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interested in anti-vivisection movement. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Biographical Sketch of Major-Gen. and Governor Arthur St. Clair; Historical Silhouettes; The English Drama; Col- onial Manors; Life of Arthur St. Clair (in col- laboration with John Newton Boucher), now in preparation: Study of the Daughter of Mark Twain. Presbyterian. Mem. Young Women's Soc. of Foreign Missions (formerly sec. Board of the Northwest); mem. Vivisection Investigation League, Daughters of Indiana in N.Y. Recrea- tions: Tennis, golf, bowling, dancing. Patroness Internat. Council of Women; mem. Order of the Crown, Colonial Dames, Nat. Soc. Patriotic Women of America, Mary Washington Colonial Chapter D.A.R., Dames of the Revolution.

ROSA, Elinor Baldwin (Mrs. Alexander E. Rosa), Milford, Del. Born Chula, Va., 1872; dau. George E. and Lydia (Wood) Baldwin; ed. Milford High School, Milford, Del.; Lyndon Hall, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; Vassar Coll., A.B. '97; m. Milford, Oct. 7, 1903, Alexander E. Rosa; one daughter: Marjorie. Ass't in laboratory chemistry at Vassar Coll., 1897-98. Teacher of mathematics and science in boarding school and Brooklyn High School until 1903. Interested in club, library, Mothers' Con- gress and free hospital work; correspondence for Theosophical Soc. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Order of Star of the East; Delaware Branch of Mothers' Congress, Milford Parent and Teachers' Ass'n. Recreations: Walking, motoring, rowing. Mem. Milford New Century Club.

ROSE, Bessie Belle Williams (Mrs. Andrew Rose), 821 Olive St., Texarkana, Tex. Born Leake, Ark., Jan. 1, 1878; dau. Dr. Ed- ward M. and Jeannie (Leake) Williams; ed. Univ. of Nashville, Peabody Normal Coll., Licentiate of Instruction, 1901; m. Texarkana, Ark., June 11, 1902, Andrew Rose. Two years teacher of history and science in Texarkana (Texas) High School. Past pres. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Christian Church; past pres. Shakespeare Class; past pres. Texar- kana Chapter United Daughters of Confederacy; historian Lone Star Chapter D.A.R.; State his- torian D.A. R. of Texas; chairman Welfare of Women and Children Com. D.A.R. of Texas; mem. Historical Research Com. D.A.R. Favors woman suffrage. Author of historical sketches and numerous public addresses published in local papers. Mem. Christian (Disciples) Church. Democrat. Mem. Order of Eastern Star, Civic League, Huguenot Soc. of S.C., U.S. Daughters of 1812.

ROSE, Flora, College of Agriculture, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, N.Y. Teacher; b. Denver, Colo., Oct. 13, 1874; dau. Samuel P. and Mildred Lewis (Boyd) Rose; ed. Denver High School three years; Europe one year; Framingham Normal School; diploma Kansas State Agricultural Coll., B.S.; Columbia Univ., M.A. Instructor and ass't prof. Kansas State Agricultural Coll.; lecturer and prof. Home Economics at Cornell Univ., with Miss Van Rensselaer, the first woman professor at Cornell. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Human Nutri- tion; Care and Feeding of Children; The Laun- dry; Preservation of Food in the Home; The Cost of Food. Progressive. Mem. Soc. for Preven- tion of Infant Mortality, Am. Chemical Soc., Am. Soc. Collegiate Alumnæ, Nat. Home Eco- nomics Ass'n and various State home economic ass'ns, Child Study Club (Ithaca), Women's University Club (N.Y. City).

ROSE, Laura, Guelph, Ont., Can. Instructor and lecturer on dairying; b. George- town, Ontario; dau. Lawrence Rose, native of Oxfordshire, England, and Hannah (Phin) Rose (of Scottish ancestry); ed. public school, George- town, Ontario; Guelph Collegiate Inst. and Alma Coll., St. Thomas, Ontario; honor grad. of the first dairy school in connection with the Ontario Agricultural College. Engaged on staff of On- tario Agricultural College Dairy School since 1897; lecturer in farmers' institutes and fall fairs all over Canada and has also conducted a travel- ing dairy school. Contributor to leading agricul- tural newspapers and magazines.

ROSE, Mabel Austin Harris (Mrs. Stanwood Merton Rose), Machias, Me.

Grad. Smith Coll., B.A. '97; student of music, Chicago, 1898-99; New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, 1903; m. June 28, 1906, Stanwood Merton Rose; children: Alison, b. Sept. 15, 1908; Herbert Harris, b. Sept. 28, 1909. Teacher of music and English, Houlton, Me., 1899-1903; sup't of music in public schools, vocal teacher, Houl- ton, Me., 1903-05.

ROSE, Mabel Estey, 950 Marcy Av., Brooklyn, N.Y. Secretary; b. Des Moines, Ia., Oct. 19, 1877; dau. Charles Irving and Annie Marion (Parker) Rose; ed. public school, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Girls' High School, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Cornell Univ. (Phi Beta Kappa); State Normal Coll., Albany, N.Y. (Delta Omega). Favors woman suffrage. Con- gregationalist. Recreation: Photography. Mem. Cornell Women's Club of N.Y.

ROSE, Martha Emily Parmelee (Mrs. William Grey Rose), 2084 Cornell Road, Cleveland, O. Born Norton, Summit Co., O., Mar. 5, 1834; dau. Theodore Hudson and Harriet (Holcomb) Parmelee (both of Connecticut); educated in Churchills' private school and took Latin and Literary Course of Oberlin (Ohio) College; grad. 1855 (also grad. from Chautauqua course in 1895); taught music in Mercer (Pa.) Female Sem. (of which her sister, Eliza, was principal), 1855-56; m. Norton, O., Mar. 28, 1858, William Grey Rose, of Mercer, Pa. (then member of Pennsylvania Legislature); five children: One boy died in infancy, and Hudson Parmelee, Alice Evelyn (Mrs. Charles R. Miller), Frederick Hol- Kent. Resident since 1865 of land, William Cleveland, O., where her husband was mayor, 1878-79 and 1891-92. In 1888, at Internat. Woman's Council, heard Mrs. J. B. Croly ("Jennie June") give an account of the New York Sorosis, and immediately afterward, through her efforts, a Sorosis was formed in Cleveland, with a mem- bership of 269, of which she was first pres. and one of its ten delegates to the first Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs in 1892. Through her efforts the Health Protective Ass'n was formed, 1898; made Nat. treas. at Third Nat. meeting, Buffalo, 1900 (ass'n has been active in securing health ordi- nances, playgrounds, etc., in Cleveland); was chairman banquet com. of Western Reserve Cen- tennial and got out the Western Reserve Album, with 420 photographs of persons, places and parks in Cleveland. Has traveled in Europe and Northern Africa and published a book of her travels; also author of Character Building, or the Life of the College-Bred Woman, 1906; The American Boy, and Letters to His Mother, 1912; The Western Reserve, Its Origin, Places and People, 1913. Baptist. Favors woman suffrage; mem. Equal Franchise Club. Mem. Sorosis (Cleveland), Novelist Club, Health Protective Ass'n, Peace Soc., Nat. Playground Ass'n.

ROSE, Mary Dunning (Mrs. Malcolm Cameron Rose), 1153 Boston Road, N.Y. City. Physician; b. Branchville, N.J., May 21, 1872; dau. Edgar A. and Phebe (Meddaugh) Dunning: ed. Post-grad. Coll. and Polyclinic, Cornell West Univ.; Univ. of Vienna, Austria; m. Orange, N.J., Oct. 10, 1911, Malcolm Cameron Rose. Interested in Y.M.C.A. work, Y.W.C.A. work and Woman's Federation Club work. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Order of Eastern Star. Presby- terian. Favors woman suffrage.

ROSE, Mrs. S. E. F., West Point, Miss. Born at Crescent View, near Pulaski, Giles Co., Tenn., Sept. 18, 1862; dau. William M. and Lizzie Gorin (Otis) Martin; ed. Martin College, Pulaski, Tenn.; Kentucky College, Pewee Valley, Ky.; Madame Pegram's Southern Home School, Baltimore, Md.; m. Crescent View, Giles Co., Tenn., Oct. 20, 1881, S. E. F. Rose; children: Lizzie Otis, b. Nov. 29, 1883; Martin, b. Nov. 19, 1885; Solon Clifton, b. Nov. 26, 1892. Author (addresses): Arlington, Its Past and Present; Origin of Ku Klux Klan. Presbyterian. State pres. Mississippi Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy; mem. D.A.R., Mississippi His- torical Soc.