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��jjchoo], Portland, Me.; Normal School, Oswego, N.Y. Training teacher, Normal School, Oswego, N.Y.; primary supervisor, Yonkers, N.Y., 1876; training teacher, Normal School, Whitewater, Wis., 1877; training teacher, Normal School, St. Cloud, Minn., 1879-1912. Author: Classified Read- ing, a guide to Children's Literature. Episco- palian.
LAWKENCE, Llna, 3909 Locust St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
Born Norristown, Pa. ; dau. Henry and Caro- line (Whitall) Lawrence; ed. Friends School, Providence, R,I. ; Smith Coll., Northampton, Mass.; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '89. Episcopalian; ass't in Church Settlement, St. Peter's House, Philadelphia, 1893-96; worker at Church Settle- ment, Calvary House, N.Y. City, 1900-01.
L.AWRENCE, Margaret [Livingeton] Stanton
(Mrs. Frank Eugene Lawrence), Woman's Uni- versity Club, 99 Madison Av., N.Y. City. Per- manent, Shoreham, Suffolk Co., L.I., N.Y. Director of physical training; b. Seneca Falls, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1852; dau. Hon. Henry Brewster Stanton and his wife, the celebrated Elizabeth Cady Stanton; sister of Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch; grad. Vassar, A.B. '76; Anderson Nor- mal School of Gymnastics, Adelphi Coll., Brook- lyn, '91; other degrees from Harvard Summer School of Physical Training, Cambridge, Mass., '92; Chautauqua Summer School of Physical Training, Chautauqua, N.Y., '93; Gilbert Summer School of Athletic Dancing, Boston, '95; m. Tenafly, N.J., Oct. 2, 1878, Prank Eugene Law- rence. Director of physical training at Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ., 1891-1901, and at St. Agatha School, N.Y. City, 1902-10. Favors woman suffrage; active worker in Women's Political Union. Mem. Anderson Gymnastic Club, Am. Soc. Physical Education, Women's University Club. Presbyterian.
r,AWRENCE, Mary Dablgren (Mrs. Samuel Lawrence), Kansas City, Mo.; 825 W. Fortieth St., or 1019 New York Life Building, N.Y. City.
Lawyer; b. Edina, Mo.; dau. James Monroe and Margaret L. (Watson) Dahlgren; ed. country schools, high school (grad.), Kansas normal schools; mem. Kansas City (Mo.) bar, her hus- band being her law preceptor; m. Meade, Mo., 1892, Samuel Lawrence. Admitted to bar 1895, being the first woman officially admitted in Missouri; since then practising law with hus- band in firm of Lawrence & Lawrence. Was formerly school teacher, county sup't of public instruction; editor of Mead (ZIounty Nationalist two years; State pres. of Missouri P.E.O. Sis- terhood two years; Nat. pres. of P.E.O. Sis- terhood two years; vice-pres. Kansas City Athenaeum, the largest club in Missouri. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Susan B. Anthony League. Author: Laws of Missouri Particularly Applicable to Women and Children (designed es- pecially for the use of women, club women). Presbyterian. Democrat. Recreations: Walking, tramping.
LAWRENCE, Bath, 69 Washington PI., N.Y.
City.
Writer; b. N,Y. City; dau. Hon. Abraham H. and Eliza (Miner) Lawrence; ed. by private tu- tors; special student N.Y. Univ. In 1896 won the prize offered by the N.Y. World for the best campaign ballad over 1,530 competitors. In 1900 christened U.S.S. Lawrence, named after her distinguished kinsman, Captain Lawrence, whose dying words were "Don't give up the ship"; in 1912 unveiled memorial of the Sons of the Revo- lution to her great-great-grandfather. Gen. Na- thaniel Woodhull. Incorporator and director of the N.Y. Nursery and Child's Hospital; incor- porator and first historian of the Colonial Dames of the State of N.Y.; vice-pres. of Soc. of Spon- sors of the U.S. Navy. Mem. B'd of Managers of the Daughters of the Cincinnati, Soc. of Colo- Dial Governors, Navy League, Causerie de Lundi, etc. Author: The Beggar's Garden; (Colonial Vorses; The Evolution of Painting; One Sinner Repenteth; The Truest of the True; Gold; Our Valiant Volunteers; Cushla Machree, etc. Epis- copalian. Against woman suffrage.
��LAWS, Annie, 2927 Reading Rd., Cincinnati, O, Born Cincinnati; dau. James Hedding and Sarah Amelia (Langdon) Laws; ed. Cincinnati public schools, Miss Appleton's School for Girls, and by special professors and teachers in music, art, literature, etc.; also Cineiunati Art School. One of founders Cincinnati Woman's Club; pres. Kindergarten Ass'n; mem. Story Tellers' League, Folk-Lore Soc, cor. sec. Cincinnati Orphan Asylum; sec. and treas. Red Cross Chapter; chairman Com. on Foreign Relations of Iniernat. Kindergarten Union; meimber of Membership Com. of Pioneer Workers of the General Feder- ation of Women's Clubs. Mem. Cincinnati Women Teachers Ass'n, Am. School Peace League, Peace Soc, Nat. History Soc, D.A.R., House Workers' League, Visiting Nurse Ass'n; vice-pres. Hospital Social Service Ass'n. Mem. Cincinnati Gen. Ass'n of Mothers' Clubs; Nat. Education Ass'n representative in Ohio Fed. oi Clubs; ex-pres. Cincinnati Woman's Club; ex- pres. Ohio Fed. Woman's Clubs; ex-auditor Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs; ex-regent Cincinnati Chap- ter D.A.R. ; acting pres. Cincinnati Woman's Columbian Exposition Ass'n at the time of the World's Fair in Chicago.
LAWSON, Anna Meredith (Mrs. Jamea Herbert Lawson), 2 W. 106th St., N.Y. City. Hospital sup't; b. Inglewood, Baltimore Co., Md. ; dau. John and Anna Cecilia (Slater) Ahern; ed. private tutors. Convent of Visitation; m. 1872, James Herbert Lawson; children: J. Her- bert I.^W3on (M.D.) Margaret Herbert, Cecilia Herbert. Sup't Gen. Memorial Hospital since May, 1900. Against woman suffrage; interested in advancement of women.
LAWSON, Maria, 1809 Fernwood Road, Victo- ria, B.C., Can.
Journalist; b. Ne<w London, P.E.I., Dec. 15, 1852; dau. Henry Lawson (journalist) and Flora (McKenzie) Laisrson; ed. P.E.I, district school Normal School, Charlottetown, P.E.I. Taught school for some years, and removed to B C. with parents in 1900; was principal of Girls' School, Manaimo, B.C., and teacher in Girls' School, Victoria. Now on staff of the Victoria Colonist, conducting the Woman's Realm, a daily feature, and editing a weekly children's page. Author: School History of Canada; Sketch of British Columbia. Mem. Canadian Women's Press Club.
LAWTON, Alice Maude, 242 E. Fiftieth St
N.Y. City.
Journalist, magazine writer; b. Chelsea, Mass • dau. William Henry and Alice Maude (FoUans- bee) Lawton; ed. Boston Univ., A.B. '02; studied at Univ. of Lausanne, Switzerland; in Paris at the Sorbonne, Ecole des Beaux-Arts and EcoI'» du Ivouvre; mem. Alpha Phi. Mem. staff of the Evening Sun. Has written many feature stories for Sunday papers, chiefly for the Sun. Has writ- ten seme book reviews for the Times Book Review. Favors woman suffrage; writes occa- sional newspaper articles about the work. Has written articles for Travel Magazine, the School Journal, Good Housekeeping Magazine, the Wom- an's Magazine, the National Magazine, as well as for newspapers. Christian Scientist. Mem N.Y. City AlumnsB Chapter of Alpha Phi, Boston Univ. Ass'n of New York, Women's Press Club of N.Y. City, Pen and Brush Club. Has trav- eled and studied extensively in Europe. LAWTON, Bessie Eliza Boyd (Mrs. Walter
Lyman Lawton), 85 W. Cayuga St., Oswego.
N.Y.
Born Glens Falls, N.Y.; ed. in schools of Glens Falls and Vassar Coll., A.B. '95; m. Sept. 7, 1S9S, Walter Lyman Lawton; two sons and one daughter. Teacher in Poughkeepsle, N.Y. 1895- 97; principal of school at Lake George, ' N.Y. 1897-98. Joint editor with Dr. Fanny Cohen (Vassar '95) : Vassar Views.
LAWTON, Jeannie Latlirnp (Mrs. George Per- kins Lawton), 14 E. Sixtieth St.; summer, Lawton Villa, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Born Albany, N.Y. ; dau. Daniel Shields and Harriet M. (Wilson) Lathrop; ed. Albany Female Acad. (mem. Semper Fidelis) ; m. Albany, N.Y., Nov. 5, 1885, George Perkins L«awton; one son!
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