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apolis; taught in Minn. Summer Teachers' Training School; mem. Minn. Teachers' Examining Board. Interested in church work (Sunday-school teacher), also in temperance and foreign missionary work. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Exec. Com. of Woman's Welfare League of St. Paul. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Societies, W.C.T.U., Woman's Welfare League, Alumni Ass'n of the Univ. of Minn., Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, College Club of St. Paul, Mothers' Club of Hamline, Moccasin Club.

CHRISTIAN, Elizabeth, 10 Kemble St., Utica, N.Y.

Educator; b. Utica, N.Y.; dau. Col. William H. and Mary H. (Timerman) Christian; ed. Utica public schools, Cornell Univ., B.S. '95 (special mention in chemistry), Albany Normal, Pd.B. '98. Teacher of science, Glens Falls (N.Y.) High School, 1899-1901; an examiner in science, N.Y. State Education Dep't, being connected with this dep't during vacations, 1898-1904, and giving whole time to work, 1904-09. Interested in the promotion of health, especially by physical culture or natural means, and through right thinking and auto-suggestion; also much interested in the preservation of the forests and birds; interested in the study of psychology as applied to healing. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Dutch Reformed Church, King's Daughters, Soc. of Christ Church, Utica, N.Y., Utica Branch of the Stevens-Swan Humane Soc; mem. Nat. Ass'n of Audubon Socs., D.A.R. Vacations usually spent in Adirondacks or at Thousand Islands. Recreations: Rowing, walking. Mem. Cornell Alumnae Club of Utica.

CHRISTIAN, Mary (Mrs. Amasa C. Christian), Chesaning, Mich.

Born Wheatfield, Ingham Co., Mich., Feb. 13, 1853; dau. Benjamin and Sophronia (Jennings) Kellogg; ed. in public and high schools of Mich.; m. Dec. 20, 1880, Amasa C. Christian; children: Nora E., b. June 25, 1882; Leila B., b. Oct. 24, 1883. Taught for ten years, part of time in high school. Active in religious work and charities; mem. Baptist Church and for the past ten years sup't of Sunday-school. Prominent in W.C.T.U. (pres. of County of Saginaw, Mich., five years; now pres. Chesaning W.C.T.U.). Active in favor of suffrage. Prohibitionist. Interested in all efforts for advancement of women. Mem. Woman's Club of Chesaning.

CHRISTIE, Carmelite Brewer (Mrs. Thomas D. Christie), Tarsus, Turkey in Asia,

Missionary, educator; b. Lee Center, Ill., Apr. 25, 1852; dau. Rev. James Brewer (grad. Williams) and Elizabeth (Pratt) Brewer (first ancestor in America at Boston in 1630; most famous ancestor Capt. John Brewer, renowned in French and Indian wars, first settler in Tyringham, now Monterey, Berkshire Co., Mass., among whose other descendants are Justice David J. Brewer, of the U.S. Supreme Court, and President Garfield); ed. Rockford Sem. (now Coll.), B.A. '71; m. Lee Center, Ill., Mar. 14, 1872, Thomas Davidson Christie, B.A. (now pres. St. Paul's Coll., Tarsus); children: Elizabeth Norton (died when 3 years old), Anna Carmelite (died when 35), Emerson Brewer, Mary Phelps, Paul Theodore, Agnes Emily, Jean Ogilvy; two grandchildren. Missionary of Am. Board in Asiatic Turkey since 1877. Prepared young men for college, 1877-93, at Marash; since 1893 in charge with husband, of St. Paul's Coll. and Acad. at Tarsus; always in field of the Central Turkey Mission. Works for women and the poor. During and for months after the massacre of April, 1909, in which her son-in-law, Rev. D. Miner Rogers, was killed, rescued and fed thousand of refugees in the coll. buildings and grounds; cared for many wounded and sick, and got money for them by her letters. Uses pen constantly, but seldom for publication; writes hundreds of long letters every year to friends and societies on missionary topics and by this means has helped very many poor boys, orphans and others, through school and college; and has secured funds for needed buildings. Congregationalist. Mem. Y.W.C.A. of Tarsus, Central Turkey Mission. Recreation: Horseback riding. Favors suffrage for unmarried women.

CHRISTIE, Isabella Munro Lindsay (Mrs. Alexander Christie), 802 Avenue C, Bayonno, N.J.

Born Glasgow, Scotland, 1841; dau. John and Elizabeth (Hunter) Lindsay; ed. public school; m. N.Y. City, June 27, 1860, Alexander Christie; children: Marion McAdam, Elizabeth Hunter, Janet Hunter, Isabella Lindsay, George, Alexandra Bertha, Lindsay Robert; has 16 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Favors woman suffrage. Joined the first woman's suffrage club that ever was organized in N.Y. City (it met in home of Miss Hannah Allen in University Place); about one year later organized the first suffrage club in Bayonne, and remained pres. 20 years. Articles read at suffrage club meetings. Was mem. several years of Felix Adler's Ethical Culture Soc. (N.Y. City). Interested in movement for humane treatment of animals; strongly opposed to vivisection, vaccination or inoculation of any kind; believer in hydropathic treatment of disease, which she has followed with best results in her own family. Mem. Woman's Political Study Club, Bayonne, N.J.

CHRISTY, Grace, Ford City, Pa.

Teacher; b. Ford City, Pa., July 12, 1883; dau. Jefferson Reynolds and Emily (McCormick) Christy; prepared for college at Pittsburgh Acad.; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. '07 (mem. Delta Gamma). Young People's sec. for Home Missions of Kittanning Presbytery, Synod of Pa. Presbyterian.

CHURCH, Elizabeth Hoyt, 63 Pringle St., Kingston, Pa,

Teacher of mathematics; b. Kingston, Pa., May 26, 1881; dau. William F. and Anne Hoyt (Corss) Church; ed. Wyoming Sem., 1897-1900; Cornell Univ., 1901-05; A.B. '05 (mem. Sennightly Club). Presbyterian. Mem. Coll. Woman's Club of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.

CHURCH, Gertrude Lee (Mrs. J. E. Church), 15 Walker St., Cambridge, Mass.

Born Canton, N.Y., July 15, 1864; dau. John Stebbins and Elmira (Bennett) Lee; ed. St. Lawrence Univ., A.B.; Art Students' League, N.Y.; Colorossi Studio, Paris, France (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 24, 1904, James Edward Church. Mem. Cantabrigia Club, Cambridge, Mass. Universalist.

CHURCH, Louise Akerly Husted (Mrs. Eugene Church), 1320 N. Yakima Av., Tacoma, Wash.

Physician; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '88; Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '93; m. N.Y. City, Oct. 24, 1901, Eugene Church; children: Anna Edsall, b. Feb. 11, 1903; Louise Husted, b. Aug. 3, 1904; Margaret, b. June 9, 1907. Interne New England Hospital, Roxbury, Mass., May, 1894, to January, 1895; house surgeon, January-May, 1895; house physician N.Y. Infant Asylum, 1895-96; N.Y. Board of Health mercantile inspector, 1896-98; visitor N.Y. Juvenile Asylum, 1898-1901. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae.

CHURCH, Virginia Woodson Frame (Mrs. John William Church), 920 W. Grace St., Richmond, Va.

Writer; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '98; student in English extension course, Univ. of Cal., 1901; in English, Columbia Univ., 1905, and of illustration in N.Y. Art Students' League; m. Oct. 14, 1908, John William Church; one daughter: Elizabeth Courtenay, b. Feb. 10, 1910. Tutor in N.Y. City, later writer for magazines and on staff of the Theatre Magazine. Mem. Am. Dramatists' Society.

CHURCHILL, Florence (Mrs. John M. B. Churchill), 803 Boylston St., Boston, Mass.

Born Boston, Nov. 11, 1873; dau. Gershom C. and Louisa (May) Winsor; ed. Miss Bursley's private school in Boston; m. Dublin, N.H., June 15, 1898, John M. B. Churchill; one son: John M. B., b. June 20, 1899. Vice-pres. Animal Rescue League and one of the Auxiliary Board of Managers of the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children. Unitarian.