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Equal Rights Soc. Author (books): Apples of Sodom, 1883: Tibby, 1904; (serials) Margaret's Sacrifice, 1883-84; The Thistledews On the Farm, 1907-08; Simon in Town, 1907-08; Simon in Eu- rope, 1903-10; Ten Days on the Dalphin, 1910. Mem. Congregational Church. Mem. Knights and Ladies of Honor, Ladies' Order of the Maccabees.

GILDER, Jeannette Leonard, 100 E. Seventeenth St., N.Y. City.

Critic, editor; b. Flushing, L.I., Oct. 3, 1849; dau. Rev. William Henry and Jane (Nutt) Gilder; ed. St. Thomas Hall (woman's collegiate), conducted by her father. Began newspaper work in editorial department of Newark (N.J.) Morning Register, then conducted by her brother, Richard Watson Gilder, and was also Newark reporter for N.Y. Tribune; afterward on editorial staff of the old Scribner's Magazine (now Century Magazine); afterward was literary and dramatic critic of the N.Y. Herald until 1880, when with her brother, Joseph B. Gilder, she founded The Critic, of which she was associate editor until it was merged in 1907 in Putnam's Monthly, with which she was for a time connected; now regular correspondent and literary critic for Chicago Tribune. Has been correspondent of Boston Saturday Evening Gazette, Boston Transcript, Philadelphia Record and Press and various other papers. Also owner and editor of The Reader. Author: Taken by Siege; Autobiography of a Tomboy; The Tomboy at Work; Editor: Representative Poems of Living Poets (with J. B. Gilder); Essays from the Critic (with Helen G. Cone); Pen Portraits of Literary Women: The Heart of Youth, an anthology. Mem. Colony Club.

GILDERSLEEVE, Virginia Crocheron, 404 Riverside Drive, N.Y. City.

Dean and professor; b. N.Y. City, Oct. 3, 1877; dau. Justice Henry Alger and Virginia (Crocheron) Gildersleeve; ed. Brearley School, N.Y. City, Barnard Coll., A.B. '99; Columbia Univ., A.M. 1900, Ph.D. '08 (mem. Kappa Kappa Gamma). Ass't. in Dep't English, Barnard Coll., 1900-03; tutor, 1903-05; lecturer, 1908-10; ass't prof., 1910-11; dean and prof. English, 1911—. Author: Government Regulation of the Elizabethan Drama. Mem. Modern Language Ass'n of Am., College Settlements Ass'n, Phi Beta Kappa, Classical Ass'n of the Atlantic States, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ, Women's Univ. Club (N.Y. City), Barnard Club. Favors woman suffrage.

GILDNER, Laura May, 1425 Broadway, Metropolitan Opera House Building, N.Y. City.

Instructor in Latin and mathematics, organist; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 23, 1877; dau. Albert W. and Harriet (Holmes) Gildner; grad. Cornell Univ., A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) 1906; Norfolk Conservatory of Music, Ithaca Conservatory of Music, New York School of Musical Art; organ study with Clarence Eddy. Instructor in Newport News (Va.) Sem; tutor in Prof. George Jones' Summer School, Cornell Univ.; manager private tutoring school, N.Y. City. Organist of Old St. John's P.E. Church, Hampton, Va.; St. Luke's P.E. Church, Newport News, Va.; Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va., during Jamestown Exposition; Greenwood Baptist Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.; St. Andrew's By-the-Sea P.C. Church, Allenhurst, N.J. Mem. Cornell Women's Club, Browning Soc., Cameo Club, Political Equality League, Alliance Française. Favors woman suffrage.

GILES, Bessie Isabel, 63 W. Fiftieth St., N.Y. City.

Lawyer, b. N.Y. City; dau. Richard and Joanna Merriam Giles; ed. private schools and old West Twelfth Street School, Normal Coll., N.Y. City; preliminary diploma from Woman's Law Class, N.Y. Univ., 1905; Cornell Univ. Coll. of Law, LL.B. '09. Admitted to bar N.Y. State, 1909; associate editor, Women Lawyer's Journal, 1912. Director Legislative Bureau National Progressive Party, 1913. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Collegiate Equal Suffrage Soc. Contributor to Women Lawyers' Journal, papers, etc. Presbyterian. Mem. League for Political Education, Cornell Women's Club of N.Y. City, Women's University Club, Legislative League of N.Y.

GILES, Elizabeth Cynthia (Mrs. John Henry Giles), 22 Academy St., Amsterdam, N.Y.

Portrait painter; b. Amenia, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1861; dau. James Harry and Eliza Elinor (Abram) Morse; ed. Amenia Sem., Claverack Coll., Acad. of Design and Art Students' League, N.Y. City; m. Oct. 10, 1888, John Henry Giles; children: Donald M., Doris Louise, John Morse. Exhibitor in Acad. of Design, N.Y. City. Mem. State Charities Aid of N.Y., Red Cross Soc. for Prevention of Tuberculosis, Hospital Ladies' Aid, Elderly Woman's Home, Children's Home. Favors woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Century Club, Antlers' Country Club, Good Will Club, D.A.R.

GILES, Ellen Rose, 87 Via Roma, Sassari, Sardinia, Italy.

Journalist and editor; ed. Wellesley Coll., 1892- 93; Bryn Mawr Coll., A.B. and A.M. '96; graduate scholar in philosophy, 1897-98; holder of president's European fellowship (Bryn Mawr), 1897-98; student in philosophy, Univ. of Berlin, 1898-99, and Sorbonne, 1899. Private tutor 1899-01. Engaged in editorial and newspaper work, 1901-06.

GILES, Mary Courtland Vanderbeek (Mrs. J.

Edward Giles), 107 E. Twenty-third St., N.Y. City.

Graduate Smith Coll., B.A. '93; student of Latin, Roman political antiquities and pedagogy, Univ. of Mich., 1901-02, M.A. '02; m. June 11, 1903, J. Edward Giles; one daughter: Marian Burton, b. Aug. 9, 1909. Teacher in Englewood, N.J., 1893-98. Mem. Smith Coll. Alumnæ Ass'n.

GILES, Rose Marie, Hull House, Chicago, Ill. Teacher, settlement worker; b. Dodge City, Kan.; grad. Rockford (Ill.) Coll., B.A. '92. of the Hull House district of Chicago until 1894; After gradnation became active in the charities since then occupied with settlement work as a resident of Hull House, in charge of the gymnasium. Has been actively identified with the work of the Chicago Froebel Ass'n, as one of its faculty. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Rockford Coll. Alumnæ Ass'n (former sec.).

GILFILLAN, Margaret Neva, Union, Ore. Musician; b. Lane County, Oregon; dau. Thomas Glen and Jane (Cromwell) Gilfillan; grad. of high school of home town. Has taught music for several years; director of a choir two years. Mem. Order Eastern Star (grand lodge officer two years). Against woman suffrage. Presbyterian. Mem. Woman's Club.

GILFORD, Mary Penrose Hooton (Mrs. Thomas Buchanan Gilford), 51 E. Fifty-third St., N.Y. City, or West Chester, Pa.

Born West Chester, Pa., Oct. 22, 1876; dau. Francis Carpenter and Anna (Penrose) Hooton; ed. Miss Agnes Irwin's School, Philadelphia; Rome, Paris and tutors at home; m. first, D. T. Lanman; second, Red-Roof, West Chester, Pa., Oct. 8, 1908, Thomas Buchanan Gilford. Episcopalian. Clubs: Acorn (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Country, West Chester Country. Favors woman suffrage.

GILKEY, Mary C. (Mrs. Edward A. Gilkey), 1035 Michigan Av., East Lansing, Mich. Born Royal Oak, Mich., May 31, 1865; dau. George G. and Alice (Wight) Cady; ed. in city schools of Grand Rapids, Mich.; m. Lansing, Mich., Apr. 2, 1884, Edward A. Gilkey; children: Alice A., Edward A. Jr. Worked as com. chairman in Lansing Industrial Aid, one of the organizers of Woman's Civic League. For twelve years sec. of woman's work in Pilgrim Church; treas. local Y.W.C.A. Active mem. Lansing Equal Suffrage Soc. Congregationalist. Pres. Unity Club; mem. Matinee Musicale; pres. Woman's Club House Ass'n of Lansing, Mich.

GILL, Bessie Faunce, 26 Prospect St., Northampton, Mass.

Associate principal; b. Chesterville, Me.; dau. Elisha and Huldah (Capen) Gill; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '87; student of astronomy, Smith, 1887-88. Since 1888 engaged in teaching in Miss Capen's school, Northampton, Mass.