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DAGGETT—DAME

institutions and addresses to soldiers of the Confederacy. Appointed "Sponsor for the South" by Commander-in-Chief of United Confederate Veterans for General Reunion of Soldiers of the Confederacy at Chattanooga, 1913.

DAGGETT, Evelyn Eleanor Cutler, 60 Wall St., New Haven, Conn.

Born New Haven, Conn.; grad. Smith Coll., A.B. '92; student of Greek, Yale, 1892-95; English, 1896-98. Teacher, New Haven, Conn., 1892-1905. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n (vice-pres. 1903-05); Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae.

DAGGETT, Jeannette, Far Hills, N.J.

Teacher; b. Palmyra, N.Y., 1852; dau. David Patterson and Hannah (Hildreth) Daggett; ed. Howland Sem., Union Springs, N.Y.; Wells Coll., A.B. '69. Sec. of All Angels' Parish Guild for three years. Mem. Wells College Eastern Ass'n. Club: Wells. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

DAGGETT, Mabel Potter (Mrs. John D. Daggett), 445 Twenty-first St., N.Y. City.

Writer; b. Syracuse, N.Y.; dau. Albert P. and Sara L. (Hobbie) Potter; grad. Syracuse Univ., A. B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '95 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Philadelphia, Nov. 2, 1901, John D. Daggett. Editor of woman's page, Syracuse Post-Standard, 1895-1901; editor woman's page, Philadelphia Sunday North American, 1901-02; writer of special articles in N.Y. Sunday World and other papers, 1902-07; associate editor, Broadway Magazine, 1907; associate editor, the Delineator, 1908-11; contributor of special articles to World's Work, Good Housekeeping, Hampton's Magazine, Pictorial Review, Delineator, Woman's Magazine, To-Day Magazine and other magazines since 1911. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Party, N.Y. City. Author: In Lockerbie Street; Where One Hundred Thousand Children Wait (pamphlet widely circulated in this country and England). Unitarian. Mem. N.Y. Alumnae Ass'n of Kappa Kappa Gamma, Writers' Club.

DAGGETT, Mary Stewart, Columbia Hill, Pasadena, Cal.

Author; b. Morristown, Ohio; dau. Rev. John B. Stewart, D.D., and Nancy (MacGregor) Stewart; grad. Steubenville (O.) Sem., valedictorian 1873; m. 1875, Charles Daniel Daggett; children: Ruth, Mrs. Byron S. Harvey, Helen, John Stewart, Maud, Daggett. Author: Mariposiila; The Broad Aisle; The Higher Court; contributor to magazines and The Outlook. Episcopalian. Recreations: Travel, music, social intercourse.

DAKIN, Bertha Louise Kirkland (Mrs. Wilson Sheldon Dakin), 31 Norfolk St., Hartford, Conn.

Former teacher; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '97; student in Sauveur Summer School of Languages, Amherst, Mass., 1898; student in French, Alliance Française, Paris (summer), 1901; m. June 9, 1904, Wilson Sheldon Dakin; children: Louise Parsons, b. Dec. 11, 1905; Irene Sheldon, b. Mar. 2, 1909. Teacher of French, Leicester (Mass.) Acad., 1898-99; Manchester (Mass.) High School, 1899-1900; New Britain (Conn.) High School, 1900-02; supervisor of French in Springfield (Mass.) public schools, 1903-04; teacher in Dumaguete (P.I.) Secondary School, 1904. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnae Ass'n.

DAKIN, Emma Sahler (Mrs. Arthur H. Dakin), 364 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.; summer, Darley-in-the-Dale, Amherst, Mass.

Daughter D. DuBois and A. F. (Merriam) Sahler; ed. in N.Y. City, Mrs. Roberts' and Miss Walker's School for Girls; m. N.Y. City, October, 1903, Arthur H. Dakin; children: Arthur Hazard Jr., Winthrop Saltonstall. During residence in New York belonged to many social clubs and was director of Y.W.C.A. ; active in Consumers' League, etc.; after marriage lived in Boston and was director of charitable and social organizations. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Has written magazine articles on folk-lore.

DALE, Anna, Lewisburg, Pa.

Born Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Pa., April 19, 1851; dau. James J. and Elizabeth A. (Dosler) Dale (granddaughter of Judge Samuel Dale of Lancaster, Pa.); ed. Irving Female Coll., Mechanicsburg, Pa.; Oakland Sem., Norristown, Pa., 1864-68. Vice-pres. of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. of the First Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg. Has been regent of Lewisburg (Pa.) Chapter D.A.R., and has held office for 20 consecutive years, being a charter mem. and its first sec. Pres. Sarah Battles Whist Club; treas. Lewisburg (Pa.) Civic Club; mem. Board of Management Lewisburg Park Ass'n. Recreations: Cards, out-door games. Favors woman suffrage. Republican.

DALE, Mary Thompson (Mrs. O. H. Dale), State College, Pa.

Born State College, Pa,, May 15, 1881; dau. Hiram and Elizabeth (Goheen) Thompson; grad. Pa. State Coll., B.S. '05; m. State College, Pa., June 2, 1905, Dr. O. H. Dale; one son: Hiram Thompson. Presbyterian. Mem. Missionary Soc. of Presbyterian Church, State College Woman's Club, Pa. State Alumnae.

DALLAM, Nannie Poultney Fisher (Mrs. C. Braxton Dallam), 708 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md.

Born Baltimore, Md., July 30, 1874; dau. Charles David and Nannie Poultney (Dorsey) Fisher; m. Baltimore, Feb. 22, 1898, C. Braxton Dallam; one daughter: Nannie. Interested in various social and philanthropic activities; pres. Fell's Point Free Dispensary; mem. Advisory Com. on Colored Work; charter mem. Women's Civic League. Against woman suffrage. Mem. Colonial Dames, Baltimore Country Club.

DALLIN, Vittoria Colonna (Mrs. Cyrus Edwin Dallin), 69 Oakland Av., Arlington Heights, Mass.

Author, former teacher; b. Lynn, Mass., Nov. 29, 1861; dau. Dr. James W. and Julia Caroline (Smith) Murray; ed. public schools, Boston; grad. Girls' High School and Boston Normal School; m. Roxbury, June 16, 1891, Cyrus Edwin Dallin; children: Edwin Bertram, Arthur Murray, Lawrence. Teacher in Girls' High School, Boston, 1884-88; in Boston Normal School, 1888-91. Interested in playgrounds, vacation schools and school ass'ns. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Sketches of Great Painters; The Pageant of Education; The Pageant of Progress; also magazine articles and poems. Unitarian. Mem. Girls' School Ass'n, Locke School Ass'n, Unitarian Alliance (Arlington), Sunshine Club (Arlington Heights). Recreation: Botanizing. Clubs: Arlington Heights Study Club (pres. two years), Arlington Woman's Club (pres. 1911-12). Honorary mem. Alliance Française, Boston, Cambridge; mem. Art Com. of Mass. State Fed. of Women's Clubs.

DALTON, Ida May Hill (Mrs. William Dalton). R.F.D. No. 2, Schenectady, N.Y.

Born N.Y. City, Aug. 26, 1868; dau. Philip Hamilton and Emma D. (Thompson) Hill; ed. Brooklyn public schools, Cornell Univ., B.S. '90 (elected to Sigma Xi); graduate student Vanderbilt Univ. (Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Albany, Sept., 1895, William Dalton; children: Wilfred, John, Elbert, Philip, Richard. Teacher mathematics, Martin Coll., Pulaski, Tenn., 1893-1904; teacher mathematics and physics, Wellesley Coll., 1894-95; pres. Schenectady Consumers' League; manager Ellis Hospital Auxiliary; manager Ellis Hosp. Nurses' Home. Methodist. Charter mem. Nat. D.A.R. Recreation: Farming. Clubs: College Woman's, Mohawk Golf.

DAME, Ella B., Harriman, Tenn.

Born White Plains, N.Y., 1859; dau. W. H. Baldwin, of N.Y. City, and Isabella (Smith) Baldwin, of White Plains; niece of D. H. Baldwin, pioneer piano manufacturer of Cincinnati; grad. High School, Racine, Wis., '78; m. Racine, Wis., 1884, M. L. Dame; children: two boys, who died in infancy. School teacher until married, husband a school principal at Racine, Wis., now a manufacturer at Harriman, Tenn. Much interested in civic housekeeping and has been for years. Universalist. Mem. D.A.R. (also eligible to Colonial Dames, Daughters of the King and Huguenot Soc). Mem. Contemporary Club, now in its third year (was its first pres.).