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Bailey, Hanna Johnston

president of the Maine Woman's Suffrage association, was born July 5, 1839, in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. She received her education at a denominational boarding school, and subsequently followed the profession of teaching for ten years. She has been the world's and national superintendent of the department of peace and arbitration in the Woman's Christian Temperance union.

For ten years she was treasurer of a foreign missionary society, and is now treasurer of the National Council of Women. Mrs. Bailey was one of the judges in the department of liberal arts at the World's Columbian Exposition; and she is now the honored president of the Maine Woman's Suffrage association.