Alice Ames Winter

Alice Vivian Ames was born in Albany, New York, November 25, 1865.{{sfn|Traub|1919|p=217}}{{cite web |title=Alice Ames Winter |url=https://www.womeninpeace.org/w-names/2017/7/18/alice-ames-winter |website=Women In Peace |date=2 February 2017 |access-date=25 April 2019}} Her parents were Rev. Charles Gordon and Fanny Baker Ames,{{sfn|Who's Who in America|1944|p=2337}} philanthropist and women's rights activist. She had three siblings, including a sister, Edith Theodora Ames;

a brother, Theodore, who died in infancy; and a half brother, Charles Wilberforce Ames.{{sfn|James|James|Boyer|1971|p=40}} Her ancestors included Francis and John Cooke, and Richard Warren who arrived in the United States in 1620 on the Mayflower.{{sfn|Mayflower Publishing Company|1929|p=1076}}

Winter was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts.{{sfn|Lant|Periz|2006|p=714}} She graduated from Wellesley College in 1886 with a B.A. degree, and in 1889 with an M.A. degree.{{sfn|Mayflower Publishing Company|1929|p=1076}}

During the period of 1890 to 1892, Winter worked as a teacher, and in the 1890s, she served as president of the Minneapolis Kindergarten Association.{{sfn|Lant|Periz|2006|p=714}} She was one of the founders and was the first president (1907-15) of the Minneapolis Woman's Club.{{sfn|Lant|Periz|2006|p=714}}

During World War I, she was chairman of the Council of National Defense Minnesota Woman's Committee and the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Women's Auxiliary. She also served as director of the Minnesota Child Labor Commission,{{sfn|Mayflower Publishing Company|1929|p=1076}} and of the Minneapolis chapter of the American Red Cross.{{sfn|Lant|Periz|2006|p=714}} Winters used the connections that she made on these committees to further the cause of woman suffrage.

After the war, she continued her organizational activities as vice-president (1918-20) and president (1920-24) of the GFWC.{{sfn|Chrislock|1991|p=107}} In 1920, she was affiliated with the establishment of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee.{{sfn|Kelley|2009|p=300}} In 1928, she served as director of the Home Women's Bureau and the Republican National Committee.{{sfn|Mayflower Publishing Company|1929|p=1076}} Winter was a member of Clio, the Minnesota Playground Association, League of American Pen Women, New Century, Shakespeare Club, and the Woman's Friday Morning Club.{{sfn|Mayflower Publishing Company|1929|p=1076}}

Her works included Prize to the Hardy, Bobbs-Merrill, 1905; Jewell Weed, 1907; and Charles Ames, a Biography, Houghton. Mifflin, 1913.{{sfn|Traub|1919|p=217}}

On June 25, 1892, she married Thomas Gerald Winter, of Minneapolis, Minnesota.{{sfn|Herringshaw|1914|p=745}}{{sfn|Traub|1919|p=217}} They had a son, Charles Gilbert, and a daughter, Edith Winter Ames. In religion, Winter was a Unitarian.{{sfn|Mayflower Publishing Company|1929|p=1076}}

She died April 5, 1944. Her papers are held at the Hoover Institution.{{cite web |title=Overview of the Alice Ames Winter papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt9t1nf66h/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |access-date=25 April 2019}}

• How shall we judge a motion picture?, 19??
• [https://archive.org/details/prizetohardy00wintrich/mode/2up The Prize to the Hardy]. With drawings by R.M. Crosby. (A novel), 1905
• [https://archive.org/details/jewelweed00wintiala/jewelweed00wintiala/page/n7/mode/2up Jewel Weed]. With illustrations by Harrison Fisher, 1906
• Women's Clubs To-day, 1921
• To American women : a plea, 1922
• The business of being a club woman, 1925
• The little woman who made a great war, 1927
• [https://archive.org/details/heritageofwomen0000wint/page/n5/mode/2up The Heritage of Women], 1928
• What do we want of a president?., 1928
• Hopeful tides in American politics, 1928
• A woman's reason in politics, 1928
• Better pictures in your home town : suggestions to local better films committees, 1932
• Motion picture study program : in four numbers, 1936

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• {{source-attribution| {{cite book|last=Herringshaw|first=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMTTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA745|edition=Public domain|year=1914|publisher=American Publishers' Association}} }}
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• {{cite book|last=Chrislock|first=Carl Henry|title=Watchdog of Loyalty: The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety During World War I|year=1991|publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press|isbn=978-0-87351-264-0|pages=107–}}
• {{cite book|last1=James|first1=Edward T.|last2=James|first2=Janet Wilson|last3=Boyer|first3=Paul S.|editor=Radcliffe College|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/notableamericanw02jame_0/page/40 40]|year=1971|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=978-0-674-62734-5}}
• {{cite book|last=Kelley|first=Florence|title=The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-MX_BjJEqOwC&pg=PA300|year=2009|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03404-6}}
• {{cite book|last1=Lant|first1=Antonia|last2=Periz|first2=Ingrid|title=Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hVNAAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Verso|isbn=978-1-84467-119-9}}
• {{cite book|author=Mayflower Publishing Company|title=Who's who in the Central States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XF9PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1076|year=1929|publisher=Mayflower Publishing Company}}
• {{cite book|author=Who's Who in America|title=Who's Who in America: 1944-45|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UYd0uMDTfwMC|volume=23|year=1944|publisher=Who's Who in America}}

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