Mrs. Frances C. Axtell, Progressive, of Bellingham, Washington, was born at Sterling, Illinois, in 1866; educated in the Public Schools, and in the Preparatory School of Northwestern University; is a graduate of DePauw University, and holds the degrees of Ph.B. and A.M.
She has been actively engaged in the promotion of social and industrial reforms, universal suffrage and prohibition. Mr. Axtell was elected a member of the Washington State Legislature in 1912 as a Progressive. She served on the Commission to establish minimum wage for women in the municipal establishments of the State of Washington.
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Dr. Riley McMillan Little, Republican, of Swarthmore, Pa., was born in Cedarville, Ohio, September 15, 1865; reared on a farm; attended village schools; learned a trade (harness maker); later taught school; and was graduated from Monmouth College, Monmouth, Ill., in 1890. In the fall of that year he entered the United Presbyterian Church Divinity School of Pittsburgh, from which he graduated in 1893. His first church was in Albany, Oregon, 1893-1896; in the fall of 1896 he was called to a church in Chicago and remained there for eleven years.
While in Chicago Dr. Little became interested in social work—charities—settlements—the Juvenile Court and Industrial Schools for boys.In 1907 he became pastor of the Bellevue Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh, which he resigned four years ago to become the General Secretary of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity.
His study of Social and Industrial problems in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia led him to examine the systems of Social Insurance of the European Countries—especially of Germany and England.
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Hon. John J. Keegan, Democrat, of Indianapolis, Indiana, was born at Wilmington, Delaware, July 3, 1872; was educated in the Public and High Schools; learned machinist trade at Wilmington, which he followed for years many years. He was appointed Organizer for International Association of Machinists, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and served five years.; was International Auditor for Association three years. Mr. Keegan moved to Indiana in 1902, to become manager of Indiana Telephone Company, which position he filled for three years. H He was elected a member of the Indiana Legislature in 1910 and reelected in 1912. In 1911 he introduced first Workmen's Compensation Bill, which was passed and is the present law of the State. He was appointed Commissioner of Conciliation, United States Department of Labor, (temporary) in February 1916, and has been successful in that capacity in several trade controversies to which he has been assigned.
