Alice Moore McComas
About
Alice Moore McComas (née, Moore; June 18, 1850 – December 19, 1919) was an American author, editor, lecturer and reformer. She was a pioneer suffragist in California and served as president of the Los Angeles Equal Suffrage Association. During the various suffrage campaigns, McComas contributed articles to over seventy newspapers and magazines, and she was well known throughout the west as an educator and lecturer. She was accredited with being the first woman to conduct a department for women in a daily paper in California, and the first woman to address a state Republican ratification meeting. She was one of the earliest organizers of the Free Kindergarten Association and of clubs for working women, and was prominent in many movements for civic welfare. She was Associate Editor of The Household Journal of California and author of several books, among them The Women of the Canal Zone and Under the Peppers. McComas contributed travel sketches to many magazines. She died in 1919.
Key details
| Born |
18 June 1850 Paris, Illinois, US
|
| Died |
19 December 1919 (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, US
|
| Zodiac | Gemini |
| Tags | Add tag |
Family members
Romantic interests
Friends & associates
Scholars
Missing information for Alice Moore McComas
- missing height
- missing hair color
- missing eye color
- missing ethnicity
- add banner photo
- add photos to gallery
Similar profiles
Activity
Top contributors today
Tags
Featured contributors
Couples by country
USA · UK · Canada · Australia · France · Germany · India · China · South Korea · Japan · Spain · MexicoCouples by decade
1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s · 2000s · 2010s · 2020s
