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ELLIS EMERSON dau. David Henry and Cornelia (Fitch) Durbin; ed. in Anderson (Ind.) High School; Earlham Coll., 1905-06; Indiana Univ., A.B. '09, A.M. '10 (mem. Delta Gamma); m. Sept., 1909, Max Mapes Ellis. Ph.D. Engaged in biological re- search work in the biology of fishes, upon which has written several monographs. Author: Analysis of Rate of Regeneration Throughout the Regenerative Process (Journal Experimental Zoology, VII.), 1909; A Genus and Twelve New Species Tetragonopterid Characins (Annals Car- negie Museum VI.) 1909; on the Species of Has- mania Hyphessobrycon and Hemigrammus Col- lected by J. D. Haseman, etc. (Annals Carnegie Museum, VIII.), 1911; Genera Hemigrammus Hyphessobrycon, Dermatochier and Family Scianidæ in Eigenmann's Fresh Water Fishes of British Guiana (Memoirs Carnegie Museum, V.), 1912; also monograph on the green Halictus of North America (in preparation). Mem. Soc. of the Sigma Xi, Ind. Acad. of Sciences. Mem. Society of Friends. Favors woman suffrage.
ELLIS, Olyette (Mrs. Brazier R. Ellis), Wind- sor, Wis.
Teacher; b. Ellington, N.Y., April 9, 1844; dau. Hiram and Lydia (McGowan) Smith; ed. public schools of Chautauqua Co., N.Y.; one term in high school, Madison, Wis.; one term in Wis. State Univ.; m. Lodi, Wis., June 27, 1867, Brazier R. Ellis; children: Claude Smith, b. May 4, 1868; Lydia, b. May 5, 1870; Addle, b. June 3, 1872 (died Oct. 4, 1878). Newspaper correspond- ent and writer. Author of book of poems: Au- tumn Leaves, 1908. Mem. W.C.T.U., Ladies' Ald Soc., Missionary Soc., Windsor Neighborhood Club. Congregationalist. Favors woman suf- frage. Prohibitionist.
ELLYSON, Lorn Hotchkiss (Mrs. J. Taylor Ellyson), 10 E. Franklin St., Richmond, Va.
Daughter Nelson Hill and Harriet (Russell) Hotchkiss; ed. Loch Willow, Augusta Co., Va., and by a governess; m. Howardsville, Va., Dec. 2, 1869, J. Taylor Ellyson; children: Nannie (Mrs. Frank T. Crump); one grandson: J. Taylor Ellyson Crump. Mem. D.A.R., Daughters of the Confederacy, Colonial Dames in State of Va., Dep't of Woman's Welfare Work, Y.W.C.A., missionary and other societies of the Second Baptist Church. Opposed to woman suffrage; mem. Va. Ass'n Opposed to Woman's Suffrage. Mem. Confederate Memorial Literary Soc., which owns the Jefferson Davis mansion and main- tains it as a Confederate museum; vice-regent of the Va. room in the museum. Pres. Ass'n for Preservation of Va. Antiquities, which owns and bas its headquarters in the home of Chief Justice John Marshall; mem. the Country Club of Va., Woman's Club.
ELLYSON, Selma Daum (Mrs. C. W. Ellyson), Alta, Iowa.
Born Sumner, Iowa, 1876; dau. J. C. and C. C. (Koehler) Daum; ed. West Liberty (Iowa) High School, '93; State Univ. of Iowa, Ph.B. 1900; m. Albert Lea, Minn., 1907, Dr. C. W. Ellyson; one son: Craig Daum, b. 1908. Principal of high school at Manning, Iowa, 1900-03; held chair of mathematics in high school at Albert Lea, Minn., 1903-07. Mem. of State Health Com. in Fed. of Women's Clubs; mem. Alta Library Board. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian (pres. Ladies' Aid Soc.). Mem. Library Ass'n, Ceme- tery Ass'n. Recreations: Automobiling, card- playing, tennis, reading, walking. Mem. Wom- an's Club of Alta, Iowa; State Federation of Women's Clubs.
ELMENDORF, Theresa West (Mrs. Henry Liv-
ingston Elmendorf), 641 Massachusetts Av.,
Buffalo, N.Y.
Librarian; b. Pardeeville, Wis., Nov. 1, 1855; dau. Hubbell and Helen (Roberts) West; grad. Milwaukee public schools and Miss Wheelock's School for Girls (Milwaukee), 1874; m. Mil- waukee, Wis., Oct. 6, 1896, Henry Livingston Elmendorf (died July 8, 1906). Deputy librarian, 1880-92; librarian, 1892-96, Milwaukee Public Ll- brary; vice-librarian Buffalo Public Library since August, 1906. Authority on bibliography; editor for selection of Am. Library Ass'n catalogue; contributor to Public Libraries, the Library Jour- nal and the Chautauqua on library topics. Mem. Am. Library Ass'n (was its first woman presi- dent, 1911-12; vice-pres. 1895-96); N.Y. Library Ass'n (press. 1903-04).
ELTINGE, Louise, 607 Fifth Av., N.Y. City.
Teacher; b. New Paltz, N.Y.; dau. Magdaline
D. B. and Edmund (Eltinge) Deyo; ed. New
Paltz Acad. and Teachers' Coll., Columbia Univ.,
1901-05. Teacher at Mme. Da Silva's School,
N.Y. City, 1893; teacher in the Gardner School
for Girls on Fifth Av.; vice-pres. same school,
1908-09; principal since 1910. Mem. Reformed
Dutch Church.
ELWELL, Abbie Miner (Mrs. L. H. Elwell), 6 Lincoln Av., Amherst, Mass. Born Provincetown, Mass., Nov. 3, 1858; dau. James H. and Mary A. (Cowing) Nickerson; ed. West Newton English and Classical School, New- ton High School, class of 1877; Vassar Coll., A.B. '82; m. West Newton, Mass., Dec. 20, 1883, Levi Henry Elwell, A.B., A.M., asso. prof. of Greek in Amherst Coll; children: Marion Freeman (A.B. Vassar '07), Florence Ross (A.B. Vassar '11), Helen Nickerson (deceased), James Henry. Pres. Women's Alliance of Unity Church; mem. Amherst Woman's Club (pres. 1908-10). Unitarian. Life mem. Vassar Students' Aid Soc.; life mem. Associate Alumnæ of Vassar Coll.
ELY, Rudolphine Scheffer (Mrs. Robert E. Ely), 284 W. Seventieth St., N.Y. City.
Actress, lecturer; b. Buitenzorg, Java, July 19, 1872; dau. Rudolph and Marie (Michielsen) Scheffer; ed. Girls' High School, Haarlem, Hol- land; Conservatoire of Dramatic Art, Amster- dam, Holland; m. Binghamton, N.Y., June 7, 1905, Robert E. Ely; children: Robert Scheffer, Mla Roseboom, Rudolph Scheffer. For three years mem. of the Royal Soc, The Netherlands Stage. Author of play: De Man van Mademoi- selle, produced by the Royal Society, The Nether- lands Stage. Mem. Woman's Trade Union League, Woman Suffrage Party, N.Y.; Wo- man's Social and Political Union, Woman's Mu- nicipal League, Consumers' League, N.Y. Peace Soc., McDowell Club. Favors woman suffrage.
EMERSON, Adaline Elizabeth Talcott (Mrs. Ralph Emerson), 427 N. Church St., Rockford, Ill.
Born Vernon, Oneida Co., N.Y.; dau. Hon. Wait and Elizabeth Annie (Norton) Talcott; resident of Illinois since one year of age; ed. at Rockton, Winnebago Co., Ill., under the Misses Teed, graduates of LeRoy (N.Y.) Sem., and pre- pared for college by Mr. Seely Perry; grad. from Rutgers Female Coll., N.Y. City, in class of 1856; m. Rockford, Ill., Sept. 7, 1858, Ralph Emerson (manufacturer and philanthropist); children: Adaline (m. A. F. Thompson), Harriet (m. William E. Hinchliff), Mary (m. E. P. Lathrop), Charlotte Belle (m. Dr. D. M. Keith, M.D., M.R.C.S., England), Dora Bay (m. Prof. William Morton Wheeler). Taught summer country school, 1853, before going to college; afterward taught in high school in Rockford for short time. Prominent in social life and in activities of church and city; has served on City Hospital Board and local school boards; served as associate commissioner to Paris Exposition under appointment by Governor of Ill. Author: Love Bound (volume of poems), 1894 (now in third edition); Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln (in collaboration with hus- band); Reminiscences of the Early Fifties; also leaflet of Letters to Hon. Wait Talcott, which she wrote to her father from Paris when serving as associate commissioner to the exposi- tion; now preparing Recollections of Later Years. Mem. Congregational Church and of its Home and Foreign Missionary and other church so- cieties; also mem. Woman's Union Missionary Soc., having its headquarters in Bible House, N.Y. City. Mem. Chicago Art Institute, the Fortnightly of Chicago, Monday Club of Rock- ford and the Argonauts, a young people's club, of Rockford, which she organized. Charter mem. and Honorary Regent of Rockford Chapter, D.A.R.
