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# Woman of the Century/Abby Hopper Gibbons

​GIBBONS, Mrs. Abby Hopper, philanthropist, born in Philadelphia, Pa., 7th December, 1801. She is a daughter of Isaac T. Hopper, the Quaker philanthropist. She received a liberal education and taught in Philadelphia and New York City. In she became the wife of James Sloane Gibbons. In 1834 they settled in New York City. Mrs. Gibbons became at once prominent in charitable work. In 1845 she aided her father in organizing the Women's Prison Association, and the father and daughter cooperated in founding ​a home for discharged prisoners. Both were frequent visitors to the prisons in and around New York. The home was called the Isaac T. Hopper Home. For twelve years she was president of a German industrial school for street children. During the Civil War she worked in camp and hospital. In 1863, during the draft riots in New York, her house was one of the first to be sacked by the mob, as she had been conspicuous in anti-slavery agitation. After the war she founded a labor and aid association for soldiers' widows and orphans. In 1871 she aided in founding the New York Infant Asylum. In 1873 she founded the New York Diet Kitchen She has for years been active in the management of these and other institutions. Her life has been one of singular purity and exaltation With all her charity for the criminals, she believes in the prevention of crime by reasonable methods. All the prominent philanthropies of New York bear the impress of her spirit and hand.
# Woman of the Century/A. Litsner De Fere

​MRS. A. LITSNER DE FERE DE FERE, Mrs. A. Litsner, musician and voice-trainer, was born in Hungary. She was educated in Germany, and from her earliest youth displayed wonderful aptitude and taste for music and singing. When she was fourteen years old, she appeared in public for the first time, having been chosen to sing a solo part in a festival in Mainz, Germany. The success she achieved on that occasion was such that it was determined that she should pursue a musical career. She presented herself at the customary examination of the National Conservatory of Music, of Paris, and was at once admitted. After four years of study she won two second prizes for singing and opera, and the next year she obtained two first prizes also for singing and opera, which were unanimously awarded to her. A gold medal, yearly awarded to the best singer by the Academie des Beaux-Arts, was also bestowed upon her. Having completed her studies, she was engaged as prima donna in the opera of Paris, Lyon, Marseilles and Bordeaux. She sang in Belgium and Germany, and, having returned to her native country, she was received with enthusiasm at the National Opera of Pesth. Later she sang with great success in the West Indies, and finally went to New York, where she resolved to devote herself to the instruction of singing. She made a study of classical music and constantly sought to improve her method, which seeks the perfection of the vocal instrument and of the quality of the sound. She settled in New York in 1876 and taught vocal music there until 1883, when she removed to Brooklyn and formed her conservatory of music. In New York she taught in the schools of Mrs. Sylvanus Reed, of the Misses Charbonnier, of the Charliers and of Dr. and Mrs. Van Norman. Her home is now in Brooklyn, where she is firmly established. Mrs. De Fere combines the French and Italian methods of singing in her system. Her husband, Eugene De Fere, a graduate of the University of Paris, assists her in the conduct and management of the De Fere Conservatory. Mrs. De Fere has won the palm of "Officier d' Academie " in Paris, France, a distinction enjoyed by only one other woman in the United States, Madam Minnie Hauk.
# Woman of the Century/Abba Louise Goold Woolson

​WOOLSON, Mrs. Abba Louise Goold, author, born in Windham., Me., 30th April, 1838. She is the daughter of William Goold, the well-known author of "Portland in the Past" (1866), and of several papers in the "Collections" of the Maine Historical Society, of which he was for many years corresponding secretary. Miss Goold was reared and educated in Portland. Me., where she was graduated in the high school for girls in 1856. In that year she became the wife of Prof. Moses Woolson, the principal of that school. They lived in Portland until 1862, and there Mrs. Woolson began to publish poems. Her first sonnet was published in 1856 in the New York "Home Journal." and she contributed to that journal occasionally. In 1859 she began the publication of an anonymous series of poems in the Portland "Transcript." which attracted much attention. She contributed for four years to that journal and to the Boston "Transcript." She served for a short time as professor of belles-lettres in the Mt Auburn girls' school, and afterwards went with her husband to Concord. In 1868 they removed to Boston, where her husband was professor in a high school, and where she now lives. She contributed a notable essay, entitled "The Present Aspect of the Byron Case," to the Boston "Journal," which drew general attention to her. She soon afterward began to publish her work in volumes. She has given courses of lectures on "English Literature in Connection with English History," "The Influence of Foreign Nations Upon English Literature" and "The Historic Cities of Spain." She is a member of several literary and benevolent societies, and has served as president of the Castilian Club, of Boston. In 1871 she went to Utah, and there interviewed Brigham Young for the Boston "Journal." Her other published works include "Women in American Society" (1872), "Browsing Among Books" (1881) and "George Eliot and Her Heroines" (1886). She edited "Dress Reform," a series of lectures by women physicians of Boston on "Dress as It Effects the Health of Women" (1874). She aids liberally the charities of her city.
# Woman of the Century/Abbie M. Gannett

​GANNETT. Mrs. Abbie M., author, born in North Brookfield, Mass., 8th July, 1845. Her girlhood was passed in that town. Her love for the country and her early associations is shown ABBIE M. GANNETT. in her dainty volume of poems, "The Old Farm Home" (Boston. 1888). She taught school a few years in Massachusetts, Michigan and St. Louis, Mo. She became the wife of Captain Wyllys Gannett, of the latter place, a nephew of the distinguished Unitarian clergyman of Boston, and himself a writer of sketches of travel and sea stories. Captain Gannett served through the Civil War in the 24th Massachusetts and the 55th Massachusetts colored regiment. After living a few years in St. Louis, the Gannetts went to Boston, where they made their home for a short time. For many years they lived in Maiden, Mass. They have three children. Mrs. Gannett, while devoted to her home interests, has yet found time to do able outside work. She is well known in the womens' clubs as a reader of thoughtful essays on current themes. She has tilled the Unitarian pulpit on a few occasions and has served on the Maiden school board. Her essays, poems, sketches and stories have had a wide publication, many of them appearing in the leading magazines and periodicals. She is deeply interested in the welfare of women and their higher education. Her paper on "The Intellectuality of Women," printed in the "International Review" a few years ago, excited wide comment. Mrs. Gannett is philanthropical in her labors. She espoused the cause of the neglected Anna Ella Carroll with enthusiasm. By a series of articles in the Boston "Transcript" and other papers she has done as much as any one woman to bring her case to public notice. She joined the Woman's Relief Corps and attended the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Minneapolis to advocate that lady's cause. She won recognition for her and was appointed chairman of a national relief committee to raise funds for Miss Carroll. The effort was successful. Not content with that, Mrs. Gannett visited Washington and argued Miss Carroll's case before the military committees of both Senate and House.
# Woman of the Century/Abbie C. B. Robinson

​ROBINSON. Mrs. Abbie C. B., editor and political writer, born in Woonsocket, R. I., 18th September, 1828. Her father was George C. Ballou, a cousin of Rev. Hosea Ballou and of President Garfield's mother. Her mother's maiden name was Ruth Eliza Aldrich. She was a woman of ideas quite in advance of her time, brought up, as her ancestors had been, under the Quaker system of repression. The daughter inherited from both parents most desirable qualities of devotion, courage and mental strength. She was educated in her native town and in New England boarding-schools. She studied music in Boston and spent three years in Warren Seminary, R. I. She took the regular course in the institute in Pittsfield. Mass. In 1854 she became the wife of Charles D. Robinson, of Green Bay, Wis. He was the editor of the Green Bay "Advocate" and for many years one of the ​controlling minds of Wisconsin in all matters of public polity. He was at one time Secretary of State. Mrs. Robinson was as famous for political wisdom as her husband. Of her newspaper career ABBIE C. B. ROBINSON. it is somewhat difficult to write, since her public work was so closely interwoven with her private experiences during the very sorrowful and troublous period of her connection with the "Advocate." She went into the office of that paper by the usual route, the desire to help her husband, in the early part of 1882, as Colonel Robinson's health was failing rapidly. Gradually the sick man's duties fell to his devoted wife, and before long she assumed charge of them all, taking the place in the office while she performed her own duties at home, doubly increased by the care of a dying husband. Her lot was rendered infinitely harder by other troubles, which harassed and hampered her almost beyond endurance. After three years of editorial management of the "Advocate, she was placed in a position to assume control of the whole establishment connected with the paper, including not only the business management, but also a job department, a bindery and store. That position she held for four years, during which time Colonel Robinson died. Then came the inevitable result, nervous prostration, an attempt again to take up the work, then her final retirement from the paper in 1888. Under all these trying conditions she won for herself an enviable reputation as a woman of much force and ability, always animated by the highest, purest motives, and as an easy, graceful, cultured writer. She was also a good deal of a politician, with original Republican tendencies, though the "Advocate" was and is a Democratic paper. The story of her having brought out a Republican issue of the paper, when it was once put under her charge during Colonel Robinson's editorship, is a standard joke, and is periodically repeated in the State papers. The stand taken by the "Advocate" during the labor strikes and riots in Milwaukee, in 1881, is said to have saved the Democratic party in Wisconsin from making a serious mistake.
# Woman of the Century/Abbie Carrington

​CARRINGTON, Miss Abbie, operatic singer, born in Fond du Lac, Wis., 13th June, 1856. Her musical talents showed themselves at an early age. In September, 1875, she went to Boston, Mass., and studied under J. H. Wheeler. In 1887 she was graduated from the New England Conservatory. She then went to Italy, w here she began the study of opera under Giuseppe Perini. and after one year of study she made her debut in Milan, in "Traviata." In Cervia and Ravenna she won a triumph as Gilda. in "Rigoletto." She was next engaged for a season of two months in Turin and for one month in Brescia; then she went to Venice to sing during the Carnival season. She made her debut in the United States on 7th October. 1879. in Boston, Mass.. with the Stakosch Opera Company. She next appeared in New York City with Theodore Thomas and the Philharmonic Society. In January, 1879, she made a tour of the chief American lilies, supported by the Mendelssohn Quintette Club of Boston. In 1880-81 she made Tier first operatic tour with the Strakosch-Hess Grand English Opera Company. In 1881-82 she was re-engaged by Mr. Strakosch to sing on alternate nights with Mme. Etelka Gerster. In 1883-84 Miss ​Carrington visited Mexico and achieved so pronounced a success that in Vera Cruz, Orizaba, Pueblo, Monterey and the City of Mexico she received in writing the thanks of the municipality ABBIE CARRINGTON. for the great pleasure she had given their people during her stay among them, and as a declaration of their esteem and appreciation made and presented her subscriptions to the amount of $31,000, to re-visit them the following season with her own company. Miss Carrington returned to the United States early in April, and immediately sailed for Europe at the solicitation of Manager Ernest Gye, of Covent Garden Theater, London. While there she secured some of the excellent talent that supported her during the following season, commencing in Richmond, Va., going directly South and to Mexico. During 1884-85 the Abbie Carrington Grand Opera Company proved to be one of the most successful of the organizations on the road. During 1885-86 Miss Carrington reappeared in Italian opera with Her Majesty's Grand Opera Company. In 1887, after six consecutive seasons in grand opera, having sung the leading soprano rôles in twenty different operas, Miss Carrington took a much-needed rest, which resulted in opening a new sphere of work, and since that time she has traveled only with her own company in concert and oratorio. The season of 1890-91, the most successful and extended of her career, was a tour of the Pacific Coast and British Columbia. Miss Carrington's voice is a soprano. Her home is in Fond du Lac.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAKAHAMA, Dr. Toichiro

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​ NAKAHAMA, Dr. Toichiro (TOKYO) Doctor of Medicine; July, 1857, in Tokyo. Is a specialist of internal diseases. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAKAHASHI, Tokugoro

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​ NAKAHASHI, Tokugoro (OSAKA). President of Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Osaka Mercantile Steamship Co., Ltd.); b. 10th Sept., 1860; Educ.: Graduated, Tokyo Imperial University, 1886. Has been judge at Yokohama, an Adviser of Department of Agriculture & Commerce,, an Adviser of Bureau of Legislature, Secretary to House of Commons, an Adviser of Department of Communications, President of Bureau of Accountancy in Department of Communications, President of Bureau of Railways in Department of Communications, 1886-1898;. has been President of Osaka Shosen Kaisha, since 1898; is also Director of Konan Steamship Co.,. Ltd. Address: Hidenincho, Tennoji Minamiku, Osaka, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAKAMUTA, Viscount

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​ NAKAMUTA, Viscount (TOKYO), Privy Councillor; b. Feb., 1831, at Saga, Pioneer naval officer; attained rank of Vice-Admiral; assisted organisation Japanese navy; cr. Viscount, 1S84. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAGAHARA, Baron Shigeru

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​ NAGAHARA, Baron Shigeru (OKINAWA), Governor; b. May, 1834, at Satsuma. One of suite of Prince Shimazu, 1862; witnessed bombardment of Kagoshima by British; one time president of the Nippon Railway Co.; Governor of Shizuoka, 1883; do., Okinawa, 1892; cr. Baron, 1896. Address: Okinawa, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAGAOKA, Viscount

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​ NAGAOKA, Viscount (TOKYO), Member of House of Peers; b. Sept., 1842. at Kumamoto. Educ.: U.S.A. and England. Minister at the Hague, 1880-2. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAKONCHAISI, Prince of

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​ NAKONCHAISI, Prince of (see. CHIRA, PRINCE).
# Who's Who in the Far East/NABESHIMA, Marquis

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​ NABESHIMA, Marquis (TOKYO), Formerly Daimyo of Saga; b. Aug., 1840. Educ.: In England for several years. Represented Japan at Rome, 1880-1882; was for a long while Master of Ceremonies at the Court; created Marquis, 1884. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAKANO, Buyei

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​ NAKANO, Buyei (TOKYO), President Tokyo Chamber of Commerce; b. Jan., 1849; at Takamatsu. Was Director of old Tokyo Tramway Co., elected President of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1903; sat with Progressives in House from 1890 to 1902. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAIN, Rev. Father Charles Benedict

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​ NAIN, Rev. Father Charles Benedict (SEREMBAN), M.A.; Roman Catholic Priest; b. May, 1870. Educ.: At Paris; Lyons University. Curate, Chinese Church, Singapore, 1894-96; Vicar, Chinese Church, Penang, 1896-97; Assistant, Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, Singapore, and Procurator of R. C. Mission, Diocese of Malacca, 1897-1904; Vicar, Seremban and Manager, St. Paul's School, 1906; architect of St. Joseph's Institute and Convent Chapel, Singapore. Publications: Short Biography of Leo XIII. Club: Sunger Ujong's. Address: Seremban, Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States.
# Who's Who in the Far East/NAMURA, Taizo

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​ NAMURA, Taizo (TOKYO) Merchant; Member of the House of Peers; b. Nov., 1841, at Nagasaki. Procurator General of the Supreme Court, 1886; Chief, do., 1892-3; followed mercantile pursuits, since 1894. Address: Tokyo, Japan.
# Woman of the Century/Belle Case La Follette

​LA FOLLETTE. Mrs. Belle Case, social leader, born in Summit. Juneau county, Wis., 21st April, 1859. Her father's name was Anson Case. Her mother's maiden name was Mary Nesbitt. ​Belle Case spent her childhood in Bamboo, Wis. She was educated in the public schools and in the State University, from which she was graduated in 1879. She was conspicuously bright, and won the Lewis prize for the best commencement oration. BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE. Her perfect health was proved by the fact that she attended school and was a close student for eight consecutive years, including her university course, without losing a recitation. She became the wife in 1881 of her classmate, Robert M. La Follette. a lawyer. She became interested in his work, which led to her enter the Wisconsin Law School in 1883, and from which she was graduated in 1885. She was the first woman to receive a diploma from that institution. During the same year Mr. La Follette was elected to Congress, which necessitated their removal to Washington, and Mrs. La Follette has done no practical professional work. In meeting the social obligations incident to her husband's official position, held for six years, she found no time for anything else. While not the most profitable life imaginable, Mrs. La Follette yet found it far from vain or meaningless. She saw Women greet one another in drawing-rooms in much the same spirit as men meet in the Senate Chamber and House of Representatives, and her Washington experience resulted in enlarged views touching the Opportunities and possibilities offered women, called into the official circle from all parts of the United States, not only for broad social development, but also for wholesome and effective, though indirect, influences upon the life and thought of the nation. On the banks of Lake Monona, in Madison, Wis., the present home of Mrs. La Follette is delightfully located. She has proved herself a most worthy and inspiring sharer of the honors trials and responsibilities of her distinguished husband's professional and political life. Devoted to him and to the education ol their young daughter, Flora, she is to-day not only one of the most prominent, but one of the most quietly contented, of Wisconsin's progressive women.
# Woman of the Century/Belle G. Bigelow

​BELLE G. BIGELOW. BIGELOW, Mrs. Belle G., woman suffragist and prohibitionist, born on a farm in Gilead, Mich., 16th February, 1851. Her education was confined to the district school. She has been from early childhood an omnivorous reader. Her mother died when Belle was ten years old. At the age of eighteen she began to teach. In 1869 she was married to George R. Bigelow, of Ravenna, ​Ohio. They removed and settled in Geneva, Neb., being the first residents of that place. After eight years of quiet home life, the question of the woman suffrage amendment being brought before the people, she entered into its advocacy. Soon becoming known as a talker and writer on that subject, she was elected president of the county Equal Suffrage Association and sent as a delegate to the State convention in Omaha. There she made her first appearance as a public speaker and her reception encouraged a continuance of work in that line. The next winter, in Lincoln, she was elected to the office of State secretary and traveled over the State in the interest of the amendment, making effective speeches where opportunity offered and awakening much interest in the subject. She was twice a candidate for county superintendent of instruction on the prohibition ticket, and represented the State in the national convention of that party held in Indianapolis in 1888. She has served for five years as secretary of the Lincoln Woman's Christian Temperance Union, being a member of the union in its infancy. She is superintendent of foreign work for the State union, and was elected delegate to the national convention in Boston in 1891. She is known as an interesting writer for the press on both religious and secular topics. She has been the mother of seven children, four of whom are living.
# Woman of the Century/Bertha Webb

​WEBB, Miss Bertha, violinist, was born in North Bridgeton, Maine. She comes from a musical family on both sides. From her earliest infancy she gave evidence of extraordinary talent and ability for music. It is related of her that she could hum a tune before she could enunciate a single word. BERTHA WEBB. Through her earlier years her musical training was fraught with difficulty. She lived in Portland, Maine, with no teacher of the violin nearer than Boston. Once or twice a week, when only a child, she made her trips to that city, where Prof. Julius Eichberg gave her her first instruction. She was often called upon to play before audiences in Maine, and on one of these occasions her uncle, Dr. Hawkes, of New York City, was so impressed with her talent that he proposed that she should go to the metropolis, where she could pursue her literary and musical studies without interruption. She went and was at once placed under the care of the late Dr. Damrosch. After his death she studied with Prof. Listemann, Prof. Dannreuter, Prof. Bouis and Camilla Urso. For ten years she studied earnestly, and she is to-day an example of what a woman may accomplish by determined effort. She is well known in musical circles as one of the most conscientious and painstaking musicians in the country. She has played in nearly every city in the United States. During the past season she played two hundred-fifty nights in succession, and more than a quarter of a million people listened to her playing. She now makes her home in New York City.