in the home by the mothers themselves. Has applied system of scientific management to home and children, dismissing all servants and becoming not only the one who thought out the best way to do the work but the one who did it all, and has applied all her care and intelligence to her children and her household, and has arrived at some remarkable conclusions as a result of this experience. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian.
DOUGLAS, Judith Hyams (Mrs. Roydan Douglas), 7S25 Elm St., New Orleans, La.
Born Rapides Parish, La., Feb. 13, 1875; dau. Henry M. and Augusta (Montgomery) Hyams; granddaughter of Lieut.-Gov. Henry M. Hyams; ed. Girls' High School, New Orleans, La.; State Normal School, Nachitoches, La.; m. Baton Rouge, June 15, 1896, Roydan Douglas of Scotland. Has been sec. Era Club, also pres. for two years, and now first vice-pres.; sec. Stonewall Jackson Chapter United Daughters of Confederacy; supervisor for La. for Peace and Arbitration since 1909; chairman Legislative Com. for La. State Federation, 1911-12; pres. La. State Fed. Women's Clubs, 1912-14 (hon. pres.); has served on Nat. Church Work Com. for Nat. Suffrage Ass'n since Oct., 1908. Favors woman suffrage; as officer of Era Club for seven years has spoken at each session of Legislature in favor of full suffrage, school suffrage, amendment of Article 210, which would permit of women serving on boards, etc. Has written short papers on Suffrage, Civil Service, Mystery and Miracle Plays, Child Labor, Religion and the Cause of Peace, Christian Stewardship (delivered before Nat. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Buffalo, N.Y., in convention, also before State of Mississippi Suffrage Ass'n), Revelations, Mammy Milly. Has outlined two plays—one, A Modern Interpretation of Esther. Baptist; served on State Central Board; also pres. two years of Missionary Soc. Mem. Sunshine Soc. Was one of a committee of three that called mass meeting to organize Travelers' Aid Soc; sec. Juvenile Court Com. of Era Club that initiated the Juvenile Court work in New Orleans; mem. Jefferson Davis Monument Ass'n; pres. Alpha Zeta Bible Class, 1909-11; charter mem. B'd of Directors Woman's Building Ass'n. Mem. New Orleans Woman's Club, New Orleans Woman's League. Appointed by Governor to represent La. at first Southern Conference on Child Labor Laws; also Conference on Uniform State Laws at Washington, D.C.; Southern Sociological Congress, Nashville, Tenn.; has been appointed by mayors of New Orleans on the Public Playgrounds Commission in New Orleans (sec); elected first vice-pres. of La. State Good Roads Ass'n; conducted one session at last Congress on Good Roads, held in New Orleans.
DOUGLAS, Katharine Ross Chrystie (Mrs. Henry Percy Douglas), 124 Cedar Av., Montreal, Can.
Born N.Y. City, Feb. 7, 1874; dau. Thomas M. Ludlow Chrystie, M.D., and Julia (Ross) Chrystie; ed. Miss Graham's School, N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, May 3, 1899, Henry Percy Douglas; children: Chrystie, b. April 6, 1900; Hortense Pauline, b. May 31, 1901; Percy, b. Mar. 3, 1903. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian.
DOVER, Mary Violette, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
Chemist; b. Peterborough, Can.; dau. Frederick and Annette (Wood) Dover; grad. B.A. and M.Sc; McGill Univ., Montreal, Can.; Univ. in Breslau, Germany, Ph.D. Instructor in chemistry, Mt. Holyoke Coll. Episcopalian.
DOW, Caroline B., 135 E. Fifty-second St., N.Y. City.
Dean of Nat. Training School of Y.W.C.A.; b. Fowlerville, N.Y.; dau. Benjamin Franklin and Caroline M. (Capron) Dow; grad. Vassar, A.B. '80 (Phi Beta Kappa); grad. work in Paris and Columbia Univ. Interested in Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, N.Y. Peace Soc, Acad. of Political Science, Grenfell Ass'n, Religious Education Ass'n, Nat. Educational Ass'n. Mem. Woman's University Club of N.Y., Boston College Club; sec. of MaoDowell Club of N.Y.; mem. Barnard Club, MacDowell Memorial Ass'n.
DOW, Eleanor Jones (Mrs. Charles Mason Dow), Jamestown, N.Y.
Born Pittsburgh, Pa.; dau. E. Livingstone and Emily (Selby) Jones; m. Randolph, N.Y., Jan. 12, 1876, Charles Mason Dow; children: Alberta Gallatin (Mrs. Fletcher Goodwell), Charles Mason, Howard Jones. Pres. Agnes Ass'n Home for Small Wage Earning Girls; pres. Warner Home for the Aged. Author: Legends of Chautauqua Lake. Presbyterian. Ex-pres. of the N.Y. State Federation of Woman's Clubs. Mem. New Century Art Club (Jamestown), Mozart, Fortnightly and Sorosis clubs (N.Y. City), Scribblers' (Buffalo). Has traveled extensively in this country and abroad, visiting Palestine, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, Spain and all of Europe frequently.
DOW, Harriet Brown (Mrs. Frank Fowler Dow), 421 Park Av., Rochester, N.Y.
Born Wheatland, N.Y.; dau. Hon. Volney Pierce and Sarah R. (Avery) Brown; ed. district schools and Le Roy Academic Inst.; m. Wheatland, N.Y., Sept. 19, 1877, Frank Fowler Dow, M.D.; children: Leland Brown, Fayette Brown, Amont Brown. Pres. Ramabai Ass'n; sec. of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union of Rochester since 1893. Mem. Mayflower Soc, Colonial Dames; officer for 10 years of the Irondequoit Chapter D.A.R. (now regent); State director of N.Y. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. two literary and study clubs. Presbyterian. Sunday-school teacher. Against woman suffrage.
DOW, Martha Cora, Elmhurst Place, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Druggist; b. Paterson, N.J., Mar. 11, 1868; dau. Edwin Burleigh and Catherine (Hook) Dow; ed. Cincinnati public schools and dep't of pharmacy, Cincinnati Univ., Ph.G. '88. Conducts and owns 10 retail drug stores and wholesale drug houses in Cincinnati. Vice-pres. Am. Humane Soc, director Ohio Humane Soc; asso. editor Nat. Humane Review. Mem. Cincinnati Ass'n for Welfare of the Blind, Cincinnati Arts and Crafts Co. Recreations: Motoring, music. Mem. Hamilton Co. Golf Club, Three Arts Club, Matinee Musical Club. Makes a specialty of work in behalf of horses; originated vacations for horses; has put in circulation, during past five years, 50,000,000 pleas for the horse; now working on a plan to make every child in public schools in the United States a humane worker. Against woman suffrage.
DOWD, Alice M., 533 Warren St., Hudson, N.Y.
Teacher, writer; b. Frankford, W.Va., Dec. 16, 1855; dau. Almeron and Emily (Curtis) Dowd (both parents teachers, and of New England origin); ed. high school, Westfield, Mass., grad. two courses (first rank), State Normal School (class poet), Sauveur Coll. of Languages, foreign study and travel. Two years principal high school, Montague, Mass.; 23 years teacher in high school, Stamford, Conn.; 1 year teacher modern language dep't Pomona Coll., Cal. Many years worker in Sunday-school; assoc. mem. W.C.T.U. Author: Vacation Verses, 1891; Our Common Wild Flowers, 1906; occasional contributor to papers, at one time regular contributor to magazine edition of Pasadena News. Universalist. Mem. D.A.R. Recreations: Bicycle riding, photography. Began to teach at 17, has taught more than 30 years; still teaching. Has had experience in almost all phases of the work, district school substitute, evening school, private school, high school, college. Suffragist.
DOWD, Emma C, Meriden, Conn.
Author; dau. R. S. and Caroline (Merriman) Dowd; ed. private schools and under private teachers at New Haven, Conn. Author: Polly of the Hospital Staff, 1912; Playtime Games for Boys and Girls, 1912; stories, verses, humorous work, etc, in St. Nicholas, Youth's Companion, Life, Ladies' Home Journal, Century, Harper's Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Sunday School Times, Congregationalist, Suburban Life, Short Stories, Good Housekeeping, etc
