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Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of E.W. Scripps, portrait photo as young woman, 1850s
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| Title | Ellen Browning Scripps, sister of E.W. Scripps, portrait photo as young woman, 1850s |
| Collection | E. W. Scripps Archive, Photo Collection
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| Date Original | 1850 |
| Subject-People | Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932
Scripps Family
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| Subject-LCSH | Women travelers
Travel writing
Women authors
Businesswomen
Newspaper publishing
Publishers and publishing
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| Is Part Of | E. W. Scripps Archive, Photo Collection
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| Call Number | ewscripps/photo/box01/fld02/a12 |
| Subject-TGM1 | Journalists
Philanthropists
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| Original Format-TGM2 | Photographic prints
Gelatin silver prints
Portrait photographs
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| Description | Born in England and raised in Rushville, Illinois, Ellen was the eldest half sister to EWS; daughter to James Mogg Scripps and Ellen Mary Saunders. Ellen and EWS were very close--she was EWS' special confidant. After graduating from Knox College (Galesburg, IL) in 1859, she taught school for several years prior to moving to Detroit to work with her brother James E. on the Detroit Tribune as a writer and proofreader. She worked alongside her brothers in founding the Evening News (Detroit News)--one of the first two-cent evening newspapers. She wrote a column called "Miss Ellen's Miscellany" which was popular and widely circulated. In 1902, E.W. Scripps with the help of Ellen's "miscellany" concept, created the nation's first newspaper syndicate, The Newspaper Enterprise Association. The NEA eventually became United Media Enterprises. Over time, Ellen Scripps became a major stockholder in nineteen American newspapers and her investments made her a very wealthy woman. She was the first woman to be on the cover of Times magazine.
Ellen was a major confidant to E. W. Scripps throughout his life. She moved to California with her brother's family, where she remained until her death in La Jolla, California in 1932 at the age of ninety-five.
Later in her life, Ellen was a major benefactor for such ventures as: La Jolla Woman's Club; La Jolla Community Center and Playground (the first public playground in the U.S.); the San Diego Museum; the George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Biological Laboratory (Scripps Institution of Oceanography); Scripps College for Women in Claremont California (Scripps College); the first structure (and many additional structures) at The Bishop's School in La Jolla; the Scripps Memorial Hospital and the Scripps Metabolic Clinic; (Scripps Clinic); she purchased much of the land now forming Torrey Pines State Park and built the Torrey Pines Lodge (to preserve the rare Torrey pine trees). Her residence was remodeled in 1941 as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Photos documenting the Scripps family were donated by Vance Trimble to the E.W. Scripps Archive with the permission of the Scripps family members from whom they were gathered. Research materials and the manuscript for The Astonishing Mr. Scripps: The Turbulent Life of America's Penny Press Lord (1992) can be found in MSS 119, The Vance H. Trimble Collection.
Reproduction of original photograph. |
| Publisher | Ohio University Libraries. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections
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| Format [IMT] | JP2
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| Identifier | a12.tif |
| Source | Trimble, Vance H |
| Donor | Wilkinson, Warren S. (please credit in all citations)
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| More information | http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/mss/mss117.html; http://www.sandiegohistory.org/bio/scripps/ebscripps.htm; http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/92spring/scripps.htm |
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