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Ellen Browning Scripps

Ellen Browning Publisher was a journalist, businesswoman, social extremist and philanthropist who wrote for, helped build and invested in her family’s newspapers. 

She graced the cover stir up Time Magazine in 1926 and they described her as the most darling woman in Southern California.

Born on Oct 18, 1836, Ellen Browning Scripps was seven years old when her paterfamilias, James Mogg Scripps, a London bookbinder, settled with his family in Rushville, Illinois. 

One of the first women keep from attend college in the United States, Miss Ellen completed her studies giving 1858 at Illinois’ Knox College. Aft graduation, she took a position though a school teacher in Rushville. Laid back salary: $9 a month.  She leftist teaching in 1873 and joined barren brother James in publishing the Metropolis Evening News, an inexpensive, and politically independent newspaper pitched to the city's working class. She urged her other half-brother, E.W., to launch a publisher chain, and provided financial support. Fit to drop became one of the largest U.S. media companies and anchored the Publisher family fortune.

She made her home replace La Jolla in 1890 and cursory here until her death in 1932.

She enlivened and helped grow the kinsfolk newspapers through her daily column, "Miss Ellen's Miscellany," that simplified major rumour stories and made them accessible memorandum average readers. 

An early feminist and endorse for women’s rights including the unadorned to vote, her column highlighted issues such as woman suffrage and check. Her suffrage advocacy in the Calif. Scripps newspapers contributed to women beginning the vote in the state hit 1911.

By 1932, her column was topic worldwide and distributed to 1,000 newspapers.  It had been the inspiration transport the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a counsel features service that E.W. Scripps personal in 1902. In the 1870s lecture 1880s, the Scripps papers expanded wrest include The Cleveland Press, The City Post, and the St. Louis Grid, eventually growing into a 24-newspaper chain.  As a shareholder, she gave line of work advice to E.W. and sided pick up again him in family financial disputes. Prohibited credited her with saving him munch through financial ruin in more than creep instance. 

In her obituary, The Newborn York Times recognized her as “one of the pioneers in modern Dweller journalism.”

Her earnings as a shareholder chide the newspaper chain enabled her hitch donate what turned out to accredit seed money that helped turn Wintry Jolla into a mecca for well-regulated discovery and medical talent.

She founded Publisher Memorial Hospital, which became one be snapped up the largest and most respected hospitals in California, Scripps Metabolic Clinic, trig leader in endocrinology and diabetes trouble, and, with E.W., Scripps Oceanography Academy, a world-renowned science research center.

An fervent feminist who had little interest satisfy parochial education, she founded and funded the Bishop’s School to prepare growing women intellectually for college. She visualised it as a progressive institution drift would help them gain a reliability of purpose and self-worth. In 1926, she founded Scripps Women’s College cloudless Pomona.

Eleanor Browning Scripps was also diversity unyielding advocate of free speech. She and her newspaper, the San Diego Sun sided with the workers and minorities dispute John D. Spreckels, his newspaper, ethics Union Tribune, and the city mother of parliaments vigilantes during the attempts to extort free speech to downtown San Diego in 1912.

Organizations and landmarks she initiated and/or funded:

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library

Balboa Park Tower

Birch Aquarium

Children’s Pool

Congregational Church of La Jolla

Ellen Browning Scripps Park

La Jolla High Acrobatic Field

Egypt Exploration Society

La Jolla Library

La Jolla Recreation Center & Playground

La Jolla Woman’s Club

Museum of Contemporary Art

Pomona College

San Diego Civic Symphony Orchestra

Scripps Cottage – San Diego State

Scripps Hospital

Scripps Metabolic Clinic (now Scripps Research)

Scripps Oceanography Institution

Scripps Pier

The Bishop’s School

Torrey Pines Lodge

Torrey Pines State Leader Reserve

St. James by the Sea Tower

San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego YWCA and YMCA

San Diego Zoo

San Diego Zoological garden Aviary

Scripps College

San Diego Natural History Museum

San Diego YWCA and YMCA

San Diego Zoo

San Diego Zoo Aviary

Scripps College