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League, branch secretary of the Ladies' Aid Society for Widows and Orphans. Makes her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

SARAH MOORE.

Newspaper artist; journalist. Special writer and illustrator on the staff of the Detroit News. Is the daughter of Charles B. Moore and was born in Detroit.

ANNIE LAURIE WILSON JAMES.

Mrs. Annie Laurie Wilson James was born in Louisville, Kentucky, November, 1862. She occupies a very unique position among women, having been considered an authority on the heredity of horses, and horse pedigrees. In 1888 she went to California on a business trip and while there became assistant editor and manager of Breeder and Sportsman, published in San Francisco. In 1888 she married R. B. James, of Baker County, Oregon, and has made her home there for many years.

EMILY L. GOODRICH SMITH.

Mrs. Emily L. Goodrich Smith was born in the old Hancock House, Boston, Massachusetts, June 1, 1830. She was the oldest daughter of the Hon. S. G. Goodrich, who was well known as "Peter Parley." Her mother was Miss Mary Boote. She was educated abroad and while living in Paris in 1848 she witnessed the terrors enacted during the reign of Louis Philippe. Her father was consul in Paris, and their house was constantly filled with terror-stricken foreigners, who found their only safety under the protection of the American flag. Returning to the United States, in 1856, she became the wife of Nathaniel Smith, of Connecticut, a grandson of the famous Nathaniel Smith, one time Chief Justice of Connecticut. She has written many stories and verses for magazines, her letters during the war were widely read and copied. She was one of the founders of the Chautauqua Literary Circle and a vice-regent of the Mt Vernon Association for Connecticut.

SOPHIA BRAEUNLICH.

Mrs. Braeunlich was born July 2, 1860, in Bethpage, Long Island. After the death of her husband, she was left without resources. She took a business course at the Packard Business College in New York, and on her graduation obtained the position of private secretary to the editor of the Engineering and Mining Journal, and president of the Scientific Publishing Company. She displayed such ability and mastered so fully the technical details of the paper, that finally she attended the meetings of the American Institute of Mining Engineers as representative of the editor, and when Mr. Rothwell resigned this position, Mrs. Braeunlich was elected to the vacancy and became the business manager of the entire establishment. She assisted the government in obtaining data for the statistics in regard to the collection of gold for the Eleventh Census. She is