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Women of The West
California

of Board of Y. W. C. A.; former Regent of Los Angeles Chapter, D. A. R. Member: Ebell Club, Friday Morning Club, L. A. Country Club, D. A. R., Woman's Republican Club. Home: 4451 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif.

CRAWFORD, Inez Mabel, (Miss), born August 16, 1869, in Ottawa, Kansas, daughter of L. R. and Inez J. (Kalloch) Crawford, a resident of California for 20 years. Librarian. First Registrar of General Edward Hand Chapter, D.A.R. First president of Ottawa Federation of Women's Clubs. Former Chairman, Art Section, San Mateo Woman's Club. Member: American Library Ass'n, California Library Ass'n, California Book Plate Society, D.A.R., San Mateo Business and Professional Women's Club. Home: 216 Monte Diablo Ave., San Mateo, California.

CRAWFORD, Mary Sinclair, (Miss), born in Philadelphia, Pa., daughter of Josiah and Ruble Loughridge Crawford, a resident of California for three years. Dean of Women and Professor of French, University Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. Former instructor at Bryn Mawr College; at one time Dean of Women, Carleton College. A. B., Wilson College, A. M., Ph. D., University of Pa. Member: Nat. Ass'n. of Deans of Women, Modern Lang. Ass'n. of America, Mediaeval Academy of America, Societe des Anciens Textes (Paris), American Ass'n. of University Women, American Ass'n. University Profesors, National Ass'n. Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Soroptimist. Address: University of So. Calif., Los Angeles, Calif.

CUMBERSON, Katherine Davis, (Mrs. C. E.), born in Jacksonville, Oregon, March 26, 1867, a resident of California for 50 years. Married to Charles Ellsworth Cumberson. Children: Eugene D. Palm. Active in many state and local civic movements; for 10 years a member of National Board of the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom; member of State Executive Board, California Fed. Women's Clubs, for 6 years chairman of its Committee of International Relations; founder and past president of Redwood City Woman's Club; founder and honorary president Lake County Fed. Women's Clubs. Member: S. F. Woman's Club; Woman's City Club, Woman's Athletic Club, Presidents' Assembly. Home: Lower Lake, Calif.

CUMMINS, Caroline Seely, A.B., A.M., Vassar College, born January 25, 1888, in New York City, daughter of Frank Markoe and Mary Duyckinck Cooper Cummins, a resident of California for seven years. Educator. Headmistress of The Bishop's School for Girls. Member: L. A. Women's University Club, La Jolla Women's Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Pacific Headmistresses Ass'n. Home: La Jolla, Calif.

CURRIER, Ruth R. (Mrs. Edward W.), born in Napa, California, August 27, 1889, daughter of Joseph L. and Addie Delly Robinson. Children: Elizabeth. Welfare worker. Past president, S. F. Bay Branch, American Ass'n. University Women. Director, Golden Gate Kindergarten Ass'n. Director, Camp Fire Girls. Member: Century Club, American Ass'n of University Women, Women's City Club, Sierra Club, S. P. Center of California League of Women Voters (director). Home: 2625 Broderick St., San Francisco, Calif.

CUSHMAN, Clara R. (Mrs.), a native of Iowa, daughter of Lawson D. and Eliza Baker Rankin, a resident of California for forty years. Married to Dr. Ruggles Allerton Cushman. Lawyer. Active in civic affairs; member of City Planning Commission. Member: Business and Professional Women's Club, Ebell Club, California Bar Association. Home: 710 S. Birch St., Santa Ana, Calif.

CUSHMAN, Jeannette Allen (Mrs. H. W.), born in Tekonsha, Michigan, daughter of Sylvester B. and Cordelia M. Robinson Allen, a resident of California for 21 years. Married to Herbert Wright Cushman. Children: Robert Allen, Dorothy Cushman Fess. Very active club woman. Has held various offices in different clubs; former first National President, Alpha Chi Omega. Member: Hollywood Woman's Club, D. A. R., P. E. O., Alpha Chi Omega. Home: 1525 Poinsettia Place, Hollywood, Calif.

DALEY, Edith, (Mrs.), born in Fostoria, Ohio, January 1, 1876. Resident of California for 22 years. Married to Frederick Hammond Daley. City librarian of San Jose; author: "Angel in the Sun" (book of verse), poems contained in following anthologies—Roosevelt as the Poets Saw Him, Markham's anthology of World's Best Poetry, Stidger's “Flames of Faith,” “A Day in the Hills,” “A Day of Poetry”; president of San Jose Poetry Club. Member: O. E. S., San Jose Poetry Club, Calif. Writer's,

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