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# Woman of the Century/Flora Haines Longhead

​LOUGHEAD, Mrs. Flora Haines, author, whose maiden name was Flora Haines, born in FLORA HAINES LOUGHEAD. Milwaukee, Wis., 12th July, 1855. Roth her parents were natives of Maine. She attended school in Columbus, Wis., and in Lincoln, Ill., graduating from Lincoln University in June, 1872, with the degree of A. B. Her literary career has been a quickly successful one. When fifteen years old, and a very busy school-girl, the desire came over her to write a story. She wrote it by stealth and sent it to the "Aldine." The editor, Richard Henry Stoddard, returned the manuscript to her, suggesting that she would do well to try her story in the Harper and Appleton periodicals, as the "Aldine" had accepted manuscript enough for two or three years. The manuscript and letter went to the bottom of her trunk and were hidden there for years. She came to a serious and care-laden womanhood before she began to see the encouragement the editor's words contained and to appreciate their consideration. She began to write stories in earnest in 1883. Mrs. Loughead's newspaper work began in 1873 on the Chicago "Inter-Ocean." In 1874 and 1875 she was on several of the Denver newspapers. While there, she became acquainted with Helen Hunt Jackson, who was afterwards one of her most intimate friends. During Mrs. Jackson's fatal illness Mrs. Loughead was in daily attendance to the end. Between 1878 and 1882, and again from 1884 to 1886, she supported herself by writing for the San Francisco dailies on space- work. She published a number of excellent short stories in the "Ingleside," the "San Franciscan." the "Argonaut," "Drake's Magazine," the Chicago "Current " and the "Overland Monthly." She now does a good deal for the syndicates, has occasional correspondence in the New York " Post," and works upon her books. The first volume she published was a valuable work upon " The Libraries of California" (San Francisco, 1878). It is now out of print and marked "rare" in catalogues. Her first novel. "The Man Who Was Guilty," after giving her some local reputation, was taken up by a Boston house in 1886, and has had a steady sale ever since. She wrote, in 1886, a practical "Hand-Book of Natural Science," which the "San Franciscan " issued. In 1889 she published a housekeeper's book on "Quick Cooking." She has written a California story, "The Abandoned Claim," published in 1891 and has edited a volume of "Hebrew Folk-Lore Tales." She became the wife of John Longhead in February, 1886. She is the mother of five children. Her home is in Santa Barbara, Cal.
# Woman of the Century/Flora Harrod Hawes

​FLORA HARROD HAWKS. HAWES, Mrs. Flora Harrod, postmaster, born in Salem, Ind., in 1863, where she was educated. Her maiden name was Flora New Harrod. She is a daughter of the late Dr. Sandford H. Harrod, a physician well known throughout southern Indiana. The Harrods, after whom Harrodsburg, Ky., was named, went to that State with the pioneer, Daniel Boone. Miss Harrod, at an early age, became the wife of Professor Edgar P. Hawes, of Louisville, Ky. After a brief married life, her husband died, and she was left upon her own resources. She turned to teaching, and became a successful instructor in elocution, an art in which she excelled and had earned the honors in her school-days. She applied to President Harrison for the post-office in Hot Springs, Ark., going in person to urge her own appointment. She received the commission 16th August. 1889, took charge of the office 15th September, 1889, and was confirmed by the Senate 19th December of the same year. Mrs. Hawes receives a salary of $2,600 a year and has a force of thirteen employes, four of whom are women. As postmaster, she is a rigid disciplinarian, and she keeps the business of her office in the most satisfactory shape in every department She is the youngest woman in the United States holding so important a position, and her office is the second largest one in the Union controlled by a woman. Her administration has been thoroughly satisfactory and successful.
# Woman of the Century/Florence B. Williams

​WILLIAMS, Miss Florence B., editor and publisher, born in Bryan county, Ga., 20th December, 1865. A part of her childhood was spent in Savannah, Ga. At the age of sixteen she left home to battle with the world, not from necessity, but because she was ambitious. She began her life of independence by teaching. FLORENCE B. WILLIAMS. From the age of sixteen she continued to teach, to study and to read until 1889, when she took charge of the Statesboro "Eagle," the official organ of the county. She leads a busy life. Besides doing all of the work on her paper, her social duties are many. She is numbered with the few southern girls who have braved the prejudices of their neighbors to assume the duties of an editor. Besides her regular work on her own paper, she contributes articles to the "Sunny South," "Old Homestead" and other papers. In 1892 she established the Valdosta Telescope," a news and literary paper, published in Valdosta, Ga., which gives promise of a bright future in newspaperdom for its editor, who has already achieved a prominent place among the women writers of her State.
# Woman of the Century/Florence Adelaide F. Adams

​ADAMS, Mrs. Florence Adelaide Fowle, dramatic reader and teacher, born in Chelsea, Mass., 15th October, 1863. Her maiden name was Fowle. Her father's family, originally from England, have been for many generations residents of the old Bay State. On her mother's side she is descended from the Earl of Seafield, who was her mother's great-grandfather, and from the Ogilvies, Grants, Gordons and Ichmartins of Scotland, tracing their ancestry back to 1300. She was graduated from the Chelsea public school and afterwards attended the girl's Latin school in Boston. She learned readily, making particularly ​rapid progress in the study of the languages. During childhood she gave promise of great dramatic power. This, combined with her pretty childish face and happy disposition, won her much FLORENCE ADELAIDE FOWLE ADAMS . attention, while it held out flattering prospects for the future. She was graduated from the Boston School of Oratory in 1884, under the late Prof. Robert R. Raymond. In June, 1888, she was married to George Adams, a direct descendant of the statesmen and presidents. Her marriage has not interfered with her chosen line of work. Naturally of a sympathetic disposition, she has devoted much time and talent to charities. Having had from time to time many pupils to instruct, she felt the need of a text-book that should set forth the principles of the Delsarte system in a form easily grasped by the student. This led to the publication of her book "Gestures and Pantomimic Action" (Boston, 1891). Mrs. Adams was her own model for the numerous illustrations used in the volume, and in this, as throughout the work, she had an invaluable critic in the person of her mother, who is also a graduate of the Boston School of Oratory. One distinguishing trait of Mrs. Adams' character is her great love for animals, not confined to a few pampered pets, but extended to the whole brute creation. Her personal appearance is pleasing. She is youthful looking and is fond of society in which she has ever been a general favorite.
# Woman of the Century/Florence Andrews Clayton

​CLAYTON, Mrs. Florence Andrews, opera singer, born near Le Sueur, Minn., in 1862. She is the ninth child of Rev. Mr. Andrews, one of the pioneer Methodist ministers of Minnesota. At that time Le Sueur was well out on the western frontier, and most of the settlers of that region abandoned their homes and crowded into St- Peter during the Indian outbreak. The Andrews family stuck to their farm near the little village Two of the older sons entered the army of defense against FLORENCE ANDREWS CLAYTON. the Indians and were in the battle of New Ulm. Both Mr. Andrews and his wife were natural, though untrained musicians, and all of their ten children, known as the Andrews Family, inherited musical ability. In 1876 Miss Andrews, then fourteen years of age. went upon the stage with her brothers and sisters for their first year with the "Swiss Bells." They played in Minnesota and adjoining States, making trips southward as far as the southern border of the Indian Territory. She has since then been continually before the public, except for longer or shorter vacations. She became the wife of Fred Clayton, of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1883. who is also with the present Andrews Opera Company. They have two sons. The musical culture of Mrs. Clayton has been received mostly by instruction from and association with some of the most competent vocal artists of the country, while she has been traveling and working with them. She has thus obtained that thorough and practical knowledge of her art which can be secured in no other way. Her repertoire consists of forty operas, tragic and comic. She is not only an excellent vocalist, but also a fine actor, with a natural adaptation to dramatic parts. Her voice is a contralto.
# Woman of the Century/Flora Elizabeth Barry

​BARRY, Mrs. Flora Elizabeth, concert and opera singer and musical educator, born in Paris, Maine, 19th September, 1836. Mrs. Barry is descended on the paternal side from William Harlow, who came to this country from England prior to 1637, and Richard Thayer, who immigrated into Massachusetts among the earliest Puritans. On her mother's side, the Watermans claim a direct line of descent from Alfred the Great, while the Maxims were of Spanish origin, dating back to the time of Philip and Mary. Mrs. Barry's father, Isaac Harlow, was a cultured gentleman of musical tastes. Her mother possessed talent as a writer and a musician. Mrs. Barry received a superior education and is still an earnest student in every department of learning, French, Italian, Spanish and German receiving careful attention. Her musical talent was the dominant one, and she early began the study of that art that she might make herself proficient as a vocalist and teacher. Her first appearances in public were with the Mendelssohn Quintette Club and the Händel and Haydn Society of Boston, in 1863. Later she studied with Luigi Vannucini, of Florence, Italy. Sacred music is her especial work, although successful in ​classical music, pathetic ballad singing and opera. Mrs. Barry has sung successfully throughout her native country, and from Halifax to the interior of Mexico. She has appeared in many elaborate FLORA ELIZABETH BARRY. rôles of the standard operas, has sung in the grand oratorios in all the large cities, and has held prominent places in church choirs in Boston since her twelfth year. She is a member of Trinity Church, Boston. She has been twice married. Her first husband was John S. Cary, son of Dr. N. H. Cary, of Maine, and brother to Annie Louise Cary, the noted contralto. Her second husband was Charles A. Barry, an artist, from whom she was divorced in 1873. Since her father's death, in 1877, Mrs. Barry has devoted her musical efforts to her pupils. At her home in Boston she dispenses a large hospitality.
# Woman of the Century/Flora L. Aldrich

​FLORA L. ALDRICH. ALDRICH, Mrs. Flora L., doctor of medicine, born in Westford, N. Y., 6th October. 1859. Her maiden name was Southard. Her father was a farmer, and her childhood was spent on a farm known as "Sutherland Place." Her paternal ancestors were among the original Dutch settlers of the Hudson river valley at Kinderhook and Hudson. Among them are the names of Hoffman and Hubbard. Of the Southard family little is known, as the great-grandfather was an adopted child of a Hudson merchant and could remember only that his name was Southard, and that he was stolen from a port in England. From all that can be gathered he is believed to be of good English family, and ​probably Southworth was the original name. Her maternal ancestors were of the Sutherland family, who have a clear connection with the nobility of England and Scotland. Her early education was conducted almost entirely by her mother, who ranked among the educated women of her day. Before Flora was eleven years old she could trace nearly every constellation of stars, and knew the names and characteristics of flowers, insects, and birds in that section of her native State. When she was in her twelfth year her mother died, and her education subsequently was academic and by instruction under private teachers. When eighteen years old she was an advanced scholar in many branches. Interest in the sick and suffering was uppermost in her mind, and her chosen life-work would have been that of a missionary. Her marriage with Dr. A. G. Aldrich, of Adams, Mass., in 1883 resulted in her beginning immediately the study of medicine and surgery. A year later they removed to Anuka, Minn., where they now reside. She was graduated in 1887 from the old Minnesota Medical College, now the Medical Department of the State University, and has since taken post-graduate courses in the best schools in this country. She is now preparing for a course of study in Europe. In addition to her professional attainments, Dr. Aldrich has talent as a writer, and has nearly ready for publication a volume of almost two-hundred poems. In religious belief she is Episcopalian. Though exceedingly busy in her profession, both as physician and surgeon, in social life and the literary and scientific world, she is at the head of several literary and social organizations, and is greatly interested in charitable and philanthropic work.
# Woman of the Century/Florence Byrne Cartwright

​CARTWRIGHT, Mrs. Florence Byrne, poet, born in Galena. Ill., 27th December, 1863. She resided for many years in Grass Valley, Cal., where she had charge of the postoffice until May, 1890 In June 1890. she became the wife of Dr. Richard Cartwright, of Salem. Ore., who is a descendant of Edmund Cartwright, D.D.. F.R.S., inventor of the power loom, and of Major Cartw right, of colonial fame. Mrs. Cartwright's sympathies are purely Californian, as her parents moved to that State when she was only four months old. Not being strong, she was unable to take a university course, but she ​had the best of teaching at home. She has traveled extensively. Her future will be devoted to literary work in the Northwest. She is one of the most earnest and enthusiastic devotees of metrical composition FLORENCE BYRNE CARTWRIGHT. on the Pacific Coast, and she has a qualification which few other authors possess, that of taking infinite pains and observing the strictest rules of form, and at the same time producing a careless effect. Her talent runs particularly to old French forms, which appeal to her from their difficulty and novelty, but her favorite style is the sonnet, and her delight in that form never wearies. She has written everything from the simple triolet to the sestina and chant-royal. Her first rondeau was published in the "Californian" in 1882, and her first sestina in the "Overland" in November. 1883. A sestina appearing in "Harper's Magazine" in May, has been much copied.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Sun K'e

Mr. Sun Fo
孫科字哲生
(Sun K'e)
Mr. Sun Fo was born at Kuantung in 1891, his father being Dr. Sun Yat-sen, head of the Southern Constitutional government. His elementary education was obtained in the schools of Honolulu and following the completion of his work there he entered the University of California. In 1916 he was graduated from that university with the degree of B. A. He took his M. A. degree from the Columbia University in 1917. While attending school in Honolulu, he was engaged in journalistic works, being associate editor of The Liberty News, a Chinese language journal, from 1908 to 1911. Mr. Sun returned to China in August 1917 and at once took part in the organization of the first military government at Canton under his father. From 1918 to 1919 he was secretary of the Canton National Assembly. In the winter 1919 he became an associate editor of the Canton Times which position he held until 1920. He took an active part in the organization and financing of the campaign against the Kuangsi ​militarists in the period from July to October, 1920. Upon the formation of the commission form of government for the city of Canton in 1921, Mr. Sun was appointed to the position of Mayor. He held concurrently the position of director-general of the Board of Conservancy Works of Kuang-tung. He was a member of the Legislative Commission which formulated the Canton City Charter and the local government system that has been put into effect throughout the province of Kuangtung. During the past two years, he made several visits to Mukden and Shanghai as his father's representative to confer with the leaders of other parties on political affairs of China. Upon the defeat of the Chihli party in the war which started in September 1924, Mr. Sun Fo accompanied his father, Dr. Sun Yat-sen to Peking to participate in a discussion with the leaders of the Anfu-Fengtien party on the subject of National Reunification. Upon the death of his father, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, a considerable section of the conservative element in the Kuomingtang party advocated that Mr. Sun Fo should assume the position as head of this organization, the place his father had so long held. He is now living in Shanghai.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Sun Ch'i-lien

Mr. C. L. Sun
孫啟漢字吉克
(Sun Ch'i-lien)
Mr. C. L. Sun was born at Hangyang, Hupei province, in 1890. When he was ten years old he was sent to Boone College, Wuchang, for elementary education. He remained in that institution until 1905. From 1905 to 1909 Mr. Sun was at the St. John's University, Shanghai, where he received a middle school education. In September 1909 Mr. Sun arrived in America to study with private support. Between 1909 and 1910 he prepared for college at Cook Academy. In 1910 Mr. Sun entered Syracuse University, New York, where he studied Law and was graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 1914. While in the school, he was elected to the Legal Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi, in October 1913. Mr. Sun returned to China in August 1914. In 1916 he was an editor of the Far Eastern News, ​Peking. In 1917 he was translator in the President's Office, Peking. From 1918-1921 Mr. Sun was English Secretary to General Li Yuan-hung. During 1922-1923 he was English Secretary of the President's Office, Peking. He was awarded the Third Class Chiaho Decoration in 1922. Since 1923 Mr. Sun has been Private English Secretary to General Li Yuan-bung. While serving General Li Yuan-hung in the capacity of private secretary, Mr. Sun was entrusted with looking after the education of General Li's children. Mr. Sun has also been a lecturer on law subjects in Nankai College. His present address is No. 182 Parkes Road, British Concession, Tientsin.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Sun Jun-yu

Mr. Sun Jun-yu
孫潤宇字子涵
Mr. Sun Jun-yu was born at Wu Hsien, Kiangsu province, in 1880, and was a Provincial Graduate under the Ching regime. In 1900, he graduated from the Preparatory Department of the Peiyang University, Tientsin. In 1901 he made a tour in the South Sea Islands investigating industrial conditions there. After that trip, he went to Manchuria where he was entrusted with the work of organizing the Fengtien University of which he later became a professor. In 1904 he was sent by the Kiangsu Provincial government to Japan to study in the Japanese Imperial Law College ​where he later was graduated. After his return from Japan, Mr. Sun held the following positions under the Ching regime: Member of the Conetitutional Government Preparation Committee in the Board of the Civil Administration; Chief of Statistics Section in the Board of War; Professor of the College of Finance, High Police College and the Law College. In 1912 he became Chief of the Police Bureau in the Ministry of the Interior holding concurrently the post of Director of the High Police College. Subsequently he was elected President of the Kiangsu Lawyers' Association. In 1913 he became a Member of the Lower House of the First Parliament and was subsequently elected a Member of the Constitution Drafting Committee. After the first dissolution of the Parliament by Yuan Shih-kai in January 1914, Mr. Sun went to Japan becoming the First Class Councillor of the Chinese Legation in Tokyo. In 1916 when the First Parliament was reconvoked, Mr. Sun took his seat in the lower house again and was subsequently elected a member of the Foreign Affairs Affairs Committee of the House. At the same time he practiced law in Peking where he later became President of the Lawyers Association and was also retained lawyer of the Supreme Court. In June 1917 the First Parliament was again dissolved. The Peking government in September 1917 created a Special Senate to revise the Parliament Election Laws and he was a member of that Senate. In August 1917 the New Parliament was convoked in Peking. He was a member of the Lower House in which position he remained until August 1920 when the Anfu Party which had been responsible for the creation of this new parliament had been removed by the joint forces of Chihli and Fengtien. In August 1922 the First Parliament was reconvoked by Li Yuan-hung in Peking. Mr. Sun became a member of the Lower House again. In May 1924 he was appointed Chief of the Law Bureau in the Cabinet Office. In September 1924 he was appointed to hold concurrently the post of Chief Secretary of the Cabinet, Dr. W. W. Yen being the Premier. Mr. Sun was awarded the Second Class Paokuang Chiaho in December 1919; the Second Class Wenhu in January 1921; the First Class Tashou Chiaho in October 1922; and the First Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho in April 1923.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Sun Tsu-chang

Mr. Sun Tso-chang
孫祖昌学堂舞
(Sun Tsu-ci'ang)
Mr. Sun Tso-chang, was born at Liaoyang Hsien, Fengtien province in 1886. He was graduated from the Peking Imperial University before the Republic. In March 1912, he was appointed Director of the Provincial Industrial School at Yinkow. After a few months the school was moved to Mukden and the name was changed to Fengtien Provincial Industrial College, Mr. Sun was then appointed its president. In 1916, he was appointed general director of the Fengtien Electric Light Company of Mukden. In 1920 he was transferred to be the general director of the Yuan Ling Forestry Company of Hailunkiang. In the following year, he was appointed concurrently the general director of Ho Kang Coal Mine Company of Hai-lunkiang. He was at the same time the general manager of the Govern​ment Navigation Company of Hailunkiang and Sunhuakiang. In May, 1922, he received appointment as Councillor to the Military and Civil Governors of Kirin province; and in October of the same year, he was transferred to Mukden to be general manager of the Mukden Cotton Mill Company which is at present practically the biggest industrial enterprise in the Manchurian provinces.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Sun Feng-tsao

Mr. Sun Feng-tsao
孫鳳藻字子文
​Mr. Sun Feng-tsao was born at Tientsin, Chihli province, in 1879. He is one of the first graduates of Peiyang University, Tientsin. After graduation he served at different times as councillor of the Chihli Industrial Bureau, professor and proctor in the Chihli High Industrial School, principal of the Marine Products Institute, and committee man of the American Marine Products Association. Later Mr. Sun was sent to Japan, Manila, Canada, and the United States to investigate education, industrial and marine products. He served as chairman of the National Famine Relief Association and vice-chairman of the Red Cross Association at Tientsin, and as speaker of the City Council. At different times he was advisor to the President, the Cabinet, the Tuchun of Kiangsu, the High Inspecting Commissioner of Chihli-Honan-Shantung. Mr. Sun was Commissioner of Education of Chihli during 1921-22. In 1923 he was appointed managing director of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway and also of the Pu-Hsing Railway. He has received the Second Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho and the Second Class Wenhu Decorations.