WWW Index

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

Transcribed by Dick Barton

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RAWHOUSER, Minnie Oglevee (Mrs. C. D. Rawhouser), Salem, Iowa.

Assistant; b. Lone Tree, Ia., Dec. 28, 1882; dau. B. M. and Louise B. (Pabst) Oglevee; ed. Lone Tree High School; Muscatine Business Coll.; m. Lone Tree, May 14, 1906, Dr. C. D. Rawhouser; one daughter: Bertha Arlene. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Order Eastern Star, Salem Woman's Club (pres. 1911- ).

READ, Luella Jane, 302 West St., Shenandoah, Iowa.

Born Shenandoah, Iowa, May 8, 1878; dau. Thomas H. and Ermina (Allphin) Read; ed. Ann Arbor High School, Tabor Coll., Univ. of Mich., A.B. '02, Ph.D. '10; Univ. of Berlin, Germany. Mem. Public Library B'd; chairman of Book Com.; sup't Congregational Sunday-school; mem. State Sunday-school Com. Favors woman suffrage. Congregationalist. Mem. Collegiate Alumnae Ass'n, Religious Education Ass'n. Recreations: Automobile driving, photography. Mem. Art Study Club. Teacher, Shenandoah High School, 1898-1900; dean of women and teacher of German, South Dakota State Normal School, 1904-06; active in promoting educational work; gives addresses on travel, literary and religious subjects.

REEVES, Winona Evans (Mrs. Harry J. Reeves), 520 North 5th St., Keokuk, Ia.

Born Big Mound, Ia., Aug. 14, 1871; dau. Dr. James McFarland and Helen Isabel (Lusk) Evans; ed. Whittier Acad., Iowa Wesleyan Univ., B.S., M.S. '91 (mem. P.E.O.); m. Salem, Ia., Dec. 23, 1897, Harry J. Reeves; children: Helen Lusk, Agnes Evans. Taught in Plattsmouth, Neb., and Omaha high schools as teacher of Latin for two years; taught mathematics four years. Mem. First Westminster Presbyterian Church. Has been pres. of the Iowa Grand Chapter of P.E.O.; was national pres. 1909-11; has served on State and national committees of D.A.R.; was chairman of State com. which secured the passage of the bill in Iowa Legislature in 1913 to protect the flag from desecration and improper use. Has been sec. and regent of the Keokuk Chapter D.A.R.; pres. of the Civic League (local organization having 200 members). Favors woman suffrage. Has written for newspapers and magazines; has spoken on various subjects before conventions and conferences and at many public meetings at Keokuk. Spoke before the Southeastern Iowa Teachers' Ass'n, 1913; has spoken at club federations, State conferences of D.A.R. twice and before P.E.O. State conventions in eight different States. Recreation. Social life. Mem. Current Events Club, Keokuk Woman's Club, Travel Club, Keokuk Country Club; a director of Keokuk Y.W.C.A. since 1905. Extensive traveler.

RICH, Ellen Moore (Mrs. Joseph Warford Rich), 427 N. Dubuque St., Iowa City, Ia.

Teacher; b. Newfane, Vt., May 6, 1843; dau. Dextar and Abigail (Knowlton) Moore; ed. Glenwood Sem., Brattleboro, Vt.; Iowa State Univ., Iowa City, B.S., A.B., A.M.; m. Iowa City, Sept. 10, 1868, Joseph Warford Rich. Teacher of mathematics in Iowa State Univ. for many years; teacher in several county normal institutes in Iowa during vacations. Worker in mission and social societies; active in organization of study clubs in Iowa; three years vice-pres. for Iowa of Nat. Ass'n for the Advancement of Women. Favors woman suffrage. Edited household dep't in the Vinton (Iowa) Eagle and Farmers' Stock Journal, Cedar Rapids (Iowa), for many years; has written periodicals. Presbyterian. Mem. Class in Literature at Vinton, Iowa; N.N. Club and Art Circle, Iowa City. In 1882 was appointed mem. Iowa State Board of Educational Examiners; since 1871 has been deeply interested in domestic economy and household work and management.

RICHARDSON, Emma Adelia Rice (Mrs. J. J. Richardson), Davenport, Ia.

Born Ellicottville, N.Y.; grad. Vassar Coll., A.B. '75; m. June, 1899, J. J. Richardson. Teacher, 1876-79, and principal, 1880-82, of school at Faribault, Minn.; principal, Davenport, Ia., 1884-99.

RIDGWAY, Gail Hamilton, 913 High St., Grinnell, Iowa.

Violinist; b. Galion, Ohio, June 5, 1884; dau. Nathaniel B. Ridgway, M.D., and Arabella (Davis) Ridgway; grad. Galion High School, 1900; Oberlin Coll., A.B. '04; Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Mus. Bac. '07 (mem. Phi Alpha Phi). Instructor of violin and pianoforte, Cornell Coll., Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 1907-10. One of three pupils of the celebrated violinist, Fritz Kreisler, Berlin and London, 1910-11. Head of Violin 
Dep't of Western Institute of Music and Dramatic Art, Denver, Colo., 1911-13; teacher of violin in Grinnell (Iowa) School of Music, 1913-. Mem. Thirteen Club, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 1908-10. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Progressive. While in Oberlin was mem. Girls' Board of Directors of the Conservatory of Music; mem. Second Church choir, Oberlin Musical Union.

ROBERTS, Maria M., 219 Ash Av., Ames, Ia.

Educator; b. Dunlap, Ia.; dau. B. F. and Ellen (Rogers) Roberts; grad. Iowa State Coll., 1890; studied also in Cornell Univ., 1892-1899, and Chicago Univ., 1897, 1901, 1912. Associate prof. of mathematics and vice-dean of the Junior Coll., Iowa State College, at Ames. Mem. Pi Beta Phi and P.E.O. Congregationalist. Favors woman suffrage.

ROBERTSON, Minnie Philura (Mrs. Neil Robertson), Akron, Iowa.

Born Grand Island, Neb.; dau. Norman and Lucy (Story) Reese; ed. Le Mars, Ia.; Lincoln Univ., Neb.; m. Le Mars, Ia., 1894, Neil Robertson; children: Ida, Chester, Ronald, Rae. Teacher. Interested in work with children, especially in Sunday-school work, town, county and State. Favors woman suffrage. Methodist. Progressive. Mem. Woman's Home Missionary Soc., Woman's Foreign Missionary Soc., Ladies' Aid Soc., Sunday-school Ass'n, Eastern Star, Woman's Relief Corps, W.C.T.U. and Rebecca Lodge. Recreations: Rowing, fishing, horseback riding. Mem. Civic Improvement Club, Embroidery Club, Literary Book and Thimble Club. Mother died when she was ten months old and grandfather and two uncles were killed by Indians on the Nebraska frontier; shortly afterward she was stolen by an Indian, later the Indians were overtaken and she was returned to her father when she was six years of age, traveling alone, tagged as baggage, from Nebraska to Iowa.

ROCKWOOD, Laura Clarke (Mrs. Elbert W. Rockwood), Iowa City, Ia.

Lecturer and writer on home and family topics; b. Iowa City, Ia.; dau. Charles Franklin and Julia (Brown) Clarke; ed. Univ. of Iowa, B.Ph. (Phi Beta Kappa); M.A. Yale Univ.; Leipzig Univ. (Kappa Kappa Gamma); m. Mar. 21, 1894, Elbert W. Rockwood; children: Paul Reed, Alan Clarke. Mem. and officer of numerous organizations for individual and social welfare. Against woman suffrage. Author: Food Preparation and Its Relation to the Development of Efficient Personality in the Home- Dignified Drudgery; also contributor to magazines. Congregationalist. Recreations: Music, walking, general social life.

ROE, Elizabeth Emmons (Mrs. Ole O. Roe), 101 E. Washington Av., Des Moines, Ia.

Former teacher; b. Champaign, Ill.; dau. Courtenis and Elizabeth (Long) Emmons; ed. Nevada High School; Story Co. Inst.; m. Feb. 23, 1895, Ole O. Roe. Taught school in Story Co., country schools, Maxwell, Ia., two years; Nevada three years; Lemars three years; Des Moines one year (primary work). Sunday-school teacher; interested in Newsboys' Club, playground work and Y.W.C.A. Favors woman suffrage. Contributor to various magazines and newspapers. Mem. English Evangelical Lutheran Church. Mem. D.A.R. (ex-regent); pres. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Soc. of St. John's Lutheran Church; vice-pres. State Missionary Soc. (was pres. four years); charter mem. Hospital for Women and Children. Recreations: Travel, study, long walks, automobiling. Pres. of City Fed. of 63 clubs in Des Moines; mem. Monday Club 17 years, Recreation Club, Portia Club.

RUSTE, Martha Oline (Mrs. Allen O. Ruste), Charles City, Ia.

Born Kenyon, Minn., Feb. 25, 1872; dau. Andrew and Karen (Haugen) Finseth; ed. St. Olaf Coll., Northfield, Minn.; State Normal School, M Winona, Minn.; m. Kenyon, 1902, Allen O. Ruste; one daughter: Elsie Elizabeth. Taught ten years, having had grade work from fourth grade through high school. Active in Sunday-school, teacher training, Mothers' Congress and child welfare work. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Religious Education Ass'n, Iowa Teachers Ass'n, Iowa Congress of Mothers, W.C.T.U., Professional Reading Guild; also 20th Century Club, Civic Improvement Ass'n, Mothers' club of Charles City, Iowa. Has organized mothers' clubs and child study circles and taken a prominent part in the Iowa Congress of Mothers as treas. for four years and on com. of literature (now chairman) of Com. on Education; pursuing child study, having made up a kindergarten course of study by home reading and club work.