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Catholic Daughters of America and the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association.
The membership connection of Mrs. Muldoon also includes the Fed- eration of Woman's Clubs of Youngstown, the Sigma Tau Delta, an English honorary fraternity, the Youngstown College Alumni Associa- tion, the University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association, the Ohio Garden Club, the Garden Forum of Youngstown, the Garden Club of the Little Flower and she is the permanent president of "The Road of Remem- brance", the basic idea for which originated with her. She belongs to the Parents-Teachers Association and was president of the first Parents- Teachers Association of St. Edward's Parish. She has served as editor of the Youngstown Education Association Bulletin, the official publica- tion of the Youngstown teachers, and she headed the teachers of the city in a popularity contest. Her deep interest has always been in study and her investigation has been carried far and wide into those fields which broaden knowledge and enrich life.
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Women In Medicine (Continued from Page 416)
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MAE EMERY WHITE
MAE EMERY WHITE, a physician of Canton, who began prac- tice in 1899, was born in Ridgeville Corners, Henry County, Ohio, a daughter of Joseph and Maria Louisa Emery. The father, a native of Ohio, engaged in the practice of dentistry at Leipsic for a number of years and died at the age of sixty-eight in Canton, Ohio. He married Maria Louisa Lowery, a daughter of Robert and Olive (McConnell) Lowery, the former a merchant of Leipsic. Mrs. Emery was reared in and attended the common schools of her native county of Putnam and later she was graduated from the Eclectic Medical College of Cin- cinnati. For a time in early womanhood she was a teacher in the public schools. At the age of eighteen years she was married. She had two daughters, studied medicine when they were five and ten respectively and during the remainder of her life followed her profession, being one of the early women physicians of the state. She died at the age of fifty years at Leipsic, Ohio.
Dr. Mae, the younger daughter, attended the public schools of Putnam county and then desirous of taking up the profession in which her mother had won so enviable a position, directed her further studies toward that end. She was graduated from the physical education de- partment of Oberlin College, at Oberlin, Ohio with the class of 1896 and then enrolled as a student n the Eclectic Medical College at Cin- cinnati, where she won her M.D. degree as a member of the class of 1899. Since that time she has practiced in association with her husband save for the period which she has devoted to rearing her children.
In 1899 Mae Emery became the wife of Dr. William Alvin White, who was born in Weston, West Virginia, a son of Marcellus and Florede
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(Gibson) White. The family was established in America by Peragrim White, born on the Mayflower at Provincetown, Mass., 1620. Dr. Wil- liam A. and Dr. Mae E. White have two children, Margaret Emery and William A., Jr. The former was graduated from Antioch College and taught for a time in Mrs. Day's private school, New Haven, Conn. She married Adna H. Karns, who was a student in School of Drama at Yale. He is also a graduate of Antioch College. The son, William A. White, Jr., is a graduate of Mt. Union College and received his M. D. degree from Harvard in 1940. He is following in the footsteps of his ancestors. His maternal great-grandfather and two great-uncles were physicians, as was also two cousins. The grandfather of Dr. Mae White and his brother drove to Ohio from New Hampshire, the grandfather, Josiah Bartlett Emery becoming the first doctor in Carroll County, Ohio, while the other later established himself in the practice of medicine in Illi- nois. The Emery family in'America was founded in Newburyport, Mass., by two brothers, John and Anthony, who came from England in 1640. Dr. White has visited the cemetery at Newburyport and found there the grave of John Emory, born at Rumsey, England, and died at Newburyport, Mass., 1682, showing that at an early period in the colonization of the new world they had crossed the Atlantic to estab- lish their homes in America. That her ancestors were among those who fought in the war for independence, is shown in the fact that Dr. White is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. She also belongs to the Canton Women's Club, the Quota Club of Canton, the Young Women's Christian Association and the Presbyterian Church. She is also a member of the council of Girl Scouts. Dr. White took an active part in the campaign for Cancer education. She ad- dressed several hundred in this work. She has taken an active part in Social Hygiene education, addressing Parent-Teacher groups, wom- en's clubs, girl reserve groups, as well as Hi-Y clubs. Along strictly professional lines she has taken post graduate work in Chicago and New York City and is a fellow of the American College of Anaesthetists International Society of Anaesthesia, American Society of Anaesthet- ics and in that line of professional work has specialized for the past
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ten years. She has connection with the local medical society, the County Medical Society and the Ohio State Medical Society, is a fel- low of the American Medical Association, also American Medical Woman's Association and Medical Woman's International Association and thus she keeps in close touch with the progress that is being con- tinuously made in medical science.
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Women In Religion (Continued from Page 461)
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CAROLINE MAXWELL LEE
Promotion of the work of young people in the Presbyterian and other churches of southwestern Ohio owes much today to the ability, interest and energy of CAROLINE MAXWELL LEE-Mrs. Lewis Earle Lee-of Cincinnati.
Shortly after graduation from the University of Cincinnati she founded and conducted, jointly with Mrs. E. M. Galbraith, a private school for children. In 1904 she became first assistant of the Bartholo- mew-Clifton School, famous for its college preparatory work through- out the middle west and later headed the English department of the school. For ten years, from 1920 to 1930, she headed the English and Bible departments of Miss Doherty's College Preparatory School.
Meanwhile Mrs. Lee was cooperating closely with her husband, the late Dr. Lewis Earle Lee, in religious education established and extended in many fields. She shared as far as possible his executive responsibilities in order that he might devote his unusual abilities to important ministerial and educational service.
Mrs. Lee founded women's Bible classes in the First Presbyterian Church, Walnut Hills, Delhi Presbyterian Church, Immanuel Presby- terian Church and elsewhere and worked closely with the Women's De- partment of the Federation of Churches. She has won more than local recognition as the author of several plays, notably "The Seeker" produced by the Woman's Art Club, and "The Princess of Byzantium" produced with much success by the MacDowell Society of Cincinnati.
In addition Mrs. Lee has given civic and social service of perman- ent value and has been active in a number of important organizations. among them the Cincinnati Woman's Club. Her home is at 353 Thrall Ave., Cincinnati, O.
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MARY SHANAHAN
MARY SHANAHAN of Cincinnati is regarded as the main inspira- tion for the St. Theresa Home for elderly folk located at Silverton, Ohio, and which was founded in 1910. It has gained nationwide prominence because of its unique plan of operation. The cost of life membership in the home is based upon age of the applicant at admission and life expectancy. Originally only $500 was required, this assuring every necessary care for the remaining days. Many of the early applicants continue to enjoy the comforts of the home on the basis of the original fee. Sisters of the Precious Blood are in charge of the household, and some of its members serve on the governing board, which is composed of clergy and laity, men and women.
The home has accommodations for 120 guests. The Little Flower Society and St. Theresa Garden Club are auxiliaries to the home, whose members do much to encourage support and interest in the institution.
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MARY MAHONEY BAKER
MARY MAHONEY BAKER, who after completing a course in nurses training, joined the American Red Cross to which she has ren- dered a valuable service, now makes her home in Cleveland, residing at 1526 East Eightieth Street. She was born in Burin, Newfoundland, a daughter of Michael F. and Teresa (Foley) Mahoney, and was educated at the Sisters of Mercy School there, entering the school at the age of two years and there remaining until she had reached the age of eighteen. She afterward taught in the government school for ten years under the chairmanship of the late Archbishop Howley and subsequently she took up nurses training in St. Mary's Hospital, in Detroit, Michigan, where she was graduated in 1917.
For two years she filled the position of superintendent of the New- foundland Military Hospital at St. John's and among her patients was the first recipient of the Victoria cross. She also served as a member of the executive board of the Newfoundland Nursing Association.
In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 11th of September, 1919, Mary Mahoney became the wife of John J. Baker of Marystown, New- foundland, and they are now parents of a son and daughter: Frank J., who is a student in the University of Dayton; and Betty Marie, who is attending St. Joseph's Academy at Rocky River, Ohio. Mr. Baker is giving his attention to his profession, that of construction engineer.
Mrs. Baker is a member of the Cleveland Deanery of the National Council of Catholic Women and is chairman of its international relations committee. She is likewise a charter member and a past president of the Kaysee Club, a social organization, is president of the Cathedral Latin Guild of Cleveland and is a communicant of St. Agnes Catholic Church. She was honored by a citation for her service in nursing by the
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late King George V of England, being the first member of the American Red Cross to receive this distinction. In recent years she has been active in peace work. Her political allegiance has been given the Democratic party since she became a citizen of the United States. She has been actuated by broad sympathy and a spirit of humanitarianism in all her Red Cross work and again and again she has extended a helping hand to some unfortunate traveler on life's journey.
THEODORA M. BLAKE
THEODORA M. BLAKE, of Bedford, Ohio, teacher, newspaper ed- itor, author of short plays, lecturer and tax consultant, has packed many services into her active life.
Born in Bedford, in the house which is now the city hall, and reared in a picturesque part of Bedford known as "Hillhaven", Miss Blake can trace her ancestry back to the New England colonists who came by covered wagon to the Western Reserve. On her mother's side she is the granddaughter of Theodatus Garlick, native of Youngstown, Ohio, a noted surgeon, anatomist and botanist, once medical instructor in the School of Medicine of Western Reserve University. In his leisure mo- ments, Dr. Garlick was a sculptor and some of his works are in the Western Reserve Historical Society's archives.
Her father, William Basset Blake, ninety-three, is a veteran of the Civil War.
Theodora, only child of the Blakes, was educated in the private school of Miss Mittlebeger in Cleveland and then at St. Elizabeth's Academy and College in Convent Station, New Jersey. She majored in Greek and Latin at Western Reserve and received her Masters degree. She taught school in Ohio and in Colorado, did extension work for Cleveland Board of Education and Ursuline College and traveled exten- sively in between times and presently began to edit a weekly news-
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paper. As counselor to taxpayers, she has become a first aid to the absentee landowner. What she has learned in this connection is to be put into a book some day-for the enlightenment of the general public as to the problems of property owners.
She holds forth on public platforms as an interpreter of current affairs and in analytical reviews of current books. Organizer and first president of the Jeffersonian Women's Club, she also gives her time to the Catholic Collegiate and to the National Council of Catholic Women, for which group she is director of education.
MARGARET MARY CARROLL
MARGARET MARY CARROLL, residing at 1380 Sloane Avenue, Lakewood, has been very active in Catholic circles and is well known in this connection. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she is a daughter of James and Catherine (Cordon) Carroll, both of whom were born in Ireland. Coming to the new world, they settled in Ohio and in Cleveland reared their family. Miss Carroll was educated in parochial schools of her native city and also attended the Ohio Business College of Cleveland. For more than thirty years she engaged in secretarial work here, her capability and efficiency enabling her to fill various important positions. In 1925 she became a member of the board of directors of the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association and in this work she has since been helpfully and continuously interested, serving at the present time as supreme trustee of the order, which is a national fraternal insurance society for Catholic women only, her work doing much to develop the organization and introduce it to those of Catholic faith.
Miss Carroll is also a member of the National Council of Catholic Women and belongs to several local church societies. For many years she has been interested in the anti-tuberculosis movement and has been active in promoting the Christmas seal sale, whereby the work of the
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organization is carried forward. She is prompted in much that she does by a spirit of broad humanitarianism that reaches out in helpfulness to mankind.
MRS. JOHN A. COAKLEY
Since 1930 MRS. JOHN A. COAKLEY (Marie Louise Beckman Coakley) has been president of St. Ann's Hospital Society and is active in various other organizations of the Catholic Church. She is also inter- ested in musical activities of Cleveland and in horticultural and garden projects. She makes her home at 2656 Berkshire Road and is a native of Cleveland, born January 2, 1887, her parents being Henry Beckman, Jr., and his wife, Annie (Holland) Beckman, both natives of Cleveland and members of old pioneer families of the city.
Marie Louise Beckman was educated in the Ursuline Convent, from which she was graduated in 1906. On the twenty-third of January, 1912, in St. John's Cathedral, in Cleveland, she became the wife of John A. Coakley, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and to them have been born eleven children: John A. Jr .; Mary Virginia, now Mrs. Thomas E. Morton, of Cleveland; Agnes Rita, the wife of John J. Power, Jr., of Youngstown, Ohio; Ann Gertrude, wife of Edward J. Egan, of New York City; Henry Beckman; Margaret Mary; Thomas (deceased) ; Thomas Francis; William Duncan; Ellen Therese; and Joseph Charles.
Mrs. Coakley is a life member of the National Council of Catholic Women. She belongs to the Women's Guild of St. Vincent's Charity Hospital and is prominent in the work of St. Ann's Hospital, serving as president of its hospital society for the past decade. She belongs to the guild of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church, to the Daughters of St. Ursula, the Leonarda Society, the Catherine Horstman Society, Christ Child Society and the Carmelite Circle of the Little Flower and she received the medal pro-ecclesia from the late Pope Pius XI.
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Her interests also reach out along other lines for Mrs. Coakley is a past president of the Tuesday Study Club and she is affiliated with the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra group, is a member of the Horticultural Garden group and belongs to the Union Club, the Country Club of Cleve- land and the Shaker Heights Country Club, which establishes her posi- tion in social circles of Cleveland.
ESTHER HALE COCHARD
ESTHER HALE COCHARD, whose particular interest of a public nature is the drama and who devotes a portion of her time to teaching expression and public speaking, resides at 7006 Detroit Avenue in Cleve- land and has been a lifelong resident of Ohio. She was born in Fostoria, October 11, 1893, her parents being Albert Randall and Mary Frances (Seibel) Hale, also natives of Fostoria, where they lived for many years. Mrs. Cochard was a student at Notre Dame Convent there and also studied elocution and expression under private tutors, after which she entered the Dorn School of Expression at Cleveland, from which in due time she was graduated. She also pursued courses of study along the same line at Chautauqua at the summer sessions, so that she had com- prehensive training in her chosen field.
In Fostoria, in 1920, Esther Hale was married by Bishop O'Reilly to Darrell Robert Cochard of that city. Previous to her marriage she had taught expression in Cleveland and since that time she has given private instruction in the speech arts. She is greatly interested in the drama and has wide knowledge thereof.
Mrs. Cochard has also been an interested and loyal church worker. She is a member of the National Council of Catholic Women, is serving on its diocesan board and is connected with the Deanery Council of Cleveland. She has membership with the Catholic Daughters of America and is chairman of the speakers bureau of these different societies. Af-
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filiated with the Catholic Speakers Bureau, she served as one of the speakers for three years in the various drives and campaigns. She is now president of the Master Study Club of the Catholic Daughters of America and she is now president of the Athena Study Club. Mrs. Cochard is now writing a column for National Auditgram. She has gained marked efficiency as a reader and an enviable position in speech art circles.
ELIZABETH KIRBY CORNHOFF
ELIZABETH KIRBY CORNHOFF, who has given more than forty years' service to the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association and at all times has a hand out-reaching to aid fellow travelers on life's journey, has always been a resident of Ohio. She now makes her home at 1355 E. 124th Place in Cleveland and was born in Euclid, Ohio, June 15, 1866. During her infancy she was brought to Cleveland by her par- ents, Patrick and Katherine (Pratt) Kirby, so that she was reared in this city, where she attended St. John's Cathedral School, followed by a period of study in Ursuline Academy.
Elizabeth Kirby was married in St. John's Cathedral in 1884 to Henry Cornhoff, and they have become parents of a son and three daughters: William Cornhoff, who is in government employ in Cleve- land; Mae, at home; Myrtle, now the wife of Robert Stricker of East Cleveland; and Rita, at home.
Mrs. Cornhoff is a member of St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and she belongs to the National Council of Catholic Women, while par- ticularly she has shown effective interest in charitable and philanthropic work. She is connected with St. Ann's Hospital Guild and with the Circle of Mercy, and she is a charter member of Branch No. 472 of the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish. In this organization she has filled all the offices and again has held the various positions, bringing her the second time to the presidency, which
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position she is now filling. There are few in the organization that have given to it forty years of service and none has been more untiring in effort to promote the growth and insure the steady development of the society, this being because of her sincere interest in the purpose of the order. She is also a past senator of the Cleveland senate of the Ladies Catholic Benevolent Association.
KATHLEEN MARIE DALY
While the interests of KATHLEEN MARIE DALY of Cleveland are varied in character, she is revered particularly for her charity and her kindness to the poor, yet she can be counted upon to sponsor many worthy causes to promote the best interests of society. She has used her time, her talents and her opportunities wisely and well. She has resided in Ohio for forty-two years, having first gone to Toledo as the bride of Martin B. Daly, who at the time of his death was president of the East Ohio Gas Company of Cleveland. She was born in Ellicottville, New York, a daughter of John and Jane (Walsh) McMahon, both of whom were natives of Ireland, whence they crossed the Atlantic, set- tling in Ellicottville.
Convent school training in her early childhood was followed by matriculation in D'Youville College, at Buffalo, New York, where in due time she was graduated. In 1879 she became the wife of Martin B. Daly, who was general manager of the Northwestern Gas Company, a subsidiary of the Standard Gas Company. After living in Toledo for twelve years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Daly removed to Cleve- land, where he became president of the East Ohio Gas Company, contin- uing in that position as head of this important corporation up to the time of his demise. They were the parents of five children, as follows: Kathleen Marie Chapman McMahon, now deceased; Walter and Dan, both living in Cleveland; Martin B., Jr., of Los Angeles, California, and
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Margaret Daly Dallenbach (Mrs. Gaston Dallenbach) of New Rochelle, New York. There are also four grandsons, one of whom, Joseph McMa- hon, son of Frank and Kathleen Marie (Daly) McMahon, has been reared from his infancy by his grandmother, Mrs. Daly. The other three are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dallenbach.
Mrs. Daly has been most active in promoting the work of various Catholic societies. As founder-president of the Cleveland Diocesan Council of the National Council of Catholic Women, her achievements in laying such a firm foundation for this organization earned for her the distinctive honor of being elected by unanimous vote, honorary president of this organization, with privilege of vote and voice in all meetings during her lifetime. It is due in a large measure to her enthusiasm, to her zeal and to her inspiring leadership from the very beginning up to the present time that this Diocesan Council ranks as the largest diocesan federation of Catholic women's groups within the national organiza- tion, known as the National Council of Catholic Women. She served the National Council as a director and as treasurer and through personal service and financial gifts contributed greatly to the development of the National Council and its chief project, the National Catholic School of Social Service, located in Washington, D. C.
In 1929, as chairman of a committee, the other two members being Mrs. John J. Bernet and Mrs. Wallace C. Benham, she conducted a dio- cesan-wide campaign among the Catholic women to raise funds for a scholarship in this school, to honor Archbishop Joseph Schrembs, one of its founders and one of the founders of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, of which the National Council of Catholic Women is a part. The scholarship was named by the Archbishop the "Mary Gess Schrembs scholarship," in memory of his mother. This is a perpetual scholarship and to the present time six young women have had the benefit of two years of postgraduate work in this school, which was the first resident graduate school of social work established in America.
Mrs. Daly has other club interests. The International Federation of Catholic Alumnae for many years claimed her interest and still claims
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her support. As a charter member of the Catherine Horstman Society, which sponsors the Catherine Horstman Home for the teenage girls, she has served as an officer and director. This home was named in honor of the mother of another bishop, the late Ignatius Horstman, third bishop of the Cleveland Diocese.
Mrs. Daly is a charter member and a most active and interested one of the Tuesday Study Club, one of the oldest study clubs for Cath- olic women in Cleveland. She continues to serve as a trustee of the National Catholic School of Social Service and she belongs to the down town Union Club and the Shaker Heights Country Club.
HELEN GINTHER
HELEN GINTHER, whose activities have won her a place among the leading Catholic workers of Ohio, now makes her home at 1572 East One Hundred and Seventeenth Street in Cleveland. She was born in Akron, Ohio, her parents being Stephen and Anna Maria (Horning) Ginther, who were residents of Akron from an early day. She attended the parochial schools of her native city and was graduated from the Central High School there, after which she pursued a commercial course in the Hammel Business College of Akron. She was first employed by the publishers of the Sunday Companion of Akron and from 1902 until 1920 she was secretary to the superintendent of the Babcock & Wilcox Company of Barberton, Ohio.
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