Carthage Women in History

Ella Harrison
1859 – 1933

1881: Graduated Carthage High School.

1882: Began teaching in Jasper-Carthage area schools.

1880s: First to study and teach typing and shorthand in this area.

1880s–1892: Was active in Chautauqua Literary & Scientific Circles in
Carthage. Also was active in local Women’s Christian Temperance Union work.

1893–99: Attended Stanford University in California.

c.1895: Founded Century Club for women to study government.

1896–97: President Missouri State Equal Suffrage Association.

1898: Worked for Carrie Chapman Catt and Susan B. Anthony in
Louisiana & Mississippi.

1898–99: Attended law school at University of Iowa.

1900: Became free lance journalist including stint as war
correspondent for the "New York American."

1901-?: Taught at Carthage Commercial College and its successors.

c.1912: Homesteaded near Douglas, AZ.

1913: Stenographer to Arizona House of Representatives.

c.1914–16: Returned to Carthage & became private Spanish
teacher; also booker/manager to singer Marian Wright Powers.

1916–18: Oklahoma Agriculture Dept. Home Demonstration Agent.

1920s: Jasper Justice of Peace. Associated with brother H. T. Harrison in
local law firm.

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