Miriam Hubbard Roelofs
Miriam Hubbard Roelofs , née Miriam Elberta Hubbard (born September 16, 1894 in East Aurora , Erie County , New York , † September 10, 1985 ) was an American women's rights activist and a member of the influential Hubbard family in the Roycroft Association , a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement . She was an initiator of the Roycroft Campus Corporation. Roelofs was the daughter of the writer and philosopher Elbert Hubbard , the founder of Roycroft, and his second wife, the suffragette Alice Moore Hubbard .
Life
Miriam Hubbard Roelofs was the only child of Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) and his second wife Alice Moore Hubbard (1861-1915). She grew up in the small town of East Aurora in western New York State, where her parents established the Roycroft Society and founded the Roycroft Campus. It was a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement , popular in England and the United States at the time , a community of writers, philosophers and artists dedicated to art, literature and design. Roelofs was the result of a secret liaison between her father, who was then married to another woman, and Alice Moore, the tutor of Hubbard's children from his first marriage. It was not until 1904, after Hubbard's divorce, that Roelof's parents were able to marry.
Roelofs studied literature , science, and art at the University of Michigan from 1912 to 1916 . When Roelofs began her studies, The Washington Post called her "one of the most shapely women to ever study at Michigan." She then studied acting at Harvard Summer School in Cambridge , Massachusetts . Like her mother, Roelofs was an active suffragette and advocate for women's suffrage. In 1915 Roelof's parents were killed in the sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania . Elbert G. Hubbard II, Hubbard's eldest son by his first marriage, initially took over the reins of Roycrofts, but Roelofs continued to play a prominent role in the community. She was a co-founder of Roycroft Campus Corporation, a society dedicated to the preservation and care of Roycroft's historical and artistic heritage.
In July 1917 she married the teacher and lecturer Professor Dr. Howard Dykema Roelofs (1893–1974), a Harvard doctorate . Howard Roelofs has taught at the Universities of Michigan , California , Stanford, and Amherst . He later became head of the philosophy department at the University of Cincinnati . The couple had six children together: Mary Moore Roelofs (1918–1994), Gerrit Hubbard Roelofs (1920–1985), Alice Dykema Roelofs (1922–2007), Howard Mark Roelofs (1923–2008), Miriam Roelofs Ellis (* approx. 1927) and Joan Roelofs Garber.
Roelofs was a visiting professor at East Aurora High School in 1975. She lectured on Roycroft and her father's work and legacy to school classes. Most of the lectures were recorded on cassette. Miriam Hubbard Roelofs died in East Aurora in 1985 at the age of 91.
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| SURNAME | Roelofs, Miriam Hubbard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miriam Elberta Hubbard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American suffragette and co-founder of Roycroft Campus Corporation |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Aurora (New York) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1985 |
| Place of death | East Aurora (New York) |