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# Woman of the Century/Harriet B. Jones

​JONES, Miss Harriet B., physician, born in Ebensburgh, Pa., 3rd June, 1856. Her ancestors on both sides were Welsh. Her father emigrated from Wales when a boy. The family removed from Pennsylvania to Terra Alta, W. Va., in June, 1863. There Harriet dwelt during her childhood. At an early age she entered the Wheeling Female College, from which stie was graduated 3rd June, 1875. Music and art were important features of her education. After leaving school, she was not content to remain at home. She realized the need of more ​female physicians, and proposed to take up the study of medicine. This idea did not exactly meet the approval of her parents and friends; but when they saw her determination, all opposition was withdrawn, and, instead, assistance and encouragement were rendered. HARRIET B. JONES. She went to Baltimore to pursue her studies, and was graduated with honors from the Woman's Medical College, 1st May, 1884. Dr. Jones commenced to practice in Wheeling in September, 1885, having spent some time in travel. In August, 1887, she was elected assistant superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane in Weston, W. Va. Desiring to make a specialty of nervous diseases, she accepted that position and rendered faithful and efficient service until April, 1892, when she returned to Wheeling and established a private sanitarium for women's and nervous diseases, which institution is now in a prosperous condition. Besides her professional work, she is interested in every movement tending to promote morality, temperance and religion. Her work in Weston in the temperance cause was successful. There she organized a White Cross League, beginning with five, and the membership increased to thirty-three, including boys from fifteen to twenty years of age. The organization is still in existence and doing good work. When she went to Wheeling, she immediately resumed that work there, and is leader of a band of twenty-four members. Recognizing her ability as a leader, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union unanimously elected Dr. Jones to be their president, as did also the Union Chautauqua Circles of Wheeling. Her knowledge of the needs of her sex, together with the earnest solicitations of her friends, have induced her upon several occasions to speak in public. Dr. Jones spends her days in alleviating suffering, dispensing charities and encouraging literary culture.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEE-WARNER

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​ LEE-WARNER ( see: WARNER, WILLIAM H. LEE-).
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEMASSON, Emile

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​ LEMASSON, Emile (CAP ST JACQUES), Administrator and Mayor. Decoration: Officer d'Academie. Address: Cap St Jacques, via Saigon, Cochin-China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEMON, Arthur Henry

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​ LEMON, Arthur Henry (SINGAPORE), B.A.; Assistant. Clerk of Councils. Educ.: Merchant Taylors' School, and Exeter College, Oxford (Scholar); B.A. 1887. Cadet, Straits Settlements, 1888; Private Secretary to Governor, Sept., 1889, to Jan., 1890; attached to Chinese Protectorate, Penang, Aug., 1891; Secretary to Currency Committee, June, 1893; acting District Officer, South Malacca, Dec., 1893; passed in Malay, 1894; acting 3rd Magistrate, ​Singapore, April, 1894; acting 2nd Assistant Colonial.Secretary, May. 1895; acting assistant Colonial Secretary, and Clerk of Councils, June; acting 2nd assistant Colonial Secretary, Aug., 1895; acting District Officer, Malacca, Oct., 1895; District Officer, Province Wellesley, June, 1896, but continued to act at Malacca; acting 2nd Magistrate, Penang, July, 1898; acting assistant Postmaster General, Penang, Aug., 1898; 2nd assistant Colonial Secretary, Jan., 1902; acting Collector of Laud Revenue, and Registrar of Deeds, Penang, April, 1903; acting assistant Colonial Secretary; acting assistant Clerk of Councils, Singapore. Club: Singapore. Address: Singapore, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEIRIA, Joao Joaquim

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​ LEIRIA, Joao Joaquim (HONGKONG), Merchant, Rozario and Co., Agents of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino of Lisbon; Vice-Consul for Portugal and Consul for Brazil; b. Sept. 10, 1868, at Hongkong; m. Elisa, 3rd d. of late M. C. do Rozario, merchant. Educ.: Hongkong. Decorations: Knight Commander of Portuguese Order of Christ. Clubs: Lusitano; Jockey; Cricket; Victoria Recreation, and Bowling. Address: "Duart," 15, Arbuthnot Road, Hongkong.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEPONT, Rev. Ernest S.

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​ LEPONT, Rev. Ernest S. (PANGASINAN), Minister of Methodist Episcopal Church; b. 1868. Educ.: Evanston. U.S.A.; North Western University. Was admitted to practise of law as Barrister and Solicitor in Chancery in 1892, in State of Washington; practised for five years in courts of state; graduated from School of Theology of North Western University, in May, 1899; was appointed Headmaster of Anglo-Chinese School at Singapore, Aug., 1899-and held position until March, 1903; was then transferred to Philippine Islands and appointed Missionary in charge of Province of Paugasinan; in Aug., 1904 ap pointed Presiding Elder of Northern Districts and stationed at Lingayen. Address: Lingnyen. Pangasinan province, Philippine Islands.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LERA. C. A.

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​ LERA, C. A. (TOKYO), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Mexico. Address: Mexican Legation, 21, Nagata-cho, Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEE, Edward Foster

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​ LEE, Edward Foster (KUALALUMPUR), Educationalist; b. March 26, 1881; in. Muriel, e. d. of.J. E. Nathaniel, accountant, "Ceylon Observer". Educ.: Richmond College, Galle, City College, Colombo. Headmaster, Methodist Boys' School, Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States; member of College of Preceptors, London; Member of Board of Directors, Y.M.C.A., Kuala Lumpur. Address Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LEE-JONES

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​ LEE-JONES (see: JONES, JOHN WILLIAM LEE-).
# Who's Who in the Far East/LENCOU-BAREME, Rene Louis

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​ LENCOU-BAREME, Rene Louis (HANOI), Substitut du Procureur General; b. Nov. 24, 1859. Entree l'Administration, Juin 5; 1886; Substitut du Procureur General, Nov. 1, 1901. Address: Hanoi, Tonkin, Indo-China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/LENZMANN, Carl Robert

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​ LENZMANN, Carl Robert (HONGKONG ), Merchant, manager of Carlowitz and Co.; b. Oct. 19, 1865. Educ.: In Germany. Arrived in China (Canton), 1892; represented firm in Japan, 1902-5; cane to Hongkong, 1905. Clubs: Germania; Jockey; Hongkong; Concordia, Kobe; and Kobe Club. Address: e/o Carlowitz and Co., Hongkong.
# Woman of the Century/Susan Helen Wixon

​WIXON, Miss Susan Helen, author and educator, was born in Dennisport, Cape Cod, Mass. She is of Welsh descent. Her father was Captain James Wixon, a man of sturdy independence and honesty. Her mother, Bethia Smith Wixon, was a woman of firmness, integrity and uprightness. Miss Wixon was from infancy a thoughtful ​child, of a dreamy, studious and poetic nature. She was an apt scholar and, before she was thirteen years old, she was teaching a district school. The committee hesitated about appointing her, on account of her extreme youth and diminutive size. SUSAN HELEN WIXON. "Indeed, I can teach," she said. "Give me a chance, and see!" They did so, and her words proved true. She followed teaching with success for several years, and desired to make that profession her life-work. Early in life, after the loss of four brothers at sea, all at one time, the family removed from their country home to Fall River, Mass., where Miss Wixon now lives with her sister. In 1873 she was elected a member of the school board of that city, serving three years. In 1890 she was again elected to that position, where she is now serving. For several years she has had the editorial charge of the children's department of the New York "Truth Seeker." She is a contributor to several magazines and newspapers, and at one time was a regular reporter on the staff of the Moston "Sunday Record." She is an easy, graceful writer, both in prose and poetry. Her poem, "When Womanhood Awakes," is considered one of the most inspiring among the poems written in the behalf of women. She is the well-known author of several books, "Apples of Gold" (Boston, 1876); "Sunday Observance" (1883); "All In a Lifetime" (Boston, 1884); "The Story Hour" (New York, 1885); "Summer Days at Onset" (Boston, 1887), besides tracts and pamphlets. She is a lecturer of ability on moral reform and educational topics. She is interested in scientific matters and is president of the Humboldt Scientific Society and president of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Society, of Fall River. She is a member of the Woman's Relief Corps, and takes an active interest in several other organizations. She was elected a member of the committee on woman's industrial advancement, World's Columbian Exposition, in the inventors' department. She is an ardent supporter of all reformatory measures, and it was her suggestion to Gov. Russell, and her able representation of the need of women as factory inspectors in Massachusetts, that caused the appointment of two women to that position in 1891. She is a member of the executive council of the Woman's National Liberal Union, whose first convention was held in Washington in February, 1890. She especially espouses the cause of women and children. In both politics and religion she holds radical views, boldly denouncing all shams and hypocrisies, wherever they appear. In 1892 she made a tour of Europe, studying principally the tariff question. Upon her return her opinions, published in Fall River, aroused much interest and discussion.
# Woman of the Century/Susan J. Cunningham

​CUNNINGHAM, Miss Susan J., educator, born in Harford county, Maryland, 23rd March, SUSAN J. CUNNINGHAM. 1842. On her mother's side she is of Quaker blood. Her mother died in 1845, and Susan was left to the Care of her grandparents. She attended a Friends' school until she was fifteen years old, when it was decided that she should prepare for the work of teaching. She was sent to a Friends' boarding-school in Montgomery county, for a year, when family cares called her home, and she continued her studies in the school near by. At nineteen she became a teacher, and she has taught ever since, with the exception of two years, one of which she spent in the Friends' school in Leghorne, or Attleboro, and the other in Vassar College. She has spent her summer vacations in study. She studied in Harvard College observatory in the summers of 1874 and 1876, in Princeton observatory in 1881, in Williamstown in 1883 and 1884, under Prof. Safford, and in Cambridge, England, in 1877, in 1878, in 1879 and in 1882. under a private tutor. In 1887 she studied in the observatory in Cambridge, England, and in 1891 she spent the summer in the Greenwich. England, observatory. When Swarthmore College was established in Swaithmore, Pa., in 1869, she w;is selected teacher of mathematics. Professor Smith now of Harvard being nominally professor. Professor Smith was called to Harvard at the close of the first year, since which time she has had entire charge of the department of pure mathematics, having been made full professor in 1875. In late years she has had charge of the observatory, which was built with funds secured by her ow n exertions. She is a thoroughly ​successful educator, and her conduct of her departments shows that a woman can be quite as efficient as a man in the realm of mathematics and astronomy.
# Woman of the Century/Susanna Valentine Aldrich

​ALDRICH, Miss Susanna Valentine, author, born in Hopkinton, Mass., 14th November, SUSANNA VALENTINE ALDRICH. 1828. She is the only child of Willard and Lucy (Morse) Aldrich. From her earliest years she showed that fondness for putting her thoughts on paper which seems to be the unerring indication of the possession of literary talents. When other children were satisfied with dolls and playthings, the little Susan was always asking for paper and pencil to use in "writing letters, as she then called her work. In her schooldays she always found it far easier to write compositions than it was for her to commit lessons to memory, and she was generally permitted to choose her own subjects for the regular "composition day" in school. Her studies were interrupted by a severe illness which lasted for several years. She was long a victim to insomnia, and she always kept paper and pencil within reach in order to be able to jot down the fancies that thronged upon her in long hours of wakefulness. The Rev. J. C. Webster, her pastor, also one of the directors of the academy which Miss Aldrich attended, being struck with the merit and quality of her compositions, selected some of them to offer to a magazine for publication. These were accepted, and Mr. Webster, who later became a professor in Wheaton College, Illinois, had the satisfaction of knowing that the author whom he introduced to the literary world had shown herself capable of holding a high rank among literary workers. For many years Miss Aldrich contributed both prose and poetry to a number of papers and magazines. Some years ago her health became impaired, and since that time she has confined her literary work to the preparation of articles appropriate to occasions in which she and her intimate friends are interested. Since 1879 she has made her home in the Roxbury District of Boston, Mass.
# Woman of the Century/Susanna Way Dodds

​DODDS, Mrs. Susanna Way, physician, born in a log cabin in Randolph county, near Richmond, Ind., 10th November, 1830 Her father was a lineal descendant of Henry Way, a Puritan, who SUSANNA WAY DODDS. emigrated from England to this country in 1630. Both father and mother were members of the Society of Friends. Their ancestors, who went west from Guilford, N. C, were originally from Nantucket. Susanna was the eldest of thirteen children. The father was in moderate circumstances and could give them only a common-school education. The eldest daughter was ambitious, and early set her heart on going to college. To her great grief, she soon found that, with the exception of Oberlin, there was not a college in the land that would admit women. There were only ladies' seminaries. She therefore decided to go to Oxford Female Institute, which was then conducted by Rev. J. W. Scott, the father-in-law of President Benjamin Harrison. To do this, Miss Way l>egan teaching in the common schools at a salary of eight dollars a month, and boarded herself. She was then seventeen years of age. By rigid economy she saved a small sum of money, and in her twenty-third year received her diploma from Dr. Scott's seminary. The much-coveted college course was not given up. The university in Ann Arbor was founded, and its doors were afterwards thrown open to women. Antioch with Horace Mann at its head admitted women and in the spring of 1856 Miss Way entered the preparatory department of that college. Again her plans were frustrated. Sickness in her Father's family called her home and also prevented her from earning money. The following year she became the wife of Andrew Dodds, a young Scotchman, whose liberal views were in harmony with her own. They made their home in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and Mrs. Dodds renewed her studies in Antioch, where she afterward graduated. She also completed a medical course, in 1864, in the New York Hygeio-Therapeutic College. Her husband at that time enlisted in the Federal army, and by exposure in the mountains of Virginia contracted a fatal disease. A short time before his death the family moved to St. Louis, Mo., and in 1870 Dr. Dodds began to practice in that city. She was joined by her husband's sister, Dr. Mary Dodds, with whom she is still associated. As physicians they have done much for the physical redemption of women. Dr. Susanna Way Dodds is dean of the St. Louis Hygienic College of Physicians and Surgeons, and also a member of its faculty. She has written and published a work on dietetics, entitled "Health in the Household," and has contributed to a number of health journals and other papers.
# Woman of the Century/Susan Frances Nelson Ferree

​FERREE, Mrs. Susan Frances Nelson, journalist and reformer, horn in Mount Pleasant, Ia.. 14th January 1844. She is a daughter of John S. Nelson, who was a lineal descendant of Thomas SUSAN FRANCES NELSON FERREE. Nelson, the founder of Old York. Va., where his mansion still stands. His oldest son, William, was at one time president of the king's council. William's oldest son, Gen. Thomas Nelson, was the most illustrious of his race one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the war governor of Virginia, and a very brilliant member of that body of great men who distinguished the country's early history Mrs. Ferree is a fitting representative of her noble line of ancestors. Educated and refined, her influence is always on the side of kindness and right. At the age of one year she, with her parents removed to Keokuk, which was her home for many years. Her home at present is in Ottumwa, Ia., where she is the center of a large and interesting family of children Her husband is a successful business man of that city. Mrs. Ferree is a great lover of poetry, of which she has written much, but she excels in journalism. Some of her newspaper correspondence from Washington, D. C., is exceptionally fine. She is an untiring worker for temperance and for the advancement of woman. She is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Woman's Relief Corps, the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Assocation, and the local Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and a communicant of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, of Ottumwa.
# Woman of the Century/Susan Hammond Barney

​BARNEY, Mrs. Susan Hammond, evangelist, was born in Massachusetts. Her father. Or. John A. Hammond, was a prominent physician. She was a contributor to the h>cal press when thirteen years old. It was her desire to become a foreign missionary, but, owing to ill-health and the strong opposition of friends, she reluctantly gave over her purpose. She was married to Joseph K. Barney, of Providence, R. I., in 1854, and has ever since resided in that city, with the exception of several years spent on the Pacific Coast. Her first public speaking was done in the interest of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island, and has always been interested in prison and jail work. She was the first president of the Rhode Island Woman's Christian Temperance Union, a position she held for several years. She is now a national evangelist. The enactment of constitutional prohibition in Rhode Island in 1886 was largely due to her executive ability. She has had much to do with securing police matrons for the station-houses of large cities, her work in that direction being second to none. She is an able platform speaker. Mrs. Barney contributed a chapter on the "Care of the Criminal" to " Woman's Work in America" (New York, 1891).
# Woman of the Century/Susan Marr Spalding

​SPALDING, Mrs. Susan Marr, poet, was born in Bath, Me. Her maiden name was Marr. SUSAN MARR SPALDING. Her youth was passed in Rath, and she studied in a seminary. Her parents died, while she was a girl, and she went to New York City to live in the family of an uncle, a clergyman. At an early age she became the wife of Mr. Spalding, a cultured and literary man. They settled in Philadelphia, Pa., where Mr. Spalding died shortly after. She continues to make her home in that city, though her time is passed mostly among relatives and friend in answer to the demands made upon her as nurse and counselor. She is a woman of varied accomplishments. Her poetical career dates back to her girlhood. Her poems are artistic productions, and she excels in sonnet writing. Ranking among the most successful sonnet writers of the day. her work has a peculiar charm. She has contributed to many prominent periodicals
# Woman of the Century/Susan Stuart Frackleton

​SUSAN STUART FRACKLETON. FRACKLETON, Mrs. Susan Stuart, artist and inventor, born in Milwaukee, Wis., in 1851. Her father's name was Goodrich, Her mother's maiden name was Mary Robinson, of Penn Yan, N.Y. Before her marriage to Richard G. Frackleton, this gifted young woman was a fellow-student with Carl Marr in the studio of Henry Vianden. in Milwaukee. Later she studied in New York City under the Harts, Mrs. Beers and Greatorex. She commenced china-painting in 1874, and in that field she has achieved great distinction in America and Europe. Mrs. Frackleton was the only woman in the country who exhibited in Philadelphia among the men, and her medals are numerous. She received the diploma awarded by the United States Potters' Association in 1889. Seeing the need of a portable gas-kiln for tiring her artistic work, she invented and patented one. For her technical book. personal artistic work, colors and invention she has been honored by a Special letter from the Queen in Italy. She has also been most flatteringly recognized and honored by the Academy of San Carlos, in the Mexican Republic. As an artist her admirable work h.is had court presentation in Rome at the request of the Queen. Mrs. Frackleton has written a very successful book on china painting. It is entitled "Tried by Fire" (New York, 1886). It has been accepted as a text-book in the library of the South Kensington Art Museum, and the thanks of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education were tendered to the author. The volume and its results won the author four international medals. Over five-hundred women in America have been made self-supporting by means of Mrs. Frackleton's skill in all that pertains to the ceramic art. She stands at the bead of one of the most eminently successful china color and decorating works in the United States. In April. 1892, site was elected president of the National League of Mineral Painters. Her success in life she owes entirely to her own temperament and the full use of all the opportunities for developing her own genius.
# Woman of the Century/Susan G. Cooke

​SUSAN GALE COOKE. COOKE, Mrs. Susan G., of Knoxville, Tenn., though for many years a resident of the South, was born in the State of New York. She is the daughter of George Spaulding Gale, one of the most prominent surgeons of Vermont, and a grand-daughter of Gen. Summers Gale, of the same State, a hero of the War of 1812. Her mother, a woman of brilliant intellectual and social qualities, was a member of one of the oldest families in her section of the State of New York. From both her parents Mrs. Cooke inherits the energy and resolution which characterize all her undertakings. Graduating with high honors from a prominent school in New York City, Miss Gale shortly after became the wife of Sidney E. Cooke, a member of the New-York Stock Exchange, who died in Knoxville in February, 1883. Mrs. Cooke has been identified with charitable work and for several years was one of the managers of the Brooklyn Orphan Asylum, and has held several positions of responsibility and honor. She is a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition from Tennessee, and was selected by Mrs. Potter Palmer to serve on the executive committee. She immediately assumed the duties of secretaryship of that committee, and on the retirement of Miss Phabe Couzins as secretary to the full board, Mrs. Cooke was elected her successor. She is an indefatigable worker. Her excellent qualifications and amiability fit her for the heavy and numerous responsibilities she assumed in connection with the great Exposition of 1893 in Chicago.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass and the Old Peasant

THE ASS AND THE OLD PEASANT
AN old Peasant was sitting in a meadow watching his Ass, which was grazing close by, when all of a sudden he caught sight of armed men stealthily approaching. He jumped up in a moment, and begged the Ass to fly with him as fast as he could, “Or else,” said he, “we shall both be captured by the enemy.” But the Ass just looked round lazily and said, “And if so, do you think they’ll make me carry heavier loads than I have to now?” “No,” said his master. “Oh, well, then,” said the Ass, “I don’t mind if they do take me, for I shan’t be any worse off.”