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CUNNINGHAM—CURTIS

Club. Recreations: Music, theatre. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

CUNNINGHAM, Georgia Lee (Mrs. A. D. Cunningham), 5865 Von Versen St., St. Louis, Mo.

Professional singer and teacher; b. Palmyra, Mo.; dau. Woodruff Lee and wife (née Allsman); ed. St. Paul's Coll., Palmyra, Mo.; studied singing under Mme. Mathilde Marchesi In Paris, France, 1894; m. St. Louis, Mo., A. D. Cunningham; one son: Albert Lee (actor, N.Y. City). Sung in grand opera. Concerts Ovationé; sung at the symphony concerts at St. Louis World's Fair, 1904; has appeared in many concerts for charities. Teacher of the art of singing. Episcopalian Recreation: Golf.

CUNNINGHAM, Helen M. Benedict (Mrs. John S. Cunningham), 1919 St. Albans, W.Va.

Born in Pennsylvania; ed. Mrs. Phelps' School, Baltimore; children: Evelyn, Helen, John, Harold. Identified with religious, social and philanthropic activities. Episcopalian. Pres. Thursday Literary Club of Federation. Aided her late brother, Frank Lee Benedict, the novelist, with suggestions and criticism. At present exerts the leading influence in the Prohibtion Dep't of "1919," a journal edited by her son, John Benedict Cunningham, whose chief public benefit design is the political coalition of prohibition, labor unions, socialism and woman suffrage.

CUNNINGHAM, Ida Cary (Mrs. Charles Greely Cunningham), Heath Hill, Brookline, Mass.

Born Boston, Mass., Sept. 14, 1853; dau. William Aylwin and Cynthia (Johnson) Cary; ed. in Boston private schools; m. (1st) 1876, Sydney Heath of Brookline, Mass.; one son: Reginald Cary Heath; (2d) Charles Greely Cunningham. Mem. of many humanitarian societies, Anti-Vivisection, Animal Rescue League, Millennium Guild and others. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. of Exec. Board Brookline Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Progressive. Descendant of John Cotton of the First Church of Boston (1612) and Robert Treat Paine, signer of Declaration of Independence, and of James Cary (came to America 1639).

CUNNINGHAM, Mary Ann (Mrs. James Cunningham), 727 Third Av., New Westminster, B.C.

Born St. Thomas, Ont., July 19, 1841; dau. William and Mary Ann (Pugh) Woodman; ed. St. Thomas Central and Grammar Schools; m. New Westminster, B.C., James Cunningham; children: Herbert: Fred, Maud, Alice and Frances. Was teacher in St. Thomas Central School two years. Mem. Queen's Av. Methodist Church, New Westminster, since June, 1862, and ever since teacher in its Sunday-school, which gave her a jubilee June, 1913; since 1883 officer in provincial and local W.C.T.U. (pres., cor. sec, treas., rec. sec. and first vice-pres.); also pres. and sec. of other societies; Ladies Aid, Woman's Mission Soc, Woman's Council, Woman's Hospital Board; Methodist Church class leader, mission worker; director and hon. pres. Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suffrage. Writer of newspaper articles and personal sketches for publication in pamphlet form. Mem. Canadian Methodist Church; municipal voter for over 20 years. Mem. Political Equality League; sup't Franchise Dep't New Westminster local W.C.T.U. Recreations: Reading, writing, walking, riding, visiting. Mem. Educational Club. Founder and eight years pres. Managing Board of Women's Hospital (under auspices of local W.C.T.U.), now amalgamated with the Columbian Hospital. For 16 years with another lady visited and preached to the prisoners in the New Westminster jail, holding regular Sunday afternoon services in the jail chapel.

CUNNINGHAM, Zella May (Mrs. Edgar Wright Cunningham), Larimore, N. Dak.

Club pres.; b. Fairbury, Ill., Aug. 9, 1875; dau. Samuel Lazzell and Alice (Vergin) Ramsey; ed. Jacksonville (Ill.) Female Coll., '93; m. Jacksonville, Ill., Dec. 30, 1896, Edgar Wright Cunningham; one son: Emory Lazzell. Identified with Presbyterian church work. Favors woman suffrage. Republican. Mem. Order of Eastern Star. Pres. Tuesday Club, Larimore, N.D.; chairman Conservation Com., N.D. Federation of Women's Clubs. Mem. Civic League of Larimore. Resident of N.D. from 1905.

CURRIE, Emma Augusta (Mrs. James George Currie), 9S King St., St. Catharines, Ontario, Can.

Born Niagara-on-the-Lake, Nov. 19, 1829; dau. Ursen and Caroline (Hamlin) Harvey; ed. David's public school; Miss Sibbald's private school eight months; East Bloomfield (N.Y.) Acad., two years; Canandaigua (N.Y.) Sem., one year; m. Brockport, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1865, James George Currie. Author of Laura Ingersoll Secord and Canadian Reminiscences, first edition, 1901; second, 1913. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Literary and Historical Club; one of the founders of the St. Catherines (Ont.) Orphans' Home. Favors woman suffrage. Liberal in politics.

CURRY, Adeline Jones Spencer (Mrs. Charles Henry Curry), 5 Von Lent Place, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Pa.; dau. Charles Hart and Mary (Acheson) Spencer; ed. Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bryn Mawr Coll.; m. Pittsburgh, June 3, 1905, Charles Henry Curry; children: Henry Milo, Charles Henry, Spencer Curry. Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Allegheny Country Club, Pittsburgh Golf Club.

CURRY, Mrs. Edwin Rue, 1107 McGee St., Kansas City, Mo.

Born near Danville, Ill.; dau. George Levi and Matilda A. (Rue) Caldwell; ed. Cameron, Mo.; m. Kansas City, Mo., Dr. E. R. Curry. Founder and pres. Community Center, organized Nov., 1911; pres. Kansas City Chapter Internat. Sunshine Soc.; board mem. Council of Clubs for Civic and Social Betterment; mem. com. religious dep't Y.W.C.A.; life mem. Nat. Good Roads Ass'n. Led first campaign for suffrage in Mo., 1912. Author of tracts for social centers, suffrage and children's summer vocational school work. Presbyterian. Progressive in politics. Mem. High Cost of Living Convalescing Com. (charter mem.), Women's Loan Co. (scholarships for girls and boys as a loan). Recreation: Bowling.

CURTIS, Alice Turner (Mrs. I. Curtis), 66 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Author; b. Sullivan, Me.; dau. J. Vinal and Susan A. (Spear) Turner; ed. in public schools of Maine and Massachusetts; m. Boston, May 20, 1895, Irving Curtis. Salaried contributor to Youth's Companion. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Grandpa's Little Girl; Anne Nelson; The Little Runaways; Marjorie's Way, and short stories in Century Magazine. Mem. D.A.R. (Tea Party Chapter, Boston). Recreations: Reading, walking, housekeeping. Mem. New England Women's Club, Boston.

CURTIS, Anna Louise, Swarthmore, Pa,; home, 512 E. Fifty-eighth St., N.Y. City.

Assistant to registrar, Swarthmore Coll.; b. Willoughby, O., Aug. 15, 1882; dau. Grove D. and Lillian (Tryon) Curtis; grad. Swarthmore Coll., A.B. '04; won two oratorical contests. In addition to work as registrar's assistant, does the proofreading and some of the editorial work on The Speaker (a quarterly) and The Public Speaking Review (monthly), published from Swarthmore. Favors woman suffrage. Author of a brief history of the Lyceum, published as part of Who's Who in the Lyceum. Mem. Society of Friends. Recreations: Tennis, reading.

CURTIS, Anna Louise Anderson (Mrs. Chauncey Warren Curtis), Newcastle, Wyo.

Born Kincardin, Ont., Not. 14, 1877; dau. Alexander and Eliza A. (Atchison) Anderson; grad. Ft. Morgan (Colo.) High School, '97; m. Deadwood, S.Dak., Mar. 25, 1899, Chauncey Warren Curtis. Presbyterian. Republican. Recreations: Out-door sports, horseback riding, skating, autoing, basket-making. Mem. Twentieth Century Club, Weston County Library Club. Favors woman suffrage.