Home Economics, 1909—. Author of prize essay for Public Health Ass'n: Scientlflc and Economic Cooking for People of Moderate Means; also Rumford Kitchen Leaflets; four Farmers' Bulletins for U.S. Dep't of Agriculture; many articles bearing on home economics for current publications. Co-founder, with Ellen H. Richards, of the New England Kitchen in Boston. Ten years mem. B'd Charities of the City of Baltimore. Mem. B'd Directors, Charity Organization Ass'n of Baltimore. Mem. Am. Home Economics Ass'n, Arundell Club.
ABNEY, Mary Lloyd Pendleton (Mrs. John Rutledge Abney). 19 E. Eighty-sixth St., N.Y. City.
Born Cincinnati, O.; dau. George Hunt and Alice (Key) Pendleton; ed. by governesses and tutors In America, France, England, Germany, Italy; and Convent of the Sacred Heart, Paris; m. Washington, D.C.. Nov. 21, 1896, John Rutledge Abney. Mem. Exec. Board of the Diocesan Auxiliary of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Colonial Dames, Colonial Governors. Episcopalian. Former vice-pres. for Ohio of the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Ass'n. During her father's service as U.S. Minister to Germany, 1885-89, was with him all the time, and from 1886 to 1889, filled all the social duties of the legation.
ABRAHALL, Frances Helen (Mrs. Frank A. Abrahall, 160 E. Thirty-sixth St., N.Y. City.
Born N.Y. City; dau. Joseph A. and Mary (Evers) Kinney; ed. Villa Maria Convent, Montreal, Can.; m. N.Y. City, Sept. 6, 1893, Frank A. Abrahall; children: Aubrey K., b. July 1, 1894; Frances E., b. May 6, 1904. Interested in women's clubs, particularly when they pertain to the uplift of woman and her advancement. Favors woman suffrage. Roman Catholic. Mem. Rainy Day Club, Professional Woman's League, Daughters of the Empire State, Woman's Democratic Club, Stage Children's Fund, Mozart Club, N.Y. Theatre Club, Round Table, New Yorkers, Housewives' League.
ABRAHAM, Mrs. Frances Smith, 114 S. Grant Av., Crawfordsville, Ind.
Artist; b. Greencastle, Ind.; dau. Martin Van Buren and Sarah (Gunning) Smith; ed. Crawfordsville (Ind.) public school; studied art under Franc Aulick, Cincinnati, and Mrs. O. C. Wilcox, Indianapolis; m. 1886; widow, one daughter, Mary Frances Abraham. Maintains studio in home, teaching china, water color and oil painting. Among her best paintings are Beeches in the Gen. Wallace Yard, and The Tree Under Which Ben Hur was Written. Takes especial interest in G.A.R., her grandfather serving in the Mexican and Civil wars and her father and uncles in the Civil war. Mem. Ladies of the G.A.R. (pres. 1911), Order of Ben Hur, Art League (pres. 1900, 1902, 1912). Mem. Christian Church. Does not favor woman suffrage.
ACHELIS, Bertha Franziska (Mrs. Fritz Achelis, 9 E. 57th St., N.Y. City, and (country home) Rumson, N.J.
Born Brooklyn, N.Y., Aug., 1865; dau. Fritz and Alette (Cramer) Koenig; ed. Bonn and Berlin, Germany; m. Bonn, Germany, July, 1873, to Fritz Achelis, of N.Y. City; children: Margaret J., Elizabeth A., Fritz George. Formerly actively engaged on Executive Boards of the Brooklyn Hospital and Training School for Nurses, and of the Brooklyn Woman's Work Exchange, to which still contributes; now member of and contributor to various German associations: German Ladies' Ass'n (Brooklyn), German Ladies' Ass'n (N.Y. City), German Housewives' Soc. (N.Y. City), German Recreation Home (Gravesend, L.I.), German Governesses' Home (N.Y. City), Woman's Auxiliary, German Hospital, Brooklyn Soc. for Prevention of Cruelty to Children; mem. Summer Com. of Babies' Hospital, Rumson, N.J. Vice-pres. Central Branch Y.W.C.A. (N.Y. City); contributor and honorary vice-pres. N.Y. State Consumers' League; actively interested in Working Girls' Summer Home of Y.W.C.A. at Rumson, N.J., and the activities of St. George's Parish at Rumson. Mem. St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, N.Y. City. Mem. Germanistic Soc., Monmouth County (N.J.) Hist. Soc, Monmouth County Branch, N.J., Charities Aid and Prison Reform Ass'n., Colony Club (N.Y. City). A vice-pres. of N.Y. State Ass'n. Opposed to woman suffrage.
ACKER, Margaret Kate, 50 Woolsey St., Astoria, L.I.
Teacher; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B., '95. Teacher in Germantown, Pa., 1895-96; Middletown, N.Y., 1896-97; Bryant High School, Long Island City, N.Y., since 1897.
ACKER, Mary Clarke (Mrs. Milo M. Acker), Center St., Hornell, N.Y.
Born Brattleboro, Vt; dau. Ranslure W. and Lucy C. (Wilder) Clarke; grad. Vassar, A.B. '78; m. Hornell, N.Y., 1890, Milo M. Acker. Teacher in Miss Dana's School, Morristown, N.J.; New Brunswick (N.J.) High School; Dr. C. H. Gardner's School, N.Y. City. Interested in Sunday-school and missionary work of Presbyterian Church; manager eight years of Willard State Hospital for the Insane; mem. Nat. Com. of Mental Hygiene of N.Y. State; mem. and officer of State Conference of Charities and Correction. Presbyterian. Interested in social, civic and philanthropic ass'ns in Hornell, N.Y.; vice-pres. Tuberculosis Com. of Hornell; vice-pres. Humane Soc. of Steuben Co. Recreation: Travel in Europe each summer (with occasional exceptions). Mem. Monday Reading Club. Speaker before clubs of all sorts, conferences of Charities and Corrections, religious gatherings and all assn's with which connected.
ACKERLY, Jennie, 416 W. 118th St., N.Y. City.
Teacher; b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; grad. Vassar, A.B., '89. Teacher, Hawley, Pa., 1889-91; Poughkeepsie, N.Y., 1891-93; Derby, Conn., 1893-97. Teacher of mathematics, Morris High School, N.Y. City, since 1897.
ACKERMAN, Ethel Serviss (Mrs. David D. Ackerman), Closter, N.J.
Born Closter, N.J., Nov. 21, 1874; dau. John Henry and Mary Ellen (Baird) Serviss; grad. Vassar, A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) '98; grad. scholar in mathematics and astronomy, '98-'99; m. Closter, N.J., June 22, 1899, David D. Ackerman; one daughter, Ruth Serviss Ackerman. Active in temperance work; pres. W.C.T.U. of Bergen County, N.J.; mem. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnae, Associate Alumnae of Vassar Coll.; Nantucket Maria Miichell Ass'n. Congregationalist Favors woman suffrage.
ACKERMAN, Irene, 101 W. 75th St. and (studio) 1947 Broadway, N.Y. City.
Actress, playwright, artist; b. N.Y. City, Oct 28, 1869; dau. Andrew J. Ackerman and Katherine (Carpender) Ackerman (now Mrs. Fay, q.v.); ed. Rutgers (Female) Coll., N.Y. City; studied art at N.Y. School of Art, the Art League, Y.W.C.A., private lessons, etc. Began as child actress with the Old Bowery Stock Company, played later with Mary Anderson at Park Theater, and afterward starred in the legitimate drama and in her own plays; for some years engaged in journalism and dramatic writing; author of plays: The Gold Mine; The Choir Girl; Inez; A Corner on Hogs; Ricket; manager of Orpheum Theatre, Mt. Vernon, in 1903. Studied art and engaged professionally in portrait work in oil, crayon, water color and all mediums; also a specialist in dog portraits. Has often appeared as dramatic reader, and has also done much work as a teacher of voice culture and dramatic art; contributor to magazines of short stories, etc. Editor of The Union; author Book of Poems. Has been active in suffrage work. Mem. Woman's Press and Eneri clubs. Actors' Church Alliance, Literary and Dramatic Union (treas.), Rutgers Coll. Alumnae, Professional Woman's League, and other societies. Mem. St. Chrysostom's Episcopal Church. Democrat.
ACKERT, Helena Van Vliet (Mrs. Winifred R. Ackert), 416 W. Fifty-fourth St., N.Y. City.
Born Tenafly, N.J.; ed. in schools of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and grad. Vassar Coll., A.B '93 (Phi Beta Kappa); m. Oct. 12, 1903, Rev. Winfred R. Ackert. High school teacher, Jamaica. L.I., 1894-95; Newark, N.J., 1912.
