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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection ttvf • K+f1F^ttS%^^**miii>^m+ ' *•* %2=£3*f^4__ljsj If Mrs. Paul B. Aex had her way, I this little sketch of behind the jj A, scenes at No. 255 Woodbine Ave nue wouldn't have been written. Comptroller's Wife Would Rathe Mrs. Aex would then equal 'X' and we should have to leave it to Talk About Her Son Than Hers the dear public to solve this per sonality problem. But it wouldn't be fair to skip the attractive wife of the new comp troller of Rochester in rounding out this series. Rochesterian Appointed Executive Yes, Mrs. Aex is quiet, demure j—she doesn't like to talk about herself. There's a seventeen-year- Director of Woman's Associatio old Paul Aex, Jr., taller than she— and Mrs. Aex could not "be called • tTteg; "the little woman"—whom she Will Assist President*' of I would much rather talk about. And there's Dic-a-doo, the pedi National Body—Founder greed Boston bull, who snaps out Of Woman's City Club a welcome—a quick little piece, in whom Mrs. Aex takes great de As executive director of the light. American Women's Association, "Do I have a pet?"—that question I Mrs. Helen Probst Abbott, one of from the photographer — brought Rochester's most active woman \ forth the most animated part of •. •workers for woman's suffrage, the the interview. City Manager Plan, and the "You bet I do!" said Mrs. Aex, Woman's City Club which she snapped fingers and "Die" pranced founded, will embark upon a new in for a romp. enterprise when she assumes her; She is charming, vivacious, this duties in New York tomorrow' wife of the new' comptroller, when morning. just the family is around, we Mrs. Abbott's apnintment to the guessed, but she is camera and re A. \V. A wis made by Miss Anne porter-shy. Morgan, pi evident of the Associa Softly waived auburn hair, dark tion, whom it is repotted became eyes, intelligent and discriminat interested in Mrs. Abbott's activi ing, this woman of poise and grace ties in Rochester. Miss Morgan who presides over the Aex house- j will sail soon for Europe where she hold. She conducts her home in a will pass five months, and in her MRS. HELEN P. ABBOTT business-like way, quite the way absence Mrs. Abbott will fill her to please a husband who gets paid place and will remain as executive Democratic ticket, her candidacy for budget-balancing. director after Miss Morgan's re Indorsed by the City Manage "Before I married I vyas in turn. ! League. business and I have carried busi Mrs. Abbott began organizing the She called together the firs ness efficiency into my house Rochester Woman's City Club in (Rochester City Manager Commir hold," Mrs. Aex admitted. 19199 and served as president until ! tee and served that body as vice May, 1923. In her work to im chairman from 1925 to 1927. Sh prove women's legal status. 191 -J also has occupied the offices o to 1918. she was president i uaayY. \v. Rochester Political Equality Club Haile; and Chairman of the II 'cut County Woman Sufrage Associa Lawrence Univf i-ity. tion. In 1927 she was candidate for councilman from " IS and 21 of th< trict, having been named on the MRS. PAUL B:AEX Attractive Mrs. Aex, Quiet and Demure, Car ries Early Business Training Into Home Management By BERTHA ARLIDGE Who are the ladies of the new city and County Democratic administration? How do they feel about the sudden transition from private life into the public spotlight? The Rochester Evening Journal herewith presents the third of a series of interviews with these ladies in an effort to answer some of these questions. Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection In 1877, Miss Motley married Taken by Death Charles E. Angle, son of Simon ! Xedder Angle of Rochester. Mr. Angle was also associated in the milling business founded by Mr.. Motley, and at his death in 1911 was president of the concern and active in business and civic circles. For many years, Mrs. Angle was a leader in social, philanthropic, V fi V' / and religious enterprises, and was known for her many benefactions. 5PAGE TWENTY-ONE For more than thirty years she served on the board of managers of Hillside Home for Children and its predecessor, the Rochester Orphan DEATH CLAIMS Asylum. Brick Church Member For sixty years, she was an ac tive member of Brick Presbyterian JESSIE BACON Church, and was at one time a member of its board of deacon esses. She was also a member of the Third Twig, and for several AT AGE OF 64 years was interested in Mechanics Miss Jessie Bacon, 64, of Oalt Institute. She was also a member Lane, Brighton, descendant of two families prominent in the legal MRS. CHARLES E. ANGLE of the Century Club, the Genesee Valley Club, and the Rochester profession for many years, died *t Country Club. the home of her brother, Leonard Of her eight brothers and sisters, B. Bacon, 868 Park Avenue. MRSHMGLE four, George, and Albert H. Motley, Born in Rochester, Sept. 4, 1868, Mrs. Albert O. Fenn, and Miss Jes Miss Bacon was the daughter of sie Motley, are dead. She leaves Theodore and Julia Selden Bacon. four sisters, Mrs. John C. Wood Her father was a practicing attori PASSES AFTER bury, Mrs. Edward A. Webster. ney in Rochester for many years. Mrs. Albert B. Eastwood, and Miss Her maternal grandfather wa« Maude Motley. Henry Rogers Selden, former judge Mrs. Angle also leaves two chil of the New York Court of appeals, dren, Wesley M. Angle and Mrs. and her paternal grandfather was BRIEF ILLNESS Freeman C. Allen, and seven grand Leonard Bacon of New Haven, children, Charles E., Richard W., Conn. Eleanor, Janet V. V., and George She is survived by two brothers, Waisn Leader for Many Yto M. Angle, and Frederick F. and both attorneys, Leonard B. Bacon Jane Allen. of Rochester and Henry Selden anRochested Socialr CircleChurcs h Funeral services will be conduct Bacon of Paris, France; two neph ed tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock ews, and a niece. at the residence, 295 Lake Avenue. For many years Miss Bacon was Mrs. Charles E. Angle, for many Dr. Justin W. Nixon, minister of a director and secretary of th© years active in religious and social Brick Presbyterian Church, will of Rochester Female Charitable So* circles of Rochester, died early yes ficiate. ciety. For two years at one period terday morning at her home, 295 in her life she engaged in settle \ Lake Avenue, after an illness of ment work among the moun* | several weeks following a cerebral taineers of North Carolina. thrombus. Mrs. Angle would have ( Funeral services will be conduct reached her 72d birthday next Sat ed in the home of her brother tc* urday, Dec. 21. morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mrs. Angle, who, before her mar Burial will be in Mt. Hope Ceme riage, was Ida Jane Motley, was tery. born in Rochester, the daughter of George Motley, formerly of Lin colnshire, Eng., and Ann Jane Haughton of Montreal, Que., who came to Rochester in 1856, soon after their marriage. She was the oldest of the nine children born to the couple. Father Founded Milling Finn Mr. Motley, an experienced mil ler, continued in the flour milling business after coming to Roches ter and in 1862, founded the firm, of Mosely, Motley, and Chapman, which became the present Mosely dieandd Motlein 1881y .Millin g Company, iie Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Who are the ladies of the new city and county Democratic administration? How do they feel about the sudden transition from private life into the public spotlight? The Rochester Evening Journal herewith presents the sixth of a series~~or itizervi&ws with Husband and Family j#en About these ladies in an effort to answer some of these questions^.g~^ U». By BERTHA ARLIDGE along with her to Washington and A partner In everything the fam were broadened considerably. ily's keen about—that's the title For example, Mrs. Baker, Pi which has made Mrs. Harold W. Beta Phi, national sorority of Baker, wife of Rochester's city which she is a member, function manager, a hunter, sailor, fisher ing with 300 members, many of man, track and football enthusiast. them prominent in the affairs of A few of the things this sports- the nation. The wife of the city loving family indulges in Mrs. Bak manager is a graduate of Syracuse er admits she does by proxy, but University and a member of Syra her interest always can be countea cuse chapter. upon. The College Women's Club, in Yesterday Mrs. Baker gratefully which she was active here, had accepted the opportunity to relax an attractive program, too, with and just talk, after the confusion many celebrities in its member of unpacking a family of four and ship. all its belongings at No. 284 Can "I had my greatest thrill in terbury Road. watching the wheels go 'round With a hint of nostalgia for the in Washington, "Mrs. Baker said. [ almost permanent sunshine of "Everywhere there were impor Washington, she told of leaving tant personages, things of great their house there on a day when moment going on." all the windows and doors were About this time thirteen-year-old open and the thermometer regis Jean, who accompanies her robust tered seventy all day.