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# Woman of the Century/Emma Willard

​WILLARD, Mrs. Emma, educator, born in Berlin, Conn., 23rd February, 1787, and died in Troy, N. Y., 15th April. 1870. She was a daughter of Samuel Hart. She was educated in the academy in Hartford, Conn., and, at the age of sixteen, began her career as a teacher. She taught in different institutions and finally took charge of a school in Middlebury, Vt. In 1809 she became the wife of Dr. John Willard, then United Sutes Marshal of Vermont. In 1814 she opened a girls' boarding-school in Middlebury, in which she adopted many new features. EMMA WILLARD. She decided to found a seminary for girls, and in 1819 she addressed a treatise on "The Education of Women" to the legislature. In that year she opened in Waterford, N. Y., a school, which was incorporated and partly supported by the State of New York. In 1821 she removed to Troy, N. Y., where an appropriate building for a seminary was given to her by the city, and her school became known as the Troy Female Seminary. In 1825 her husband died, and the business management of the school fell upon her hands. She conducted the institution until 1838. when she was succeeded by her son. John Hart Willard, and his wife. In 1830 she traveled in Europe, and in 1833 she published her "Journal and Letters from France and Great Britain," devoting her share of the proceeds, over $f 1,200, to the support of a school that had been founded in Greece, through her influence, for the education of native women teachers. Her col- leagues in that enterprise were her sister, Mrs. Almira Lincoln Phelps, and Sarah J. Hale, Lydia H. Sigourney and others. In 1838 she became the wife of Dr. Christopher C. Yates. In 1843 she was divorced from him and resumed her former name. She revised her numerous school-books and did much work in the cause of higher education. In 1846 she traveled eight-thousand miles in the western and southern States, addressing conventions of teachers. In 1854 she attended the world's educational convention in London, Eng. She was the pioneer in the higher education of women in the United States, and educated over five-thousand pupils. Her school-books had a large sale and were translated into the European and Asiatic languages. Her publications are: "The Woodbridge and Willard Geographies and Atlases" (1823); "History of the United States, or Republic of America" (1828); "Universal History in Perspective" (1837); "Treatise on the Circulation of the Blood" (1846); "Respiration and Its Effects, Particularly as Respects Asiatic Cholera" (1849); "Last Leaves of American History" (1849); "Astronomy" (1853); "Morals for the Young " (1857), and many charts, atlases, pamphlets and addresses. She wrote a number of poems, including the famous "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," which were published in a volume, in 1830, and afterwards suppressed. She was a woman of great powers of mind, and she possessed marked executive capacity. All her work in the school-room was carried out on philosophical methods.
# Woman of the Century/Ernestine Schaffner

​SCHAFFNER, Mrs. Ernestine, "The Prisoner's Friend," is a citizen of New York City. She is the possessor of wealth, that enables her to indulge her charitable leanings in a substantial way. She has always felt a deep interest in the criminal and downtrodden people of her city, and since 1885 she has done remarkable work in behalf of prisoners of both sexes, who are under arrest or serving sentences in the city prisons. She has an office at No. 21 Center street, near one of the prisons. Over the door is the legend: "Free Advice to the Poor and to the Innocent Accused." She visits the courts and devotes her time to the relief of the prisoners. She is a woman past middle age, and her work has been carried on alone. She was drawn into the work in a simple-way. One day she read in an evening paper of a young German immigrant, who, having been arrested for some trivial offense, was so overcome by the disgrace that he tried to commit suicide. The next morning she bailed him out, and so impressed was she by his story and her belief in ​his innocence. She began to think of how many innocent people may be unjustly accused of crime, and how she could help them, should she make it her life-work From that time she devoted herself ERNESTINE SCHAFFNER. to the cause of the innocent accused. She has given out over fifty-thousand dollars in bail money and has lost about six-hundred-fifty dollars, and two-hundred-fifty dollars of that she lost through a lawyer, who was afterwards m the Tombs under a sentence for swindling. Recorder Smyth would not allow her to go bail for an accused person, refusing either to accept her bond or cash, so she gave the money into the hands of the lawyer, who was engaged to defend the accused, and lost it. Her intuition is remarkable. So great are her powers of reading countenances, that she is seldom deceived in those whose cause she undertakes to champion. She has never tailed to get an acquittal on the merits of a case. She gives her individual attention to even - cast-, reads every letter, investigates thoroughly and then acts. She has voluntarily given up a life of ease to devote herself to the cause of those who may be wrongfully held. She has rescued scores of innocent persons from unjust detention, trial and conviction on circumstantial evidence.
# Woman of the Century/Esther Gordon Frame

​FRAME, Mrs. Esther Gordon, minister and evangelist, born in Washington, Ind, 10th July, 1840. Her maiden name was Gordon. Her father was born in Hamilton county, Ohio, and his ancestors came from the Scottish Highlands and were Scotch-Irish. In early life he resided in Centerville, Ind., and there studied law. From Centerville he removed to Thorntown, Ind., and in 1854 represented Boone county in the Indiana Legislature. In 1856 he went to Salem, Iowa, and was there admitted to the bar as a lawyer. Deborah ESTHER GORDON FRAME. Mendenhall, Mrs. Frame's mother, was born in New Garden, Guilford county, N. C. She was of English stock, and her people were inclined to the learned professions. Mrs. Frame was educated ​mostly among the Friends. In her school-days she often called her companions around her and preached to them with such effect that her juvenile audiences were brought to tears, She wove beautiful stories, to which her auditors listened with delight. In March, 1857, she became the wife of Nathan T. Frame, of Salem. Iowa. She has had three children, one of whom, a boy. died in infancy, and two daughters. Itasca M., and Hettie C. She was formerly a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but, feeling that she was called to preach and that the Methodists would not ordain her. she joined the Society of Friends and was ordained a minister by them. She began her ministry in New Garden Friends Meeting, in Indiana, 1869. Her home is now in Jamestown, Ohio, where she has lived since 1880. Her ministry has not been confined to her own denomination. For more than twenty years, with her husband, who is a minister, she has preached as an evangelist among all the principal churches of the United States.
# Woman of the Century/Esther Housh

​ESTHER T. HOUSH. HOUSH, Mrs. Esther T., temperance worker and author, was born in Ross county, Ohio. She is descended from Scotch and English ancestors. Her grandfather was Col. Robert Stewart, of Ohio, whose home was a station on the "underground railroad." Her grandmother was the first one of the family to sign the Washingtonian pledge. Her father was a Congregational minister. Her mother, Mrs Margaretta Stewart, was a cultured and refined woman. Esther was the second child in a family of eight, and her early days were full of cares and work. She received a liberal education, and studied her Greek and Latin while busy with the work of the home. In childhood she became a believer in woman's rights. She was married at an early age. She has one living child. One other died in childhood. Her son, Frank, was the publisher of the " Woman's Magazine," commenced in Louisville, Ky., in 1877, and continued in Brattleboro, Vt.. until 1890. Mrs Housh did all the editorial work on that periodical. She became prominent in temperance work. In 1883 she was sent from Brattleboro as a delegate to the State convention in West Randolph. She was invited to attend the national convention in Detroit, Mich., and there she was elected national press superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She held that position until 1888. She instituted the "National Bulletin," which averaged eighty-thousand copies a year. She wrote special reports and numerous leaflets, some of which reached a sale of two-hundred thousand copies. In the national conventions in Nashville and New York she furnished a report to a thousand selected papers of high standing. In 1885 she was elected State secretary of the Vermont Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and she has ever since had editorial charge of "Our Home Guards," the State organ. In 1877 she was elected State president of Vermont. In 1890 and 1891, in Boston, Mass., she edited the " Household," which had been removed from Brattleboro. In 1891 she returned to Vermont. She is a dignified presiding officer, and her work has been of a most valuable character. Besides her prose works, she has written a number of poems of merit. Her home is now in Brattleboro.
# Woman of the Century/Emma Winner Rogers

​ROGERS, Mrs. Emma Winner, author, is a native of Plainfield, N. J. On both sides she has the advantage of good ancestry. She is the daughter of Rev. John Ogden Winner, and the grand-daughter of Rev. Isaac Winner, D. D., both being clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church and natives of New Jersey. On the maternal side EMMA WINNER ROGERS. she is the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Moses Taylor, and Moses Taylor, second, during their lives successful business men of New York City. She received her early education in private schools in Jersey City. N. J., graduating from Pennington Seminary. Pennington, N J., and later from the University of Michigan. For six years she was the corresponding secretary of the Woman's Home Missionary Society of Detroit Conference, and is now the honorary president of the Rock River Conference Woman's Home Missionary Society. She is connected with the woman's work of the Columbia Exposition, as the chairman of the committee on municipal order, of the World's Congress Auxiliary. She is a member of the Chicago Fortnightly Club. She is specially interested in literary work in the line of social science and political economy, and has been a contributor on those subjects to various papers and periodicals. She has written a monograph entitled "Deaconesses in Early and Modern Church," which exhibits diligent research and marked historical and literary ability. While yet young, she became the wife of Henry Wade Rogers, of Buffalo, N. Y., afterwards dean of the law school of the University of Michigan, and now the president of Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. She is a woman of marked ability, especially endowed with the logical faculty and with the power of dispassionate judgment. She is a type of the younger college woman, who, with the advantage of the wider training of the higher education, brings her disciplined faculties to bear with equally good effect upon the amenities of social life and the philanthropic and economic questions of the day. As the wife of the president of a great university, her influence upon the young men and women connected with it is marked and advantageous. While she is still a young woman, she has already left an impress upon the life of her times that is both salutary and permanent.
# Woman of the Century/Emma Wixon Nevada

​NEVADA, Mme. Emma Wixon, operatic singer, born in Nevada City, Cal., in 1861. Her maiden name was Emma Wixon, and in private ​life she is known as Mrs. Palmer. Her stage-name, by which she is known to the world, is taken from the name if her native town. Emma Wixon received a fair education in the seminary in Oakland, EMMA WIXON NEVADA. Cal. Her musical gifts were early shown, and she received a sound preparatory training in both vocal and instrumental music. She studied in Austin. Tex., and in San Francisco., Cal. Having decided to study for an operatic career, she went to Europe in March, 1877. She studied in Vienna with Marchesi for three years. In order to accept the first roles offered to her she was compelled to learn them anew in German. She learned four operas in German in four weeks, and overwork injured her health, in consequence of which she was forced to cancel her engagement. She remained ill for six months, and after recovering she accepted an offer from Colonel Mapleson to sing in Italian opera in London, Eng., and in 1880 she made her triumphant debut in "La Sonnambula." She was at once ranked with the queens of the operatic stage, and in that year she sang to great houses in Trieste and Florence, She was recognized as a star of the first magnitude. Her success in all the European cities was uninterrupted. She repeated her triumphs in Paris, in the Opera Comique and the Italian Opera, a concert tour and an operatic tour in the United States, in a tour in Portugal, in a tour in Spain, and in a remarkably successful season in Italy. She has a soprano voice of great range, flexibility, purity and sweetness. She is an intensely dramatic singer, and her repertory includes all the standard operas.
# Woman of the Century/Estelle Turrell Smith

​SMITH, Mrs. Estelle Turrell, reformer, born in Forest Lake, Susquehanna county, Pa., 30th October, 1854. Her maiden name was Turrell. Her father's people were among the first settlers of Pennsylvania, emigrating at an early day from Connecticut. Her mother's family were Quakers, Her mother's maiden name was Gurney, and she was a descendant of John Joseph Gurney and Elizabeth Fry. ESTELLE TERRELL SMITH. In childhood Mrs. Smith was thought old for her years, was fond of poetry and music, and delighted in the studies of natural science. She became early acquainted with the fauna and flora about her country home. Her studies commenced at home and were pursued in the Montrose Academy, Montrose, Pa. She commenced to teach when seventeen years of age, at the same time continuing her special studies, then among the masters of art and song. In 1875 she removed with her parents to Longmont, Col. She taught two years in the State Agricultural College in Fort Collins. Col. In 1875 she became the wife of P. M. Hinman, secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, who died a few years later. She then became more deeply interested in the problems of woman's progress. Having means and leisure at her command, she devoted much time to the study and support of social reforms. Her devotion to the work of reform and her frequent contributions to the press soon won for her a place as a leader. In 1884 she became the wife of Dr. A. B. Smith, of Des Moines, Iowa. She was shortly after elected president of the Polk County Woman Suffrage Society. She has been an efficient member of the State executive committee for four years, and is at present (1892) president of the State Woman Suffrage Association of Iowa. At her instigation a series of mothers' mass meetings was held in Des Moines. The large City Hall was filled again and again, hundreds of women taking active part. Mrs. Smith was chosen president of the meetings. Much good was accomplished, especially in banishing from the city disreputable posters, cigarette cards and other evils. Through those meetings a bill regulating the property rights of women u.is presented to the State legislature.
# Who's Who in the Far East/EASTWICK, Robert William Egerton

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​ EASTWICK, Robert William Egerton (SINGAPORE), B.A.; Managing Editor "Straits Times." Educ.: Westminster School; Oxford University; Middle Temple. Graduated with honours, Oxford; served under Privy Council, London; resigned and read for Bar for several years at Middle Temple; served as Deputy Registrar, Supreme Court, Penang; Sheriff of Singapore; 2nd Magistrate, Penang; Secretary of Penang Chamber of Commerce; Editor of "Pinang Gazette "till sold to syndicate; Secretary and Chief Treasurer of New Docks; is Managing Editor "Straits Times"; was Secretary to Tanjong Pagar Dock Company Arbitration Court, which commenced its sittings at Singapore, Oct. 16, 1905, and is hearing and sifting evidence in England; still holds position of Secretary to Court, being represented in England by deputy. Publications: Editor of Oracle Encyclopedia" and contributor to "Humanitarian," "Fortnightly Review," and "Lancet," etc. Address: Singapore, Straits Settlements; Kensington, London, England.
# Who's Who in the Far East/EBDEN. Leonard Powney

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​ EBDEN, Leonard Powney (PKNANG), B.A., Cantab.; Acting Magistrate b. Aug. 18, 1864. Assistant District Officer, Rawang and acting Secretary to Resident, 1889; acting Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur, June, 1889; acting Secretary to Resident, Aug., 1889; assistant Magistrate, Kuala Lumpur, Nov., 1889; acting 2rd Magistrate, Penang, 1890; Collector of Land Revenue and Registrar of Titles, Selangor, Jan., 1891; acting Chief Magistrate, 1895; Collector of Land Revenue and Registrar of Titles, Larut, Mar., 1897, Warden of Mines, North, Jan., 1899; acting Senior Magistrate, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, Feb., 1900; District Officer, Larut and Krian, and Registrar of Titles, North Perak, Jan., 1903; Senior Magistrate, Selangor and Negri Sembilan, ​Feb., 1904; acting 1st Magistrate, Penang, since Dec., 19C4. Address: Penang, Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/EAKIN, Rev. J. A.

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​ EAKIN, Rev. J. A. (BANGKOK), M.A., D.D.; Presbyterian Minister and Missionary; b. Feb. 28, 1854. Educ.': Washington and Jefferson College; Western Theological Seminaiy, U.S.A. Founder and Principal of Bangkok Christian High School since 1888; came to Bangkok in 1880 as teacher in the King's School, in Siamese Government Service. Publications: Translator cf Euclid; Editor of Siamese Magazine, "Sang Aroon," 1892-1903. Address: Bangkok, Siam.
# Who's Who in the Far East/EBARA, Soroku

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​EBARA, Soroku (TOKYO), M.P.; b. 1842, at Tokyo. Appointed Secretary of Prefecture of Shizuoka, 1870; has sat several times in House where now represents Tokyo; is member of Constitutionalist Party; is Director of Azabu Middle School, Member of Higher Education Council. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/EBINA, Danjo

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​EBINA, Danjo (TOKYO), Evangelist; 6. Oct., 1856, at Kumamoto. Is one of most noted Japanese Christian ministers; is at present engaged in evangelical work at Tokyo; has been Principal of Schools at various centres. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FEARN, Dr. John B.

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​ FEARN, Dr. John B. (HLCHOW), Doctor of Medicine; b. Aug. 26, 1871. Entered upon medical missionary work in China for Methodist Episcopal Church, South (U.S.A.), March 26, 1895. Address: Huchow, Chekiang, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FERGUSON, John C.

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​ FERGUSON, John C. (SHANGHAI), B.A., Ph.D.; Chinese Government Service; b. March, 1866; m. 1887 M.E. Wilson. Educ.: Boston University, B.A., 1886, Ph. D., 1902. President of Nanking University, 1888-97; President of Nanyang College, Shanghai, 1897-1902; Secretary, Chinese Ministry of Commerce, 1902-03; Chief Secretary, Imperial Chinese Railway Administration, 1903-05; Adviser of Viceroy of Nanking, since 1898; Adviser of Viceroy of Wuchang, since 1901; member of Commission for Treaty Revision, 1903-04; Special Deputy of Viceroy of Nanking to settle extension of Shanghai Settlements, 1898-93; also Special Deputy to settle Ningpo Joss-house case, 1899; assisted Shanghai Taotai in arranging Yangtsze compact for protection of South Eastern Provinces, 1900; Special Commissioner to investigate Commercial Schools in Europe and America, 1901; Special Commissioner to America concerning railway affairs, 1904; Honoraiy Secretary, China branch, Royal Asiatic Society; Member American Oriental Society. Decorations: 3rd grade button, China; 3rd class of 2nd grade of order of Double Dragon, China; Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur, France; order of Sacred Treasure, Japan. Publications: Works on Chemistry, Pedagogy and Military Regulations (in Chinese); numerous Magazine articles; edited Education Department's "Chinese Reviewer," 1893-99; editor of Journal of China Branch, Royal Asiatic Society. Clubs: Shanghai; Golf, Shanghai, etc. Address: 16, Love Lane, Shanghai, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FERGUSON, Rev. Duncan

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​ FERGUSON, Rev. Duncan (TAINAN), M.A.; Minister and Missionary; b. Dec., 30, 1860; widower. Educ.: Glasgow University, Free Church College, Glasgow. Arrived Formosa, 1889; passed through troubles consequent upon cession of the island to Japan, 1894-5; was instrumental, with Rev. T. Barclay, in saving Tainan city from bombardment and destruction by Japanese under General Nogi, and was decorated by Mikado in consequence. Decoration: 5th class order of Rising Sun. Address: Tainan, South Formosa.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FENG-SHENG-A, General

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​ FENG-SHENG-A, General (M.\ LAN CHEN), native of Manchuria, Imperial Agent, Urga, May, 1899; Brigade-General, Man Lan Chen (Eastern Tombs), Sept., 1904.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FERRA, Claude Jean

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​ FERRA, Claude Jean (HANOI), Directeur de 1'Observatoire Central, Magnetique et Meteorologique; Administrator de 2e classe; b. Dec. 12, 1857. Entree 1'Administration, Sept. 20, 1886; Administrateur de 4e classe, Juil. 14, 1893; Administrateur de 3e classe, Janv. 1, 1898; de 2e classe, Aout 2, 1900. Decoration: Officier de la Legion d'Honneur. Address: Hanoi, Tonkin, Indo-China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FENG CH'E, Lieut.-General

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​ FENG CH'E, Lieut.-General (PKKLXC), native of Manchuria. Commissioner, Equipage Department, May, 1888; Deputy Lieut.-General, Bordered Yellow Banner Corps, Dec., 1891; Lieut.-General, Chahar, June, 1900; Lieut.-General, Bordered White-Banner Corps, Dec., 1900.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FENG-SHEN-T'AI

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​ FENG-SHEN-T'AI (LAX-Cnou), native of Manchuria. Taotai, Kirin, 1884; Salt Comm., Shantung, March, 1888; Judge, Kansu, Jan., 1902; Kirin, ​Shansi, 1903; Treasurer, Kansu, July, 1905. Address: Lan-Chou-fu, Kansu, China.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FENG HSU

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​ FENG HSU (AXCHIXG), native of Kiangsu; metropolitan graduate, 1886. Ho-Tung Tao, Shansi, Jan., 1902; Judge, Szechwan, Jan., 1903; Treasurer, Anching-fu, Anhwei, Sept., 1905.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FIELD, Rev. Frank William

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​ FIELD, Rev. Frank William (TOKYO), B.S., Minister; b. Nov. 5, 1863 at Vernon, Wisconsin, U.S.A.; i. 1889, Effie Wright Stewart. Educ.: Battle Creek College, Battle Creek, Michigan. After graduating in 1893 engaged in denominational school ​work at Mount Vernon, Ohio, for eight years; ordained to Ministry, 19)1; Superintendent of Japan Mission of Seventh Day Adventists since 1901. Address: 30, Oiwakecho, Hongo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/FARRER, Roland J.

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​ FARRER, Roland J. (BUKIT MKKTAJAM), District Officer. Educ.: Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. Cadet, Straits Settlements, Nov., 1896; acting District Officer, Nibong Tebal, Mar., 1897, to Sept., 1898, Dec., 1898, to Mar., 1900; acting Collector of Laud Revenue, Penang, Mar., 1900; District Officer, Dindings, May, 1900; acting Superintendent of Education, Penang, June to Aug., 1900; Head of Malay College, Malacca, May, 1901; acting 2nd assistant Colonial Secretary, June, 1901; acting District Officer, Bukit Mertajam, May, 1902; confirmed, July, 1904; acting Deputy Prosecutor, July, 1904 District Officer, Bukit Mertajam, 1905. Address: Bukit Mertajam. Straits Settlements.
# Who's Who in the Far East/HALE, Bertram Augustas

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​ HALE, Bertram Augustas (HONGKONG), Journalist; Manager, Hongkong "Daily Press"; b. 1870. Formerly connected with journalism in Devonshire and London; came to the East in 1895, joining the "Japan Chronicle"; in 1899 became part proprietor andeditor of the "Hiogo News "; arrived in Hongkong in February, 1903, as manager, "Daily Press." Address: "Rocklands," Robinson Road, Hongkong.