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The daughter, Mrs. Longfellow, a native of Bellefontaine, here attended the public schools, passing through consecutive grades to her graduation from the high school with the class of 1900. She then spent two years at the Cin- cinnati College of Music, studying voice and her love of music has always been one of her marked characteristics. She was married on the 10th of September, 1903 to Dr. J. C. Longfellow, a relative of the loved American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Dr. and Mrs. Longfellow have three daughters: Elizabeth Marian is the wife of Earl Wellington Dulmage, an electrical engineer. They reside in Detroit, where Mrs. Dulmage is well known as a commercial artist. She is a graduate of the Ward-Belmont School of Nash- ville, Tennessee and after completing her course there took up the study of art at Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, New York, from which in due time she was graduated. She then became assistant editor of "Smart Shoes" and Jeweler's Circular, two trade journals and was soon recognized as a well known accessory artist in New York City, where she did much of the work in her line for the I. Miller Shoe Company. She was also artist for Amos Parish of New York City and she spent one summer in art study abroad. Josephine, the second daughter, is the wife of Gordon Diver, who is associated with the General Electric Company as a mechanical engineer at Fort Wayne, Indiana, and they have one son, Neil L., now one year old. Mrs. Diver is also a graduate of Ward-Belmont College, where she majored in organ music and in public school music. The third daughter, Martha, is a teacher of music at Elida, Ohio. She is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and was awarded a scholarship. She taught there for a year and is now planning to attend the University of Chicago.
Mrs. Longfellow is a member of the Delphinians and belongs to Bellefon- taine Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, of which is a
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past regent. Her interest has centered in her home and in the rearing of her three daughters, who are certainly a credit to her, and in the social circles of her native city she occupies a prominent and enviable position.
OLIVE MACE
OLIVE MACE, who has taken an active and helpful part in charitable, social and club affairs in Chillicothe, is a representative of one of the early families of Ross county. Her grandfather, Isaac Mace, came from Virginia to Ohio in 1803 and settled on the farm in Ross county which was later the birthplace of his son Robert Nelson Mace, and the latter's daughter Olive. Robert Nelson Mace spent his entire life in Ross county, where he became a very prosperous farmer and stock raiser, and he also took a leading part in church and educational affairs, always giving his aid and influence to measures for the general good. He married Estelle Kopp and they became the parents of six children: Isaac, now deceased, Robert A., Olive, Elizabeth L., Homer V., and Ethel L.
Miss Mace has participated effectively in furthering charitable, social and club activities, having membership in the Country Club. She is also a member of the Century Club, a literary club, a member of the League of Women Voters and is an active worker in the ranks of the Democratic party, being at all times conversant with the leading questions and issues of the day. She is likewise interested in the Presbyterian church and she is at all times a gen- erous contributor to all benevolent and worthy causes. She is also serving on the advisory board of the Chillicothe Hospital.
AGNES CONWAY MAHONEY
Club, church and political interests claim much of the attention and activity of AGNES CONWAY MAHONEY of Youngstown, in which city she was born December 16, 1884, a daughter of Michael J. and Mary (Conroy) Conway. Both of her parents were natives of Ireland and during his resi- dence in Youngstown her father worked with the Republic Steel Company.
Mrs. Mahoney was reared in this city and while spending her girlhood days under the parental roof she attended the parochial schools and after- ward Brown's Business College of this city. She was employed for a time by the United States Steel Company prior to her marriage and on the 22nd of November, 1910, she became the wife of J. S. Mahoney of Youngstown. They became the parents of four children-William A., John Paul, Donald F. and Margaret E.
Mrs. Mahoney belongs to St. Edward's Roman Catholic church, is much interested in the various branches of the women's work of the church and is now president of the Youngstown Deanery of the National Council of Catholic Women. She is also a member of the Federation of Woman's Clubs,
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belongs to the Loyola Study Club, has membership connection with the Garden Forum and is keenly interested in politics, at all times keeping well informed on the questions and issues of the day and giving staunch allegiance to the Republican party. She is always mentally alert to public conditions and seeks to further public good through the ballot and through work and influence in support of principles in which she believes.
MRS. CARL MARTIN
MRS. CARL MARTIN, 316 10th St., Elyria, has been editor of Ohio Parent Teacher, official organ of Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers since 1927. She is a member of the executive committee of the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers, secretary of Elyria Woman's Club, Inc., and is a mem- ber of Elyria Chapter, Daughters of American Revolution. Mrs. Martin is now serving on the Elyria Board of Education for her second term.
Former director of N. E. district of Ohio Congress of P. T. A. and chair- man of committee that redistricted the state, Mrs. Martin was organizing president of the Elyria Council of Parent Teacher associations in 1925.
Born in North Canton, Dec. 25, 1885, Mrs. Martin has lived in Elyria since 1889. She has three sons, Richard 29, Howard 25, and Phillip 17.
MRS. R. T. J. MARTIN
MRS. R. T. J. MARTIN, 611 West Ave., Elyria, is state chairman of law observance of Ohio Federation of Women's clubs and was president of Elyria Woman's club from 1935 to 1937. She has been a member of Elyria Woman's club for 20 years, was a trustee on Ohio Public Health association, 1925-32, and is the only woman member of Lorain Co. Building Commission for erection of Pleasant View Tuberculosis Sanitarium and of Lorain Co. Infirmary hospital building, 1929-32. Mrs. Martin is a member of the Y. W. C. A. and of the Elyria Women's Republican club.
Born in St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 16, 1880, Mrs. Martin has lived in Elyria 32 years. She has three children, Mrs. Gene Ehrbar of Cleveland and the Misses Virginia and Francis Martin. She is a member of Christian Science church and a graduate of Washington college, Washington, D. C.
NELLIE MCCABE
For thirty-eight years NELLIE McCABE was closely connected with the education interests of Piqua, serving for thirty-five years as principal of the South street school, but while she has now retired from teaching she is still active in the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs and with other organizations that have to do with public questions and civic and cultural activities of the community and commonwealth.
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Miss McCabe was born in Piqua, May 30, 1869, a daughter of Henry Asbury and Laura (Jacobs) McCabe. Her father, a native of Crosswicks, New Jersey, was educated in the Quaker schools of Bordentown, New Jersey, and later learned the carpentering and contracting business which he followed in Ohio after his removal to Piqua in 1865. Here he also engaged in mercantile pursuits until he retired at the age of eighty-five years. He came here right after the Civil war. He had previously served as a captain of the Constitu- tional Guards of New Jersey and in 1862 he entered the Union Army with his entire company, serving as captain of Company H, Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteers, leading his men in the battles of Antietam, Fredericksburg and other engagements in which they participated. He afterward proudly wore the little bronze button that proclaimed him a member of the Grand Army of the Republic and he was also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He died in 1931. His wife attended the old high school of Piqua and was graduated in 1866 at the first public graduation exercises held there. They were married in 1868 and Mrs. McCabe passed away in 1924, at the age of seventy-eight years. Her parents were born, reared and married in Phila- delphia and in 1838 removed to Piqua, when Indians were still numerous in this section of the country. Her father, Fenimore Jacobs, engaged in the boot and shoe and also in the hides and leather business here.
Miss McCabe spent her girlhood days in Piqua, where she completed the high school course and later she attended educational lectures on many sub- jects at various places and also did much private studying. In 1887 she began teaching in Piqua and was soon made principal of the South street school in which position she was retained for thirty-five years, while her entire teach- ing experience covered thirty-eight years.
Since then Miss McCabe has written classics for children for the F. A. Owen Publishing Company of New York and for five years she served as one of the editors of the Normal Instructor magazine. She is very active and prominent in club circles, was for two years the representative of Ohio on the board of the General Federation of Women's Clubs and is now president of the City Federation of Woman's Clubs. She was formerly chairman of the finance committee of the Young Woman's Christian Association and she helped organize the health work in the City Federation of Woman's Clubs to fight tuberculosis. She is president of St. James Guild of St. James Episcopal church and is patriotic instructor of the Daughters of Union Veterans, of which she is also an ex-president. Politically she is a Democrat and has long been actively interested in matters of progressive citizenship and in all those forces which make for the uplift of the individual and the advancement of humanity at large.
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ANNA WALLACE MCDERMOTT
In a history of those activities which are endorsed by the Catholic Church and which further the interests of the church, ANNA WALLACE McDER- MOTT of Youngstown should be mentioned because of the effective work she has done in this connection. She possessed excellent qualifications of leader- ship and her efforts have been largely resultant. Mrs. McDermott was born in Youngstown, February 17, 1883, a daughter of Patrick and Margaret (Claugherty) Wallace, both natives of Ireland, and for twenty-two years her father was connected with the Republic Steel Company here, in the capa- city of foreman.
Anna Wallace was educated in the Youngstown schools and on the 8th of August, 1906, she became the wife of James G. McDermott, a railroad engineer. Unto them were born eight children : James Gerard, Mary Margaret, Joseph, Julia Beatrice, Sister Virginia, Robert John, Elizabeth Jane and Wil- liam Edward, of which number Joseph is now deceased.
Mrs. McDermott is a member of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic church and for twelve years she served as president of the Sacred Heart Branch of the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association, her long retention in office indicating how valuable was her service. She was also president of the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association Senate for two years and for a similar period was president of the Altar and Rosary Society of the Sacred Heart church. She is a member of the National Council of Catholic Women and the Catholic Daughters of America and belongs to the Seton Circle Study Club of Youngs- town and is president of the Angelia Club, a welfare organization. She has continuously extended a helping hand where aid is needed, and her broad humanitarian spirit is recognized by all who know her.
KATHERYNE LEE MACDONNELL
KATHERYNE LEE MacDONNELL is associated with many musical and club organizations and has manifested particular interest in organized effort to promote healthful as well as pleasing recreation for the young. Along these and other lines she has been active in Youngstown throughout the period of her residence here. A native of Norwich, New York, she was born September 30, 1888, and is a daughter of John F. and Mary Ann (Bulger) Lee. She attended the grade and high schools of her native city and was graduated from the Metropolitan College of Music of New York City. She afterward taught music in Norwich, New York, for several years and has also held positions as organist.
On the 16th of September, 1915, Mrs. MacDonnell was married, her hus- band being Edward T. MacDonnell of Hamilton, New York, and they have three children, Edward T., Jr., Mary Lee and Katheryne Ann. It was in 1918 that Mr. and Mrs. MacDonnell removed to Youngstown, where they have since re-
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sided and she has taken active interests in many women's organizations here. For five years she served as president of the Federation of Women's Clubs of the city and has been associated with various other club groups. She is the woman member of the Youngstown Park and Recreation Commission and is a director of the Youngstown Playground Association. She is parliamentarian of the Monday Musical Club of Youngstown, is actively interested in the Players group, is treasurer of the Catholic Service League and a director of the Big Sisters organization. She belongs to St. Edwards Catholic church, is a member of St. Elizabeth's Hospital Auxiliary, the North Hill Child Study Club, of which she is a past president and is also a past president of the Junior Newman Club, a literary organization. She is serving on the education com- mittee of the Young Women's Christian Association, is a member of the League of Women Voters and gives her political allegiance to the Democratic party.
MRS. JAMES F. McMAHON
MRS. JAMES F. McMAHON is a native Crestline resident, born there in 1887. Her activity in club life and her quality of leadership motivated the Woman's Club of Crestline to elect her as president for the term, 1937-1939.
Prior to that time, in 1937-1938, she was president of both St. Francis De Sales Study Club and of the Altar Society of the same church. She is also a member of the R Ersine club, the oldest social group in Crestline.
Mrs. McMahon's father, Francis Joseph Gosser, was also a native of Craw- ford county although his grandparents were residents of Alsace-Lorainne. Her mother, Jane Crowe, came to this country from Ireland when six months old.
Mrs. McMahon attended the Crestline schools and Ursuline College in Tiffin.
Wife of James F. McMahon, who was publisher of The Crestline Advocate for 35 years, Mrs. McMahon frequently assists at the editorial office and in one emergency published the edition herself.
AMANDA LONG MESSENGER
AMANDA LONG MESSENGER, whose interest in community welfare and progress has taken tangible form in active cooperation with many organizations and movements which have featured largely in the life of Xenia and her people, was born in Jackson, Ohio, a daughter of Elias L. and Emily Carriek Long. The public school system of Jackson accorded her the early educational privileges which qualified her for entrance into Ohio Wesleyan University.
Her school days completed, she became the wife of Dr. A. C. Messenger, also a native of Jackson. In 1902 they removed to Xenia, where the doctor
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was prominent until his death, both as a physician and as a representative of civic and Masonic affairs. Dr. Messenger was a personal friend of Gov. William McKinley and was appointed by him to the position of resident physician at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home. For thirty-three years he served as secretary of the Volunteer Medical Staff of the Institution, which he organized. He was accorded a place of leadership in the ranks of the County and State Medical Societies and was elected to presidency of the Second Councilor district of the Ohio Medical Society, and president of the Miami Valley Health Officers Association. In the work of the Masonic order he took an active part and was a loyal supporter of its high principles. His life was guided by his Christian faith and for forty-three years he was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church and greatly furthered the work of the church and the extension of its influences.
Dr. and Mrs. Messenger have three children; Dr. H. C. Messenger, a practicing physician in Xenia; Lois, the wife of Charles F. Galbreath of Dayton ; and Emily Messenger Leslie of Xenia.
Mrs. Messenger has embraced her opportunities for serving her city and state in many ways. She has filled the presidency of the Tuesday Literary Club, is a member of the board of the Xenia Library Association, is the county chairman of the Ohioana Library and served as county chairman of the Will Rogers Memorial Fund, also as the county chairman of the American Bible Society and is now president of the Springfield District of the Dayton Presbyterian Missionary Society. Along patriotic and hereditary lines Mrs. Messenger has evidenced her interest, having served as regent of the Catherine Greene chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, also as state regent and as vice president general of the National Society. At the present time she is state president of the Ohio Society of the Daughters of Colonial Wars, of the Colonial Dames of America, of the Daughters of American Colonists, the Daughters of 1812 and the auxiliary to the Joseph Foody Post American Legion. Those interests which make for the uplift of the individual and the benefit of the community at large have a strong appeal for her and she does not hesitate to assume her responsibilities in any of these connections.
BLANCHE BACON MEYERS
BLANCHE BACON MEYERS, wife of Charles G. Meyers, was born in what is now Terrace Park, but was then a farming district, being a daughter of Sumner Pierce and Moretta (Stebbins) Bacon. Her paternal ancestors, residents of New Hampshire, were descendants of Rev. Bacon, a native of England, and were prominent in New England in colonial times. Sumner P. Bacon was born in Vermont and, coming to Cincinnati, was engaged in the manufacture of pig iron, having his furnaces at Ironton, Ohio, and his offices in Cincinnati. He lived however on a farm in what is now Terrace
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Park and died at the advanced age of eighty-eight years, while his wife reached the age of seventy-six years. She was a descendant of Captain Isaac Johnson, also a member of one of the old colonial families and of Phinas Stebbins, who served in the Revolutionary War, making Mrs. Meyers eligible to membership with the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her grandmother Bacon was in her maidenhood Betsey Chase and through that line Mrs. Meyers is a descendant of President Franklin Pierce. She traces her lineage also to the Chase family, founders of Kenyon College, and it is through that line that she became a member of the Society of Colonial Dames.
Mrs. Meyers pursued her education in the public schools of Milford, Ohio, including the high school course and also spent a year as a student in an academy in Vermont. Soon afterward she was married to Charles G. Meyers and they became the parents of two daughters-Mrs. Dorothy Richley of Cincinnati and Janet, who entered business life with the Proctor & Gamble Company and is now in their Chicago office. Both daughters attended the Mary Doherty Training School for Girls and Dorothy then attended Sweet Briar College and Janet Hall, while her sister was a student at the Cin- cinnati Conservatory of Music.
Mrs. Meyers is a member of eleven colonial and early American societies. She was regent of her chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution from 1923 until 1926, also served as state director for three years and as chairman for nine years. She organized the Cincinnati Chapter of the Daugh- ters of 1812 and General William H. Harrison-St. Clair Chapter of the Daughters of American Colonists.
Mrs. Meyers is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a tablet has there been erected in her honor. Her political allegiance is given the Republican party and she belongs to the Cincinnati Woman's Club. Mrs. Meyers has a most interesting hobby - the collection of antiques - and possesses many of rare beauty and value.
MARY ELIZABETH ARMACOST MONROE
MARY ELIZABETH ARMACOST MONROE (Mrs. A. W. Monroe), 1861-1930, was one of Galion's civic, religious and club leaders. She was a life-long member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church where she was organist for 25 years.
Mrs. Monroe was a charter member of the Current News Club, and was a trustee of the Galion Public Library at the time of her death ; also a member of the Fortnightly Club; of the Eastern Star; director of the Chautauqua Association and member of the consulting committee to the superintendent of schools.
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OPAL JACKSON MUNDY
OPAL JACKSON MUNDY is the efficient president of the Toledo Woman's Club, which has always been outstanding in its relation to the civic and cultural interests of the city. She is also identified with many other clubs which are important features in the life of Toledo and her cooperation can at all times be counted upon in support of movements and plans for the public good. Mrs. Mundy is a daughter of Almon Stanley and Nina (Reed) Jackson, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Pennsylvania, whence she came to Ohio with her widowed mother, who located in Hardin County and who is still living, although now in an invalid condition.
Mrs. Mundy was born in Patterson, Ohio, and attended the graded schools there. Later she was graduated from the high school of Kenton, Ohio, and next entered Wesleyan University at Delaware, Ohio, where she gave especial attention to the study of music, being graduated from the school of music of that institution. A little later she became the wife of Carl S. Mundy, of Forrest, Ohio, and they are now parents of a son and daughter. William Nelson III, who completed his education at the University of Michigan with the class of 1939, and Nancy M., who is attending the Scott High School of Toledo.
Mrs. Mundy is widely known in club circles and has usually held office in any organization with which she has been affiliated. She has served as president of the Monett Club, whose members are all former students of Ohio Wesleyan University and she has been president of the Samagama Club, composed of presidents and past presidents of all Toledo Clubs. She is now president of the Toledo Woman's Club, which is a most active and useful organization, owning its own club house, which is located in an ideal section of the city. Since taking office as president Mrs. Mundy has been much interested in having the building redecorated and refurnished, al- though she gives all credit to the splendid cooperation of the committees which she appointed to take charge. Mrs. Mundy also belongs to the Monday Musical Club, the Association of University Women and the Sorosis Club. She belongs to the Collingwood Avenue Presbyterian Church and she has never ceased to feel a deep and appreciative interest in music. During her college days she was soloist for the Men's Glee Club and she has done much work as a church soloist and as a concert singer.
FRANCES M. MURRAY
FRANCES M. MURRAY was born in 1878 near New Paris, Ohio, the daughter of William B. and Mary Bloom Reid. Her ancestors were from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. One branch of the family came from Paris, Kentucky, and founded the town of New Paris, Ohio.
Frances Reid was married to Alfred J. Murray, a farmer, son of Joseph and Margaret Murray. Their children are Guy J. Murray, Louis W. Murray and Mary Alice Murray.
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Mrs. Murray organized the Preble County Federation of Women's Clubs in 1916 and was the president for six years. She has held district and state club offices, organized a Community Club in 1921, was a charter member of Whitewater Valley Grange and for a period of years was Juvenile Grange Organizer in six counties in Ohio. She was a charter member in Commodore Preble Chapter, D. A. R. organized in 1928, holds membership in the Order of the Eastern Star and organized the Sylvan Garden Circle in 1936 which has done a very great deal of community work and was the first woman to serve on the election board in the township.
RUTH S. NEIDIG
RUTH S. NEIDIG (Mrs. Clarence Paul Neidig), national president of Pi Kappa Sigma Sorority, was born in Cincinnati, Oct. 1, 1894. She was educated at Simmons College and was graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree of Bachelor of Science in 1918.
Mrs. Neidig was elected national president of Pi Kappa Sigma in 1927 and will complete her administration in 1940. She served the organization as national treasurer, 1925-1927.
She has contributed to sorority magazines and includes among her affil- iations, the American Association of University Women, which she served as educational chairman; the National Education Association, National Asso- ciation of Deans of Women, and the Cincinnati Woman's Club and The Crafters.
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