The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-02-22

tanned her degree of l.. l.. ID. in Scotland
/ at St. Andrews, IN 1904. and an NJ. A.
at Columbia in 1871 AS Il teacher she
/ has made wonderful success, beginning
/ her interesting career In lsso IN Ger
| mantoWn, Pa. Miss Rccs is an active
/ member of the National Educational
association. American Archa Geological as
/ sociation and the Association of Cole
/ giate Alunnae.
The National American Woman's Suf-
/ frage associations treasurer, Katherine
Baxter Mccormick (Mre. STANDBY Moor
nick, is a daughter of one of the pio-
neers of Michigan. Samuel William DeX-
ter. her grandfather settling at Dexter,
Mich, in 1924. Since 1897 Mrs. Moor
mick has resided permanent in Boston.
After graduating a Massachusetts Insti-
lite Of Technology in 1904 she was mar
lied the same year to Standley McCor-
mick Of Chicago Mrs. Mccormick is a
| member of the International Woman's
Suffrage Alliance. having been dele
| gate 10 the congress at Budapest in 1913.
Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen
Mrs Joseph Tilton Bowen of Chicago.
second auditor National American Wom-
ans Suffrage association. is we'll known
worker in every reform movement. Close
| ~ associated with Jane Adams, she is
responsible for many splendid movements
| in Hull Houses active daily life, the
vclopments However, Mrs. Bowen is
best known in the United States for her
work as head of the Juvenile Protective
society of Chicago. To the women of
Chicago. the United States really owes
its first juvenile court law.
At the last convention of the National
American Woman's Suffrage association
in Washington. d. c., an interesting pro-
gramme was arranged by Mrs. Bowen,
the subject being. women, Children and
the Courts"
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw
II is interesting and significant that
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw of
New York should be so well known as
joint workers for the suffrage cause,
showing the interest manifested i'll CO.
operative work of married couples.
Mrs. Laidlaw is not only an officer
of the national but chairman of Man
hattan Borough Woman Suffrage party.
Mr.. James Lees Laidlaw is president of
the National Mems League for Wom-
ans Suffrage, a very active organiza-
ton in which are represented many of
the most influential and moneyed men of
New York.
Mrs. Laidlaw is avery attractive speak
and beautiful woman, making her
audience realize her faith and optimism
as well as the crying need for the bal
lot. She is taking a prominent part in
ine present dBltdLlOI cO.lcernlnS the Wnlle
slave traffic.
Mrs. Mary Ware bennett
Under the direction OF the able seore-
tary of the national Mrs. Mary Ware
bennett, the national association is now
editing, publishing and selling more than
100000 pieces of literature per year; her
business ability is of a high order, which,
combined with the ability of being q
splendid speaker makes her a valuable
asset to the executive board and nation
al association.
Susan Walker Fitzgerald was born in
Cambridge, Mass, being a daughter of
the late Rear Admiral Walker, Z. S. N,
She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr col
lege. Her first position was secretary
to the president of Bryn Mawr Later
she was made head of Fiske hall in
Barnard college, and still later was head
worker of the Richmond Hill settlement
house, New York. AS a member of the
child labor committee of New York she
was actively responsible for the passage
of laws restricting the employment of
children and making education compul-
sory. She has been truant officer, and
has made close study OF school condi-
tons Mrs. Fitzgerald is secretary of
the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage as
socatlon.
She was reelected recording secretary
of the National Woman's Suffrage as
sociation at the convention at WASH
ington, d. c., Decembex, 1913.
She is the wife of Richard Y. Fitz-
gerald, Boston lawyer, and she is the
mother of three children.
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