Lloy Galpin

Ava Lloy Galpin (1877 – April 19, 1935) was an American educator, clubwoman, suffragist, temperance activist, and politician, based in Southern California.

Lloy Galpin
Lloy Galpin, from a 1912 publication.
Born
Ava Lloy Galpin

1877
Michigan
DiedApril 19, 1935
Los Angeles, California
Occupationteacher
Known forsuffrage, temperance, politics, clubwork
Signature

Early life

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[7] and the University of California.[8]

Career

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]

Personal life

Galpin lived in Los Angeles with her half-sister, puppeteer Ellen Galpin,[1] in her later years. Lloy Galpin died from heart disease in 1935, aged 58 years, while visiting another sister, Hazel Galpin Lowe, in San Diego.[2]

gollark: I am SO ANNOYED by how the HTML5 spec allows you to omit ending tags all over the place.
gollark: No.
gollark: I should bring back the rotating rainbow square 404 page osmarks.tk had.
gollark: You use TEXT? BLOAT! I just leave my readers to GUESS what the page should contain.
gollark: I use a swarm of bees frantically carrying messages.

References
  1. Parrello, Frank. "The Galpins of Eagle Rock" Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society Newsletter (Summer 2012): pages 3-5.
  2. "Funeral Slated Tuesday for Pioneer Teacher". The Los Angeles Times. April 21, 1935. p. 6. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Cromwell Galpin Seriously Ill". Eagle Rock Sentinel. August 26, 1927. p. 8. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  4. "Plan Funeral of Pioneer". Eagle Rock Sentinel. September 16, 1927. p. 1. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. McGroarty, John Steven (1921). Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea: With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement. American Historical Society. pp. 350–351. Lloy Galpin.
  6. "Her Body Will Lie In State". Los Angeles Herald. January 11, 1906. p. 6. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  7. "Los Angeles High School". Los Angeles School Journal. 7: 46. June 23, 1924.
  8. "Local Girl for Senator". Eagle Rock Sentinel. April 14, 1923. p. 1. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  9. "Alumni as Teachers in the Orient". University of California Chronicle. 4: 305. October 1901.
  10. "Proposed Amendments to Constitution, Southern Section, C. T. A." Sierra Educational News. 10: 702. December 1914.
  11. "City Teachers' Club to Join Southern District". San Pedro News Pilot. August 10, 1931. p. 5. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  12. "Los Angeles at Exposition". The Los Angeles Times. August 1, 1909. p. 23. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Suffragettes Attention". The Los Angeles Times. February 5, 1909. p. 22. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Miss Galpin in Charge". Eagle Rock Sentinel. August 2, 1911. p. 1. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  15. "Miss Lloy Galpin to Tour State for Progressives". Santa Ana Register. October 10, 1912. p. 8. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "Attorney Leading in Coast Election". Great Falls Tribune. May 2, 1923. p. 1. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Miss Lloy Galpin Speaker Saturday at Smith Meeting". Eagle Rock Sentinel. September 28, 1928. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  18. Who's who Among the Women of California. 1922. p. 178.
  19. "Miss Lloy Galpin to Address Club". San Pedro News Pilot. February 11, 1932. p. 2. Retrieved September 11, 2019 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.