Branch of the Woman Suffrage Party. Author: Lap Stories (for children); Poems—My Symphony Lullaby. Presbyterian. Mem. Rye Students' Ass'n, Social Study Club, Fortnightly Musical Club.
BATCHELDER, Alice Lizzie, 50 John St., Lowell, Mass.
General secretary Y.W.C.A.; grad. Smith Coll., B.A. 1901. Gen. sec. Y.W.C.A., Univ. of Indiana, 1902-03: sec. for Missouri, 1903-05; Univ. of Texas, 1905-06; State sec. for Texas, 1906-09; Wilmington, Del., 1908-09; gen. sec. Y.W.C.A., Lowell, Mass., since 1909.
BATE, Florence E., Director Welfare Department, American Bank Note Co., Hunt's Point, Bronx, N.Y. City.
Librarian for four years. Later associated with the publishing houses of Harper & Bros., McClure, Phillips &. Co., Henry Holt. Organized a welfare dep't for the American Bank Note Co. of N.Y. City in 1911, and director of the work since its inception.
BATES, Blanche (Mrs. Milton F. Davis), care Belasco Theatre, N.Y. City.
Actress; b. Portland. Ore., 1873; dau. F. M. Bates; ed. public schools of San Francisco; m. Captain Milton F. Davis of the Tenth Cavalry, U.S.A. First played under the management of F. Daniel Frawley, later under Augustin Daly—Leibler & Co., and David Belasco. First star was that of Mrs. Hillary in The Senator, in 1895; after that played leading comedy parts in various plays, Shakespearian roles with Augustin Daly's company; played Miladi, in the Liebler production of The Musketeers; under the Belasco management in many star parts, including Madame Butterfly; Cigarette in Under Two Flags; Princess Yo-San in The Darling of the Gods; more recent as The Girl in The Girl of the Golden West.
BATES, Charlotte Fiske (Mrs. Adolphe Rogé), 304 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass.
Poet, compiler, educator; b. N.Y. City, Nov. 30, 1838; dau. Hervey and Eliza (Endicott) Bates; ed. Cambridge, Mass.; m. New York, June 4, 1891, Monsieur Adolphe Rogé (died 1896). For twenty-five years had private pupils; in 1888 became teacher of literature in a New York seminary. Interested in the subject of psychical research. Christian Socialism, establishment of peace among the nations, philanthropic work. Author: Risk, and Other Poems, 1879 (long out of print); composer of the Longfellow Birthday Book, 1881; The Seven Voices of Sympathy, 1881; The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, 1882; assisted Mr. Longfellow in preparing his Poems of Places.
BATES, Clara Nettie, 413 Washington St., Traverse City, Mich.
Editor, writer; b. Traverse City, Mich., Dec. 25, 1876; dau. Thomas Tomlinson and Martha E. (Cram) Bates; ed. by private instruction in the home. Editor for six years of Children's Department in newspaper, the Grand Traverse Herald; stories and articles for children appearing each week. In connection conducts the Children's Department called Sunshine, consisting of 500 active members, representing every State and Canada, and with nearly 10,000 names on the membership list since organization, the largest junior Sunshine Soc. in the world, affiliated with Internat. Sunshine Soc. Also writer of miscellaneous stories and poems appearing in various publications for children. Vice-pres. Mich. Woman's Press Ass'n; vice-pres. Mich. Audubon Soc; director Mich. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; cor. sec, 1908-10, and chairman of Bureau of Information, 1910-12. Corr. sec. Traverse City (Mich.) Bureau of Associated Charities; active in local church work, especially Home Dep't of Sunday-school; many years chairman Book Com. of Ladies' Library Ass'n; six years cor. sec. Woman's Club; active locally in recent campaign for suffrage in Mich. Congregationalist. Mem. Internat. Farm Woman's Press Ass'n, Mich. Woman's Press Ass'n, Internat. Sunshine Soc, Traverse City Chapter 147 Order of Eastern Star, Y.W.C.A., Mich. State Humane Ass'n. Recreations: Nature, rambling in woods and fields. Mem. Traverse City Fed. of Women's Clubs, Traverse City Woman's Club, Traverse City Ladles' Library Ass'n.
BATES, Edith Talcott (Mrs. H. Roswell Bates), 71 W. Eleventh St., N.Y. City.
Born New York; dau. James and Henrietta E. (Francis) Talcott; grad. Spence School; one year at Barnard Coll.; m. N.Y., June 8, 1909, H. Roswell Bates; children: Charlotte, Talcott. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian.
BATES, Emily Rusling (Mrs. Arthur Laban Bates). The Cochran, Washington, D.C.; home, Meadville, Pa.
Born Trenton, N.J., Oct. 18, 1884; dau. General James Fowler and Emily (Wood) Rusling; ed. State Model School, Trenton, N.J.; traveled abroad extensively; student School of Industrial Arts, Trenton, N.J.; m. Trenton, N.J., Oct, 20, 1909, Arthur L. Bates of Meadville, Pa. (member of Congress from 25th Dist of Pa.). Formerly sec. of Flower Com. of Mercer Hospital, Trenton, N.J.; sec. of Membership Com., Y.W.C.A. Brought up a Methodist, joined Baptist Church to be mem. of husband's church. Mem. Contemporary Club, Trenton, N.J.; N.J. Soc. Colonial Dames of America, Meadville Art Soc. Recreations: Golf, boating, sailing, driving, motoring, music and art studies, sewing. Mem. Trenton Country Club, Meadville Country Club.
BATES, Emma, 239 Pine St., Holyoke, Mass.
Professor of music; b. Galesburg, Ill.; dau. Jacob P. and Jane (Parks) Bates; student Smith Coll., 1879-81; music, 1881-83; post-graduate, 1885-90, B..M. '83; pupil of Mason, N.Y. City, and Baermann, Boston; student Kullak Conservatory of Music, Berlin, also studied with Dreyshoch and Barth, 1893-94. Teacher of piano and theory of music, Mt. Holyoke Coll., 1892-93; teacher of piano, Smith Coll., 1892-93, 1895-96, 1904-06; associate prof. of music. Smith Coll., since 1906. Baptist; sup't of Primary Dep't in Sunday-school. Mem. Thursday Club and College Club of Springfield, Mass. Against woman suffrage.
BATES, Emma Frances Duncan (Mrs. Theodore C. Bates), 29 Harvard St., Worcester, Mass.
Born North Brookfield, Mass., Mar. 11 1845; dau. Charles and Tryphosa (Lakin) Duncan (on father's side descended from William Duncan of Aberdeen, Scotland, who settled first in Oxford and later in Paxton, Mass., and on her mother's side from Revolutionary ancestry in the Lakin line and also from the Shipley family of New York and England); ed. North Brookfield High School, and Oread Collegiate Inst, Worcester, Mass.; m. North Brookfield, Dec. 24, 1868 Theodore Cornelius Bates; one daughter: Mrs. Tryphosa Bates Batcheller. Always interested and active in public affairs; mem. State Com of Civil Service Reform Ass'n, State Com. on Conservation, State Com. on Child Labor, Worcester Art Soc, Worcester Soc. of Antiquity, Soc. of Antiquity of America; was State vice-pres. of Woman's Rivers and Harbors Congress; mem. Nat. Soc. D.A.R., and for two terms was vice-pres. general for Mass. (full length of time allowed by the constitution), at close of which was presented with a silver loving cup from the D.A.R. members of Mass., and solicited by petitions from all over the country to be a candidate for president-general, which her wifely duties to her husband, then ill, made her feel it necessary to decline. Prominent in Worcester Woman's Club, but because of her many social duties has several times declined its presidency. Has written essays, historical and descriptive, of her travels, and has delivered illustrated lectures on similar topics in behalf of the various charities in which she is interested. Favors woman suffrage, but opposed to militant methods.
BATES, Helen Page (Mrs. Walter G. Bates), 519 Franklin St., Detroit, Mich.
Librarian; b. Rockford, Ill., 1860; dau. John L. and Eilen H. (Lewis) Page; ed. Wellesley, A.B. '83; Univ. of Wis., Ph.D. '96; library training, N.Y. State Library School, Albany (mem. Zeta Alpha); m. 1887, Walter G. Bates, instructor in Columbia Univ. (died 1893). Entered post-graduate at Univ. of Wis., 1893-96. Prof. of economics and history, Rockford Coll., 1897-98; settlement work, 1899-1904, Hull House, Chicago;
