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WOMEN OF DISTINCTION.

CHAPTER XXXVII.

JOAN IMOGEN HOWARD, A. M.

This very excellent lady, of whom the race is proud, Joan Imogen Howard, was born in the city of Boston, Mass. Her father, Edwin F. Howard, is an old and well-known citizen of that city, and her mother, Joan L.

JOAN IMOGEN HOWARD, A. M.

Howard, now deceased, was a native of New York. She has one sister, Miss Adeline T. Howard, the principal of the Wormley School, Washington, D. C., and one brother, E. C. Howard, M. D., a prominent physician in the city of Philadelphia. Having a mother cultured,