WWW Index

Woman's Who's Who of America
New York: American Commonwealth Company, 1914. 

Transcribed by Dick Barton

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HALLAM, Julia Clark (Mrs. Joseph Wood Hallam), 1323 Pearl St., Sioux City, Iowa.

Author: b. Portage, Wis., Jan. 7, 1860; dau. John Tillotson and Louise Harriet (Holley) Clark; ed. Univ. of Wis., A.B. '81; M.A. '82; Univ. of Chicago, M.A. '10; m. Aug., 1883, Joseph Wood Hallam; children: Marguerite, Clark, Arthur Wood, Kirkland. Author: Story of a European Tour; Relation of Sexes from a Scientific Standpoint (used as reference book at Univ. of Wis.); Child Study (manual for mothers and mothers' clubs). Pres. Iowa Equal Suffrage Ass'n, 1910-11; sec. Iowa Federation of Woman's Clubs, 1900-02. Interested in church and Sunday-school work of First Congregational Church; pres. Parent-Teachers Ass'n. Congregationalist. Recreations: Reading, music, golf, tennis, walking, riding. Mem. Woman's Club of Sioux City; pres. Political Equality Club of Sioux City; Mothers Child-Study Club; Fortnightly Club, Visiting Nurses Ass'n; Woman's Ass'n of First Congregational Church Missionary Soc.

HARRISON, Louise Thatcher (Mrs. Albert E. Harrison), Alto, Iowa.

Born Brownsdale, Minn., Sept. 26, 1883; dau. Isham Clarence and Ella (Ritter) Thatcher; ed. high school, Pocahontas, Iowa; Tobin Coll., Ft. Dodge, Iowa; grad. Iowa State Teacher's Coll., Cedar Falls, Iowa; m. Pocahontas, Iowa, July 12, 1911, Albert E. Harrison, sup't of public schools, Alta, Iowa; one son: Harlan Albert, b. Oct. 2, 1912. Teacher of English, Alta High School, 1910-11. Interested in and identified with the various religious, social and philanthropic activities of the community. Presbyterian. Mem. and organizing regent for D.A.R.; mem. Order of Eastern Star. Recreation: Tennis. Mem. La Coterie (Iowa) Fed. of Clubs.

HEALY, Mary Lucy Huffman (Mrs. Thomas Davis Healy), 923 First Av., South, Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Born Iowa; grad. Parsons Coll., Fairfield, Iowa, B.S., B.A. '89, M.A. '92; Smith Coll., B.A. '90; m. Fort Dodge, Iowa, June 16, 1898, Thomas Davis Healy (died Jan. 15, 1909); children: Hiatt Huffman, b. July 16, 1901, Elizabeth, b. Nov. 14, 1902; Thomas Davis Jr., b. April 27, 1904. Teacher of English and Latin, Fort Dodge (Iowa) High School, 1891-97; principal, 1897-98.

HEARD, Mary Kathrina, Iowa City, Ia.

Physician; b. Flushing, Mich., Sept. 17, 1869; dau. Amos B. Heard, M.D., and Amanda J. (Stuntz) Heard; ed. public schools of North East, Pa.; Univ. of Mich,. Ph.C. '92; Univ. of Iowa, B.Ph., M.D. '05, M.S. '07. Physician to young women of State Univ. of Iowa, 1905-12. Connected with Med. Coll. of State Univ. of Iowa; assistant prof. in ophthalmology, otology, rhinolaryngology. Sup't of organization of young women in local church, Sunday-school teacher. Mem. Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of Methodist Church and official board of M.E. Church; mem. Order of Eastern Star, King's Daughters, Am. Med. Ass'n, Am. Acad. of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology, Iowa State Med. Soc., State Soc. Iowa Med. Women, Iowa Union Med. Soc., Johnson Co. Med. Soc., Professional Women's League, Friendship Gild, Philosophical Club. Favors woman suffrage.

HOGLE, Kate Asma Mason (Mrs. George W. Hogle), Mt. Vernon, Ia.

Physician; b. Marion, Iowa, Aug. 9, 1859; dau. Levi Homer and Mary (Ide) Mason; grad. Cornell Coll., Mr. Vernon, Iowa., A.B. '82, A.M. '85; Women's Medical Coll. of Northwestern Univ., Chicago, Ill., M.D. '85; m. London, England, Oct. 13, 1894, George W. Hogle, M.D.; one son: Berton Mason Hogle, b. May 6, 1899. Mem. Am. Med. Ass'n, Union Med. Soc., Iowa State Med. Soc., State Soc. Iowa Med. Women, Ingleside Club of Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Methodist. Favors woman suffrage.

HOLMAN, Josephine McArthur (Mrs. Joseph W. Holman), Eagle Grove, Ia.

Born Glasgow, Scotland, Mar. 26, 1867; dau. John and Catherine (Campbell) McArthur; ed. Glasgow, Scotland, private school and McNeil's Acad.; m. Chicago, Ill., June 27, 1884, Joseph W. Holman; children: Isabella McArthur, b. 1885; Margaret Elizabeth, 1886; Alice, 1888; Lucy, 1900; Vesta, 1894; Hope, 1897. Mem. Equality Club, Woman's Club, King's Daughters. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

HOLMES, Myrta Whitney (Mrs. James E. Holmes), Randolia, Ia.

Born Fayette Co., Ia., May 16, 1871; dau. Lewis M. and Jeannette (Tiffany) Whitney; ed. Grand Island (Neb.) High School, 1890; m. Grand Island, Neb., June 11, 1898, James E. Holmes; children: Marie, Donald, Richard. Mem. Thursday Reading Circle. Presbyterian.

HOPKINS, Louise Virginia Martin (Mrs. Albert Wade Hopkins), Villesca, Iowa.

Writer; b. Nebraska City, Neb., Oct. 2, 1860; dau. David M. and  Elisabeth (Hall) Hopkins; ed. public school; m. Crete, Neb., Feb. 21, 1883, Albert Wade Hopkins. Writer of short stories for magazines and newspaper syndicates and several books dealing with frontier life in early days of settlement of the great plains. Author: Signal Lights, a Story of Life on the Prairies; A Wagon Trip Through Yellowstone National Park; Frontier Days at Cheyenne; Ranch Life in Wyoming.

HOWE, Anna Belknap (Mrs. Henry J. Howe), 6 South Fifth Av., Marshalltown, Ia.

Club woman; b. Randolph, Vt., May 14, 1849; dau. Lorenzo and Betsey L. (Austin) Belknap; ed. Northfield Acad., Northfield, Vt.; m. Northfield, Vt., May 31, 1876, Henry J. Howe. Mem. Iowa Library Commission; ex-vice-pres. Nat. League of Library Commissions; chairman Scholarship and Loan Fund Com. in the Iowa Fed. of Women's Clubs. Mem. Colonial Dames, D.A.R., Am. Library Ass'n, Iowa Library Ass'n (ex-pres.); pres. Marshall County Hist. Soc.; mem. Hist. Soc. of Iowa. Mem. Twentieth Century Club and Woman's Club of Marshalltown, Iowa (ex-pres. of both); ex-pres. Marshalltown Federation of Women's Clubs; honorary pres. Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. Favors woman suffrage.

HURD, Harriette Collin Seward (Mrs. David N. Hurd), 805 Main St., Cedar Falls, Ia.

Journalist correspondent; b. Fayetteville, N.Y., Mar. 19, 1849; dau. Nathan and Harriette (Collin) Seward; grad. private school and high school, Fayetteville (grad. with honors), 1868 (same school which President Cleveland attended; was baptized by Rev. Richard Cleveland, President Cleveland's father); m. Fayetteville, N.Y., Sept. 22, 1869, David N. Hurd, of Gilbertsville, N.Y.; one daughter: Susie N., b. 1871 (died 1877). With husband removed to Cedar Falls, 1889, where entered newspaper field, in which has since worked from local reporter to city editor, also editor club organ for Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs. Dep't editor Waterloo (Ia.) Daily Reporter. Correspondent for syndicate of newspapers in Middle West, including leading dailies in St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, besides Iowa State papers. Prominent in club life; for six years was chairman State Press Com., Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs; represented third district Iowa Federation at Biennial, San Francisco, 1912; app't, 1912, Iowa editor for Gen. Fed. Bulletin by State pres. of Iowa Fed. Women's Clubs. Congregationalist; a State officer of missionary society, has addressed various churches in Iowa; has attended most of the State and Nat. biennials of federated clubs and sent report to dozens of papers. Mem. D.A.R. (has been regent of local chapter); mem. Cedar Falls Tuesday Club and other social clubs; mem. for many years of Iowa Press and Authors' Club of Des Moines.

HURFORD, Etta B. (Mrs. A. R. Hurford), Indianola, Iowa.

President W.C.T.U.; b. Meadville, Crawford County, Pa., Oct. 30, 1853; dau. Edwin B. and Sarah L. (Logan) Brown; ed. public schools and Female Sem., Crawford County, Pa.; m. 1878, A. R. Hurford of Melrose, Iowa. Was State cor. sec. W.C.T.U. of Iowa 20 years; editor of State paper; State pres. since 1908. Interested in religious activities of church; Sunday-school teacher 40 years; active in philanthropic reform; has been pres. of Board of Trustees for a home to rescue unfortunate girls for the past 15 years. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Mem. English Classic Circle; mem. Society Hall in the Grove (Chautauqua Circle); mem. Women's Club.

HUTCHINSON, Mabel Vernon Dixon (Mrs. J. G. Hutchinson), 147 E. Court St., Ottumwa, Iowa.

Club woman and business woman; b. Ottumwa, Ia.; dau. J. W. and Sallie Ann (Vernon) Dixon (both from Quaker families); father served in both houses of Iowa Legislature; ed. Wis. Univ. (mem. Delta Gamma); m. Ottumwa, Iowa, June 23, 1898, J. G. Hutchi[n]son (now deceased); daughter died at birth. Her husband, a lawyer and State Senator, embarked twenty years before his death in the wholesale grocery business, and since his death she has been president and active executive of J. G. Hutchinson & Co. Was for twenty years active in Sunday-school work of Trinity Episcopal Church; started and for a time led the boy choir; director Y.W.C.A. and active mem. Ottumwa Hospital Ass'n. One of founders of Ottumwa Woman's Club; was mem. of the Tuesday club, Tourist Club, and Art Club. Treas. (1895-99) and pres. (1899-1901) Iowa Fed. of Women's Clubs; now pres. Iowa Ex-Presidents' Ass'n. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Republican.