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BOTSFORD—BOURNE

1889-1903; National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C., 1903-06; Mary Baldwin Sem., Staunton, Va.; Miss Bangs' and Miss Whiton's School, N.Y. City, since 1908.

BOTSFORD, Sarah Elizabeth Goodwin (Mrs. Austin Nichols Botsford), Watertown, Conn.

Born Providence, R.I., Nov. 21, 1876; dau. Ozias Chapman and Elenora P. (West) Goodwin; grad. Friends School, Providence, R.I., '94 (valedictorian of class); Smith Coll., A.B. '99; Brown Univ., 1899-1901, A.M. 1901; Greek, Latin, German; elected to the Greek Club and Chemistry Soc. on scholarship; m. Peace Dale, R.I., April 19, 1910, Austin Nichols Botsford. Before marriage a teacher of languages in the high schools of Newtown, Branford and Danbury, Conn., and at Peace Dale, R.I. Against woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. The Grange (Patrons of Husbandry), both local and county, D.A.R.

BOUGHNER, Martha, Morgantown, W.Va.

Born Mt. Morris, Pa. (resident of Morgantown, then in Va. since six weeks old); dau. James Vance Boughner, M.D., and Louisa Jane (Brown) Boughner (both Virginians); grad. Morgantown (W.Va.) Female Sem. (valedictorian); since graduation has studied Latin, German and French with private teachers. Interested in religious questions, child labor problems and juvenile courts. Favors woman suffrage; has written a great deal for newspapers. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. D.A.R., Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc; pres. Woman's Club since organization, 1892. Recreations: Walking, driving, motoring, nature. Mem. Woman's Music Club.

BOUGHTON, Alice, Bartholdi Building, Twenty-third St., cor. Broadway, N.Y.

Photographer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., 1866; dau. William H. and Frances A. (Ayres) Boughton; ed. Miss Romer's School, Brooklyn. Long engaged in successful professional practice of photography. Mem. Women's Cosmopolitan Club.

BOUGHTON, Alice C, 4424 Larchwood Av., West Philadelphia, Pa.

Dietarian: b. Philadelphia, 1885; dau. John W. and Caroline W. (Greenbank) Boughton; ed. Ivy House (Bryn Mawr Prep.); one year in Switzerland and Drexel Inst., 1907; now taking Univ. of Pa. college courses for teachers. Sup't school luncheon, Starr Centre, 1907-10; sup't school luncheon, Home and School League, 1910—; chairman Com. on School Luncheon, Am. Home Economic Ass'n. In summer of 1912 made a study of school feeding in England and the continent of Europe. Deeply interested in social education. Favors woman suffrage. Socialist. Mem. Am. Acad. Political and Social Science, Am. Home Economic Ass'n, Philadelphia Home Economic Ass'n, Philadelphia Home and School League, Pa. Soc. for Prevention of Social Disease, Philadelphia Public Education Ass'n, Philadelphia Social Workers Club, New Century Club, Philadelphia County Woman Suffrage Ass'n, Woman Suffrage Party of Pa., Equal Franchise Soc, Consumers' League.

BOUGHTON, Lethe Hawes (Mrs. William Hart Boughton), 796 Ashland Av., Buffalo, N.Y.

Musician; b. Cowlesville, N.Y., Oct. 24, 1872; dau. Warren Lee and Harriette (Lake) Hawes; ed. Buffalo Central High School; m. Buffalo, N.Y., June 26, 1895; one son: Warren Victor Boughton, b. Mar. 6, 1900. Church and concert singer and teacher of singing, St. Margaret's School, Buffalo, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. Chromatic Club, Buffalo, and Buffalo Guild of Allied Arts.

BOUGHTON, Martha E. Arnold (Mrs. Willis Boughton), 364 East Twenty-first St., Flatbush, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Author; b. Corunna, Mich.; dau. John M. Arnold, D.D., and Hannah E. (Redway) Arnold; ed. Detroit High School, Evanston, Ill., Northwestern Univ. one year and Univ. of Mich., Ph.B. '80; m. Detroit, Mich., July 4, 1884, Willis Boughton; children; Willis Boughton, Paul Ninde Boughton. Engaged in various religious, social and philanthropic activities. Sunday-school work; Deaconess sec. for Brooklyn, etc. Author: Biography of Rev. J. M. Arnold, D.D., 1885; The Quest of a Soul, and Other Verse, 1911; also various contributions to magazines, papers, songs, etc Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church and church societies. Recreation: Music. Clubs: Fortnightly of Flatbush (literary), Esperanto of N.A., Woman's Club of Univ. of Mich. (Alumnae), Music Club.

BOULTON, Frances Schroeder (Mrs. Alfred J. K Boulton), 58 Quincy St., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Born Shelter Island Heights, L.I., Aug. 21, 1874; dau. Hon. Frederick A. Schroeder (who was comptroller and afterward mayor of Brooklyn, and later State Senator) and Mary Jane (Rusher) Schroeder; grad. Adelphi Acad., '93; Teachers Coll., '96; m. Nov. 22, 1905, Alfred J. Boulton; children: Schroeder, b. Jan. 31, 1909; Margaret Mary, b. May 16, 1911. Was sup't Bethel Sewing School seven years; taught class in city history, Boys' Gymnasium Club; mem. City Visiting Com. of Bureau of Charities; organized delegation from women's clubs to Albany in favor of bill for vestibuling street cars in year bill was passed. In 1911 organized Unity Child Welfare Ass'n and became its pres. For several years mem. Domestic Science Com. of Brooklyn Institute. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Woman Suffrage Party. Unitarian. Mem. Unity Child Welfare Ass'n, Woman's Trade Union League, Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Recreations: Sailing, automobiling. Mem. Civitas Club.

BOURGARD, Caroline B., 1324 Hepburn Av., Louisville, Ky.

Supervisor of music in public schools for 21 years; b. Indiana; dau. William August and Emma (Dreier) Bourgard; ed. Girls' High School, Louisville, Ky.; Coll. of Music of Cincinnati; studied with William L. Tomlins and has a diploma for boy choir training from G. Edward Stubbs, N.Y. City. Organist and choirmaster since 1888; has been leader in the work of training and utilizing the voices of the children of Louisville, not only through the regular musical work of the public school, but also in organizing them into large chorusus for various important occasions, notably the choir of 500 public school pupils which she led on the last day of the Louisville May Music Festival, 1909, in the cantata Into the World, by Benoit, and The Children's Crusade, by Pierne, in the festival of 1911, by 800 voices, of which 450 were children; and at the Child Welfare Exhibit, held in Louisville, Nov., 1912, conducted a chorus of 1,000 children in the singing of national airs. Mem. Music Com. Ky. Fed. of Women's Clubs. Music Com., Woman's Club of Louisville, and of Alumnae Club of Louisville; organized four years ago the Louisville Music Teachers Ass'n; mem. and sec Ky. Educational Ass'n (organized its music section); mem. Nat. Educational Ass'n, Southern Educational Ass'n, Louisville Educational Ass'n, Highland Civic League. Presbyterian. Favors woman suffrage.

BOURLAND, Caroline Brown, 1301 Knoxville Av., Peoria, Ill.

College professor; b. Peoria, Ill.; dau. Benjamin P. and Clara (Parsons) Bourland; ed. in France and Germany; High School, Peoria; Smith Coll., B.A. '93; student Sorbonne and Collège de France, Paris, 1897-98; fellow in Romance Languages. Bryn Mawr Coll., 1898-99; graduate scholar and fellow by courtesy in Romance Languages, 1899-1900, 1901-02; holder of Mary E. Garrett European fellowship and student in Romance Languages, Madrid, Spain, 1900-01, Ph.D.; Bryn Mawr, '05. Teacher, Pueblo, Colo., 1893-94; teacher French and German in Mrs. Starrett's School, Oak Park, Ill., 1895-96, and in high school, Peoria, Ill., 1896-97; Instructor, 1902-06, and associate prof. of Spanish and French since 1906, Smith Coll. Author: Boccaccio and the Decameron in Castilian and Catalan Literature, 1905. Mem. Am. Hispanic Soc.

BOURNE, Annie Thomson Nettleton (Mrs. Edward Gaylord Bourne), 73 Mansfield St., New Haven, Conn.

Writer; b. Annaberg, Germany; ed. in schools of Stockbridge, Mass.; Bridgeport, Conn., and