WWW Index

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

Transcribed by Dick Barton

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NELSON, Candis Jane, Shenandoah, Iowa.

Teacher; b. Tipton, Ind.; dau. Sandford W. and Margaret (Alexander) Nelson; ed. Western Normal Coll., B.D. 1900; Univ. of Neb., A.B. '05, A.M. '10; has done work of Ph.D. in Univ. of Cal. and Univ. of Neb.  Holds high-school teaching credentials in Cal., and several life diplomas from other States. Teacher of method in Western Normal Coll.; principal of a ward school five years at Lincoln, Neb. Principal of Normal dep't and prof. of education, Greenville (Ill.) Coll. Supervisor of practice and prof. of education and psychology, Neb. Wesleyan Univ.; fellow in Am. history and ass't in psychology, Univ. of Neb.; ass't prof of education and psychology in Valley City (N.Dak.) State Normal.  Favors woman suffrage; State sup't of franchise of North Dakota; charter mem. and promoter of the Votes for Women League. Contributor to periodicals on Childhood and Health, The Physical Child, Moral Education, How Children Spend Their Money, Who Is To Blame, Women and the Rural Schools, a monograph on The Fifteenth Amendment, a source investigation, and many other topics. Methodist. Mem. W.C.T.U. and Y.W.C.A.

NOBLES, Ella Margaret (Mrs. W. S. Nobles), Geneva, Iowa.

Born Warren, Ill.; dau. Alonzo and Rose (Lynch) Clock; ed. common school; m. W. S. Nobles; children: Fannie Nobles Clock, Norma Nobles Richards, Helen Nobles. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church (mem. Ladies' Aid Soc.). Republican. Mem. Twentieth Century Club.