Florida women of distinction.

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Florida women of distinction.

Entry/Object ID

Library.1073

Description

3 volumes : illustrations ; 23 cm Florida women of distinction by Eloise N. Cozens. Library has: Volume 1 -- Volume 3 -- Volume 4. We are missing Volume 2 Includes index. Electronic version available on the World Wide Web as part of the Florida Heritage Collection. Herbert Sayles provides brief biography of author. "Florida justly must say that she has become a great state not only because of her great men, but also because of her outstanding women" ---foreword by Mrs. George Smathers. Alphabetical list containing names, descriptions of service by women of distinction in Florida, and an individual photograph. In the shadow of the Governors: First Ladies shine fine and fair (Jacksonville ladies: Mrs. W. S. May Jennings -- Lottie Wilt Pepper Martin -- Barbara Warren) Selected Jacksonville names in vol. 1 include: Mrs. Louise Alford (Democratic Committeewoman, past president of Duval County Federation of Woman's Clubs etc.) -- Nelly Bly Anders (past president of Springfield's Women's Club; past president of the Duval County Zoning Board etc.) --Reba Maxwell Avery (poet, past chairwoman of the Friday Musical Orchestra, past president of the Jax Woman's Club etc.) -- Charlotte Mahone Beckham (former dean of students at Florida State College, DAR member etc.) -- Amalia Hausmann Bredow (charter member of the now Woman's Club of Jax Beach, formerly Pablo Civics Club, director of District 3 of the State Federation of Garden Clubs etc.) -- Thelma Denyer Brownett (painter and director, teacher and illustrator at 9 different colleges etc.) -- Annie Clarkson Davis (served on the board of the Jax Chapter, DAR; active in the Colonial Dames in Florida etc.) -- Mary Elizabeth Hahn Dunlap (president of Duval County Council of Camp Fire Girls, member of League of Women Voters etc.) -- Lucy Mears Ames Edwards ( compiled several volumes of collected records of present Florida families, compiled "Grave markers of Duval County, 1808-1916 etc.) -- Dorothy P. Horsfall (radio show titled Ann Daly starting in 1942, past president of the Pilot Club, etc.) -- Lennie Lanier Humphries (executive manager, and only woman manager for 5 years in the United States, of the Jacksonville Safety Council, named outstanding business executive in 1950, etc.) -- Ruth Hope Leon (national vice-president of Pathfinders of America from 1915-20, Florida state president of the National League of American Pen Women -- Alix Gress Sellers Marshall (on Board of the Jacksonville Junior League as well as YWCA etc.) -- Lucy Kathleen Maxwell (held a state-wide job with Duval Jewelry Company, was active in the Business & Professional Woman's Club) etc.) -- Anne Dubey Risler (teacher, member of the Governor's Highway Safety Conference etc.) -- Susanne Ritz-Woller Schaul (past president of the Jax section of the National Council of Jewish Women, past president of Jacksonville League of Women Voters etc.) -- Leota Simpson (former newspaper woman, owned and managed a large tea room business in Florida, recipes published in FTU etc.) -- Geraldine Levine Turbow (former president of Jacksonville section of the National Council of Jewish Women, Board member of the Duval Federation of Women's Clubs etc.) -- Margaret B. Waybright (Board member of Goodwill 15, past president of the Garden Center Circle, Jax Garden Club etc.). Selected Jacksonville names in vol. 3 include: Annie Clarkson Davis (Mrs. T. Frederick) -- Lucy Mears Ames Edwards (Mrs. Ray O.) -- Eunice Allie Horne -- Alvin Matherson -- Lorene Thompson Royal (Mrs. Harry Lee) -- Mary Varnedoe (Mrs. Ira J.). Selected Jacksonville names in vol. 4 include: Mrs. Tom Adams -- Mrs. Lillyan Nelson Hilty -- Nellie Bosley Parkinson.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Women -- Florida -- Biography., Women -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- Biography., Jennings, May Mann, 1872-1963., Edwards, Lucy Ames.

Publication Details

Author

Cozens, Eloise N.

Publisher

College Publishing Company

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Daytona Beach, FL

Call No.

F 310 .C6 1956

LCCN

56041966