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DOLE— DONNELL

Dole; children: John S., William A. Jr., Malcolm, Kenneth, Alice, Virginia. Formerly on editorial staff Boston Journal; former Boston correspondent N.Y. Tribune and Magazine of Art; contributor to Harper's Bazar. Trustee Waltham Public Library for ten years; Interested in church work. Vice-pres. Woman's Alliance; mem. Melrose Woman's Club, Boston Cornell University Club. Recreations: Tennis, automobiling. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

DOLE, Helen Bennett (Mrs. Nathan Haskell Dole), 91 Glen Rd., Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass., and The Moorings, Ogunquit, Me.

Translator, short story writer; b. Worcester, Mass.; dau. William Montgomery and Frances (Fletcher) Bennett; ed. private schools; made music specialty; m. Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass., June 28, 1882, Nathan Haskell Dole; children: Robert Montgomery, Arthur Alexander, Margaret Aliona, Harold Sanford. Translator: Rudolf Baumbach's Sommer Märchen; Victor Hugo's Quatre-Vingt-Treize; Theuriet's Abbé Daniel and Vie rustique; Paul Margueritte's Avril, Pierre Loti's Pécheur d'Islande, Champ-fleury's Violon de Falence, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Spyri's Heidi, Clemens Brentano's Gockel. Hinkel und Gackeleia. Has written several short stories. Recreation: Music. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage.

DOLLIVER, Louise Pearsons (Mrs. Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver), 915 Second Av., Fort Dodge, Ia.

Born Hartford, Vt.; dau. George Read and Wealthea (Porter) Pearsons; grad. Dana Hall, ’83; Wellesley Coll., B.A. '89; m. Nov. 20, 1895, Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, U.S. Senator (died Oct. 15, 1910); children: Margaret Eliza, b. 1900; Frances Pearsons, b. 1901; Jonathan Prentiss, b. 1905. Taught in Presbyterian Coll., Fort Dodge, Ia., 1890-91; Northwestern Acad., Evanston, 1893-95. Historian general D.A.R., 1903-06; organized Fort Dodge Chapter D.A.R.; organized Webster Co. Historical Ass'n and Pioneers' Day, also Y.W.C.A.; charter mem and assisted in organizing Woman's Congressional Club, Washington, D.C.; mem. board of Rust Training School, Washington, D.C. Favors woman suffrage. As historian general of the D.A.R. compiled volumes 18 to 26, inclusive, of the Lineage Books of the D.A.R. Methodist. Republican. Mem. Collegiate Alumnæ Ass'n, Rust Training School for Nurses, Washington; pres. Y.W.C.A. board at Fort Dodge, Ia.; mem. Woman's College Club, Woman's Congressional Club, Fort Dodge Country Club.

DOLLIVER, Margaret Gay, Morningside. Sioux City, Ia.

Dean of women; b. Kingwood, W.Va.; dau. James J. and Eliza Jane (Brown) Dolliver; ed. Cincinnati Wesleyan Coll., A.B. '86; grad. student Northwestern Univ., 1905-06. Teacher in Fort Dodge (Ia.) public school, 1886-90; now dean of women, Morningside Coll. Interested in the founding of small denominational colleges and in work among the young women of America of a social and religious nature. Against woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. D.A.R., P.E.O. Soc. of America; and various societies of the M.E. Church; active in the Woman's Home Missionary Soc. and Y.W.C.A. for college girls. Recreations: Out-door sports. Pres. Sioux City Woman's Club; mem. Sorosis Club of Morningside, Ia.; State Fed. of Women's Clubs. Sister of the late U.S. Senator Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver.

DOLSEN, Torrey Lewis (Mrs. William O. Dolsen), Snohomish, Wash.

Born Monticello, Minn.; dau. Josiah F. and Martha (Steele) Lewis; ed. High School, Monticello, Minn.; Business Coll., Minneapolis, Minn.; m. William O. Dolsen; children: Mae, Raymond. Pres. Cosmopolitan Club, Daughters of Isis Club. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage. Democrat.

DONALDSON, Welyn Hunter (Mrs. Keith Donaldson), Buckingham Hotel, N.T., and Carlton Hotel, London.

Born Nashville, Tenn., June 19, 1886; dau. Edward Willis and Minnie (Payne) Hunter; ed. Anne Brown's School and Coll., 715 Fifth Av., N.Y.; m. St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, N.Y. City, April 25, 1906, Keith Donaldson; one daughter: Dorothy, b. Feb. 7, 1907.

DON CARLOS, Louisa Cooke (Mrs. H. E. Don Carlos), 1605 Tennessee St., Lawrence, Kan.

Author; b. Louisville, Ky., 1874; ed. in Nashville, Tenn.; m. H. E. Don Carlos of Lawrence, Kan. After leaving school did special work on Nashville (Tenn.) Banner. Author: A Battle in the Smoke; contributor of verse to Pall Mall Magazine, Munsey's, Youth's Companion, etc. Vice-pres. Women's Press Club of Kansas.

DONLEVY, Alice Heighes, 130 W. Ninety-seventh St., N.Y. City.

Artist, designer, lecturer; b. Manchester, England; dau. John Intaglio and Alice (Heighes) Donlevy; ed. in schools of Pleasantville, N.Y.; School of Design for Women and Cooper Inst., N.Y. City (diploma, prize); also prize from Philadelphia Sketch Club for illumination; award for tapestry painting at Chicago World's Fair. One of eight women artist founders of the Ladies' Art Ass'n; was engaged for six months in exhibition of women's work at the Centennial Exposition, 1876. Interested in the higher education for women in Japan, and particularly in the movement started in 1912 of training women to be kindergartners, training girls to be nurses for children, begun by an elementary school in Tokio, Japan, of which Dr. Nishiyama is principal and founder. Author: Practical Hints on Illumination; also contributor to magazines, art reviews in Demorest Magazine, St. Nicholas, The Period, etc., on art, industrial or educational subjects. Sec. Japanese Education Soc. Recreations: Reading, painting. Mem. Art Workers' Club. Has lectured on art industrial subjects in the evening lectures under the auspices of the N.Y. Board of Education.

DONLEY, Anseline Scott (Mrs. Alfred J. Donley), N.Y. City.

Librarian; b. Syracuse, N.Y.; dau. John and Angeline (Raymond) Scott; ed. public and private schools of South Norwalk, Conn.; m. S. Norwalk, Conn., 1905, Alfred J. Donley. Librarian S. Norwalk Public Library, 1892-1905; sec. Conn. Library Ass'n, connected with school work, N.Y. Public Library, 1908-09. Organized societies for young people in connection with literary work, sec. of Norwalk Historical Ass'n for several years. Historian of Norwalk Chapter D.A.R., 13 years; field sec. of Conn. D.A.R. Committee on Patriotic Education, 6 years. Promoted educational work among adult foreigners. Has conducted special investigation among the foreign colonies in N.Y. City, has lectured in many Conn, towns on the problems of immigration. Specially interested in social questions connected with children, foreigners and women. Author: Colonial Homes of Norwalk, Conn.; contributor to Patron Saints of Conn., Patriots' Daughters of Conn. Ass't editor: Norwalk After 250 Years. Sec. Children's Festival Com. to demonstrate the activities of societies devoted to child welfare. Associate editor Travel Topics and recording sec. Travel Club. Recreations: Country walking trips, wild flowers, birds, fishing, gardening. Favors woman suffrage.

DONLEY, Nellie Wells, Waynesburg, Greene Co., Pa.

Born Waynesburg, Pa.; dau. Joseph Benton and Ellen (Wells) Donley; grad. Waynesburg (Pa.' Coll., A.B. '92 (Alpha Gamma Theta). Taught school for a number of years both in grammar grades and in High School, Waynesburg, Pa.; one year in the Prep. High School at McKeesport. Pa. Pres. Waynesburg Woman's Club, and of the Wesleyan organization; was pres. Epworth League and Francis Wlllard W.C.T.U. (still a mem.); vice-pres. Alumnæ Ass'n of Waynesburg Coll. Has written for newspapers and made a number of public addresses. Methodist.

DONNELL, Annie Hamilton (Mrs. Webb Donnell), 745 E. University Av., Ann Arbor. Mich.

Writer; b. Kents Hill, Me., Sept. 11, 1862; dau. Albert H. and Mary C. (Robinson) Hamilton; ed. Woman's Coll., Kents Hill, Me., A.B. '81; m. Kents Hill, July 8, 1886, Webb Donnell; children: Dorothy, Rachel, Lloyd, Kenneth. Author: Rebecca Mary: The Very Small Person; Camp Fi- Fi-