Blackmer; ed. State Normal School, Cortland, N.Y., 1891-94; Wellesley Coll., 1897-1901, A.B. '01. Supervisor seventh grade training dep't State Normal Coll., Ypsilanti, Mich., 1901-02; dep't of methods State Normal School, Geneseo, N.Y., 1902-05; methods and supervision of training dep't State Normal School, Whitewater, Wis., since 1905. Baptist. Mem. Shakespeare Soc., Wellesley College.
BLACKSTONE, Harriet, 755 Grove St., Glencoe, Ill.
Artist, painter; b. New Hartford, N.Y.; dau. Mills Case and Mary (Ladd) Blackstone; ed. New Hartford private schools; Mrs. Poster's School for Young Ladies; studied painting in N.Y. City and at Pratt Inst, of Brooklyn; in Paris at Académie Julien, under Laurens; summer school with William Chase. Exhibited in Paris Salon and in all leading galleries in U.S. since 1906. Mem. Am. Women's Art Ass'n, Soc. of Chicago Artists, Internat. Société des Beaux Arts et Lettres. While studying, compiled books now in use in high schools and colleges.
BLACKWELDER, Gertrude Boughton (Mrs. I. S. Blackwelder), Morgan Park, Ill.
Clubwoman; b. Sempronius, Cayuga Co., N.Y., Dec. 5, 1853; dau. Alanson and Hannah (Squier) Boughton; ed. Univ. of Kansas, A.B. '75, A.M. '90 (Phi Beta Kappa); (mem. Pi Beta Phi); m. Lawrence, Kan., April 5, 1877, I. S. Blackwelder of Chicago; children: Paul, b. April 7, 1878; Eliot, b. June 4, 1880. Active mem. in the early years of Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae; for the past fifteen years has been a worker along educational and civic lines in the Chicago Woman's Club. Chairman of Chicago Vacation Schools Com. for three years (active in that work for more than ten years); pres. of the Chicago Woman's Club, 1906-08; chairman of Educational Dep't of Ill. State Federation, 1909-11; pres. Chicago Political Equality League three years. Author of articles on educational matters, principally in college magazines, but occasionally in newspapers. Mem. Chicago School Extension Soc, Chicago Public School Art Soc, Chicago Woman's Club, Woman's City Club, Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae, Chicago College Club.
BLACKWELL, Alice Stone, 3 Monadnock St., Dorchester, Mass.
Editor of The Woman's Journal; b. East Orange, N.J., Sept. 14, 1857; dau. Henry B. Blackwell and Lucy Stone; ed. Chauncy Hall School, Boston (took the Thayer gold medal for English composition and a special prize for knowledge of Shakespeare); Boston Univ., B.A. '81 (Phi Beta Kappa); (mem. Gamma Delta Soc). Has been one of the editors of the Woman's Journal (national suffrage paper) since 1882; sole editor since 1909. Lecturer, speaker and writer on suffrage question. Pres. New England Woman Suffrage Ass'n, hon. pres. Mass. Woman Suffrage Ass'n and vice-pres. of Boston Equal Suffrage Ass'n for Good Government. Born into the Woman's Rights movement; her parents were pioneer workers in that cause; one of her aunts, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, was the first woman physician; another, Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, was first ordained woman minister. Author of three volumes of translated poems: Armenian Poems; Songs of Russia; Songs of Grief and Gladness (from the Yiddish). In collaboration with Rev. Anna H. Shaw and Lucy E. Anthony compiled the Yellow Ribbon Speaker, a book of suffrage readings and recitations. Unitarian. Mem. Board of Trustees of Boston Univ.; mem. Friends of Russian Freedom, Friends of Armenia, Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Am. Peace Soc, New England Anti-Vivisection Soc, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Colored People, Mass. Total Abstinence Soc, Free Trade League, Woman's Trade Union League, New England Women's Press Ass'n; Phi Beta Kappa Soc, New England Women's Club; Twentieth Century Club of Boston. Recreation: Putting foreign poetry into English verse; has made renderings from the Armenian, Russian, Yiddish, Hungarian, Spanish-Mexican, French, Italian. Latin, German and Bohemian.
BLACKWELL, Antoinette Louisa Brown (Mrs. Samuel Charles Blackwell), 348 Bay Way, Elizabeth, N.J.
Minister, lecturer; b. Henrietta, N.Y., May 20, 1825; dau. Joesph and Abby (Morse) Brown; ed. Monroe Acad.; Oberlin Coll., at 75th anniversary of which the degree of D.D. was conferred upon her; m. Henrietta, N.Y., Jan., 1856, Samuel Charles Blackwell; four daughters. Ordained in 1853 as pastor of the Congregational Church of South Brooklyn, N.Y., and was the first woman to perform the marriage ceremony. Pastor of All Souls' Unitarian Church of Elizabeth, N.J. Author: Shadows of Our Social System; Studies in General Science; The Market Woman; Sea Drift; One and the Many; The Island Neighbor. Mem. A.A.A.S.; mem. and honorary of numerous societies and clubs. Prominent in woman suffrage cause.
BLAINE, Harriet Gertrude, 602 Irving Av., Wheaton, Ill.
Teacher; b. North Ridgeville, Lorain Co., O., March 9, 1861; dau. Thomas and Margery A. (Davis) Blaine; grad. Elyria (O.) High School, '79; Oberlin Coll., A.B. '90; Univ. of Chicago, M.A. '96. Lady principal Frances Shimer Acad. of the Univ. of Chicago, 1896-1901; dean of women, Wheaton (Ill.) Coll., 1902-09. Congregationalism Mem. Ass'n of Coll. Alumnae and Classical Ass'n of the Middle West and South. Recreations: Walking and gardening.
BLAIR, Adeline Cleveland (Mrs. Dorian H. Blair), 439 Walker Av., Greensboro, N.C.
Born N.Y. City, Oct. 14, 1863; dau. Harvey T. and Elizabeth (Wray) Cleveland; ed. Friends Sem., N.Y. City; m. Greensboro, N.C, April 29, 1896, Dorian H. Blair; children: Theodore Garland (died), Clarence Dorian. Resident of N.C. since 1888, and of Greensboro since 1896. Mem. W.C.T.U.; mem. Social Service Com. of State Fed. Women's Clubs. Episcopalian. Regent Guilford Battle Chapter D.A.R. of Greensboro; chairman Missionary Golden Jubilee Com.; mem. Woman's Auxiliary to Board of Missions (local pres. St. Andrew's branch and Diocesan treas.); sec Board and mem. Social Com. Y.W.C.A.; mem. Boys' Com. of Auxiliary to Y.M.C.A. Sunday-school teacher (boys). Mem. Greensboro Woman's Club (first vice-pres.), Friday Afternoon Book Club (pres. last two years). Delegate from N.C. branch of Woman's Auxiliary to Woman's Auxiliary Triennial General Conventions at Richmond and Cincinnati and represented N.C. at Golden Jubilee, held at Monteagle, Tenn., 1912.
BLAIR, Apolline Madison (Mrs. James Lawrence Blair), The Dresden, Washington, D.C.
Born Washington, D.C, May 7, 1860; dau. Col. Charles M. Alexander; ed. Washington, D.C, specializing in music; m. Feb. 21, 1883, James Lawrence Blair of St. Louis (died Jan. 16 1904); children; Percy, Francis Preston. Lived in St. Louis and became distinguished for her promotion of organizations to popularize higher ideals of musical culture; founded and was president of the Morning Choral Club (75 women members), the People's Music Class (for women), which reached a membership of 800, and the Kirkwood (Mo.) Choral Club, a suburban organization of fifty women; also of the Men's Musical Class of St. Louis; was pres. of the Board of Lady Managers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis.
BLAIR, Edna Sheldon (Mrs. James G. Blair), 141 Oak St., Hillsdale, Mich.
Born Napoleon, O., Dec. 29, 1875; dau. Benjamin E. and Anna S. (Dodd) Sheldon; ed. Hillsdale High School; Hillsdale Coll.; m. Hillsdale, Mich., Dec. 20, 1900, James G. Blair. Active in local and State club work. Pres. Hillsdale Clover Club (sec three years, pres. two years, director since 1910); mem. Hillsdale Woman's Club; former mem. Household Economies Com. of Mich. State Fed. Women's Clubs, now chairman of its literature dep't, and mem. Civil Service Reform Com. of Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage; chairman of organization work and mem. State Finance Com. of Mich. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Mem. State
