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Cheney, Mrs. Ednah Dow

educator, lecturer, author, was born Jan. 27, 1829, in Boston, Mass. She is a Boston writer, associated in early life with the prominent New England transcendentalists, who has been active in the woman suffrage movement, and whose writing has had more or less to do with philosophical themes. Her principal works comprise Hand-book of American History for Colored People; Faithful to the Light, and Other Tales; Stories of the Olden Time; Gleanings in the Fields of Art; Life of Louisa Alcott, supra; Life of Christian Daniel Rauch, Sculptor; Memoir of John Cheney, Engraver; Memoir of Dr. Susan Dimock; Nora's Return, a sequel to Ibsen's Doll House; Sally Williams; and the Mountain Girl.

CHENEY, EMELINE BURLINGAME, missionary, was born Sept. 22, 1836, in Smithfield, R. I. She has been president of the Rhode Island Woman's Christian Temperance union; and president of the Free Baptist Woman's Missionary society.

She is a licensed preacher, and was three times a delegate to the free baptist triennial conference; and was editor of the Missionary Helper for many years.

CHENEY, MRS. HARRIET VAUGHAN (FOSTER), author, was born in 1815 in Massachusetts. She is the author of Confessions of an Early Martyr; A Peep at the Pilgrims in 1636; The Rivals of Arcadia; Sketches from the Life of Christ; and The Sunday School, or Village Sketches.