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��SLOCUM— SMALLWOOD

��Unltariaii Wo-men, Worcester Woman's Club, Worcester Smith College Club, Unitarian Club. 8LOCCM, CeUa Boucher (Mrs. M. L. Slocum),

1658 Front St., San Diego, Cal.

Teacher of New Thought; b. Randolph Co., Mo., Sept. IT, 1S56; dau. William M. and Sophia (Darby) Boucher; ed. Mt. Pieasant Coll., Hunts- ville, Mo.; m. Cowan, Tenn", June 14, 1882, Col. M. L. Slocum- children: Marie Irene, Harvey Manly, Cella Pearl. Started the first kinder- garten in National City, Cal. Active worker along philanthropic lines; pres. San Diego branch of Needlework Guild of America. Mem. Am. Woman's Republic (now chairman of Board of Education In San Diego Chapter), Na- tional New Thought Alliance, San Diego Mothers' Club. Favors woman suffrage. Holds socialistic principles, but voted for Democratic candidate for President, 1912.

SLOCUM, Estelle Woodruff (Mrs. Victor J.

Slocum), 30 Huntington Av., Boston, Mass.

Teacher of music; b. Pittsfield, Ma^., 1870; dau. Russell and Maria (Smith) Woodruff; ed. Pitts- field schools Smith Coll. (partial course) and in N.Y. City; m. N.Y. City, 1902, Victor J. Slocum. Composer of songs; concert pianist; originated Woodruff Sight-Reading Method and Woodruff Piano Method. Mem. Mass. Equal Suffrage League; lecturer on equal suffrage for women. Author: Woodruff's Comprehensive Music Course; various articles on musical subjects and paper-s read before conventions. Religion: New Thought. Charter mem. N.Y. Women's Philhar- monic Soc, N.Y. Music Teachers' Ass'n. Recrea- tions: Golf, dancing. Founder and pres. Eclectic Study Club; charter mem. Colonial Families of America.

SLOCUM, Grace Leila, 178 Cypress St., or Providence Journal, Providence, R.I. Author, journalist; b. Pawtucket, R.I. ; dau. Eason L.. and Amanda Margaret (Hawes) Slo- cum: ed. Pawtucket High School, special student in literature at Women's Coll. in Brown Univ., '96; studied and wrote under Dr. John M. Man- ley, of Bro^n, now of Chicago Univ. Made editor of Woman's department of Providence Sunday Journal, 1900; also art writer. Worker on child labor. Arts and Crafts Com. of State Federation of Women's Clubs. Author: Vision of the Madonna (poem); On the Face of the Waters and Other Poems; also articles in The International Studio, The Craftsman, The House Beautiful, The New England Magazine. Con- gregationalist. Mem. D.A.R., R.I. Short Story Club, Pnwtucket Woman's Club, Houseiwives' League, New England Women's Press Ass'n.

SLOCUM, Jane M., Weiser, Idaho.

Teacher; b. Slocumville, Jefferson Co., N.T., 1842; dau. Samuel Gifford and Phebe (Palmer) Slocum; ed. family and district schools, private boarding school; Oakwood Sem., Union Springs, N.Y. ; grad. Howland Coll. Inst., Union Springs, '61; Law School, Univ. of Mich., LL.B. '72; Taught in Freedman School, Yorktown, Va., last year of Civil War (1865), then in Howland Inst, (except 1871-72) till 1876. In 1876 was one of four who founded Granger Place School at Canan- daigua, N.Y., and conducted it 17 years. Went to N.Y. City 1893, gave parlor talks and had classes in social science in Carnegie Hall. In- terested in civics, economics and the general welfare of the people; bettering social conditions. Birthright mem. of Friends, or Quakers. Favors woman suffrage. Congrefationalist. Independent in politics. Honorary mem. Weiser Outlook Club. Helped to found the Idaho Industrial Inst., 1900, and became principal of girls' dep't (now trustee, vice-pres. and also chairman Educational Com.)

8LOSSON, Annie Trumbull (Mrs. Edward SIos- son). care of Harper Brothers, Franklin Square. N.Y. City.

Author; b. Stonington, Conn., May 18, 1838; (Jau. Gurdon and Sarah A. Trumbull; cd. In schools of Hartford, Conn.; special studies in entomology and botany; m. Hartford, Conn., June 27, 1867, Edward Slosson. Author: The

��China Hunters' Club; Fishin' Jimmy; beven Dreamers; The Heresy of Mehitable Clark; Dumb Foxglove; Story-tell Lib; White Christo- pher; Aunt Abby's Neighbdrs; Simples from the Master's Garden; A Dissatisfied Soul and a Prophetic Romancer; A Local Colorist; A Little Shepherd of Bethlehem.

SLOSSON, May Preston (Mrs. Edwin E.

Slosson), 530 W. 123d St., N.Y. City.

Born Ilion, N.Y., Sept. 10, 1858; dau. Rev. Levi Curtis and Mary (Gorsline) Preston; ed. Hills- dale (Mich.) Coll., B.S. '78; M.S. '79 (junior prize in oratory); Cornell Univ., Ph.D. '80; m. Cen- tralia, Kan., Aug. 12, 1891, Edwin B. Slosson; children: Preston William, b. 1S92; Raymond A-lfred, b. 1894. Prof. Greek, 1890; of English, 1891, Hastings Coll. For five years chaplain of the State Penitentiary of Wyoming. Gives occa- sional lectures, addresses and sermons. Mem. Collegiate Equal Suffrage League. Author: Dif- ferent Theories of Beauty; The Garden; Poems; Plays for Young People. Congregationalist. Pro- gressive Republican. Mem. the Municipal League, The Round Table, Y.W.C.A., Cornell Alumnas; pres. Hillsdale Alumni Ass'n of N.Y. Recreations: Walking, golf. Club: Sorosis.

SSIAJXL, Edith Margaret, Ward Seminary,

Nashville, Tenn.

Reader, lecturer; b. Montreal, Can. ; dau. William and Margaret (Middleton) Smaill; ed. High School for Girls, Montreal; McGill Univ., Montreal, A. A.; the School of Expression, Boston; graduate work with various teachers of voice and drama in London and America. Toured through Canada with lecture-recital, entitled An Evening with the Habitant; in London, Eng., under patronage of H.R.H. Princess Louise, Lord Strathcona and others. Lectured in Royal Colonial Inst., Lon- don; reading before Imperial Inst., London, at which royalty attended, and before Canadian and American clubs of note. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian.

SMALL, Beulah, 327 Court St., Auburn. Me.;

Summer, North Leeds, Me.

Teacher of languages and singing; b. Yar- mouth, Me.; dau. Enos and Beulah (Whitney) Small; grad. Mt. Holyoke Coll., School of Vocal Technology and Munroe School of Oratory. Since graduation at Mt. Holyoke Coll. has taught every year; pressed into the vocal field by Dr. Guilmette; spent 23 years teaching In Boston. Taught four years in Gorham Sem., five years at Rockford, 111., and Marion, Linn Co., Iowa., where she had charge of a seminary in its in- cipient state; afterward taught in the college at Lyons, Iowa. Favors woman suffrage. Spent one year in Europe and had charge of several young ladles at that time. At Mt. Holyoke con- tinued the study of French and German, and latterly has added the Italian; has had some translations from the works of Dante. Con- gregationalist. Recreation: Physical culture (teacher).

SMALL, Vivian Blanche, Lake Erie College,

Painesvlllle, O.

College president; b. Gardiner, Me., Sept. 17, 1875; dau. Leander M. and Blanche A. (Paine) Small; ed. Mt. Holyoke Coll., B.A. '96; Univ. of Chicago, M.A. '05. Teacher, Gorham, Me., 1896- 98; Howe School, Billerica, Mass., 1898-1901; ass't in Latin, 1901-02; instructor, 1902-08; associate prof Latin, 1908-09; head of Mead Hall, 1907-09, Mt. Holyoke Coll.; pres. Lake Erie Coll., July 1, 1909 — . Congregationalist.

SMALLWOOD, Delia Graeme (Mrs. George Thomas Sraallwood), 2107 S St., Washington, D.C.

Teacher; b. Lawrence, Mass.; dau. Richard W. and Phebe (Clark) Robinson; ed. Boston public schools; high school; Normal and under private tutors in music, art, science, elocution, literature; m. Boston, Mass., June 27, 1SS8, George Thomas Smallwood; children: Dorothy Archibald, Graeme Thomas. Principal of Washington Seminary, Washington, D.C. Interested in Woman's Mis- sions, W.C.T.U., D..\.R., Soc. of Daughters of 1812, Woman's Army and Navy League, Junior Republic. Episcopalian.

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