WHO’S WHO AMONG
THE WOMEN OF CALIFORNIA
1922
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WOMEN
OF THE PRESS
Los Angeles
JEAN LOUGHPOROUGH
Club and Society Editor
Los Angeles Examiner
FRANCES MORRIN
Assistant Society-Editor
Los Angeles Examiner
LANNIE HAYNES MARTIN
General Newspaper Work
MRS. BLANCHE FRIEND AUSTIN
Managing Editor
"The Clubwoman"
MRS. CLAIRE H. COOMBS
(Prudence Perry)
MRS. E.L. REED
Past President, Los Angeles
Woman's Press Club
"Who's Who Among the Women of California" would not be complete without an appreciation of
the "Women of the Press."
They are a modest group - these women of the press - modest in their careful consideration of others,
and forgetfulness of self.
Their trained minds, their sympathies, their broad-visioned way of grasping minute details, make
them a positive power for good.
They have high standards of life, high ideals, and a recognition of the purpose of their profession,
than which there is none more potent in service to humanity.
The name of Annie Laurie is like a gleam shining through the real acheivements for women, generally, and for California women, particularly. Some one has called her the "Dean of American newspaper women." She IS. From coast to coast in the chain of Hearst newspapers, she is known as Winifred Black. In San Francisco, her articles are written under the name of Annie Laurie.
While her own newspaper stories have made her name a household word bearing the beacon light of hope and cheer, of right-thinking, right-living, appealing to all people and to all ages, to those in need, to the forsaken, to the cultured, to the brilliant, to those who want to make the good fight - she is what members of her own profession call - "an all-around newspaper man."
She has covered almost every phase of newspaper work and is known in Chicago, New York, Washington, all American cities, and, in London, Paris and other European cities where she is recognized for her profession, as she is, here, in America.
The influence of Annie Laurie in the work of every other newspaper women who enters the profession is the kind of influence which makes for the very best within - an influence which stands first and foremost for work well done. She has no use for the idler. Work, a steadfast belief in people, and the best things of this world - that is the secret of her success.
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BETTY DEITRICK
"Betty the Shopper"
San Francisco Call
MOLLIE MERRICK
Feature Writer
San Francisco Examiner
ALMA REED
Editorial Staff
San Francisco Bulletin
BUFORD GORDON BENNETT
Assistant Dramatic Critic
San Francisco Examiner
ETHEL WHITMIRE
Editorial Staff
San Francisco Examiner
CORA WINCHELL
Music, Art and Dramatic Critic
San Francisco San Francisco Journal
GRACE HULL DE WOLFE
Editorial Staff
San Francisco Examiner
GERALDINE SARTAIN
Editorial Staff
San Francisco Chronicle
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JOSEPHINE BARTLETT
Book Reviews and Special Features
San Francisco Journal
JEAN HENRY
Special Feature Artist
San Francisco Examiner
ALICE RYAN ROOD
Special Features
"Keystone News"
MRS. MARTIAL DAVOUST
Society and Clubs
The Wasp, San Francisco
MARGARET MEDBURY
Clubs and Art
San Francisco Chronicle
DORIS CLARK
"Cynthia Grey"
San Francisco Daily News
WINIFRED ALLEN SCOTT
Editorial Staff
San Francisco Chronicle
WINONA FLAVEN
Society and Publicity
Formerly San Francisco Examiner
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Images of
MARGARET DOUGLAS
ANNA BLAKE MEZQUIDA
MARIE HICKS HEALY
BLANCHE UPRIGHT
While not actively engaged in newspaper work, now, these four women are proud of their newspaper affiliations, attributing their literary work and their present careers to the wide range of knowledge and training gained from newspaper experience. All four of these women are devoting their time to creative work and to magazine and special publications where trained newspaper women find a compensating field.
Kathleen Norris, who has been termed "The best loved woman author," by the very nature of her great success, stands out as a criterion for newspaper work. She has manifested in her short stories, her novels, and her special newspaper articles the vividness of newspaper training. Lillian Ferguson of the Sunset Magazine, Josephine Hart Phelps, "The Argonaut", Helen Bonnet, "The Journal" and formerly "Town Talk"; Marjory Driscoll of the Chronicle who writes such splendid stories and poems, and Laura Bride Powers, author of "California Missions" who is actively in newspaper work as society editor of "The Oakland Tribune" are contemporaries.
Miss Ada Sweet, editorial writer of the Santa Rosa Republican, holds high the standard of newspaper work, her writing being of unusual strength and scholarly attainment. Perhaps San Francisco in unusually fortunate in the number of newspaper women who have "arrived" in the different fields of literary expression. Their names gleam from a brilliant page on which we find written Rose Wilder Lane, Bessie Beatty, Genevieve Parkhurst, Helen Dare, Marie Darrach, Myra Hunt Kingsman Miller and Miriam Michelson.
From north to south the newspaper women of California create records not only for themselves but for the "newspaper family" to which they have the honor to belong. Newspaper women, generally speaking, love their profession and value the wide opportunities the work affords them as participants in the great, human, world-wide activities requiring character, brilliancy and skill.
To the newspaper women who have co-operated with me in the interest of "Who's Who Among the Women of California," am I grateful.
They have been splendidly gracious, abundantly kind! In the midst of crowded days, they have taken time to add their interest to these pages. In our next edition, we shall have another representative coterie of those consistent, able, "silent workers," the women of the press, they - who make history with women and the best which they put forth.
JOSEPHINE WILSON,
Editorial Staff,
"San Francisco Examiner."
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It is interesting to find how many California women have commanded world-wide recognition. Written on the scrolls of success are those in their chosen fields - music, literature, art, the state, education, business, philanthropy and science.
In endeavoring to present an authentic list of noted California women we are confronted with a desire to include many whose names, in our opinion, illumine the pages of achievement. The California Department of the California State Library has prepared a list of noted Californians. Quoting them as authority, we record their list without deviation.
Adams, Annette, lawyer.
*Allen, Maude, dancer.
*Anderson, Mary, actress.
*Atwood, Lorena, actress.
*Atherton, Gertrude, author.
Austin, Mary Hunter, author.
Bates, Blanche, actress.
Bonfils, Mrs. W. B. (Annie Laurie), author.
Bower, Mrs. B. M. (Bertha M. Sinclair), author.
Burke, Mary A., stock-breeder.
Buckingham, Alise P., fruit grower.
Burcham, Rose L., gold miner.
*Buckley, May, actress.
Burroughs, Marie, actress.
*Calhoun, Eleanor, actress.
Coolbrith, Ina Donna, poet.
*Crabtree, Lotta, actress.
Craft, Marcella, opera singer.
*Crewes, Laura Hope, actress.
*Davies, Phoebe, actress.
Dolores, Antoinette, opera singer, Savage Opera Company
*Duncan, Isadora, dancer.
Ehmann, Freda, olive grower.
Elliott, Gertrude, actress.
Elliott, Maxine, actress.
*Fay, Maud, opera singer.
Foltz, Clara, lawyer.
*Forma, Reta, opera singer.
*Francisco, Fannie, Fannie (Michelsen) Coini, opera singer.
Gates, Eleanor, author, dramatist.
Hearst, Phoebe, philantrhopist.
*Heyman, Katherine Ruth, musician.
*Hopper, Edna Wallace, actress.
Kidder, Mrs. Sarah A., first woman railroad president in California.
*Klumpke, Anna, artist.
Mills, Susan, educator.
*Nevada, Emma, singer.
Nielson, Alice, opera singer.
*Norris, Kathleen, author.
*O'Neil, Nance, actress.
Pope, Marion Holden, actress.
*Rambeau, Marjorie, actress.
Rideout, Phebe M., banker.
Riegelman, Mabel, opera singer.
Riggs, Kate Douglas Wiggin, author.
*Roberts, Dorothy (Klumpke), astronomer.
*Sanderson, Sibyl, opera singer.
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, philanthropist.
*Steeb, Olga, musician.
Strauss, Georgiana, opera singer.
Summers, Emma A., oil operator.
Strong, Harriet W. R., walnut grower.
Severance, Caroline M., "Mother of Clubs."
Tennant, Dorothy, actress.
*Withrow, Evelyn Almond, artist.
*Wood, Anna Miller (Mrs. Fred Harvey) concert singer.
Yaw, Ellen Beach, concert singer.
*Native born.
To the eastern and the foreign mind the most remarkable feature of California's contribution to literature is the wonderfully good work of our women writers. It seemed only natural that the men should have found so much material in a frontier state, but it was not thought that there would be equal inspiration for the women.
The truth is that California, unlike most of the earlier states on the Western frontier, did not grow slowly but suddenly with a rush of civilization as well as a rush for gold. And then there had been the Spaniards furnishing the Americans with a readymade background of romance. But what more could a woman writer want that a land of fruit and flowers, hills and valleys, snow peaked and cloud capped mountains, the source of rushing rivers?
To the women writers of California I owe the inestimable debt of countless hours of delight, of fascination and inspiration. In the pages of Gertrude Atherton I first found the joy and the color of life in the Golden State and it was through her pens then I was thrilled with a love of that splendid patriot, Alexander Hamilton. The work of Mary Austin has more than sustained my conviction that she is peer to any other woman writer of the language.
In the field of fiction founded on the facts of life as interpreted with some of the glamour of romance it has been a privilege to walk with Kathleen Norris. The verse of Ruth Comfort Mitchell has broadened my sympathies and deepened my understanding.
MARGARET DOUGLAS.
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CALIFORNIA WOMEN AUTHORS,
POETS,
PAINTERS, SCULPTORS AND
MUSICIANS
In response to many requests for lists of California authors, special writers, painters, sculptors, musicians, singers, and players, the California department of the California State Library has arranged selected lists to fulfill the demand. Basing our authority on other standard sources of reference, in addition to the California State Library, we note the following:
Adams, Harriet
Aiken, Ednah
Alden, Isabella
Allen, Emma Sarah
Alverson, Rosana
Angellotti, Marion Polk
Ashe, Elizabeth
Atherton, Gertrude
Austin, Mary
Bailey, Florence Augusta
Bandini, Helen
Beatty, Bessie
Beckman, Mrs. William
Bonner, Geraldine
Bonfils, W. B. Mrs. ("Annie Laure," pseud.)
Burbank, Blanche Marie
Burbridge, Mabelle
Burton, Marie Amparo
Carr, Sarah Pratt
Castle, Cora Sutton
Chamberlain, Esther
Chamberlain, Lucia
Chandler, Katherine Agnes
Charles, Frances
Churchill, Eugenia
Clock, Emma
Colburn, Mrs. F. H.
Comstock, Anna
Cooke, Grace MacGowan
Cooley, Alice Kingsbury
Coolbrith, Ina Donna (Poet Laureate)
Coolridge, Mary Elizabeth
Darling, Esther Birdsall
Davidson, Alice
Davis, Winifred J.
Dawson, Emma Frances
Deering, Mabel Craft
Doliver, Mary ("May Wentworth," pseud.)
Du Bois, Constance
Eastwood, Alice
Eyster, Nellie Blessing
Field, Mary Hannah
Fitch, Anna Mariska
Foote, Mary Hallock
Forbes, Mrs. Harry
Foster, Caroline Holcombe
Fremont, Jessie
Gates, Eleanor
Gerberding, Elizabeth
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Grinnell, Elizabeth Pratt
Hall-Wood, Mary
Hardy, Irene
Harraden, Beatrice
Harriman, Alice
Haslett, Harriet
Heaven, Louise
Hopkins, Pauline Mackie
Houghton, Eliza P.
Irwin, Grace
Jackson, Helen Hunt
James, Juliet Helena
Jarboe, Mary Halsey
Knapp, Adeline
Knox, Jessie Juliet
Lambert, Mary
Lawrence, M. V. T.
Lennox, Mary
Lewis, Margaret Cameron
Loughead, Flora Haines
Lowenberg, Bettie (Mrs. I.)
MacGowan, Alice
Mezquida, Anna Blake
Michelson, Miriam
Mighels, Ella Sterling
Miller, Elizabeth Gore
Milne, Frances Margaret
Mitchell, Ruth Comfort
Munger, Dell H.
Norris, Kathleen
Nuttall, Zelia Magdalena
Older, Mrs. Fremont
O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Curtis
Overton, Gwendolen
Pacheco, Mary C.
Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
Peixotto, Jessica Blanche
Perry, Stella George
Phillips, Mrs. Tully Marshall
Pope, Amy Elizabeth
Reed, Anna Morrison
Sanchez, Nellie
Saunders, Elizabeth
Seton, Grace
Sexton, Ella M.
Shuey, Lillian
Simpson, Anna Pratt
Sinclair, Bertha
Smith, Alice Prescott
Spencer, Dorcas
Steele, Rowena
Stetson, Grace Ellery
Strohbridge, Idah
Sweet, Ada Celeste
Thorpe, Rose Hartwick
Tiernan, Frances Christine
Tobin, Agnes
Tompkins, Elizabeth Knight
Trine, Grace Hyde
Upright, Blanche
Victor, Frances
Wagner, Madge Morris
Walter, Carrie Stephens
Warr, Mrs. Veraille De Witt
Wentworth, Marion Craig
Wheelock, Irene
Wiggin, Kate Douglas
Wilson, Elizabeth Sargent
Wilson, Josephine
Winterburn, Rosa Barton
Wolf, Alice S.
Wolf, Emma
Woods, Virna
Ashley, Phylidda
Aylwin, Josephine Crew
Bond, Carrie Jacobs
Carusi, Mme. Ines
Crawford, Dorothy
Fernanda, Doria
Florence, Rose
Hausman, Rosalie
Jenkins, Cora
Jones, Abbie Gerish
Keys, Phyllis Lucy
Kuester, Edith Hanes
Mansfeldt, Mrs. Hugo
McDermott, Leila France
McGee, Winifred
MacQuarrie, Marie Hughes
Moore, Mary Carr
Roma, Caro (Elsie Pardow)
Ross, Gertrude
Scott, Marjorie
Thatcher, Gladys Knesel
Waldie, Lillian Barry
Young, Anna
Buchanan, Ella
Daggett, Maud
Edmonds, Elizabeth
Frissell, Mrs. Duncan
Wendt, Julia Bracken
Balfour, Helen
Ball, Katherine
Boone, Cora
Brannan, Sophie
Bremer, Anne M.
Cannon, Jessie
Champlin, Ada Belle
Chittenden, Alice
Dunlap, Helena
Fortune, E. Charlton
Froelich, Maren M.
Heynemann, Julia
Hyde, Helen
Hunter, Isabel
Johnson, Caroline Rexford
Joslin, Lucille
Lundberg, Florence
MacChesney, Clara T.
Macky, Constance
Mathews, Lucia K.
McCormick, Evelyn M.
Partington, Gertrude
Porter, Louise
Percy, Isabella Clark
Richardson, Mary Curtis
Rieber, Winifred
Sargent, Geneve Rixford
Schuster, Donna
Shore, Henrietta M.
Spalsbury, Sara H.
Wickes, Ethel
Transcribed by Pamela Storm Wolfskill.
PROOFED by Carolyn Feroben.
©
2005 Nancy Pratt Melton
GOLDEN NUGGET LIBRARY'S SACRAMENTO COUNTY