Sewall, May Wright
educator, lecturer, writer, was born May 27, 1844, in Greenfield, Wis. She received the rudiments of her education in the district schools; attended the Tafton academy and Northwestern university. She has been president of the National Council of Women of the United States; president of the Propylæum association of Indianapolis; and president of the Ramabai Circle of Indianapolis. She has contributed to the press on historical, literary and reform subjects; a large number of pamphlets and monographs on educational and reform topics; and her public addresses have been very numerous. She is now engaged in educational work in Indianapolis, Ind., and has charge of the Girls ' Classical school of that city, of which her husband was the founder.