Y.W.C.A. for country and small town work, 1912. Interested, especially, in the development of country life. Author magazine articles; The Corn Lady. Presbyterian. Nat. Education Ass'n. Recreation: Motoring. Especially inter- ested in the teaching of agriculture and home economics in country schools and in interesting country children in the possibilities of country life, that they may desire to remain in the country. Favors woman suffrage.
FIELD, Louise Maunsell, 128 E. Thirty-fourth St., N.Y. City.
Writer; b. N.Y. City; dau. Maunsell Brad- hurst and Louise Moore (Segee) Field; ed. pri- vate school, and special teachers in N.Y. Mem. Church of the Messiah (Unitarian). Active in social service work, and questions of modern politics and sociology. Author: Katharine Tre- valyan. Messiah Social Service League, Needle- work Guild of America. Mem. Maidstone Club, Tuesday Bridge Club. Recreations: Reading, theatre-going, walking, bridge. Mem. Woman's Suffrage Party.
FIELD, Sara Buxton (Mrs. Charles M. Field), 1401 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow, Mass.
Born Woburn, Mass., Mar. 9, 1885; dau. Her- bert Sidney and Ella (Wyman) Buxton; ed. Tufts (now Jackson) Coll.; grad. in three years with Phi Beta Kappa, '05 (mem. Alpha Omicron Pi); m. Boston, Sept. 1, 1909, Charles M. Field; chil- dren: Margaret, Douglas Buxton. Favors wo- man suffrage. Mem. College Equal Suffrage League. Episcopalian. Mem. Woman's Club of Longmeadow, Mothers' Club of Longmeadow.
FIELDE, Adele Marion, 1205 Spring St., Seattle, Wash.
Author, lecturer; b. East Rodman, N.Y., 1839; dau. Leighton and Sophia (Tiffany) Fielde; grad. Albany Normal Coll., 1860. Trustee Pub- lic Library, Seattle, after Apr., 1912 (board has seven members, appointed by Mayor for term of 7 years); first woman holding office in city of Seattle. Teacher and principal in N.Y. State, 1860-65, left N.Y. for Siam, Dec. 20, 1865; Bap- tist missionary 1865-90, with 2 furloughs in U.S.; went to Swatow, China, in Feb., 1873, and there established a school for Chinese women, a school for boys, and other missionary under- takings. Traveled in Asia, Africa and Europe, 1889-92; lecturer at League for Political Edu- cation, N.Y. City, 1894-07. Investigator and lec- turer at Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass., 1894-1907, 9 summers in all. Ac- tive in work for equal suffrage iu N.Y. City, 1893-1907; since then a resident of State of Washington; active in equal suffrage work in Washington until its women were enfranchised in 1910. Author: Life of Christ, and other writings in Chinese, 1873-89; Dictionary of the Swatow Dialect, 1883; Pagoda Shadows, 1884; Chinese Nights' Entertainment, 1893; A Cor- ner of Cathay, 1894; Parliamentary Proce- dure, 1898; Political Primer, 1900; Chinese Fairy Tales, 1912; twenty papers on Ants (original research work), 1900-07; many con- tributions to newspapers, 1855-1912. Progres- sive. Mem. A.A.A.S., hon. mem. Philadelphia Geog. Soc., Nat. Soc. for Promotion of Indus- trial Education, Washington Women's Legisla- tive Com. Mem. Seattle Social Service Club. Recreations: Walking, study of natural ob- jects. Interested in establishment of U.S. health service, in temperance work and single tax.
FIELDS, Annie Adams (Mrs. James Thomas Fields), Manchester, Mass.
Author; b. Boston, June 6, 1834; dau. Dr. Zabdiel Boylston and Sarah May (Holland) Adams; ed. Boston schools; m. Boston, 1854, James Thomas Fields (died 1881). Husband was a Boston publisher of works of leading American and British authors and their homes were visited by many of the foremost of the literary people of that period. Interested in various philan- thropies. Favors woman suffrage. Author: A Shelf of Old Books; How to Help the Poor; Whittier Notes of His Life and Friendship; Authors and Friends; Under the Olive; The Sing- ing Shepherd and Other Poems; Nathaniel Haw- thorne; Orpheus.
FIELDS, Willie, 2512 Oakland Av., Nashville,
Tenn.
Secretary Tennessee Railroad Commission; b. Fayetteville, Ark., July 6, 1877; dau. D. M. and Martha (McClain) Fields; grad. Lebanon (Tenn.) Coll. for Young Ladies, '91. Elected Dec., 1909, as sec. to Tenn. Railroad Commission (the only woman in the U.S. holding that position); for 10 years prior to that time was stenographer in that office; reëlected Jan. 1, 1910, and again Jan., 1913; salary $2,500 per annum. Has one of the largest Sunday-school classes of young men in Southern Methodism. At one time did feature work in form of stories and verse with local color for local daily press. Methodist (Southern). Against woman suffrage.
FIFIELD, Alice Ward Burnham (Mrs. Horace Prescott Fifield), 113 Norfolk Av., Swamp- scott, Mass.
Born Lowell, Mass., Mar. 20, 1864; dau. Albert Winslow and Ellen Eliza (Ward) Burnham; ed. Lowell primary grammar and two years at high school; one year at Miss Morgan's Boarding and Day School, Portsmouth, N.H.; Chautauqua course for six years; m. Lowell, Oct. 31, 1889, Horace Prescott Fifield; children: Dorothy Burn- ham, Donald Morrill. Pres. Swampscott Wom- an's Club, 1910-12; active mem. Woman's Club in Conway, N.H.; mem. D.A.R. Chapter at North Conway. Congregationalist. Republican. Mem. Daughters of New Hampshire, Mothers' Club of Swampscott.
FIFIELD, Effie W. Merriman (Mrs. James C. Fifield), 4004 Queen Av., S., Minneapolis, Minn.
Writer; b. Hyde Park, Minn., Feb. 17, 1857; dau. Charles E. and Marie (Sias) Woodward; ed. in country schools; m. 1879, Frank T. Mer- riman; m. 1906, James C. Fifield; one daughter: Beulah Merriman, b. 1880 (died 1883). Dep't editor on Spectator-weekly journal of Minneap- olis, Minn. Editor The Housekeeper, for fif- teen years; author several books for children. Interested in helping the back-to-the-farm movement, the union of Protestant Churches, the spread of the so-called New Thought ideas, the introduction of the Golden Rule into the servant girl problem. Books: Pards; A Queer Family; Little Millers; Mollie Miller; The Con- ways; Modern Entertainments; Serials; a num- of comedies for amateurs. Club: Local Study. Recreations: Traveling, reading, writing.
FILLEBROWN, Elizabeth P. (Mrs. Winthrop Fillebrown), R.F.D. 2, Bryantville, Mass.
Born Plympton, July 9, 1874; dau. William Penn and Sarah A. (Harrub) Hammond; ed. Girls' Latin School, Boston, Mass.; Smith Coll., A.B. '98 (Biological Soc.); m. Plympton, Oct. 16, 1901, Winthrop Fillebrown; children: Thomas, Sarah A., Elizabeth, Helen, William P., Mar- garet. Interested in church work, especially the charity and general social uplift work. For two years a volunteer worker in the Sailors' Haven, Charlestown. Works as school com. in her district. Mem. Plympton Grange, May- flower Pomona Grange. Congregationalist.
FINCH, Jessica Garretson (Mrs. John O'Hara Cosgrove), 61 E. 77th St., N.Y. City.
Principal of the Finch School; b. N.Y. City, 1873; dau. Rev. F. V. and Helen W. (Philbrook) Garretson; ed. in school at Franconia, N.H., Barnard A.B. '93, N.Y. Univ., LL.B., 1898; m. (1st) Sept. 30, 1896, James Wells Finch; one daughter: Elsie Virginia; m. (2d) 1913, John O'Hara Cosgrove. Organized the Finch School, 1900, and since then its principal. Lecturer on politics, history, philosophy and economics. Author: After Agnosticism, What? Mem. Kappa Gamma. Favors equal suffrage. Presbyterian. Clubs: Colony. Barnard,
FINCH, Nina Tree (Mrs. Jerry C. Finch), 208 E. Main St., Gouverneur, N.Y.
Born Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1876; dau. John Wesley and Ida (Beebe) Tree; grad. Ithaca High School, '95; Cornell Univ., A.B. '02; m. Ithaca, Aug. 31, 1904, Jerry C. Finch; children: Kathryn, Marian, Jeremiah Stanton. Mem. Library Ass'n, Gouverneur, N.Y. Favors woman suffrage. Unitarian.
