Caroline M. Nichols Churchill
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Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833-1926) came from Chicago to California in 1870 in an attempt to fix her consumption-induced ailing health. Active in local politics, Churchill played a vital role in defeating the Holland Social Evil Bill. By drawing up a satirical bill to "regulate and control immoral men," (similar to the proposed one regarding women), and getting it circulated among the legislature, Churchill made a mockery of Holland's Bill, and her tactics were mimicked in Denver, CO as well.
Churchill published two collections of travel writings focusing on California, Little Sheaves (1874) and Over the Purple Hills (1881) and established the monthly publication, the Colorado Antelope, which was changed to a weekly by the name of Queen Bee in 1879
[edit] Works
"Little Sheaves" Gathered While Gleaning After Reapers. San Francisco, 1874.
Over the Purple Hills, or Sketches of Travel in California, Embracing All the Important Points Usually Visited by Tourists. Denver, 1881.
[edit] Additional Reading
Willard, Frances Elizabeth. _American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and Achievements of American Women During the Nineteenth Century._ Volume 1. New York, 1897.
