WWW Index

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

Transcribed by Dick Barton

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WALKER, Margaret Coulson, 8th St. and Clinton Av., Des Moines, Iowa.

Author; b. Tyler County, W.Va.; dau. Thomas Mifflin and Louise (Davenport) Walker; ed. Des Moines (Iowa) public schools and Callanan College. Author: Our Birds and Their Nestlings, 1904; Lady Hollyhock and Her Friends, a Book of Nature Dolls and Others, 1906; Bird Legend and Life, 1908; Tales Come True, and Tales Made New, 1910. Mem. National Geographic Soc., Iowa Press and Authors' Club, Woman's Professional Club of Des Moines, Iowa.

WARD, Florence Elizabeth, Iowa State Teachers' College, Cedar Falls, Ia.

Kindergarten training teacher; b. Mauston, Wis.; dau. Lemuel J. and Elizabeth (Herrington) Ward; grad. Chicago Kindergarten Coll., 1903. Author: Ten Practical Talks on the Montessori Method for Home, Kindergartens and Primary School. Congregationalist. Mem. Propagating Com. of Internat. Kindergarten Union; chairman educational com. Ia. Fed. of Women's Clubs; chairman Ia. School Patrons' Joint Com. Gen. Fed. Women's Clubs, Nat. Educational Ass'n, Iowa Congress of Mothers. Lecturer on child study topics; Chautauqua worker; head of kindergarten dep't Ia. State Teachers' Coll.; went to Europe, 1909, as mem. commission appointed by Nat. Civic League to visit elementary schools of Great Britain and the Continent; went to Rome, 1912, to make an investigation of the Montessori method, and has since given many addresses on the subject before teachers' ass'ns. Favors woman suffrage.

WELLS, Cate Gilbert (Mrs. Charles W. Wells), 910 Jefferson St., Burlington, Ia.

Born Burlington, Ia., My 27, 1863; dau. W. Dallam Gilbert (lumber manufacturer and timberland owner) and Hetta Wells (Merrill) Gilbert (descent from Devonshire branch of the English Gilbert family); ed. by private tutors; specialized in music; m. Davenport, Ia., Jan. 8, 1892, Charles W. Wells (prominent lumber manufacturer and sec. Nat. Convention of Lumbermen; died June 21, 1897); children: Gilbert, b. June 13, 1893; Catherine, b. Aug. 9, 1895 (died June 15, 1897). Interested in genealogical research, patriotic societies, music, literature, art and travel. Occasional contributor to newspapers and writer of letters of travel from many lands. Congregationalist; much interested in church activities. Republican. Mem. Stars and Stripes Chapter D.A.R. (many times its regent); many times delegate to Nat. Soc. D.A.R. at Washington; several times State historian Iowa D.A.R.; hon. pres. Norman Circle, The King's Daughters. Recreations: Motoring, boating, entertaining young people. Pres. since 1900 of Burlington Musical Club (membership 600); was first chairman and is still mem. Music Com. of Iowa Fed. of Women's Clubs; vice-pres. Burlington City Fed. Women's Clubs, Burlington Country Club. Favors woman suffrage.

WESTON, Mary Josephine, 705 Fourth St., Boone, Iowa.

Teaching; b. Boone, Iowa, Sept. 21, 1878; dau. Jeremy and Lydia (Miller) Weston; ed. Boone (Iowa) public schools, Howard Sem., West Bridgewater, Miss.; Wellesley College, B.A., 1899. Taught in Minnesota 8 years; studied one year at Chicago University; taught in Iowa 3 years. Favors woman suffrage. Episcopalian. Mem. D.A.R. Mem. Outlook Club, Boone, Iowa.

WILCOX, Mary DeVol (Mrs. William Craig Wilcox), Iowa City, Ia.

Born Canandaigua, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1866; dau. Allen Potter and Sarah Frances (Bullard) DeVol; ed. Smith Coll., A.B. '88; graduate study Univ. of Iowa; m. Glens Falls, N.Y., July 1, 1895, William Craig Wilcox (now dean Coll. of Liberal Arts, Univ. of Iowa); children: Eloise DeVol, b. Apr. 24, 1896 (died June 28, 1899); Albert Craig, b. Oct. 14, 1898. Taught seven years: Glens Falls (N.Y.) Acad., 1888-89; Hornell (N.Y.) High School, 1889-93; Omaha (Neb.) High School, 1893-95. Vice-pres. Iowa branch Ass'n of Collegiate Alumnae, 1906-08; interested and active in local charity work. Mem. King's Daughters. Congregational Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior (pres. Iowa Branch since 1907), N.N. Club (local literary club). Congregationalist.

WOODS, Roma Wheeler (Mrs. W. Houston Woods), Sutherland, Ia.

Librarian; b. Perrysburg, O., Mar. 16, 1835; dau. Daniel Holbrook and Lydia Churchill (Martin) Wheeler; ed. Akron High School; m. Davenport, Ia., Sept. 4, 1855, W. Houston Woods; children: Houston C., Roma M. Has been librarian and cor. sec. for 38 years of Gen. N. B. Baker Library of Sutherland, Ia. Was mem. Sanitary and Christian Commission during Civil War. Newspaper correspondent in library, club and humanitarian lines. mem. Internat. Sunshine Soc., Order Eastern Star, Women's Relief Corps, Uncle Remus Memorial Ass'n, State Library Ass'n, State Suffrage Ass'n, M.E. Aid Soc., Pioneer Women's Ass'n. Clubs: Monday, Music and Art, Home Culture, Sunshine Library, Wimodousis, Cheerful Workers; mem. Exec. Board Iowa Fed. Women's Club. Recreations: Entertaining friends, planning entertainments for children, clubs, etc. Episcopalian. Favors woman suffrage, chairman Eleventh Congressional District of Iowa Suffrage Clubs; edited State paper for two years; pres. local clubs for years. 

WOOLVERTON, Corinne Kibbe (Mrs. Roy Woolverton), Osage, Iowa.

Born Fairwater, Wis.; dau. Orlando and Cornelia (Plocker) Kibbe; ed. Pittsburgh, Pa.; m. Brandon, Wis., Dec. 30, 1901, Roy Woolverton; children: Leila, Cornelia. Sec. and treas. of Am. Soc. of Curio Collectors; editor and publisher of The Curio Collector. Mem. Iowa State Audubon Soc., Nat. Geographic Soc., Am. Woman's League, D.A.R., Shakespearan Club, Osage Naturalist Club, Organ Club of M.E. Church. Recreations: Music, art, motoring, nature study. Favors woman suffrage.

WRIGHT, Rev. Mary Page, Oakdale, Ia.

Missionary, minister; b. West Jersey, Ill.; dau. Rev. Samuel G. and Minerva (Hart) Wright; grad. Rockford (Ill.) Coll., A.B. '71. Elected county sup't of schools, Coffey Co., Kansas, 1874; taught in Illinois, Kansas and Iowa public schools and in Rockford Coll. Ordained missionary to Turkey in 1881 and served eight years under the Am. Board; field sec. for the Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior, 10 years; speaker at World's Congress of Representative Women at Chicago, 1893; served under the Armenian and Indian Relief Ass'n in Asiatic Turkey, 1903-06; ordained Congregational minister, 1910.