The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-10-10

OHuOWHoHb give HeI nlgn pOSlGon IN the III
erary world as a writer,-in polite society, as
leader, and on the platform as lecturer,-and
in the latter capacity she is we'll known to
many in this city. As President of the N. Z.
Women's Club in Boston, she presides over ito
formal meetings with queen-like dignity, and
dispenses the hospitality of its social gatherings
with an aifability that recognizes all classes
alike She comes to us this week as President
of the Woman's Congress, where she will win
golden opinions from all who may be so for
tunate as to be in attendance.
Marion Mitchell, the celebrated astronomer,
was born in Nantucket Aug. /, 1878 She
derived from her father, who taught a school
in Nantucket fondness for astronomy and
soon became an enthusiastic co-operator in his
labors. Subsequently she devoted much time
to the examination OF nebule and search for
comets. Oct. 1st, 1S47, she discovered tele-
scopic comet for which she received gold
medal from the King of Denmark. She has
been employed in observations connected with
the Coast Survey and the compiling of the
Nautical Almanac. She is member of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and was the first female member Of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
She was appointed to the Chair of Astronomy
in Vassar College in 1866.
Kate Gannett Wells is the daughter of the
late Rev. DR.. Ezra Gannett, the distinguished
divine Of Boston, well-known and beloved
who, though full of years, met an untimely
death in the railroad disaster at Revere. Mrs.
Wells is promin snt in Boston as q worker in
benevolent enterprises, and has an unquestion-
ed position in literary orioles, as writer whose
articles find place in the international and
North American Reviews-and as ...IDiic
speaker she holds the attention of her audi
ence. Her husband, native Of this State,
and son of Gov. Wells, is a man of wealth and
culture who sympathizes fully i'll all the social
interests that call forth the energies Of his ae-
complished wife, and shares with her an un-
impaired domestic felicity that includes hap
py family of several children.
Anna D. French, NJ. D., Professor and
Director in the. Woman's Institute of Technical
Design, Fifth Avenue, N. Y, an institution
established for women only, but has this year
enlarged its sphere of usefulness by inaugur-
ating mixed classes in answer to urgent re-
quests from manufacturers and designers
Walter Smith, so long known as Principal Of
Normal Art School and State Director of Art
Education in Massach usetts, is now connected
with this Institute, where DIR. French in
structs in anatomy, human and comparative
and its relation to art work. and lectures on
structural botany.
Mrs. Caroline M. Severance is the wife of an
Unitarian minister in California; and she comes
before US to speak on the domestic aspect oi
that great SC cial and political question which
has agitated the public mind during the past
year. While Mrs. Severance has a reputation
as thinker and writer, still, like the Roman
matron, she can point to her three sons
graduates of Harvard College, as her greatest
glory, and convincing proof that home duties
have not suffered from her devotion to the in
terests of humanity.
Miss Laura Clay, q daughter of HoH. G. M
Clay of Kentucky, a man whose political fame
was but little surpassed by the distinguished
man of the same name. This lady and heI
sister are well known as workers in the cause
of human progress, and in efforts for the sal
| vation of women.
| Miss Mary f. Eastman OF Tewksbury, Mass.
is chairman of the committee on education in
| the Woman's Congress, and in its connection
with its last meeting at Buffalo received elo-
queDt mention in Western papers She il
we'll known as an active worker in education
al matters as lecturer and writer. She was a,
one time principal of the Lowell High School
| and is now recognized force in the Unitarian
| Association.
Mrs. Emma @. Bascom is the wife of Presi
dent Bsscom Of Wisconsin University, former
ly Professor in Williams and Princetons Col
leges her husband name is sufficient guar
anty that any cause to which her efforts ar
directed, would be worthy the earnest atten
tion Of any woman.