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Elwell, Maria Huntington

lecturer, was born March 9, 1845, in Hadley, Mass. Many of her ancestors distinguished themselves in colonial and revolutionary times-Governor Samuel Huntington, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was one of them. She attended the best academies of Hadley, Mass., and Farmington, Conn., and subsequently taught in Cambridge and in Philadelphia.

In 1870 she married John D. Elwell, and has since lived in Brooklyn, N. Y. She has been president of the Brooklyn Woman's club; vice-president of the Christian Socialist society; historian-general of the Daughters of the Revolution; secretary of the New York League of Unitarian Women; and lecturer for the American Humane Education society.