William Haynes and Annie (Topping) Truesdale; ed. Chicago private schools; Miss Dana's School, Morristown, N.J.; m. Greenwich, Conn., June 25, 1901, Richard M. Bissell; children: William, Anne Carolyn, Richard Mervin. Actively interested in various Hartford charitable organizations. Against woman suffrage. Mem. Conn. Anti-Suffrage Organization. Mem. Hartford Golf Club, Farmington Country Club.
BITTINGER, Lucy Forney, 55 Thorn St., Sewickley, Pa.
Born Cleveland, O., Aug. 29, 1859; dau. Joseph Baugher and Catharine N. (Forney) Bittinger; ed. Miss Porter's School, Farmington, Conn. Pres. Union Aid Soc. of Sewickley; was pres. Emergency Soc. of Sewickley, to aid the soldiers of the Spanish War. Author: Memorials of Rev. J. B. Bittinger; Forney Family of Hanover, Pa.; Bittinger and Bedinger Families; The Germans in Colonial Times; German Religious Life in Colonial Times; Prayers and Thoughts for the Use of the Sick; various magazine articles. Vice-regent Pittsburgh Chapter D.A.R.; mem. Twentieth Century Club, Pittsburgh. Presbyterian. Against woman suffrage. Has arranged to give up her home in Sewickley to enter the Presbyterian Order of Deaconesses, afterward going out to India as an "honorary" missionary.
BIXBY, Maritje V. P. (Mrs. George Stephenson Bixby): Winter, 154 W. Fifty-seventh St., N.Y. City; spring, summer and autumn, The Gardenette, Plattsburgh, N.Y.; studio, Carnegie Hall.
Singer and writer; b. Cayuga, N.Y.; dau. Rev. Joseph Jerome and Maritje (Felthousen) Parcells; ed. high school; private tutors (languages and philosophy); Berlin Music Conservatory; music masters in Paris and Milan; N.Y. Univ. (grad. woman's law class); tutors in India and England; courses of lectures at Columbia Coll., N.Y.; m. Amherst, Mass., July 17, 1900, George Stephenson Bixby, lawyer and journalist. Made debut as concert contralto in Paris at age of 20; gave recitals in English colonies in many Oriental countries, also in England, France and America; professional name, "Marie Parcello." For 12 years mem. board of managers Convalescent Home for Women, N.Y. City; interested in playgrounds, concerts for working people, municipal art, public education, anti-tuberculosis movement and landscape gardening. Author: The Persian Caravan (book); also a few songs, newspaper letters for Am. and European journals; stories: A Ragged Rose; Turkish Delight; In an Algerian Garden; The Song of Poll-na-phuca, The Long Irish Lady, and other tales. Mem. State Charities Aid Ass'n, Daughters of Holland Dames, the Navy League, Am. Scenic and Historic Preservation Soc, Woman's Municipal League (N.Y. City), Peace Soc, Mary Washington Colonial Chapter D.A.R. , and the MacDowell Club of N.Y. City. Recreations: Gardening, dancing, skating, walking tours, writing music and poetry, traveling by water. Protestant Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Woman's Political Union, N.Y. City.
BJORKMAN, Frances Maule (Mrs. Edwin Bjorkman, 505 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.
Editor; b. Fairmount, Neb., Oct. 24, 1879; dau. John P. and Mary (Finnigan) Maule; ed. St Mary's Acad.. Notre Dame, Md., and Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; m. N.Y. City, Jan. 4, 1906, Edwin Bjorkman. Became mem. staff of Denver Republican, Oct., 1899. Thereafter worked on Denver Post and Times, Colorado Springs Telegraph, Chicago American, 1901; N.Y. American, 1903; magazine writer, 1905-11. Editor now of literary dep't Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage Ass'n. Socialist and active in feminist movements. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Women's Political Union and Woman Suffrage Party. Has written magazine articles in Collier's, Review of Reviews, World's Work, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Scrap-Book, the New Idea, and others.
BLACK, Belinda Miles Bogardus (Mrs. William Thomas Black), Hillcrest, R.R. No. 1, Fairmont, W.Va.
Born Mt. Vernon. 0. Jan. 12, 1874; dau. William Penn and Elizabeth (Sperry) Bogardus; ed. Harcourt Place Sem., Gambier, O., 1891-92; Wellesley Coll., A.B. '96 (mem. the Agora); m. Mt. Vernon, O., June 22, 1904, William Thomas Black; children: Mary Elizabeth, William Bogardus. Presbyterial and synodical sec of Young People of Zanesville Presbytery in Ohio, 1902-04; teacher in Sunday-school; mem. of choir, and of Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. Mem. D.A.R. Presbyterian.
BLACK, Etta Roe (Mrs. Willis Lyman Black), 770 Highland Av., Elgin, Ill.
Born in La Porte, Ind., May 4, 1862; dau. George and Marietta (Drummond) Roe; grad. La Porte High School, '80; Univ. of Mich., A.B. '83; m. Sept. 4, 1884, Willis Lyman Black of Elgin, Ill; children: Lyman Foster, Mareta Virginie Black. Gives illustrated talks on foreign travel, viz.: Hawaii and the Pacific; Japan-China; Burmah; India; Swea Dagon Pagoda; Crossing the Equator; Ceylon and Kandy; Benares and the Ganges; Borneo, etc.; has traveled extensively in Alaska, Mexico and around the world. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Every Wednesday Literary Club (pres.), Elgin Woman's Club, Travel Class and Coffee Club, also Chicago Woman's Club; active in educational and civics dep't of Woman's Club; for many years leader in charity work and active in giving an annual charity ball; one of promoters and organizers of United Charities in Elgin.
BLACK, Fannie DeGrasse (Mrs. Samuel Edward Black), 403 Washington St., El Dorado, Kan.
Musician; b. in Canada, Nov. 21, 1856; dau. William Henry and Bedelia I. (McGuire) DeGrasse; ed. Milwaukee public schools; grad. from high school, State Normal and Dr. William Miklor's Conservatory of Music, B.M.; m. Milwaukee, Jan. 14, 1881, Judge Samuel Edward Black; one daughter: Grace Louise. Has conducted Conservatory of Music in El Dorado, Kan., for 20 years. Mem. of church societies, Ladies' Aid and Missionary; was leader of choir and pipe organist for 15 years. Mem. Shakespeare Club for 20 years (held various offices), German Club, also several social clubs. Recreations: Travel, literature. Presbyterian.
BLACK, Florence Atwood, 1018 Park Place, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Physician; b. Calais, Me.; dau. Howard Atwood and Minerva Emerson (Lowell) Black (family dates back ten generations in this country to Percival Lowell, who came to New England in 1639); ed. Girls' High School, Brooklyn; awarded Brooklyn and Univ. scholarships to Barnard, where she studied one year; grad. New York Med. Coll. and Hosp. for Women, M.D.; took general and special courses at N.Y. Post-Graduate Hospital. Engaged in practice of medicine in Brooklyn. Unitarian. Mem. Alumna Ass'n of N.Y Med. Coll., Kings County Med. Soc, Am. Med. Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage.
BLACK, Jennie Prince (Mrs. Henry Van Deventer Black), Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Song composer; b. N.Y. City, Oct. 10, 1869; dau. Dr. Christopher and Gertrude Cornell (Ditmas) Prince; ed. the Misses Masters' School, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.; m. N.Y. City, April 27, 1886, Henry Van Deventer Black; children: Dorothy, Katharine. Interested in literature and music. Composer of songs: Cynthia; Regrets; The Violet; Song of Loves; Slumber Song, and others. Presbyterian. Republican.
BLACK, Madeline (Mrs. Elmer Black), 512 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.
Pacifist, lecturer, publisher; b. Zanesville, Ohio; dau. Dr. F. M. and Louisa (Newton) Powell; grad. public school, Glenwood, Iowa; grad. Ill. Coll. and Athenaeum; m. April 26, 1893, Elmer Ellsworth Black; one daughter: Dorothy Powell. Founder Church Peace League of America (first vice-pres.); founder and donor of prizes for N.Y. State Oratorical Contest; founder and donor Nat. Peace Essay Contest Among Women's Colleges. Author: Civilize the Nations (brochure); Municipal Terminal Market System (treatise). Advisory mem, N.Y. City Terminal Market Com-
