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Yates, Elizabeth Upham

missionary, lecturer, was born July 3, 1857, in Bristol, Maine. For many years she was a missionary in China; and as the national lecturer of the Woman's Christian Temperance union, and the National American Suffrage association, she has attained a world-wide reputation. She has addressed many state legislatures and congressional committees in the behalf of woman's enfranchisement and other reform measures; and is now engaged in lecturing on literary subjects, especially history and travel. Miss Yates is of French extraction, and a combination of Puritan and Creole.