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��WHTPPLE, Florence Brandenburg: (Mrs. Clifford Whipple), 348 Lloyd Av., Providence, R.I. Born Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 25, 1877; dau. Charles A. and Carrie M. (Cochran) Branden- burg; ed. in Europe and Willard Hall School, Danvers, Mass.; Wellesley Coll.. Brown Univ., Ph.B. '02 (mem. Theta Lambda Tau); m, London, England, 19(W, Clifford Whipple. Mem. House- wives' League, Needlework Guild, Y.W.C.A., church societies, two musical clubs and College Equal Sufirage League. Unitarian.
WHIl'PLE, Gertrude Kimball (Mrs. Wayne Whipple), The Greystone, Germantown. Pa. Born Lakeport, N.H., Sept. 11, 1867; dau. Stephen Smith and Mary (Odell) Kimball; ed. McGill Normal, AFontreal, Can.; m. Maiden, Mass., Jan. 28, 1893, Wayne Whipple; one son: Paul Kimball Whipple, b. Dec. 4, 1893. Meth- odist. Pres. Literary Club of Germantown, Pa., 1910; corr. sec. New England Conference Wom- an's Home Missionary See. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1900-05. Opposed to woman suffrage.
WHITAKER, Alice E. (Mrs. George Mason Whitaker), 1404 Harvard St., Washington, D.C.
Newspaper writer; b. Southbridge, Mass., Nov. 17, 1851; dau. Charles Winthrop and Luciuda (Richardson) Weld; ed. Southbridge High School, Nichols Acad., Dudley, Mass.; m. Southbridge, Mass., 1871, George Mason Whitaker; children: Lillian, Ethel. Favors woman suffrage. Twelve years ass't editor of New England Farmer, Bos- ton; has written daily newspaper syndicated articles for past 11 years. Universalist. Ex- pres. New England Woman's Press Club; mem. Professional Woman's Club, Boston; Boston Business League; ex-pres. Winthrop (Mass.) Woman's Club; pres. Housekeepers' Alliance, D.C. Mem. League of Am. Pen Women, D.A.R., Mothers' Congress.
WHITCOMB, Ida Prentice, 103 Joralemon St.,
Brooklyn, N.T.
Author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y. ; dau. Moses and Jemima Whitcomb; grad. Packer Collegiate Inst., Brooklyn. Had her own school In Brooklyn 30 years. Vice-pres. Woman's Foreign Missionarj' Soc. Author: Topical History Chart; Summary of Modern History; Heroes of History; Young People's Story of Art; Young People's Story of Music; Young People's Story of American His- tory. Congregationalist. Recreation: Travel; has been abroad four times.
WHITCOMB, Jessie E. Wright (Mrs. George H. Whitcomb), 1921 West Sixth St. (office, Craw- ford Bld'g), Topeka, Kan.
Laiwyer, author; b. Princeton, N.J., Sept., 1864; dau. William J. Wright, Ph.D., LL.D., and Julia (MacNair) Wright (author); ed. Univ. of Vt.. A.B. '84, Phi Beta Kappa and A.M.; Boston Univ. Law School, LL.B. '87; admitted to Shawnee Co.- (Kan.) Bar, '88; m. Pulton, Mo., George H. Whit- comb; children: Philip Wright (Washburn Univ., A.B. '10, at age of 18, appointed Rhodes scholar for Kan., 1911; now at Wadham Coll., Oxford), Richard Seabury, Robert Fay, William Harvey, George Austin, Isabel MacNalr. Resident of To- peka since 1888; delivered lecture course on Sales before Washburn Law School, 1910 (first woman to lecture before men's law school). Author ju- venile bocks; Odd Little Lass; Freshman and Senior; Majoribanks; His Best Friend; Fen's Venture; Queer as She Could Be; Curly Head; Philip Leicester; also magazine contributor. Presbyterian (taught young men's Bible class thred years). Advocate of and occasional lec- turer lor woman suffrage. Independent Repub- lican. Mem. Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity. Recreations: Horseback, tennis, mountain climb- ing.
WHITE, Amelia Elizabeth, 18 W. Sixty-ninth
St., N.T. City.
Born N.Y. City; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City; grad. Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. '01 (George W. Childs prize essayist); special student Columbia Univ., 1901-02. Director of the Preparatory Trade School, N.Y. City, since 1908. Wood carver.
��WHITE, Anna Beatrice Goldstine (Mrs. Samuel White), 612 Washington Av., Cairo, 111. Born in Hungary; ed. In schools of Cairo, 111., and Vassar Coll., A.B. '85; m. Cairo, 111., June 24, 1891, Samuel White; one son. Teacher in Cairo 111., from 1886 until marriage. Has seri-ed as a member of the B'd of Education of Cairo, 111., 15 years (first woman elected In Cairo, 111.); sec. of the Cairo Public Library B'd for 21 years. First woman judge of election (1910); mem. Auxiliary Board of Visitors of the State Board of Charities for Alexander County. Former pres. of Cairo Woman's Club and the Schiller Club, besides holding many other offices in both; still critic of the Schiller Club, which reads that master's works in German. Has written many articles for local papers and original theses read before the clubs; now chairman of Teachers and Text-book Committees of the Board of Educa- tion.
WHITE, Carolyn Hall (Mrs. William Gardner White), 767 Goodrich Av., St. Paul, Minn. Born Hartford, Conn., Aug. 25, 1854; dau.
Bbenezer and Marie (Dart) Hall; ed. Hartford,
Chicopee and Springfield, Mass.; m. Chicopee,
Mass., May 22, 1878, William Gardner White;
children: Marion, Edwin, Preston, Elizabeth.
Mem. Nathan Hale Chapter D.A.R., Schubert
Club. Presbyterian.
WinXE, Carrie Harper (Mrs. John E. White),
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Born Detroit. Mich., 1875: dau. William Wallace and Mary Elsie (Ingersoil) Harper; ed. Cleveland public schools, School of Art, Art Students' League and School of Applied Design, N.Y. City; m. Cleveland, O., Nov. 14, 1900, John E. White, M.D.; children: Laura, Harper. Taught decora- tive design and lectured on Historic Ornament four years in Cleveland High School. Interested in educational work and has been chairman of Health Com. Gen. Ftd. Women's Clubs in Colo., lecturing especially on the subject of Tubercu- losis. Favors woman suffrage. Has lectured on practice of Equal Suffrage in States trying to secure the privilege. Author: Records of the Harper Family. Episcopalian. Republican- Progressive. Mem. D.A.R., Nat. and Intemat. Ass'ns for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Alumnae Ass'n of Cleveland School Art, Y.W.C.A. Rec- reations: Walking, dancing, riding, out-of-door sports. Mem Woman's Club (Colorado Springs), Boys' Club aad Civic League. Has actively as- sisted Dr. White in caring for over 2,000 tuber- cular patients at the Nordrach Ranch Sana- torium, Colorado Springs, and drew the plans of the Modern Woodmen of America for caring for 1,0(X) patients in the sanitarium of that organiza- tion at Colorado Springs, Colo.
WHITE, Eliza Orne, 222 High St., Brookline.
Mass.
Author; b. Keene, N.H., Aug. 2, 1856; dau. William Orne and Margaret Eliot (Harding) White; ed. public schools In Keeue, N.H., and a year at Miss Louisa Hall's School in Rox- bury, Mass. Spent a year with family, 1876-77, traveling in England, Scotland, France, lUly, Germany, Holland and Belgium. Author (adult books); Miss Brooks, ISSO; Winterborough, 1892; The Coming of Theodora, 1895; A Browning Courtship, 1897; A Lover of Truth, 1898; John Forsyth's Aunts, 1901; Lesley Chilton, 1903; The Wares of Edgefield, 1909; (ehilflren'.s books): When Molly Was Six, 1894; A Little Girl of Long Ago, 1896; Ednah and Her New Brothers, 1900; An Only Child, 1905; A Borrowed Sister, 1906; Broth- ers In Fur, 1910; The Enchanted Mountain, 1911. Unitarian. Mem. Woman's Alliance in Rev. Dr. Lyon's Unitarian Church in Brookline, Mass! Mem. Boston Authors' Club.
WHITE, Ellen Pawling: Corson — see Corson- White, Ellen Pawling.
WHITE, El.,ie lladley (Mrs. Frank White),
Valley City, N.Dak.
Born Clinton Co., Ohio, Sept. 13, 1864; dau. Artemus N. and Elizabeth Mather (Jones) Had- ley; ed. Indianapolis schools; Earlham Coll., B.S. '86: Univ. of Mich., M.S. '90; m. Frank White, B.S., LL.D.; children: Edwin Lee. Richard Sel-
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