Elizabeth King Ellicott

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Elizabeth King Ellicott, 1914

Elizabeth King Ellicott (* 1858 in Baltimore , Maryland , † May 14, 1914 ) was an American suffragist and philanthropist .

life and work

King Ellicott was born into a prominent Baltimore family in 1858. After her mother died, she grew up with her cousin Martha Carey Thomas . Together they attended the Howland Institute in New York. In 1885 she opened the Bryn Mawr School for Girls in Baltimore with her four friends Julia Rebecca Rogers , Mary Garrett , Martha Carey Thomas and Mary Gwinn . The same group donated $ 500,000 to Johns Hopkins University four years later on condition that women can attend medical university.

Johns Hopkins Medical School Women's Fund Memorial Building and Physiological, 1912

In 1894 she founded the Women's Literary Club and the Arundel Club in Baltimore. In 1900 the latter club merged with the Maryland Federation of Women's Clubs and King Ellicott was elected President of the Board of Directors. In 1909 she married the architect William Ellicott, heir to a flour milling fortune. After resigning from the board, she got involved in the electoral movement. She organized the Baltimore Equal Suffrage League out of the nearly disbanded Livermore Equal Rights League. This league worked closely with the Maryland Woman Suffrage Association. King Ellicott devoted the later years of her life to fighting for women's suffrage. She was inhibited by politicians or even other suffragists while doing it, but she never stopped advocating it. King Ellicott consistently pursued her vision of advancing her gender through suffrage, and as a visionary, her memory is recognized in the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. After years of illness, she died in 1914, leaving about $ 250,000 to many institutions. Much of the money went towards establishing the Elizabeth King Ellicott Scholarship for Women's Political Education at Goucher College .

literature

  • Brugger, Robert J .: Maryland, a middle temperament, 1634–1980, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1966, ISBN 0801854652 .
  • Mal Hee Son Wallace, "Elizabeth King Ellicott, 1858-1914: Suffrage and Civic Leader," in: Notable Maryland Women, ed. Winifred G. Helmes, Ph.D., Cambridge: Tidewater Publishers, 1977.

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personal data
SURNAME King Ellicott, Elizabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American suffragist and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Baltimore , Maryland
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1914