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Home Economics, Mo. Federation of Woman's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage.

GREENE, Frances Nimmo, 519 Dexter Av., Montgomery, Ala.

Author; b. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; dau. Thomas Fin- ley and Virginia (Owen) Greene; ed. Tuscaloosa Female Coll. Formerly public school teacher, more recently in library work with the Ala. State Dep't of Archives and History. Author: King Arthur and His Court; With Spurs of Gold (collaborating with Dolly Williams Kirk); Into the Night; also many newspaper and magazine contributions.

GREENE, Jessie Rice (Mrs. Charles Lyman Greene), 324 Summit Av., St. Paul, Minn.

Born St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 14, 1862; dau. Jus- tus Burdick and Eliza (Garland) Rice; ed. in St. Paul, in private school and Central High School, St. Mary's Hall, Faribault, Minn.; m. St. Paul, Oct. 6, 1886, Dr. Charles Lyman Greene; chil- dren: Mrs. Jessie Rice Greene Ritzinger, b. Sept. 13, 1887; Dorothy Lawrence, b. Dec. 9, 1896. Associated with several church societies. Mem. Colonial Dames, Town and Country Club, Lafayette Club. Episcopalian. Against woman suffrage.

GREENE, Josie Craig (Mrs. Wallace Greene), 2024 Hillyer Place, Washington, D.C.

Born Canton, Ill.; dau. Robert Provinse and Sarah A. (Clifford) Craig; ed. Canton (Ill.) High School, Oswego (N.Y.) Normal School, Cornell Univ., Columbian Med. School; m. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 1897, Wallace Greene; one son: Robert Craig Greene. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Nat. Geographic Soc., Columbian Women, Cornell Women of Washington, D.C.

GREENE, Lilyan Durrant (Mrs. David Holman Greene), Twenty-third Av., Meridian, Miss.

Physician; b. Holly Springs, Miss., Nov. 29, 1876; dau. Dr. Horace William Durrant, native of Ipswich, Suffolk, England, and Frances (Miller) Durrant, native of Holly Springs, Miss.; grad. Oxford Female Coll., Univ. of Miss., with M.E.L. degree, '95; studied oratory with Miss Isom at Univ. of Miss., instrumental music in N.Y. City, voice in Cincinnati, elocution in Boston; grad. in medicine Meridian (Miss.) Med. Coll., 1911; m. David Holman Greene, native of Indianola, Miss., and a descendant of Gen. Nathaniel Greene; children: Frances Elizabeth, b. June 28, 1905; Horace Stanley, b. Feb. 28, 1912. Specializes in children's diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Charter mem. Coffeeville (Miss.) Chap- ter United Daughters of Confederacy; mem. Martha Washington Chapter D.A.R. (Washington, D.C.), Miss. State Fed. of Women's Clubs; vice-pres. Daughters of Confederate Veterans' Club.

GREENE, Maria Louise, 14 University Place, New Haven, Conn.

Social worker; b. Providence, R.I.; dau. Wel- come Arnold and Caroline (Austin) Greene; grad. Providence High School, Vassar Coll., A.B. '91; student at Teachers Coll., 1891-93; Yale Univ., Ph.D. '95; N.Y. Univ., M.Pd. '09. Formerly specialized in Am. Colonial history; later in garden work with children-teacher, lecturer and director of such work; investigated in 1909 for the Russell Sage Foundation. Author: The De- velopment of Religious Liberty in Connecticut, 1905; The Palatines as Founders and Patriots; also various historical articles, and Among School Gardens, one of the Russell Sage Founda- tion publications. Mem. Am. Historical Ass'n, Am. Nature Study Soc., D.A.R., Mayflower Soc., vice-pres. School Garden Ass'n of America, 1912-15; mem. A.A.A.S. Favors woman suffrage.

GREENE, Martha T. (Mrs. J. H. Greene), 481 Locust St., Dubuque, Iowa.

Born Lansing, Ia., Feb. 24, 1859; dau. James W. and Nancy (Lemen) Thomas; ed. Rockford (Ill.) Coll., B.A. '81; m. Lansing, Ia., Jan. 21, 1885, Joel Henry Greene; children: James, Lois, Joel. Interested in missionary societies. Mem. Woman's Club (Dubuque). Recreation: Farm life in N. Dak. during summer. Presbyterian.

GREENE, Mary Anne, 121 Benevolent St., Providence, R.I.

Lawyer; b. Warwick, R.I., June 14, 1857; dau. John Waterman Aborn and Mary Frances (Low) Greene; ed. private schools; grad. R.I. State Normal School, '77; Boston Univ. Law School, LL.B., magna cum laude, '88. Second woman to be admitted to the bar in Mass. (Sept. 1888); first woman lawyer to appear in any court in R.I., when she argued and won a case in the R.I. Supreme Court, March, 1907. Lecturer in business law for women at Lasell Seminary, Auburndale, Mass., 1889-1906; one of two Am. women lawyers selected to address the World's Congress of Jurisprudence and Law Reform, Chicago, 1893 (subject of her address, Married Women's Property Acts in the U.S. and Needed Reforms Therein). Speaker at congresses in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, on subject of Rights of Women in 1492 and 1892. Chairman R.I. Colonial Commission at the Atlanta Expo- sition, 1895, commissioned by Governor of R.I. Pres. Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Soc. of R.I., 1895-1910; vice-pres. Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Soc. (the gen. denominational soc.) since 1898. State regent for R.I. D.A.R., 1895-97, and hon. State regent for life since 1897, Regent Gaspee Chapter D.A.R., 1906-08. Delegate to and speaker at World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910. Author: The Woman's Manual of Law; The Legal Status of Women in Rhode Island (two editions), 1893, 1900; The Scope of the Work of the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, and many pamphlets and magazine articles on legal, historical and missionary matters. First woman to contribute to the pages of the Am. Law Review. Baptist. Mem. Colonial Dames, Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ. Mem. of many important committees of conference in the Baptist denomination and in interdenominational committees; pres. officer at the Triennial Conference of Women's Foreign Mission Boards of the U.S. and Canada, 1904.

GREENE, Mary E. Lewis (Mrs. A. M. Greene Jr.), Sunny Slope, Spring Av., Troy, N.Y.

Born Salem, O., 1869; dau. Dr. T. A. and Jean (Alexander) Lewis; ed. Wellesley Coll., B.S. '91; graduate student of English in Univ. of Chicago, 1895-96, 1899-1900; m. 1906, Prof. Arthur Maurice Greene Jr. Before marriage, prof. of English in Coates Coll. and Univ. of Dakota. Dean of women, Oahu Coll., Honolulu. Adviser of wo- men, Univ. of Missouri. Third vice-pres. of Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnæ; past pres. Wo- man's University Club of Troy; pres. Eastern N.Y. Wellesley Club; Nat. chairman Membership Com. Ass'n Collegiate Alumnæ; mem. managing boards of three local philanthropies, of which Young Women's Ass'n is one. Has written articles for Ohio Modern Language Ass'n. Presbyterian. Recreations: Driving, walking.

GREENE, Mary Gertrude Munson (Mrs. Richard Henry Greene), 235 Central Park West, N.Y. City.

Born New Haven, Conn.; dau. Edwin Beech and Amelia Catherine (Sperry) Munson; ed. The Misses Edwards School, New Haven, Conn.; m. Richard Henry Greene; children: Marshall Winslow, Mrs. Augustus Thatcher Holbrook (Edna Munson Greene), both living in Summit, N.J. Active mem. in social life in West Park Presbyterian Church, N.Y. City. Mem. Women's Auxiliary to American Historic and Scenic Soc., N.Y. City; Tribune Sunshine Soc.; N.Y. City Federation of Woman's Clubs; delegate to Biennial, San Francisco, June, 1912; pres. Nat. Soc. New England Women; mem. Soc. Mayflower Descendants; delegate to Triennial Congress at Plymouth, Mass., Sept., 1912. Mem. D.A.R., founder Knickerbocker Chapter N.Y. City and its first regent, founder and honorary mem. Nathan Hale Memorial Chapter D.A.R., East Haddam, Conn.; mem. Washington Headquarters Ass'n, N.Y. City (founded by D.A.R.).

GREENE, Mary Jane (Mrs. Edward G. Greene), 611 Waverley St., Palo Alto, Cal. Kindergartner; b. Poultney, Vt.; dau. William

and Jerusha (Tift) Wright; ed. St. Albans (Vt.) public schools, Castleton (Vt.) Sem., kinder- garten training in School of Miss Van Wagner at the Heber Newton Memorial Church, N.Y. City, and Stanford Univ., Cal.; m. St. Albans,

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