Suffrage Club. Recreations: Out-door sports, rowing, good books, lectures, opera. Christian Scientist.
MCDOWELL, Clotilda Lyon (Mrs. William Fraser McDowell), 1936 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Ill.
Missionary official; b. Galion, Ohio; dau. Aaron J. and Olive W. Lyon; grad. Ohio Wesleyan Univ., B.L. 80, A.M. '11; m. Sept. 30, 1882, Rev. William Fraser McDowell, now bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Always actively interested in mission work of the Methodist Episcopal Church and since 1908 has been president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc. of that church, and with her husband visited in 1910 and 1911 many of the mission stations of the M.E. Church in the Philippine Islands, Japan, Korea, China, India and Europe. Delegate to Edinburgh Missionary Conference, 1910; editor of Our Work for the World, 1913.
MCDOWELL, Elizabeth Estill (Mrs. John Irving McDowell), Big Springs, Tex.
Born Waynesboro, Va., 1873; dau. Charles P. and Kate (Fishburne) Estill; ed. high school and Sam Houston Normal Inst., Huntsville, Tex.; m. Huntsville, Tex., Jan. 17, 1894, John Irving McDowell. Presbyterian. Mem. Missionary Societies, charity ass'ns and Hyperion Club of Big Spring.
McDOWELL, Emma M. Scott (Mrs. George S. McDowell), 1118 Myrtle Av., Cincinnati, O.
Born New Britain, Pa., Oct. 29, 1857; dau. James D. and Ellen (Mathews) Scott; grad. Bucknell Coll. (class valedictorian); m. Aug. 9, 1882, George S. McDowell; children: Eleanor (Mrs. E. L. Ryan), George Scott, Robert, James, Kenneth. Occasional contributor to newspapers and magazines. Pres. Woman's Press Club, Cincinnati. Baptist.
McDOWELL, Louise Sherwood, 6 Norfolk Terrace, Wellesley, Mass.
Professor of physics in Wellesley College; b. Wayne, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1876; dau. Francis M. and Eva (Sherwood) McDowell; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '98; Cornell Univ., M.A. '07, Ph.D. '09. Teacher, Northfield Sem., 1898-1901; Warren (Ohio) High School, 1901-06; student Cornell, 1906-09; instructor in physics, Wellesley Coll., 1909-10; assoc. professor, 1910-12; professor of physics, 1912—. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ, A.A.A.S, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa Ass'n, Am. Physical Society.
MCDOWELL, Mary Eliza, University of Chicago Settlement, 4630 Gross Av., Chicago, Ill.
Head resident University of Chicago Settlement; b. Cincinnati, O., Nov. 30, 1854; dau. Malcolm M. and Jane Welsh (Gordon) McDowell; ed. in public and private schools. Since 1894 head of University of Chicago Settlement in the Union Stockyards dist.; made by trustees of the university a member of the faculty and an associate in the department of sociology. Mem. Nat. Soc. of Charities and Corrections, the Religious Educational Ass'n, Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n, Am. Sociological Soc., the Nat. Public School Extension, Nat. Child Labor Com., Nat. Playground Ass'n, the Immigrant Protective League, Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of the Colored Race, Chicago Peace Soc., Methodist Episcopal Fed. for Social Service; charter mem. and mem. Exec. Com. Nat. Woman's Trade Union League; was first pres. now vice-pres. Ill. Woman's Trade Union League; mem. Nat. Consumers' League, Nat. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Ill. Ass'n for Labor Legislation, Ill. Consumers' League, the Ill. Fed. of Women's Clubs (chairman Internat. Com.), the Nat. Indoor Games Ass'n, Cook Co. Com. of the Progressive Party. Favors woman suffrage; mem. many suffrage societies; chairman Industrial Com. of Ill. Equal Suffrage Ass'n. Author of chapters in Social Ministry and the Socialized Church; contributor to The Survey and The Continent. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Mem. Progressive Party Com. and spoke during campaign of 1912. Mem. of most of the economic, sociological and church societies, Chicago Woman's Club Chicago Woman's City
Club, Hull House Woman's Club. University of Chicago Settlement Woman's Club. Has given lectures before women's clubs, religious bodies, Am. Federation of Labor, universities and col- leges, and hearings before legislative bodies.
McDOWELL, Pauline, 201 Grafton Av., Newark,
N.J.
Teacher; b. Pluckamin, N.J., Sept. 3, 1874;
dau. William Osborn and Josephine (Timanus)
McDowell; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.A. '96. First
assistant high school, Weston, Mass., 1898-04;
grad. study Columbia Univ., 1904-05. Instructor
in chemistry, N.Y. Med. Coll. for Women, 1905-06; instructor chemistry, Batten High School,
Elizabeth, N.J., 1907. Favors woman suffrage.
Episcopalian. Charter mem. D.A.R. Mem. College Club of Essex Co.
McELROY, Mary Arthur (Mrs. John L. McElroy), 170 State St., Albany, N.Y.
Born Greenwich, Washington Co., N.Y., 1841; dau. Rev. William and Malvina (Stone) Arthur; ed. Mrs. Emma Willard's Sem., Troy, N.Y.; m. Newtonville, N.Y., 1867, John L. McElroy; children: May MeElroy (Jackson), William, Jessie, Charles L. Sister of President Arthur and Lady of the White House from 1882 to Mar. 4, 1885.
MacEUEN, Mary Carnell (Mrs. Edward Allen MacEuen), 3731 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Photographer; b. Glassboro, N.J., 1865; dau. William and Hannah (Gillman) Carnell; ed. Glassboro High School; m. Philadelphia, Nov. 13, 1900, Edward Allen MacEuen. After eight years partnership, in summer of 1990, assumed sole control of studio (1314 Chestnut St.); won prizes and honors at State and National competitive exhibitions of photographic societies, 1900-02; became interested in woman's work; organized the Woman's Fed. of the Photographic Ass'n of America and presided over same three years. Pres. Ladies' Auxiliary Old Guard State Fencibles six years, and reëlected; also pres. three years of a Fortnightly Club; interested in philanthropic work. Mem. Historical Pageant Ass'n of Philadelphia, the Dickens Fellowship, Soc. of Arts and Letters, Photographers' Ass'n of America (Pa. State and Philadelphia section), Philadelphia Soc. for the Prevention of Social and Moral Diseases, Plastic Club (four years mem. Board of Directors). Recreations: Boating, fishing, out-door vacations, reading, theatre, social life. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.
MCEWEN, Mary Gilrutn (Mrs. Ernest Lewis McEwen), 1703 Chicago Av., Evanston, Ill. Physician; b. Charlotte, Ia., May 3, 1872; dau. James Henry and Addie (Collin) Gilruth; grad. Cornell Coll., B.S. '04; Northwestern Univ. Woman's Med. School, M.D. '98 (Alpha Epsilon Iota); m. Davenport, Ia., Apr. 23, 1898, Dr. Ernest Lewis McEwen; one son, Ernest George, b. May 6, 1908. Interne Cook County Hosp., 1898-1900; student, Vienna and Berlin, 1904-05; associate prof., 1909-12, and since June, 1912, prof. clinical gynecology, Coll. Phys. and Surg. (Med. Dep't Univ. of Ill.), Chicago; med. direc- tor Marcy Center; attending surgeon St. Francis Hospital, Evanston; author of various published papers on medical subjects; mem. Chicago Med. Soc., Am. Med Ass'n. Chairman Public Health Dep't, Ill. Federation of Women's Clubs; advisory mem. Public Health Dep't, Gen. Federation Women's Clubs; mem. Nat. W.C.T.U., Nat. Geog. Soc., Evanston Woman's Club, Chicago Woman's City Club. Favors woman suffrage.
McFADDEN, Elizabeth Apthorp, 113 Lakeview Av., Cambridge, Mass. Playwright; b. Newport, Ky.; dau. Francis T. and Elizabeth A. (Adams) McFadden; ed. public schools of Cincinnati and Smith Coll., B.L. '98 (mem. Phi Kappa Psi); studied dramatic tech- nique for two years at Radcliffe Coll. under Prof. G. P. Baker. Compiled (with Lillian E. Davis) bibliography entitled, "A Selected List of Plays for Amateurs and Students," 1908; in 1911 her play, "The Product of the Mill," won $509 Harvard-Radcliffe prize, offered annually by John Craig, of the Castle Square Theatre, Boston. Mem. Boston Coll. Club. Favors equal suffrage.
