BACKUS, Annie Amelia (Mrs. A. A. Backus, M.D.), Aylmer, Ontario, Can.
Physician; b. Port Rowan, Ont; dau. Jahn H. and Sarah (Dedrick) Backus; ed. Port Rowan Grammar School, Bishop Strachan School, Toronto, Ann Arbor, Mich., 18S6-87; Chicago Med. Coll., M.D. '89; degrees ad eundem, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1890; Ontario Med. Coll., '08; m. Albert Hamilton Backus, barrister. Practised medicine at Coldwater, Mich., one year, then took position in Maternity Hospital, N.Y. City, after which practised in Adrian, Mich. Took examinations in Ontario Coll., 1908, and practises in Aylmer, Ont. Lecturer for Dep't of Agriculture on health topics. Lectures for W.C.T.U. on social purity; interested in care of feeble-minded; has farm and is interested in stock farming and all kinds of agriculture. Favors woman suffrage; chairman of Suffrage Ass'n, Toronto. Writer of editorials for local papers and articles for magazines and Government reports. Episcopalian. Mem. Women's Inst, of Ontario, W.C.T.U., United Empire Loyalists. Recreations: All kinds of out-door sports, riding, driving, fishing, skating, gardening, games, chess, bridge and whist, lover of all animal and bird life. Mem. Aylmer Travel Club, Norfolk Historical Society.
BACKUS, Carrie Haskins, 678 Holly Av.. St. Paul, Minn.
Principal Mrs. Backus' School; b. Oswego, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1860; dau. David and Laurena (Eson) Hawkins; ed. New York schools, Oswego Normal; m. June 18, 1886, Oswego, N.Y., Clinton J. Backus; children: Clinton J. Backus, Jr., David H. Backus, Romaine L. Backus, Rena Backus. Leader adult Bible class; chairman Minn. State Forestry; committee of Federation of Women's Clubs; mem. of Soc. for Regulation of Child Labor. Presbyterian. Mem. New England Women's Club, Thursday Club, Forestry Club; Mem. Women's Council of St. Paul Commerce Club. Recreation: Gardening.
BACKUS, Emma S. (Mrs. Henry Backus), 273 Ernshaw Av., Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Writer; dau. Louis C. and Henrietta (Kroger) Shermeyer; ed. Cincinnati public schools; m. August, 1902, Henry Backus; children: Carl, Robert, Harry Jr. Favors woman suffrage. Author: The Career of Dr. Weaver. Mem. the Civic league Press Club.
BACKUS, Harriet Ivins (Mrs. Henry C Backus), The Osborne, 205 W. 67th St., N.Y. City.
Born N.Y. City; dau. Wilmer and Jennie Hastings (Davis); ed. New York schools and tutors; m. at Hotel Brunswick, N.Y. City, 1891, Henry Clinton Backus; children: Harriet Edna, Clinton Davis. Vice-pres. Woman's Municipal League; member Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage and of Nat. Ass'n for Civic Education of Women; interested in social service and settlements. Against woman suffrage. Episcopalian.
BACKUS, Susan Emily Foote (Mrs. Grosvenor Hyde Backus), Beech Road and Palisade Av., Englewood, N.J.
Born N.Y. State; grad. Smith Coll., B.L. '96; grad. student in economics, sociology and pedagogy, Columbia Univ.; m. Port Henry, N.Y., June 3, 1904, Grosvenor Hyde Backus (lawyer). College settlement worker until marriage.
BACON, Albion Fellows (Mrs. Hilary E. Bacon), Evansville, Ind.
Engaged in housing reform; b. Evansville, Ind.; dau. Albion and Mary (Erskine) Fellows; ed. Evansville, Ind.; m. Evansville, 1888, Hilary E. Bacon; children: Margaret (died 1909), Albion, Hilary and Joy (twins). Began housing reform work actively in 1908; Investigated conditions in State of Indiana and has lectured and written on subject ever since. In 1909 drafted a Housing Reform bill to cover all cities in State; look it to the Legislature and watched its passage. As passed it applies to only the two largest cities of State; took another State-wide bill to the Legislature, 1911; lost it by one vote being changed after it had won; since then has continued to campaign for housing reform. Active in many social and civic matters, helped organize Working Girls' Ass'n (now merged in Y.W.C.A.), organized Flower Mission. Author of book of poems: Songs Ysame (with sister, Annie Fellows Johnson); also housing pamphlets: What Bad Housing Means to the Community, and The Awakening of a State. Mem. Circle of the Visiting Nurse.; sec. of the Indiana Housing Ass'n; director of the Nat Housing Ass'n; mem. Flower Mission, Friendly Visitors' Circle; helped organize Anti-Tuberculosis League; helped with Civic Improvement; mem. Ladies' Literary Club, chairman of Housing Com. of State Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Exec. Com. of Children's Bureau of Indiana. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.
BACON, Alice Mabel, Deephaven Camp, Ashland, N.H.
Writer, teacher; b. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 22, 1858; dau. Leonard and Catherine (Terry) Bacon; ed. New Haven private schools; certificates Harvard examinations for women, 1881; advanced philosophical course, 1882. Teacher Hampton Inst., Hampton, Va., 1884-99; Peeresses School, Tokyo. Japan, 1887-1888; Higher Normal School, Tokyo, 1899-1901; since then has lectured on Japan and current topics and employed in Miss Capen's School, Northampton, Mass. Founded Dixie Hospital, Hampton, Va., 1889; one of the founders of Women's Civic Club, New Haven, Conn., 1905; Higher English School for Girls (Miss Tsuda's School), 1899, Tokyo, Japan. Author: Japanese Girls and Women; A Japanese Interior; In the Land of the Gods; edited Human Bullets, by H. Sakurai (a soldier's story of Port Arthur). Recreation: Running a large summer camp in N.H. Congregationalist.
BACON, Caroline Tilden (Mrs. George Wood Bacon), 23 W. Sixty-seventh St., N.Y. City, and St. James, L.I., N.Y.
Born Saint Cloud, Minn., Aug. 31, 1873; dau. William B. and Emily (Whittlesey) Mitchell; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '97; Columbia Univ., M.A. '99; Kappa Kappa Gamma; m. June 1, 1904, George Wood Bacon; one daughter: Elizabeth Mitchell, b. Mar. 30, 1905. Instructor in history in high school and college. Director of the Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupations; mem. Playgoing Com. for N.Y. Drama League of America; pres. Students' Aid Soc. of Smith Coll. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. American Historical Ass'n. Mem. Smith Coll. Club, Woman's University Club, McDowell Club, N.Y. City.
BACON, Corinne, Drexel Inst. Library, Philadelphia, Pa.
Librarian; b. N.Y. City; dau. William Plumb and Emma Parsons (Whittemore) Bacon; ed. Brooklyn Heights Sem., 1885; Packer Collegiate Inst., '90; N.Y. State Library School, B.L.S. '03. Assistant New Britain (Conn.) Institute Library, 1894-1901; assistant N.Y. State Library, Albany, N.Y., 1902-03; instructor N.Y. State Library School, 1903-10; chief of catalogue dep't Free Public Library, Newark, N.J., 1910-12; reference assistant for eight months in 1911; director Drexel Inst. Library and Library School, Philadelphia, 1912 — . Joint author of Course of Study for Normal School Pupils on Literature for Children. Magazine articles: New England Sectionalism; What Makes a Novel Immoral. Mem. Equal Franchise Soc. of Philadelphia, Nat. Child Labor Com., Keystone State Library Ass'n, Am. Library Ass'n, N.Y. State Library School Ass'n, National Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Pennsylvania Library Club. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Franchise Soc. of Philadelphia.
BACON, Dolores (née Mary Schell Hoke), Norton Heights, Conn. (Summer: 3021 Emmons Av., Sheepshead Bay, L.I.)
Author; b. Atchison, Kan., Nov. 20, 1870; dau. Jacob Schell and Amarillas (Carter) Hoke; ed. at home; m. N.Y. City, Oct. 1. 1898, Charles Bacon; one son: Charles Bacon, 2d. Author: I'll Ne'er Consent; Juggernaut (with George Gary Eggleston); Diary of a Musician; A King's Divinity; Cervantes and His Times; Old New England Churches; Songs Every Child Should Know; Hymns Every Child Should Know; Operas Every Child Should Know; Pictures
