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School; m. Corunna, Mich., July 26, 1871, Samuel W. Baker. Was a teacher for several years. Interested in M.E. Church Home Missionary Soc. Mem. D.A.R.; sec. Board of Trustees of the Public Library; interested in Associated Charities; mem. M.E. Church and teacher for years in M.E. Sunday-school; mem. Missionary Socs., Art Soc, Soc. for Civic Work; pres. Lakeside Club. Progressive Republican. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Emma C. Andrews (Mrs. George S. Baker), 2115 Sherman Av., Evanston, Ill.

Born Pawpaw, Mich., Dec. 29, 1851; dau. Dr. Josiah and Mary A. (Dickinson) Andrews; ed. Pawpaw High School; Univ. of Mich., Ph.B. '75; m. Pawpaw, Mich., 1879, George S. Baker; children: J.A., R.D., Mary E., Alice L., Roger H., Lewis D., Charles P.

BAKER, Emma Sophia, Mt. Allison Ladies' Coll., Sackville, N.B., Can.

College principal; b. Milton, Ont,; dau. Charles A. Baker; grad. Victoria Univ., B.A. '99; Toronto Univ., Ph.D. '03 (first woman to take that degree at that university); special work in French at Univ. of Paris; graduate work at Newnham Coll., Cambridge, England. Was preceptress at Alexandra Coll., Belleville, Ont.; Dickinson Sem., Williamsport, Pa.; six years lady principal Presbyterian Ladies' Coll., Toronto; since 1901 vice-pres. Mt. Allison Ladies' Coll., Sackville, N.B., Canada.

BAKER, Helen Bartlett, 140 W. Eighty-seventh St., Chicago, Ill.

Teacher; b. Brooklyn, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '89. Teacher Girls' Collegiate School, 1884-86; Female Acad., Salem, N.C., 1889-90; Grant Collegiate Inst., Chicago, 1890-94; the Misses Ely's School, 1894-1901; Horace Mann High School, N.Y. City, since 1901.

BAKER, Hettie Gray, 280 Wethersfield Av., Hartford, Conn.

Librarian, photoplay writer; b. Hartford, Conn., July 12, 1881; dau. Josiah Q. and Lizzie A. (Chipman) Baker; ed. Hartford public high school, special course at Simmons Coll., Boston. Engaged at Hartford Public Library, 1900-03; private sec. School for Social Workers, Boston, 1904-07; librarian Hartford Bar Library, 1907—. Favors woman suffrage. Regular contributor of photoplays to leading licensed film manufacturers; has written various special articles on theatrical subjects for magazines. Unitarian. Republican. Mem. Municipal Art Soc. of Hartford; Drama League of Hartford. Recreations: Golf, attending theatre and moving picture shows.

BAKER, Josephine Turck (Mrs. Frederick Sherman Baker), Evanston, Ill.

Editor, author, playwright; b. Milwaukee, Wis.; dau. J. Byron and Sarah Turck; ed. Milwaukee, Wis.; Chicago, Boston; grad. Milwaukee-Downer Coll.; m. Chicago, 1899, Frederick Sherman Baker; children: Beatrice, Roschen, Sherman. Specialist on English; editor of Correct English, the only magazine of the kind in the world. Her Grammar has been translated into Japanese by the Japanese and magazine into German by publishers in Germany. Author: Correct English—A Complete Grammar; The Correct Word—How To Use It; The Literary Workshop; Art of Conversation; Art of Social Letter-Writing; Correct Business Letter-Writing; How Can I Increase My Vocabulary? Ten Thousand Words—How to Pronounce Them; The Correct Preposition—How to Use It; Correct English in the Home; Correct English in the School. Mem. Ill. Woman's Press Club. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Julia Wetherill (Mrs. Marion Albert Baker), 1330 Tenth St., New Orleans, La.

Editor; b. Woodville, Miss., 1858; dau. Thomas and Sarah Eliza (Smith) Wetherill (daughter of Chief Justice Cotesworth Pinckney Smith); ed. Philadelphia, Pa.; m. 1886, Marion Albert Baker, editor of New Orleans Times-Democrat. Author: The Wandering Joy. Episcopalian. Has been for many years literary editorial writer on the Times-Democrat, in addition to other work on the paper.


BAKER, Lennie Van Holland (Mrs. Mills P. Baker, Jr.), 512 Bedford Av., Brooklyn, N.Y.

Physician; b. Brooklyn, May 25, 1851; dau James and Eliza Jane (Harned) Van Holland; ed. public school, Brooklyn, N.Y. Med. Coll. and Hospital for Women, M.D. 1882 (received gold medal, class '82); m. June 20, 1877, Mills P. Baker Jr.; daughter: Ella Mills Baker, died in infancy Mem. Am. Inst, of Homeopathy, N.Y. State Homeo. Soc., King's Co. Homeo. Med. Soc. Life mem. Nat. Am. Woman Suffrage, N.Y. State Ass'n, King's County Ass'n, 4th Assembly Dist. Ass'n, the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Ass'n, the Political Equality Ass'n, Women's Political Union, Chiropean Club. Hon. pres. of Staff of Memorial Hospital for Women and Children. Universalist. Mem. All Souls' Universalist Church, Flatbush, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Louise Regina, Germantown, Md.

Writer; b. New Windsor, Md.; dau. Andrew Hull and Anna J. (Boland) Baker; home and academic education. Contributor of stories and verse to juvenile magazines. Author of books for children: Cis Martin; Sunbeams and Moonbeams; Rosy Posy; Mrs. Pinner's Little Girl; The Old Monday Farm; Betty Porter.

BAKER, Mabel Kimball (Mrs. Walter D. Baker), Hyannis, Mass.

Born Boxford, Mass., Sept. 20, 1871; dau. Wm. H. and Sarah E. Kimball; ed. Holten High School (Danvers, Mass.), State Normal School (Salem), State Normal School (Hyannis), special work; m. Danvers, Sept. 11, 1907, Walter Durell Baker of Hyannis, Mass. With her husband is equal partner in the Colonial Candle Co., Hyannis, Mass.; supervises dipping and packing of the thousands of hand-dipped Bayberry Candles, now being sent all over the country. Taught two years in Los Angeles; principal Primary Dep't, Hyannis Training School, later Supervisor industrial work, Hyannis Normal and Training School, now head of Basketry and Weaving Dep't, Hyannis Normal School; one of foremost basketry teachers in this country. Mem. Library Ass'n; sec. Town Committee of Conservation. Contributes articles for magazines, mostly on Basketry and Primary Hand Work. Pres. Hyannis Woman's Club, 1909-12; mem. Shakespeare Club. Congregationalist; assistant supt. and teacher in Sunday school. Favors woman suffrage.

BAKER, Marian Una Strong (Mrs. Marcus Baker), 1905 Sixteenth St., Washington, D.C.

Born in Michigan; grad. Univ. of Mich., A.B. '94; graduate scholar in Greek, Bryn Mawr Coll., 1894-95; m. Kalamazoo, Mich., May, 1899, Marcus Baker, LL.B. (distinguished cartographer; died Dec. 12, 1903). Instructor in Greek and Latin, Lake Erie Sem., Painesville, Ohio, 1895-97; instructor in Latin, Emma Willard School, Troy, N.Y., 1897-99, and in Miss Madeira's School for Girls, Washington, D.C, 1906-08; teacher of Latin, Cathedral High School, Washington, D.C, since 1910.

BAKER, S. Josephine, M.D., 33 West 96th St. (Office, Department of Health, Centre and Walker Sts.), N.Y. City.

Physician; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1873; dau. O. D. M. Baker and Jennie Harwood Brown Baker; ed. private schools, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Woman's Med. Coll. of N.Y. Infirmary, M.D. '98. Appointed medical inspector, N.Y. City Dep't of Health, 1901; assistant to Commissioner of Health, 1907-08; director Division of Child Hygiene, organized the first Division of Child Hygiene under municipal control; only woman who holds an executive position in the N.Y. City Government. Interested in all matters pertaining to civic betterment and child welfare. Author: The Principles of the Reduction of Infant Mortality; The Value of the Municipal Control of Child Hygiene; Schools for Midwives; Little Mothers' Leagues; and many others. Mem. D.A.R., College Women's Club, Med. Ass'n N.Y. County and State Med. Socs., Nat. School Hygiene Ass'n, Ass'n for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. Unitarian. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Collegiate Equal Suffrage League, Equal Franchise Soc,, Woman's Political Union.