WWW Index

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

Transcribed by Dick Barton

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TEN EYCK, Maria Lovina, Nodaway, Ia.

Ex-educator; b. near Hamilton, Ont., 1846; dau. Peter and Elizabeth (Springstead) Ten Eyck; ed. Ripon Coll., Wis. Principal for 23 years of one of the largest public schools of Minneapolis, Minn. Interested in the betterment of conditions of farm life and rural schools. Has written articles on farm life and improvement of rural schools. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Progressive. Mem. Home and Foreign Missionary Societies. Recreations: Country life, cultivation of flowers. Favors woman suffrage.

TOWNER, Harriet C. (Mrs. Horace Mann Towner), Corning, Ia., and The Farragut, Washington, D.C.

Born Providence, R.I., April 13, 1869; dau. Charles t. and Caroline (Greene) Cole; privately educated, specializing in English and literature; m. Corning, Iowa, Horace Mann Towner (mem. Congress since 1911); children: Leta Elaine, Horace Cole, Constance Miriam. Specially interested in library extension and other educational movements; mem. Iowa Library Commission since its organization; active in Iowa Fed. of Women's Clubs and chairman Legislative Com. of Gen. Fed. of Women's Clubs; pres. Board of Trustees of Corning (Iowa) Public Library and has served as pres. of State Library Ass'n. Author of study programs for clubs, principally in English literature, and occasional contributor to magazines. Mem. Iowa Press and Authors' Club of Des Moines, Study Club (Corning), Congressional Club (Washington, D.C.); vice-regent for Iowa of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Ass'n of the Union.

TOWNSEND, Mary Louise, Cedar Falls, Ia.

Professor of home economics; b. Cedar Falls, Ia., April 18, 1870; dau. Edward and Sarah A. (Seward) Townsend; grad Wellesley Coll., B.A. '96; Iowa State Teachers' Coll., master of didactics, 1899; Drexel Inst., domestic science, 1902. Director of home economics, T.W.C.A. of Milwaukee, Trenton, Minneapolis, 1902-06; prof. of home economics, Iowa State Teachers' Coll., since 1907. Interested in missionary work of church and Women's Missionary Soc., Sunday-school Missionary Com. Favors woman suffrage. Author: Recipes and Rules for Waitress Work. Congregationalist. Mem. P.E.O. Sisterhood.

TROY, Ida L. (Mrs. G. M. Troy), Clarinda, Ia.

School teacher; b. Oskaloosa, Ia., April 15, 1861; dau. David and Angeline (Ellis) Hoover; ed. rural school and Normal of Penn Coll., Oskaloosa, Ia.; m. New Sharon, Ia., October, 1884, G. M. Troy; children: Ethel Aurora, Hattie June. Has taught rural schools in Iowa and also in Nebraska. Missionary worker. Favors woman suffrage. Mem. Methodist Episcopal Church. Progressive in politics. Pres. and charter mem. of Country Ladies' Social Circle (the first country club to belong to the State Federation of Iowa).

TYNER, Mary L. (Mrs. Oliver H. Tyner), New London, Iowa.

Born Danville, Iowa, Oct. 25, 1871; dau. Reuben and Frances (Chase) Tomes; ed. public school, Danville, Iowa; Elliotts Business Coll., Burlington, Iowa; m. Mediapolis, Iowa, Aug. 9, 1899, Oliver H. Tyner; one son: Ralph Tomes, b. Oct. 19, 1902. Filled various positions for twelve years in newspaper offices before marriage. Has assisted husband in bank since marriage, at various times filling position of bookkeeper. Works in church aid and missionary societies. Presbyterian. Democrat. Mem. Order Eastern Star, in which is district instructor of the Sixteenth District in Iowa. Recreations: Out-door sports. Mem. Lucky Thirteen (social club).