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SACKETT, Clara Elizabeth, Studio 473 Virginia St., Buffalo, N.Y.; summer, Denmark Inn, Denmark, Me.

Portrait painter; b. Westfield, N.Y.; dau. Charles Edward and Mary Anna (Dickson) Sackett; studied in Albany Female Sem., 1880; Boston, 1887; Art Students' League, N.Y. City, 1888-90; Parisian Ateliers of Delacluse and Colorossi, 1891-96, and private studio of Aman Jean, Edwin Scott; portrait in Salon Champs de Mars, 1896; prize in Buffalo Society of Artists, Since 1897 in Buffalo painting many portraits. Has exhibited in N.Y. City, Philadelphia, Boston and the West; elected pres. Buffalo Guild of Allied Arts, 1912. Notable paintings include portraits of Dr. Horace Briggs, Mrs. George Sawyer, Miss Margaret Good and Miss Palmer, N.Y. City, and Mr. Bryant Fleming, Buffalo. Has conducted classes in Welcome Hall (settlement). Has costumed and arranged pageants in Buffalo and at Wyonegonic Camp, Me. Favors woman Suffrage; mem. Buffalo Political Equality Soc. Has read papers on various subjects before clubs, progressive in politics. Mem. Nat. Soc. of Federation of Arts, Buffalo Soc. of Artists, also Buffalo Fine Arts. Recreations: Arranging and staging amateur plays and painting sceneries, canoeing, camping. Mem. Studio Club, Buffalo. Has studied in France and painted some years in Europe.

SACKETT, Margaret Ferguson (Mrs. Walter George Sackett), 800 Elizabeth St., Fort Collins, Colo.

Born Reidsville, N.C., Sept. 14, 1882; dau. Joseph and Elizabeth Frances (Wray) Ferguson; grad. Meredith Coll., Raleigh, N.C., A.B.; m. Oxford, N.C., June 28, 1905, Walter George Sackett; one daughter: Susan Margaret (deceased). Pres. Kanatenah Club, 1911-12; cor. sec. Colo. Federation of Women's Clubs, 1912-14. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Democrat.

SADLER, Hilda Ridley, 907 Jancey St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

Born Pittsburgh, Jan. 15, 1881; dau. Silas Packard and Margaret (Hilla) Sadler; ed. public schools of Pittsburgh, Pa. Coll. for Women, A.B. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. College Club of Pittsburgh.

SADLIER, Anna T., 286 Daly Av., Ottawa, Ont., Can.

Born Montreal, Can., 1854; dau. James Sadlier (publisher) and Mary Anne (Madden) Sadlier (Catholic novelist); ed. Mile. Lagarde's French School, N.Y. City; Villa Maria Convent, Montreal, Can., medal for general excellence. Interested in Free Library, Catholic Sailors' Club, Deaf and Dumb Inst., Nazareth Inst, for the Blind, Children's Aid Soc, Friends of the Poor. Author: The True Story of Master Gerard; The Pilkington Heir: Cousin Wilhelmina; The Red Inn of St. Lyphar; Phileas Fox; Wayward Winifred; The Mystery of Hornby Nail; The Lost Jewel of the Martimers; Arabella; Pauline Archer; A Summer at Woodville; The Talisman; Women of Catholicity; Names That Live; Monk's Pardon; The Outlaw of Camargue; Mathilda of Canossa; also over a hundred short stories, and more than that number of articles and sketches, literary historical or biographical, chiefly in the Catholic magazines and newspapers of the U.S., Canada and England; also a number of serial stories, beside some 20 translations from French and Italian. Catholic.

SADTLER, Delia Cromwell Banks (Mrs. George Washington Sadtler), 26 E. Twenty-fifth St., Baltimore, Md.

Born Hollidaysburg, Pa.; dau. Judge Thaddeus Banks and Delia C. (Reynolds) Banks (of Maryland); descendant, through her mother, of Oliver Cromwell, the Protector; ed. Hollidaysburg Sem.; m. Hollidaysburg, Nov. 29, 1877, George Washington Sadtler of Baltimore; children: Kathleen (wife of Dr. Houston B. Hiatt of N.C.) and Sophia Banks Sadtler. Mem. Southern Educational Ass'n, Daughters of the Confederacy, Md. Historical Soc. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Historian Daughter of the War of 1812 of Md.; pres. Colonel Nicholas Ruxton Moor Chapter of Children of Am. Revolution; historian for years of Baltimore Chapter of D.A.R., and wrote for the National Magazine. Episcopalian. Pres. Md. State Council of United Women (also pres. 11th division); mem. Arundell Club, Municipal Art Soc, Bishop's Guild of Md. Active worker in Woman's Civic League; officer in Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions; former treas. of Md. State Fed. of Women's Clubs for three years, and was cor. sec. Md. State Council D.A.R.

SADTLER, Helena V. Sachse (Mrs. Samuel Sadtler), Bethlehem Pike, Flourtown, Pa.

Lecturer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 30, 1875; dau. Julius Friedrich and Emma C. (Lange) Sachse; ed. Girton School, Haverford, Pa., and Philadelphia Cooking School, grad. 1899; m. Philadelphia, June 3, 1902, Samuel Sadtler. Has given courses of lectures on cooking for the sick in hospitals at Germantown (Philadelphia), Pottsville, Morristown, Scranton, etc. Author (under maiden and pen name "Helen V. Sachse"); How to Cook for the Sick and Convalescent, 1901, and four later editions.

SAFFORD, Anne Williston, 41 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Teacher; b. Burlington, Vt., July 6, 1869; dau. George Blagden and Mary Ballard (Gould) Safford; ed. Mary A. Burnham Classical School, Northampton, Mass.; Smith Coll., B.L. '92 (mem. Alpha Soc); alumnae class pres.; vice-pres. Smith Alumnae Ass'n; director Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae of N.Y.; interested in church and educational work; friendly visitor in philanthropic work. Congregationalist. Recreations: Carpentry and aquatic sports. Director Women's University Club of N.Y.

SAFFORD, Gertrude Sunderland (Mrs. Homer E. Safford), 22 W. Hancock Av., Detroit, Mich.

Born Northfield, Mass., Feb. 2, 1873; dau. Jabez Thomas and Eliza (Read) Sunderland; ed. Ann Arbor High School; Univ. of Mich., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa); grad. study one-half year in Univ. of Chicago, and a winter of piano study in Berlin with Moszkowski, besides musical study in U.S. under Calvin B. Cady, harmony under Frederick Grant Gleason and pipe organ with Albert A. Stanley; m. Ann Arbor, Mich., June 28, 1898, Dr. Homer E. Safford; children: Helen Sunderland, Mildred Hortense, Truman Sunderland, Virginia Gertrude. Before marriage taught English literature for a year in the high school of Flint, Mich. Pres. 20th Century Club of Detroit; sup't Unitarian School of Religious Education; mem. Com. of Forty on Playgrounds for Detroit; mem. and pianist in two musical clubs. Favors woman suffrage; mem. College Equal Suffrage Club of Detroit. Unitarian. Mem. Society for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Sex Hygiene Society. Recreations; Music, tennis, dancing, walking. Member Twentieth Century Club, Equal Suffrage Club, the Tuesday Musicale, the Tri-trio Club. Special interests are in music and education; took special courses of study under Prof. John Dewey at Univs. of Mich, and Chicago in child psychology, methods of teaching, etc, and at his personal invitation introduced a Department of Music into School of Education. Since 1900 has taught a class of children (including her own) in music, developing an original method with the application of child psychology and the newer pedagogy to this subject.

SAFFORD, Rev. Mary Augusta, 919 Eighteenth St., Des Moines, Ia.

Unitarian minister; b. Quincy, Ill., Dec. 23, 1851; dau. Stephen Farrar and Louisa (Hunt) Safford; ed. in Iowa State Univ.; ordained June, 1880; pastor at Humboldt, Ia., until 1885, then at Sioux City, Ia., until 1889, and at Des Moines, until 1910; then made pastor emeritus. Has organized six churches. Was pres. of State Conference 11 years; director cf Nat. Unitarian Ass'n. Always interested in humane societies, and has helped organize several. Pres. Iowa Equal Suffrage Ass'n (Equitable Bld'g, Des Moines). Mem. City Fed. of Women's Clubs, P.E.C., Friends in Council, Unity Circle, etc. {nop}