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# Woman of the Century/Emily Gillmore Alden

​ALDEN, Miss Emily Gillmore, author and educator, born in Boston, Mass., 21st January, 1834. In infancy her parents removed to Cambridge, and her education was pursued in the public schools of that city, and in Mt. Holyoke Seminary, South Hadley, Mass. Her career has been chiefly that of a teacher in Castleton, Vt., and in Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill. In this latter institution she now has charge of the departments of history, rhetoric, and English literature, and of senior classes for graduation. Her literary work, stimulated probably by the scope of her teaching and her experience as an enthusiastic and truly artistic educator, has been the recreation of her years, and her poems have the delicacy and spontaneity that belong to genius. Miss Alden comes of Pilgrim ancestry, being of the eighth generation in lineal descent from the Mayflower. She is singularly retiring in manner, courts no admiration for her work, and holds ever her daintiest verses in most modest estimation. She shrinks from publicity, and her first efforts were offered under a pen-name. An early critic, detecting an artistic touch in her poetic fancy, insisted that the mask should be dropped, and since then her poems have reached a very appreciative circle of readers under her own signature.
# Woman of the Century/Emeline Harriet Howe

​HOWE. Mrs. Emeline Harriet, poet, born in West Hickory, Forest county, Pa., 2nd January, EMELINE HARRIET HOWE. 1844. Her maiden name was Siggins, of Scotch-Irish extraction. Her grandparents were people of the best type and were among the pioneer settlers in that part of the country. Her father's farm had been the favorite camping-ground of the Indians in early times. Her father was a lover of poets, and often, on his return from rafting lumber to Pittsburgh, brought to his forest home the choicest literature of ancient and modern times. Surrounded by the beautiful in nature, the companionship of her loved books and constant association with her father had a refining effect on the youthful mind of Miss Siggins. She grew up with a love of the grand and beautiful in nature, art and literature, inspiring her at an early age to write verses for publication. In the twenty-third year of her life she became the wife of Capt W. C. Howe, who served his country gallantly in the Civil War. Their home is in the city of Franklin, Pa. Mrs. Howe is the mother of five sons, and her home is the domain of her power. Writing poems has been only an incident in her active life, although her published ones would make a volume. She is a graduate of the first class of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, and her poem "From Height to Height." written on the motto of her class, was read at Chautauqua. She is a woman of studious habits, ex- tensive knowledge and of refined tastes, an earnest worker in the ranks of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and active in missionary' society work.
# Woman of the Century/Emily C Rayner

​RAYNER, Mrs. Emily C., author and journalist, born in Boston, Mass., 8th March, 1847. She is the only daughter of the late Stephen Bartlett and Eliza Cook Hodgdon, and is of Puritan descent. She was graduated from Ipswich Seminary, EMILY C. RAYNER. Massachusetts, in 1865, and in 1866 became the wife of Thomas J. Rayner, second son of Thomas Lyle and Eunice L. Rayner, of Boston. Since her marriage Mrs. Rayner has resided in New York ​City. She was at an early age a contributor to various papers and magazines, but not until 1880 did she join the ranks of the professional writers. Always fond of social life, for which she is, by various accomplishments, particularly adapted, she has enjoyed an intimate association with many prominent Americans, including the late Samuel J. Tilden. Some of the brightest glimpses of the private life and noble character of that statesman can be obtained from her journals, which are a daily record, in many uniform volumes, not only of her own life, but of the important events of the social, dramatic, political, religious and literary world. Those journals are profusely illustrated and are of great value, since the daily record is unbroken for a period of over twenty years. They will probably find a resting place in some public library, as their versatile author has no children to inherit them. She is now in editorial charge of important departments in several leading magazines. Perseverance and power of concentration, joined with inherited ability, have led to her success.
# Woman of the Century/Emelia Benic Serrano

​SERRANO, Mme. Emelia Benic, opera singer, was born in Vienna, Austria- Hungary. Her maiden name was Benic. Her father died when she was seven years old. Her mother recognized her musical talent and placed her under the tuition of Prof. Simm, of the Conservatory of Prague. EMELIA BENIC SERRANO. She finished the course in singing there and then took a course with Lewy Richard in Vienna She then went to Italy to study the Italian language with Bona. She made her debut in Vienna, in concert, with Prof. Richard, and won quick recognition. Berger, the German impresario, engaged her to sing in opera, and in Kiev she made her operatic début, singing in Russian the role of Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust," and the soprano part in Glinka's " Life for the Czar." In Moscow she sang in "Faust" with brilliant success, which she repeated in St. Petersburg and Odessa. She then returned to Vienna and became prima donna of the German Opera Company in the Ring Theater. Later she sang in Milan, Turin, Lesce, Florence, Genoa, Venice, Cagliari, Catania, Berganio and other Italian cities. She next made a successful tour in South America. She revisited Italy, and then went to Central America. In Bogota, Colombia, she founded the Conservatory of St. Cecelia. In Caracas, Venezuela, she gave a series of concerts with Carlos A. Serrano, the pianist, and Ramon G. Osorio, the violinist. The troupe visited other cities and were successful. The climate in that country did not agree with her. and she came to the United States with Sefior Serrano, to whom she was married 3rd May, 1884, in Caracas. She is now living in New York City, where she is giving instruction in vocal music.
# Woman of the Century/Emelie T. Y. Swett Parkhurst

​PARKHURST, Mrs. Emelie Tracy Y. Swett, poet and author, born in San Francisco, Cal., 9th March, 1863, and died there 21st April, 1892. She was the daughter of Professor John Swett, a prominent educator of California, known as "The father of Pacific Coast Education" and the author of many excellent educational works, which have been in wide use in the United States, England, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Australia. Both Professor Swett and his wife were inclined to literature. EMELIE TRACY Y. SWETT PARKHURST. Emelie was educated in the public schools of San Francisco, ending with the normal school. She made specialties of French and music and was proficient in art and designing. She went, after graduation, to Europe and spent some time in France. Returning to California, she taught vocal and instrumental music in a female seminary in Eureka. She became the wife of John W. Parkhurst, of the Bank of California, in 1889. Her literary career was begun in her youth, when she wrote a prize Christmas story for the San Francisco "Chronicle." She was then fourteen years old. She served for a time as private secretary to a San Francisco publisher, and while in that position she wrote and published much in prose and verse. She contributed to eastern papers, to the San Francisco papers and to the "Overland Magazine." She collected materials for a book on the best literary work of the Pacific coast. Soon after her marriage she organized the Pacific Coast Literary Bureau, and out of it grew the Pacific Coast Woman's Press Association, and she served as corresponding secretary of the latter organization. She contributed to the "Magazine of Poetry," the "California Illustrated Magazine" and many other high-class periodicals. She wrote much in the editorial line, and her literary work includes everything from Creek, French and German translations to the production of finished poems of high merit. She wrote a biography of Charles Edward de Villers in French and English. She dramatized Helen Hunt Jackson's Indian novel, "Ramona." Her life was crowded full of work.
# Woman of the Century/Emeline S. Burlingame

​BURLINGAME, Mrs. Emeline S., editor and evangelist, born in Smithfield, R. I., 22nd September, 1836. Her maiden name was Emeline Stanley Aldrich. Her father was a public speaker of ability, and her mother was a woman of much energy. After graduating in the Providence high school at the age of fifteen, she pursued a course of study in the Rhode Island Normal School, and then taught five years. In November, 1859, she was married to Luther R. Burlingame and subsequently lived in Wellshoro, Pa., and Whitesboro. N. Y., afterward removing to Dover, N. H., and then back to her home in Providence. She early became active in Christian work and, while living in Dover, Ix rame a regular contributor to the "Morning Star" and "Little Star," published by the Free Baptists. About the same time she became editor of the "Myrtle," a paper for children. On her removal to Providence sin- assisted her husband in editing "Town and Country," a temperance paper. In 1873 she was elected president of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society, which position she held fur thirteen years, resigning when elected editor of the "Missionary Helper, " the organ of ​the society. She Introduced into the magazine features which made it a helper to missionary' workers. In 1879 she was elected corresponding secretary and organizer for the Rhode Island EMELINE S. BURLINGAME. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and began at once to address audiences and to organize unions in different parts of the State. In 1884 she was elected president of the Union and devoted the next seven years to speaking and planning in its interest. In the securing of a prohibitory amendment to the constitution of Rhode Island, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was the acknowledged leader, and to that work Mrs. Burlingame bent the energy of her life. In 1889 she was a delegate to the General Conference from the Rhode Island Free Baptist Association, that being the first year when women were sent as delegates to that body. In 1890 she was licensed to preach by the Rhode Island Free Baptist Ministers' Association. In 1891, being seriously worn by her prolonged labors for temperance, she resigned the presidency of the Rhode Island Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and was elected National Woman's Christian Temperance Union evangelist. She soon after accepted the position of general agent of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary Society, and since that time has been traveling, visiting quarterly and yearly conferences and churches, and addressing them on the broadest phases of missionary work, including the important reforms of the day.
# Woman of the Century/Emily Elizabeth Veeder

​VEEDER, Mrs. Emily Elizabeth, author, was born in the valley of Lake Champlain, N. Y. On one side she is the granddaughter of Judge McOmlier. Her paternal grandmother was a poet of no mean order. The late Bishop Daniel Goodsell was her cousin She was a student in Packer Institute. Brooklyn, N. Y. She wrote verses at the age of nine, but it was the direct influence of her brother-in-law, Professor Stearns, a professor of law, and of the notable people who gathered about him and her sister, which elevated her taste for literature and rendered it absorbing. Her culture has been increased by travel and by contact with many minds. Her first book, "Her Brother Donnard" (Philadelphia, 1891), was followed by "Entranced, and Other Verses " 1 She has arranged several of her poems to music of her own composition. The world would hear more frequently from Mrs. Veeder. were she not much of the time prohibited from free expression by the exhaustion of invalidism. In her hours of pain she rises above EMILY ELIZABETH VEEDER. physical suffering and her habitual temper is buoyant and helpful. She possesses originality and piquancy. A keen observation of human nature and a nice discrimination of character give point to her conversation and her literary work. In anecdote is she especially fortunate. In private life she is eminently practical. Her home is in Pittsburgh, Pa.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wu Chi-sun

Mr. Wu Chi-sun
吳笈孫字世緗
​Mr. Wu Chi-sun was born at Ku-shih Hsien, Honan province, in 1876. His family has been well known for many generations through the literary attainments of some of its menibers and their occupation of important official positions. Mr. Wu himself is also a scholar. When his father was an official in Peking, he moved his home from Honan to Chihli and settled at Paotingfu. This family and the family of the late President Hsu Shih-chang have been on the most intimate terms for almost half a century. In 1905 when Hsu Shih-chang became President of the Board of Civil Administration, Mr. Wu was appointed a Second Class Secretary of the Board. In May 1907 he accompanied Hsu Shih-chang to Mukden when the latter had been appointed Viceroy of Manchuria. He became Viceroy's private secretary in charge of secret documents. This post he held until March 1909 when Hsu was transferred to Peking becoming President of Board of Communications. Hsu Shih-chang upon becoming concurrently Director-General of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway in August 1909 appointed Mr. Wu a councillor. After the establishment of the Republic in 1912, he retired together with his chief. In May 1914, Hsu Shih-chang was appointed Secretary of State when Yuan Shih-kai changed the cabinet system of government into presidential system. Mr. Wu was made Chief of the Administrative Department in the Cabinet Office. In May 1916 he was appointed Director of the Government Printing and Engraving Bureau, of the Cabinet. Later he was made Chief of the Department of Important Documents in the Cabinet under Marshal Tuan Chi-jui. In October 1916 he was awarded the Second Class Chiaho. From September 1918 to May 1922 he was Chief Secretary to President Hsu Shih-chang. He was awarded the First Class Tashou Chiaho in December 1919; First Class Wenfu in January 1920; and the Second Class Tashou Packuang Chiaho in March 1922.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wu Chun-sheng

General Wu Chun-sheng
吳俊醒字與模
General Wu Chun-sheng was born at Lieh-ch’eng Hsien, Shantung Province, in 1863. He started his military career as a mere soldier in Manchuria serving in the Imperial Army. The highest position General Wu held under the Ching Regime was the Commandant of Rear Defence of Fengtien Province. In that capacity he rendered valuable service in suppressing banditry in the Liao Hsi Area. In July 1914 General Wu was appointed Defence Commissioner of Tiao-Liao Area of the Fengtien Province. In October 1916 he was awarded the Second Order of Merit and also made a Lieutenant General. Subsequently he was appointed the ​Commander-in-Chief of the 29th Division rf the National Army. In March 1921 General Wu was appointed Military Governor of Heilungkiang holding concurrently the post of Civil Governor of the same province. In June 1921 General Wu was given the brevet rank of Full General and in July he was awarded the Second Class Paokuang Chiaho Decoration. After the Chihli-Fengtien War in 1922, the Peking government appointed him the Acting Military Governor of Fengtien. But General Wu was still standing by Marshal Chang Tso-lin. Since then he has been the Vice-Commandant of the Manchurian Forces for the Preservation of Peace and Order in the Three Eastern Provinces holding concurrently the post of Military Director of Heilungkiang.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wu Cho-jan

Mr. Wu Ting-sung
郎卓然字接生
(Wu Choujan)
Mr. Wu Ting-sung was born at Feng-hua Hsien, Chekiang province, in 1877. He was educated at the Anglo-Chinese College, Shanghai. He taught in various schools at Ningpo and became headmaster in some of these institutions. During the Manchu Regime he obtained the brevet rank of Taotai. He served as director of opium prohibition at Ningpo and was a member of the Directors' Board of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Shanghai. In 1911, Mr. Wu was elected by the Chambers of Commerce at Shanghai and Ningpo to be their representative on the Chinese Commercial Commission which toured the principal cities of the United States. In the same year he was made a director of the China press, Shanghai. After ​then he was Chinese sole-agent of the British Amercian Tobacco Company for quite a number of years. After that he was connected with the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company for some time. Following the first revolution, Mr. Wu was appointed advisor to the Tutuh of Shanghai and treasurer of the board of directors of the Red Cross Society of China. He then visited the United States and Europe for the second time to investigate the commercial and industrial situation. In 1913, Mr. Wu was appointed by the Ministry of Finance to be Special Commissioner for the Investigation of Tobacco Tariff. He was also appointed later as honorary advisor to the Cabinet, honorary member of the Commission for the investigation of financial conditions. Ministry of Finance, advisor to the Civil Governor of Shantung, director of the Shanghai Bapt'st College and director of the Shen Hsin Company of Pukow. In 1924 he joined the Souter Tobacco Company and has been busy with the opening of branch offices in the various business centers throughout China.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wen Shih-chen

Mr. S. T. Wen
温世珍字佩珊
(Wen Shih-chen)
Mr. S. T. Wen was born at Tientsin, Chihli province, in 1878. He was graduated from the Peiyang Naval College in 1898. He served for four years in the Chinese Navy as a lieutenant. In 1902 he went to Honan accepting the post of translator to the Governor of Honan. During his stay in Honan he also engaged himself in educational work. In 1902 he established the First High School and the High Normal Collega at Kaifeng. In 1906 he was transferred to Canton, becoming secretary for foreign affairs to the Viceroy of Kuangtung and Kuangsi. In 1907 he became secretary for foreign affairs to the Viceroy of Liang Kiang (Kiangsu-Anhui-Kiangsi) which post he lield for a considerable length of time. For sometime he was concurrently superintendent-in-chief of the Kiangsu Railways. After the esta! lishment of the Republic, Mr. Wen ​was advisor in foreign affairs to the Tutuh of Chekiang. From April 1913 to October 1916 he was Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of Chekiang province. He was given the Third Class Chiaho in 1914. In May 1916 he was given an additional post as High Diplomatic Advisor to the Military Governor of Kiangsi, General Li Shun. In August 1917 Li Shun became Tuchun of Kiangsu. Mr. Wen accompanied him thither and was appointed Councillor and Advisor on Foreign Affairs. In January 1919 he was given the Fourth Class Wenfu, and in June 1920 the Third Class Wenfu. In October 1920 Mr. Wen was appointed Superintendent of Customs of Nanking. In November 1920 he became concurrently Commissioner of Foreign Affairs in Nanking. He was a member of the Chinese Delegation to the Washington Conferenco in the winter of 1921-22. In March 1922 he was given the Second Class Tashou Chiaho and in July 1922 the Second Class Paokuang Chiaho. In March 1923 his name was recorded with the Cabinet Office as ambassador-in-waiting. In October 1923 he was awarded the Second Class Tashou Paokuang Chiaho Decoration. In September 1924, Marshal Chi Hsieh-yuan of Kiangsu began his campaign against Marshal Lu Yung-hsiang of Chekiang province. Mr. Wen was appointed Commissioner of Foreign Affairs and concurrently Superintendent of Customs of Shanghai, which position he held during the course of the fighting between Kiangsu anri Chekiang provinces. However, upon the defeat of the Chihli Party in the fighting between Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin, Mr. Wen was relieved of his position, owing to his affiliation with the Chhli party.
# Who's Who in China (3rd edition)/Wu Ching-lien

Mr. Wu Ching-lien
吳景濂字伯
Mr. Wu Ching-lien was born at Hsing-ch'eng Hsien, Fengtien Province, in 1875. He was one of the first graduates of the Peking University. finishing the High Normal Course in 1907. Subsequently Mr. Wu went to Japan where he studied for one year. In 1919 he became chairman of the Fengtien Provincial Council and also Director of the High Normal College of the same Province. Following the outbreak of the First Revolution in October 1911, a National Council was convoked in Nanking. Mr. Wu was a member of that Council representing Fengtien Province. This Council during its session at Nanking from January 28, to April 4, 1912, enact​ed the Provisional Constitution. During its second session in Peking from April 29, to December 28, 1912, Mr. Wu was then President of the Council. The First Parliament was convoked in April 1913 and Mr. Wu by election became a member of the Lower House. Mr. Wu being a prominent member of the Ming Tang or the Peoples' Party became a political refuge after the dissolution of the First Parliament by Yuan Shih-kai. In August 1916 when the First Parliament was reconvoked Mr. Wu took his seat again in the Lower House. In May 1917 shortly before the second dissolution of the Parliament Mr. Wu was elected Speaker of the House to succeed Tang Hua-lung who had resigned. After the second dissolution of the Parliament which occurred in June 1917, Mr. Wu went south. In August 1917 the Extraordinary Parliament was convoked at Canton with Mr. Wu as its President. In September 1917 the Peking government issued a circular ordering the arrest of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Wu Ching-lien but they were never arrested. From that time on until 1922, Mr. Wu's activities were closely connected with the movements of the First Parliament, playing important parts in the struggle for constitutional rule against the mal-administration of the north. In 1922 the First Parliament was for the second time reconvoked in Peking. Mr. Wu was still the Speaker of the House. In that capacity he played the most serious part in effecting the enaction of the Permanent Constitution and also in the election of Marshal Tsao Kun to the Presidency. In December 1923 Mr. Wu being unable to effect his plan for overthrowing the Kao Ling-wei government and having lost his influence over the various leading parties deserted his seat in the Parliament and left for Tientsin where he has been remaining ever since. Mr. Wu was given the First Order of Merit in October 1920 and the First Class Wenhu Decoration in January 1923.