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 Lloy Galpin, from a 1912 publication. | |
| Born | Ava Lloy Galpin 1877 Michigan |
| Died | April 19, 1935 Los Angeles, California |
| Occupation | teacher |
| Known for | suffrage, temperance, politics, clubwork |
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Ava Lloy Galpin (1877 – April 19, 1935) was an American educator, clubwoman, suffragist, temperance activist, and politician, based in Southern California.
Ava Lloy Galpin was born in Saginaw, Michigan, [1] and raised in Los Angeles, [2] the daughter of Cromwell Galpin and Clara Wood Galpin. Her father was mayor of Eagle Rock from 1914 to 1916, [1] before it became part of Los Angeles. [3] Her mother died in 1888. [4] Her stepmother after 1890 was educator and suffragist Kate Tupper Galpin. [5] [6] Lloy Galpin graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison [7] and the University of California, Berkeley. [8]
Galpin taught at a school and at a teacher's college in the Philippines in 1903. [9] She taught in Los Angeles city schools from 1905, and was active for many years in the California Teachers' Association. [10] [11] In 1909 she lectured on Los Angeles at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in Seattle. [12] She was the first woman president of the Los Angeles High School Teachers' Association. [2]
Galpin was president of the National College Women's Equal Suffrage League in 1909, [13] and a leader in the California Equal Suffrage Association. [14] In 1912 she toured California lecturing on "Why the Progressive Platform is a Woman's Platform", in support of the Progressive Party. [15] She ran for a seats in Congress and the California state senate in 1923. [8] [16] She was a California delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1924. [7] She spoke in favor of Prohibition at a 1928 campaign rally in Los Angeles for presidential candidate Al Smith. [17]
Galpin was active in the California Federation of Women's Clubs, and president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. [18] [19] She served on executive boards of the Women's Vocational Alliance and the Survey on Race Relations. [7]
Galpin lived in Los Angeles with her half-sister, puppeteer Ellen Galpin, [1] in her later years. Lloy Galpin died of heart disease in 1935, aged 58 years, while visiting another sister, Hazel Galpin Lowe, in San Diego. [2]
Eagle Rock is a neighborhood of Northeast Los Angeles, abutting the San Rafael Hills in Los Angeles County, California. The community is named after Eagle Rock, a large boulder whose shadow resembles an eagle. Eagle Rock was once part of the Rancho San Rafael under Spanish and Mexican governorship. In 1911, Eagle Rock was incorporated as a city, and in 1923 it was annexed by Los Angeles.
Kate Tupper Galpin was an American educator and woman's club leader. For several years President of the Woman's Parliament of Southern California, Galpin was a natural teacher. Before instituting her classes in Southern California, she occupied the position of Professor of Pedagogy in the University of Nevada. During the five years of her residence in California, Galpin played an active part in the club life of the State, occupied many positions of honor, and through her classes in Shakespeare and Current Topics, conducted in Los Angeles and numerous outlying towns, contributed largely to the educational and intellectual life of the community. She gave five addresses before the Women's Congress at the Columbian Exposition, and lectured upon the suffrage platform throughout California.
Edith Monica Jordan Gardner was an American educator, specialized in history and an activist, including woman's suffrage and in the Sierra Club. She was president of the Southern California Social Science Association, Town and Gown Club, Cornell Women's Club of Northern California, Stanford Woman's Club, and the University of California branch of the Equal Suffrage League, among others. She was the head of the History Department at the John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, chairman of the Department of Legislation Oakland Forum, and one of the earliest members of the Sierra Club.
Vera Barstow was an American violinist and teacher. She made a three-month tour playing for troops in France during World War I.
Bettina Borrmann Wells was a Bavarian-born English suffragette who toured the United States as an organizer and lecturer.
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Florence Collins Porter was an American newspaper editor, clubwoman, political campaigner, and activist for temperance and women's suffrage.
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Frances Borgia Jolliffe was an American actress, journalist, and suffragist, and arts editor at the San Francisco Evening Bulletin.
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Clementina de Forest Griffin was an American educator, school administrator, and aeronautical enthusiast based in Los Angeles. She took an active interest in aviation, aeronautics, and astronomy.
Beatrice Sumner Thompson (1874–1938) was an American suffragist and activist. She was executive secretary of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP from 1917 to 1925.
Mary Elizabeth Simpson Sperry was a leading California suffragist who served as president of the California Woman Suffrage Association.
Helena Lewyn was an American pianist, composer, and piano teacher.
Etta Glass Gray was an American physician, surgeon, and clubwoman from Los Angeles. She was head of the American Women's Hospitals Service work in Serbia after World War I. She was president of the American Medical Women's Association from 1919 to 1920.
Kate E. Bradley Stovall was an American clubwoman and writer, based in Los Angeles.
Lloy Galpin.
