of Univ. of Mich.; m. at Bonito Ranch, Jourdanton, Texas, Claude Shevelton Young, civil engineer. Her father, a lawyer, died during her childhood; immediately following graduation, she went to 'Texas, and In company with her mother undertook and suc- cessfully carried out the management of a Texas cattle ranch, which they gradually con- verted Into cotton farms worked by Mexican laborers under a tenant system. Has been en- thusiastic worker In various local and non- permanent organizations for betterment In a lit- erary and philanthropic way of the life of the small towns near which her business Interests placed her. Attends Unitarian Church. Mem. Order of Eastern Star, Woman's Club of Pleas- anton, Texas; Woman's Club of Jourdanton, Texas. Recreations: Horseback riding, danc- ing, automobillng, tennis and out-door sport generally. Favors woman suffrage.

YOUNG, Kate 0. (Mrs. Richard A. Young),

Casey, 111.

Born Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 8, 1859; dau. C. J. and Josephine (Long) Merrill; ed. Indianapolis and Greencastle, Ind. (mem. Alpha Beta Theta) ; m. Greencastle, Ind., Jan. 4, 1881, Richard A. Young; one daughter: Mabel. Active club woman; mem. 111. Fed. Women's Club Board for Bix years. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Pythian Sisters, D.A.R., Woman's Research Club (pres. six years), 111. Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs.

IfOUNG, Louise Schafer (Mrs. J. W. A. Young), 5422 Washington Av., Chicago, III. Musician; b. Fort Madison, Iowa; dau. George ttnd Natalie (Koester) Schafer; ed. America and Europe; m. J. W. A. Young. Singer and piano teacher. Interested in arts of all kind. Favors woman suffrage. Has contributed garden pictures and stories to various magazines. Has given lec- tures on making gardens In backyards of Chicago. Episcopalian.

YOUNG, Margaret Rankin (Mrs. William B. Young), 32 Duval St., W., Jacksonville, Fla, Born Macon, Ga., Mar. 20, 1871; dau. Jesse

��Willis and Mary Portress (Jones) Rankin; ed. by Mme. Sophia Sosnowski, Athens, Ga. ; m. At- lanta, Ga., 1889, William Brooks Young; children: Frances, Margaret Anthony, William Brooks Young Jr. Pres. of Woman's Nat. Rivers and Harbors Congress for Florida. Gen. Fed. State sec. for Floridi.; mem. Health dep't Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs; mem. Exec. B'd, Florida Fed. Women's Clubs; pres. for Florida of Southern Commercial Congress; mem. Southern Sociologi- cal Congress. Mem. Associated Charities, Rec- reation Ass'n, Am. Civic Ass'n, Woman's Wel- fare Branch, Social Service Club (Jacksonville), Daughters of the King; chairman of Woman's Titanic Memorial. Recreation: Travel. Episco- palian. Favors woman suffrage; organized a class for study of suffrage under Educational Dep't of Woman's Club.

YOUNG, Martha, Greensboro, Al£u

Writer; b. Greensboro, Ala.; dau. Elisha and Anne Eliza Ashe (Tutwiler) Young. Author: Plantation Songs; Plantation Bird Legends; Somebody's Little Girl; When We Were Wee; Behind the Dark Pines. Episcopalian.

YOUNG, Mar.v Stuart (Mrs. Louis G. Young),

De Soto, Savannah, Ga,

Born Williamsburg, Va., July 6, 1847; dau. William and Elizabeth (Tyler) Waller; ed. Lynch- burg Female Sem.; grad. National Summer Schools; m. Lynchburg, April 25, 1867, Louis G. Young. Mem. Woman's Auxiliary of Episcopal Church, Colonial Dames of America, Ass'n for the Education of Georgia Mountaineers, Daugh- ters of the Confederacy (Kirkwood Otey Chapter, Lynchburg, Va.). Against woman suffrage. Au- thor: The Griffins; contributor of historical pa- pers to Georgia Soc. of Colonial Dames. Epis- copalian.

YOUNG, Mary Vance, South Hadley, Mass.

Teacher; b. Washington, Pa., May 22, 1866; dau. John S. and Jane (Vance) Young; ed. in various schools and smaller colleges; Univ. of Zurich, Ph.D. '99. Instructor Smith Coll., 1899-1901; prof. Romance Languages, Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1901. Author: Moliere's Kunstkomodlen; Les. Enselgne- ments Trfebor; An Italian Grammar. Mem. Mod- ern Language Ass'n of New England, Modern Language Ass'n of America, Dante Soc. of America, Maltres Phonetiques, Society Amicale Gaston, Paris. Recreations: Gardening, sketch- ing. Favors woman suffrage; life mem. College Equal Suffrage League; mem. Suffrage League of Mt. Holyoke College.

YOUNG, Minnie Ella (Mrs. Frank L. Young),

294 Ashmont St., Boston, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., April 22, 1858; dau. Luther P. and Lydia M. (Wales) Jones; ed. public and private schools; m. Milford, Mass., Dec. 16, 1878, Frank L. Young; children: Arthur, Harold, Percy, Marjorie, Rosamond, Sumner. Has been a teacher in grammar and high schools. Lec- turer on social subjects, art, travel, history and literature. First vice-pres. Nat. Unitarian Tem- perance Soc.; pres. Upham's Corner, W.C.T.U. Favors woman suffrage; mem. local society. Uni- tarian. Republican. Chairman for Dorchester of the Boston Municipal League; pres. Boston School Voters' League. Recreations: Motoring, books, theater, etc. Past pres. Dorchester Wom- an's Club; president Boston City Federation- pres. South Bay Sorosls.

YOUNG, Nellie Gray (Mrs. Walter Harry

Young), 142 Smith St., Peeksklll, N.Y.

Boru Tiverton, R.I., Oct. 28, 1867; dau. Edward and Irene P. (Borden) Gray; grad. Fall River High School, "85; Smith Ck)ll., A.B. '89- m Fall River, June 27, isg,'^, Walter Harry Young- chil- dren: Harold E., b. June, 1895 (Harvard '16)- Edward S., b. Jan. 1897. Teacher in Northampton (Mass.) High School, 1889-93. Active in church work and Consumers' League; sec. of local As- sociated Charities; mem. literary and social clubs. Against woman suffrage. Congreea- tionallst.

YOUNG, Rosalind Wat«on (Mrs. Henry Esson Young), 933 Oliver St., Oak Bay P.O., Victoria. B.C., Can. Born Huntingdon, Quebec, 1874; dau. Rev. Jamea

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