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BARROWS—BARRYMORE
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Extension teaching, Columbia Univ., 1905—; instructor, Teachers College, 1907—; lecturer before schools, clubs, New England, New York, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, West Virginia; director of School of Cookery, Chautauqua, N.Y., 1900—. Mem. Boston School Com., 1900-03; Household Economics Com., Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs, 1904-06, and 1910—. Author: Eggs, Home Science Cook Book (with Mary J. Lincoln); Principles of Cookery (bulletins for U.S. Dep't Agriculture). Mem. New England Women's Press Ass'n, Twentieth Century Club, Boston. Recreation: Gardening. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

BARROWS, Eulalie A. (Mrs. Frank Lyman Barrows), 12 Nineteenth Av., Duluth, Minn.

Born Cambridge, Mass.; dau. Samuel A. and Anne (Page) Bent; grad. Cambridge High School; special student Harvard Annex for two years; m. Milwaukee Wis., Oct. 16, 1890, Frank Lyman Barrows; children: Margaret Fuller, Kenneth Campbell, Lyman. Organizer of Neighborhood House (a social centre), and for many years at its head in Duluth, Minn. Pres. two years, vice-pres. five years Twentieth Century Club, Duluth; serving second two years' term as treas. Minn. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage.

BARROWS, Isabel Chapin (Mrs. Samuel June Barrows), Croton, Hudson, N.Y.

Journalist; b. Irasburg, Vt,; dau. Henry Hay (of Perth, Scotland) and Anna (Gibb) Hay (of Banff, Scotland); ed. Adams and Pinkerton Academies, Derry, N.H.; Univs. of Vienna, Austria and Leipzig, Germany; medical studies in N.Y. and abroad, degree of M.D.; m. (1st) 1863, A. W. Chapin (died in India, 1867); (2d) Samuel June Barrows, N.Y. City; one daughter: Mabel Hay (now Mrs. H. R. Mussey), b. 1873. As stenographer, first woman to be employed in Dep't of State, Washington; acting private sec. pro tern for W. H. Seward, Sec. of State; first woman oculist in the country, after completing studies in Vienna. Editor for 25 years of Nat. Conference of Charities and Correction, also Nat. Prison Ass'n, also Lake Mohonk Conferences for many years; department editor The Survey; editorial contributor to Independent, Outlook, etc. Favors woman suffrage. For 16 years editor of Christian Register of Boston. Author: The Shaybacks in Camp; A Sunny Life, the biography of Samuel June Barrows. Editor: Fifty Years of Prison Service; Theodore Parker's West Roxbury Sermons; has done much work for liberal papers, and written various articles on prison subjects for European magazines. Unitarian. Progressive Republican. Mem. Sociological Ass'n. Recreations: Rowing, swimming, horseback riding, walking.

BARROWS, Mary, Huntington Chambers, Boston, Mass.

Publisher; b. Fryeburg, Me.; dau. George Bradley and Georgiana (Souther) Barrows; ed. Wellesley, B.A. '90 (Zeta Alpha). Church news editor of The Congregationalist. 1892-94; ass't editor Am. Kitchen Magazine, 1894-1904. Mem. firm of Whitcomb & Barrows, publishers, 1904. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n, College Equal Suffrage League. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Home Economics Ass'n. Clubs: Boston Wellesley, Diversity.

BARROWS, Mary Livermore Norris (Mrs. Malcolm Dana Barrows), 1867 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass.

Born Melrose, Mass., June 30, 1877; dau. John Oscar and Henrietta White (Livermore) Norris; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '98; previously at Howard Sem., West Bridgewater, Mass.; m. Melrose, Mass., July 1, 1901, Malcolm Dana Barrows; one son: Malcolm Dana Jr., b. 1911. Mem. Howard Seminary Club, College Club, Boston Wellesley Club. Unitarian.

BARRUS, Clara, 424 Seventh Av., Pelham, N.Y.

Physician; b. Port Byron, N.Y.; ed. Port Byron Acad.; grad. '84 Boston Univ. School of Medicine, M.D. '88. Engaged in general practice in Utica three and one-half years; woman assistant in Middletown State Homoeopathic Hospital seventeen years; now has home for mental invalids at Pelham, N.Y. Author: Nursing the Insane: contributor to various literary and medical publications.

BARRY, Emily S. (Mrs. Lyman F. Barry), Marie Antoinette Hotel, N.Y. City (summer, South Nyack, N.Y.).

Born N.Y. City, Sept 1, 1845; dau. William S. and Anna Marie (Onderdonk) Wait; m. N.Y. City, June 23, 1866, Lyman Frank Barry; children: Robert Alexander, b. 1867; Emma L., b. 1869; Frank Gibbud, b. 1871. Interested in the Women Auxiliary in rescue work. Mem. Mayflower Soc., D.A.R., Andrew Jackson Chapter Daughters of 1812, Nat. Soc. New England Women, Nat. Soc. Patriotic Women of America, Am. Criterion Soc, William Lloyd Garrison Equal Rights Ass'n, Stony Wold Auxiliary No. 1, Little Mothers' Aid Ass'n, Mozart Musical Soc., City Fed. of Women's Clubs, Minerva. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BARRY, Lily Emily Frances, The Richmond, 86 Union Av., Montreal, Can.

Writer, painter; b. Montreal, Canada, fourth daughter of James and Catherine M. Barry( unmixed Irish descent on both sides); ed. Convent of Notre Dame du Sacré Coeur, Ottawa (grad. and winner of Governor General's silver medal for general proficiency); matriculated at McGill Univ., followed three years' course at Ottawa Art School, studied painting and modeling in Montreal. Joined editorial staff Collier's Weekly, 1893-96; mem. editorial staff Montreal Star, 1896-1909; since 1909 engaged in anti-tuberculosis campaign conducted by Royal Edward Inst., Montreal, of which she is a mem. of board of management; honorary sec. Publication Com. and life governor, also private sec. to the pres., Lieut.-Col. J. H. Burland. Exhibitor of portraits and landscapes in oil; went to Paris, 1900, as special staff correspondent of Montreal Star. Author: In Paths of Peace (essays); writes chiefly for newspapers, short stories, verses. Mem. Art Ass'n of Montreal, Woman's Canadian Club. Recreations: Sketching, skating, golf. Roman Catholic.

BARRY, Maggie Wilkins Hill (Mrs. F. G. Barry), North Texas Coll., Sherman, Tex.

Teacher, lecturer and reader; b. Palo Alto, Clay Co., Mississippi; dau. Dr. S. Van Dyke Hill and Jenny Calvert Hill; ed. Tuscaloosa Female Coll., Murfreeboro Institute, A.M., special student of literature, ancient and modern languages and dramatic expression under Miss Julia Tutweiler, Mlle. Marie du Minil, Théatre Francaise, Paris, and Countess Lida von Krockow, Dresden; m. Macon, Miss., Oct. 1, 1891, Hon. F. G. Barry; daughter: Jenny Hill Barry, b. 1896. Head Dep't of English, North Texas Coll. and Kidd-Key Conservatory, Sherman, Tex. Active in educational work of the State; chairman Education Dep't of Texas, Federation of Women's Clubs, and mem. Educational Commission of Conference for Education in Texas. A chairman of School Health Com., Dep't of School Patrons, N.E.A., and investigated and submitted report on instruction in personal and sex hygiene in normal schools; vice-chairman of Dep't of Education, Gen. Federation of Women's Clubs. Introduced the Social Centre movement into the Southwest. Author of series of studies in Shakespearian tragedy and comedy. Clubs: Kidd-Key Shakespeare Club, Civic League, Sherman, Texas. Recreations: Music and general educational work. Favors woman suffrage.

BARRYMORE, Ethel (Mrs. Russell G. Colt), 46 E. Thirty-fourth St., N.Y. City.

Actress: b. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 15, 1879; dau. Maurice and Georgina (Drew) Barrymore; ed. Convent of Notre Dame, Philadelphia; m. Mar. 19, 1909, Russell G. Colt. First appearance on stage was in 1895 at Empire Theatre, N.Y.; played leading parts both in N.Y. City and London; was with her uncle, John Drew, in this country, and Henry Irving's Co. in London.