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19273,https://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/19273,"LUMMIS, Mrs. Dorothea",,"Dorothea, whose birth name was Mary Dorothea Rhodes, was born on November 9, 1857, in Chillicothe, Ohio. After moving to Portsmouth, Ohio, and attending Portsmouth Female College at the age of sixteen, Dorothea, sometimes called Dolly, pursued her passion for music. Like Annie Fillmore Sheardown, Dorothea studied with Philadelphia's Emma Seiler, moving to that city to attend Seiler's Conservatory of Music.
Eventually, Dorothea moved to Boston to study with James O'Neil, who was affiliated with the New England Conservatory of Music. On September 9, 1880, Dorothea married Charles Fletcher Lummis, a young poet who had attended Harvard. Soon after, in 1881, she switched gears and decided to become a physician. Dorothea began studying at the Boston University School of Medicine, which had been founded in 1873.
After she graduated, Dorothea followed her husband to Los Angeles. In late November of 1884, she began advertising her services as a homeopathist in the city's new Hollenbeck Block. As Dorothea established her practice and her social network, she became affiliated with various philanthropic and professional organizations. In 1885, she was one of the first members of the Flower Festival Society, a group of women determined to build a Woman's Home in Los Angeles. Early in 1887, she was elected president of the Homeopathic Society of Los Angeles.
By 1890, Dorothea was a member of the Los Angeles Kennel Club, sometimes showing Amado, her mastiff. During the next year, when she and Charles divorced, Dorothea found time to pursue other passions. She contributed poems to Puck and became a member of the ""S.M."" Club of Los Angeles vocalists and musicians. In 1892, Dorothea was elected as one of the officers of the Friday Morning Club. Her love for her mastiff became part of her literary work in 1894, when Dorothea published the short story ""Amado"" in the Chicago Inter-Ocean. During her lifetime, she contributed to numerous periodicals.
In addition to her practice and her writing career, Dorothea took a serious interest in helping people in need. On August 18, 1895, the Los Angeles Herald published Dorothea's lengthy article ""Caring for the Outcasts."" She spent time in Chicago at Jane Addams's Hull House and later wrote an article about the settlement house which was published in the American Journal of Sociology in March of 1897. While there, she also came to know Earnest Carroll Moore, who became her second husband.
During the twentieth century, Dorothea continued her practice and was an active member of the California Club and the Friday Morning Club. Both Dorothea and Earnest spoke at the Friday Morning Club in June of 1910. They were guests of honor because Earnest had accepted a position at Yale, so the Moores were moving to New Haven.
Once she was in Connecticut, Dorothea took an active role promoting women's rights. She and Earnest both supported the idea of a woman president for a new women's college in that state. In March of 1913, she was a speaker at the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association's referendum in Hartford. The next year, she took a vacation, sailing to the Mediterranean on the Fabra steamship liner Roma. By that time, Earnest's affiliation had changed to Harvard, so Dorothea had moved to Cambridge.
By 1920, the Moores were back in Los Angeles, where Earnest was a leader at UCLA. Dorothea passed away on March 4, 1942, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-7909703.685849 5211266.3859301)|POINT(-8115166.417851 5053500.3595714)|POINT(-8367102.8630438 4852929.5973791)|POINT(-13161233.276423 4033524.654276)|POINT(-9239096.4815997 4767320.1257116)|POINT(-9239325.7926845 4682940.8124678)|9|-9235427.5042425|4722164.9512583|osm
Dorothea Lummis was born in Chillicothe, OH on November 9, 1857. She later lived in Portsmouth, OH, Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, Los Angeles, CA, and New Haven, CT,",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Dr. Dorothea Rhoades Moore Find A Grave^^Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]), November 26, 1884, Page 4, Image 4^^The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]), May 05, 1899, Page 10, Image 10^^The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]), January 09, 1887, Page 6, Image 6^^Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.), February 05, 1891, Page 2, Image 2^^Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]), October 19, 1892, Page 3, Image 3^^The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho), 04 Aug. 1894. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88056095/1894-08-04/ed-1/seq-4/>^^The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.), June 07, 1896, Page 7, Image 7",,,"November 9, 1860","Chillicothe, OH","March 4, 1942",physician,,"
Ella A. Giles was born near Madison, Wisconsin, on February 2, 1851. Growing up in the home of a father who was a philanthropist and a mother who fostered Ella’s love of art and literature, she pursued interests in those areas throughout her life. As her A Woman of the Century profile notes, “She early showed musical talent. Her fine voice was carefully cultivated by Hans Balatka. She was quite distinguished as an oratorio and church singer when her health failed and she was compelled to abandon what promised to be a successful career in music.” (320)
Although her dream was not to be, the resilient Ella was determined to make her mark. Turning to literary pursuits, she wrote Bachelor Ben, her first novel, which was published in 1875 by Madison publishers Atwood & Culver and Chicago publishers Janson, McClurg & Co. It was reviewed by numerous periodicals, including Literary World (August 1, 1875) and Saturday Review (September 25, 1875) and sold one thousand volumes in just sixty days. (Los Angeles Herald) The next year, she published Out from the Shadows, which was reviewed by The Independent on June 15, 1876, and by several other periodicals. In 1879, Ella's newest book, Maiden Rachel, appeared on the shelves of bookstores and libraries. Like her earlier work, it was reviewed by The Independent (August 7, 1879), Literary World (July 5, 1879), and other periodicals. Madison readers would have had an opportunity to meet the author, as Ella became a librarian at the Madison Public Library that year. She remained at the library for five years while giving public talks, writing, and publicizing other writers. On May 21, 1882, Ella penned “The West’s Literature” for a Wisconsin newspaper, promoting the growing literature of her section of the country.
In 1884, while caring for her father, Ella wrote poetry and social science articles. She published Flowers of the Spirit, a volume of her poetry, in 1891. As one of the leaders of the Contemporary Club, she also hosted literary gatherings on topics such as Browning, Emerson, and political economy. (“Unitarian Church Became Established Here in 1869” - Los Angeles Herald ) As “Old Days on West Wilson Street,” a 1922 Capital Times article, recalled, ""One of the most attractive of the literary salons of Wisconsin was modestly but most delightfully held at Miss Giles’ [sic] home during her life in Madison. Her friend, Miss Zona Gale, was often a sharer in the pleasures of the gatherings, and a member of the home circle for several winters while a student at the university.” Ella also fought for women’s rights as a member of The Association for the Advancement of Women. (Los Angeles Herald)
Although she lived in Wisconsin, Ella traveled frequently. One of those trips was to Yellowstone National Park with the Wisconsin Press Association. Stella A. Gaines Fifield, a Wisconsin journalist who is in A Woman of the Century, and her husband were in the same Pullman sleeper car as Ella during this Northern Pacific Railroad excursion. Ella spent winters in warmer climates.
After her father passed away in May of 1895, Ella decided to make Los Angeles her home. The Los Angeles Herald celebrated Ella’s entrance into the city with a lengthy laudatory article on September 29th. It concluded with praise from the newspaper and a friend: “Miss Giles possesses the rare quality of magnetism and unconsciously draws people about her. As a friend said of her, she has no sullen brow, no sarcastic smile and no bitter word for a sister’s success; but her cheerful ‘she deserves it all’ is as ready as her warm hand.”
Ella married journalist George Drake Ruddy in 1896. While in Los Angeles, she expanded her social network, getting to know author Hattie Tyng Griswold, Caroline Severance, and numerous others.
By 1902, Ella and George were living at Mission Cottage on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. She was President of the California Badger Club of Los Angeles and wrote Club Etiquette: A Conversation between a Club Woman and a Non-member Who Answer the Calling Question over the Tea-Cups.
During the Summer of 1904, Ella traveled from California to Short Beach, Connecticut to visit Ella Wheeler Wilcox, her long-time friend and fellow poet, at her spectacular warm-weather home. While on the way, Ella stopped in Boston to visit the homes of Longfellow and Lowell, as well as in Concord to see where Emerson, Hawthorne, and the Alcotts had lived. The two Wisconsin natives collaborated on a book, Around the Year, which was published that year. The next year, Ella wrote the ""Description of Mrs. Wilcox's Home and Life"" for her friend's autobiography, The Story of A Literary Career. She continued to write poetry, publishing Lace O' Me Life in 1916.
Ella passed away in Los Angeles on June 26, 1917. She is buried in Madison’s Forest Hill Cemetery.
",,,,,"McMaster, MaryKate",,,,,,,"POINT(-9950047.4333724 5322862.5173799)|POINT(-13166670.009349 4036784.6550322)|12|-9949723.1731670|5321001.7721343|osm Ella A. Giles was born near Madison, WI on February 2, 1851. She later lived in Los Angeles, CA.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Ella Augusta Giles Ruddy Find A Grave^^Ella G. Giles Ruddy Find A Grave^^The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]), September 29, 1895, Page 18, Image 18^^Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.), March 07, 1883, Image 3",,,"February 2, 1851","Madison, WI (near)","June 26, 1917",Author^^Novelist^^Poet^^Librarian^^Musician^^Philanthropist^^Reformer^^Suffragist,,"^^^^Louisa Morton Willard Greene was born in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, on May 23, 1819. She worked in a woolen mill in Dedham, Massachusetts, where she began writing, and later taught in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
After marrying businessman and politician Jonas Greene in 1841, Louisa became the mother of a son, Jonas Willard Greene, who was stillborn, two younger sons, Willard Jonas Greene and George Henry Greene, and five daughters, Martha, Estelle, Christina, Wilma, and Charlena. The family lived in Peru, Maine.
Louisa was involved in many philanthropic and reform activities, including ministering to the sick using the Water Cure, and participating in philanthropy, anti-slavery reform, temperance reform, and suffrage efforts. Louisa utilized her public speaking and journalistic talents on behalf of the causes she believed in.
Before the Civil War, Louisa wrote poetry, contributed articles to the Oxford Democrat, and led anti-slavery efforts in her area As her daughter Christina later remembered, Louisa was very active in the war effort: ""During the civil war Mrs. Greene's patriotic labors were untiring. In addition to multitudinous household duties, which were always faithfully performed, she took upon herself the labor of collecting, preparing and forwarding hospital supplies for the boys at the front who were so dear to her heart.""
In 1869, Louisa's family moved to Manassas, Virginia, residing at the home they named Birmingham. She became a widow four years later.
Louisa passed away in Washington, D.C. on March 5, 1900, and her ashes were buried in the family plot at St. Paul's Cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia. In addition to Christina's beautiful obituary, Louisa's daughter Estelle also penned a farewell announcement and included a poem that she had written about her mother's passing. Within her tribute, Estelle included Louisa's motto: ""Help for the living and hope for the dead.""
At the National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in February of 1902, it was announced that Louisa had bequeathed $100 to the organization.