Every Child Should Know. Plays produced: Juggernaut; The End of the Century; Dead Heroes and Live Ones. Contributor to magazines; engaged in European journalistic missions, 1889-91. Pen name Dolores Marbourg.
BACON, Elizabeth Daken (Mrs. James G. Bacon), 106 Capen St., Hartford, Conn.
Born Cranston, R.I., Mar. 19, 1844; dau. Solomon W. and Elizabeth W. (Wilbur) Kenyon (granddaughter of John Wilbur, noted Quaker preacher, who traveled and preached twice during his life in the British Isles and led a schism in his church, his followers being called the Wilburites); ed. Providence (R.I.) public schools; grad. with diploma from Providence High School, 1864; m. Providence, R.I., Oct. 6, 1869, James G. Bacon; one daughter: Alice Gary Bacon. Interested in the temperance question; mem. W.C.T.U., the Woman's Alliance (society connected with Unitarian Church of Hartford). Ardent advocate of woman suffrage; has addressed various organizations on the subject; vice-pres. at large Conn. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, 1892-1906; pres. 1906-10; pres. Hartford Equal Rights Club for past 20 years (club 28 years old; oldest suffrage club in State). Mem. First Unitarian Congregational Church of Hartford. Mem. Woman's Alliance, Conn. Peace Soc. (director), Consumers' League; was several years mem. of Hearthstone Club of Hartford (pres. two years—limit of term). Mem. since 1910 of Board of School Visitors of Hartford (only woman on board); served on High School Com., 1896-97.
BACON, Helen Hazard (Mrs. Nathaniel Terry Bacon). Peace Dale, R.I.
Born Peace Dale, R.I., Jan. 15, 1862; dau.Rowland and Margaret (Rood) Hazard; ed. private school in Providence, R.I., till 12 years old, and by governess, classes and foreign travel; m. Peace Dale, Oct. 6, 1885, Nathaniel Terry Bacon; children: Leonard, b. May 26, 1887; Susan, b. Nov. 12, 1889. Leader of Silent Circle of King's Daughters, Peace Dale, since 1895. Chairman for R.I. Soc. of Descendants of Colonial Governors; vice-pres. R.I. branch Woman's Board of Missions. Congregationalist. Mem. Nat. Soc. of Colonial Dames of America in State R.I. and Providence Plantations, Soc. Descendants of Colonial Governors; mem. Colonial Dames Club (Washington, D.C.). Against woman suffrage.
BACON, Josephine Daskam (Mrs. Selden Bacon), Beech Hill, Briarcliff, N.Y.
Author; b. Stamford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1876; dau. Horace Sawyer and Anne Loring Daskam; ed. Katherlne Aiken School and Stamford High School, Stamford; Smith Coll., B.A. '98 (editor-in-chief College Magazine; class orator); m. Stamford, Conn., July 25, 1903, Selden Bacon; children: Anne, b. Sept. 28, 1904; Deborah, b. Dec. 11, 1906; Selden, Jr.. b. Sept. 10, 1909. Books: Madness of Philip; Smith College Stories; Sister's Vocation; Middle Aged Love Stories; Fables for the Fair; Imp and the Angel; Memoirs of a Baby; Biography of a Boy; Ten to Seventeen; Margarita's Soul; The Border Country. Poems: Whom the Gods Destroyed; When Caroline Was Growing; Domestic Adventures; Idyll of All Fool's Day. Episcopalian. Mem. Colony Club and Woman's Cosmopolitan Club, N.Y. City. Recreations: All country sports, farming, stock breeding, amateur dramatics, music.
BACON, Rachel Haines (Mrs. Francis Llewellyn Bacon), 234 Winona Av., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.
Born Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., July 29, 1880; dau. William Henry and Mary Emlen (Howell) Haines; ed. Wellesley College, B.A. '02 (Agora Soc.); m. June 14, 1910, Francis Llewellyn Bacon. Clubs: Philadelphia College, Germantown Cricket.
BADEAU, Marie, 15 Badeau Av., Summit, N.J.
Born Brooklyn, N.Y., May 30, 1883; dau. Willlam E. and Annie (Bishop) Badeau; ed. Kent Place School, Summit, N.J., Vassar, A.B. '05, and by private instruction In Dresden, Germany, 1912. Interested in various religious, social and philanthropic interests. Against woman suffrage. Contributor of short stories and book reviews to various papers and magazines. Episcopalian. Mem. Fortnightly Club, Summit, N.J.
BAER, Libbie C. (Mrs. John M. Baer), Appleton, Wis.
Author; b. Bethel, Clermont Co., Ohio; dau. Rev. Gerard P. and Sarah (Riley) Baer; ed. Clermont Acad; m. Oct., 1867, Capt. John M. Baer, a distinguished soldier of the Civil War; children: Antis, b. Sept. 26, 1868; Charles, b. Mar. 22, 1872 (died Aug., 1898); Edward S., b. Oct. 28, 1878; John M., b. Mar. 29, 1886. Teacher, long active in Woman's Relief Corps (as allied with the G.A.R.) as State pres., also as Nat. senior vice-pres. Identified with club work (federated); pres. Civic Ass'n, Appleton, Wis. Always active in philanthropic work. Interested in the principles of universal suffrage; opposed to aggressive methods of obtaining it. Contributor to magazines; author of short stories and a volume of poems, entitled In the Land of Fancy. Congregationalist.
BAGLEY, Florence MacLean Winger (Mrs. William C. Bagley, 611 West Oregon St., Urbana. Ill.
Writer; b. Claylick, Pa., Jan. 7, 1874; dau. Joseph W. and Margaret (Irwin) Winger; ed. Univ. of Nebraska, A.B. '95, A.M. '98; received honorary Sigma Xi from Cornell (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 14, 1901, William Chandler Bagley; children: Ruth, Joseph, William Chandler Jr. and Florence. Author: Fechner's Colors (in Am. Journal of Psychology, 1902).
BAGLEY, Isabelle Tipton (Mrs. Fenton Bagley), Tome School for Boys, Port Deposit, Md.
Born Muskingum Co., O.; dau. William M. and Catherine (Melser) Tipton; ed. Zanesville (O.) High School, and at Washington, D.C.; m. Zanesville, O., Fenton Bagley; children: Arthur Tipton, Fenton, Myron Everhart. Teacher in public schools in Ohio and Washington, D.C; now connected with Tome School for Boys. Filled office of State pres. of Woman's Relief Corps of Ohio; served five years as nat. treas. Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to the G.A.R.; 14 years on boards of hospital trustees; a term as national director from Ohio in the Am. Nat. Red Cross organization; appointed by courts in Ohio to serve on visiting boards for charitable and correctional institutions of county and State. Identified with various other religious and philanthropic societies. Presbyterian.
BAHRENBURG, Carrie Thomas Alexander (Mrs. William Bahrenburg), Belleville, Ill.
Born Belleville, Ill., 1860; dau. Col. John and Magdelene (von Euw) Thomas; ed. Belleville School, Monticello Sem. (valedictorian of class); m. (1st) H. A. Alexander (deceased); (2d) 1909, Dr. William Bahrenburg. State director Illinois Children's Home and Aid Soc. Pres. Civic League of Belleville, auxiliary to Equal Suffrage Ass'n of Ill. Republican. Past State pres. of Woman's Relief Corps, auxiliary to Grand Army of Republic. Organized chapter of Order of Eastern Star in Belleville (matron four years). Recreation: Autoing. General manager and treas. of the Belleville Street Railway for five years; only case on record where a woman was actively engaged in operation of street railway. Pres. Ladies' Aid Soc; evolved plan by which able-bodied men and women were given work instead of alms; elected and served as a trustee of Univ. of Illinois 12 years.
BAILEY, Adella Browne (Mrs. Dewey Crossman Bailey), 1543 York St., Denver, Colo.
Born Aurora, N.Y., Feb. 8, 1860; dau. Warren and Harriet E. (Kerr) Browne; ed. high school, Chicago, Ill.; m. Kiowa, Colo., 1880, Dewey Grossman Bailey; one son: Dewey Grossman Bailey Jr. Pres. Woman's Club of Denver; mem. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Ergateau Club (study club); pres. of Sarah Platt Decker Memorial Ass'n; mem. of the Plymouth Congregational Church. Congregationalist. Republican.
BAILEY, Agnes McGiffert (Mrs. Frank Gelston Bailey), The Alhambra, Park and Bagg Sts., Detroit, Mich.
Lecturer; b. Hillsdale, N.Y.; dau. Rev. J., N. McGiffert (D.D.) and Harriet (Cushman) McGif-
