Elinor Langton-Boyle
{{Short description|American businesswoman, journalist in Hawaii (1865–1946)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Elinor Langton-Boyle
| other_names = Ma Boyle
| birth_name = Elinor Alice Veilleux
| birth_date = June 13, 1865
| birth_place = Irasburg, Vermont, United States
| death_date = July 13, 1946
| death_place = Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii
| education = Punahou School
| occupation = Businesswoman, journalist
| spouse = William Langton,
James S. Boyle
}}
Elinor Alice Veilleux Langton–Boyle (née Elinor Alice Veilleux; June 13, 1865 – July 13, 1946), also known as Ma Boyle, was an American-born Hawaiian businesswoman and journalist, who operated the Paradise of the Pacific magazine from 1902 to 1944.{{sfnm
|1a1=Belknap|1y=1967|1p=A7
|2a1=Honolulu Advertiser|2y=1946|2p=editorial
|3a1=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|3y=1946a|3p=2
|4a1=Honolulu Star-Bulletin|4y=1946b|4p=19}}
Life and career
Elinor Alice Veilleux was born on June 13, 1865, in Irasburg, Vermont. She moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1900.{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1946a|p=2}}
While the magazine Paradise of the Pacific had been founded by King Kalākaua in 1888,{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1944|p=1}} Boyle-Langton and her husband, William Langton, took ownership and began publishing the paper four years after arrival in 1904.{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1946a|p=2}} Even after the death of her husband in 1910, and during her second marriage to James S. Boyle, she continued to publish the paper until health issues (sustained from a fall{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1944|p=1}}) required she stop in 1944.{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1946a|p=2}} After long serving as its proprietor,{{sfn|Hilo Daily Tribune|1917|p=4}} she sold the magazine to fourteen of its employees.{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1944|p=1}}
Her husband died in 1945, and she died on 13 July 1946, in her home in Honolulu.{{Cite news |date=July 14, 1946 |title=Elinor Boyle, Kamaaina, Dies At Home |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/honolulu-star-advertiser-obituary-for-el/169065705/ |access-date=2025-03-28 |work=Honolulu Star-Advertiser |pages=1}} In death, the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser described her as kamaʻāina, literally meaning a child of the land.{{sfn|Bremer|Mandle|Trauernicht|Pascua|2018}}
As the owner of the magazine, it circulated widely both inside and outside of Hawaii.{{sfn|Kearns|1963|p=D12}} Described by a contemporary of hers, Maile Kearns, as a "pioneer" in color reproductions of artwork for magazines, she routinely solicited artists to create color covers for the magazine (often reproductions) and selected them herself: For Kearns, this was a defining element of Boyle-Langton's ownership of the magazine.{{sfn|Kearns|1963|p=D12}} Under her leadership, the magazine was largely full of color, and it devoted significant attention to topics relevant to Hawaii.{{sfn|Honolulu Advertiser|1934|p=editorial}} At one point, Paradise of the Pacific may have been among the largest printing plants owned and run by a woman in the United States.{{sfn|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1938|p=3}}
References
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= Bibliography =
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- {{cite news |last1=Belknap |first1=Jazz |title=When Ma boiled over |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=28 January 1967}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Bremer |first1=Leah L. |last2=Mandle |first2=Lisa |last3=Trauernicht |first3=Clay |last4=Pascua |first4=Puaʻala |last5=McMillen |first5=Heather L. |last6=Burnett |first6=Kimberly |last7=Wada |first7=Christopher A. |last8=Kurashima |first8=Natalie |last9=Quazi |first9=Shimona A. |last10=Giambelluca |first10=Thomas |last11=Chock |first11=Pia |last12=Ticktin |first12=Tamara |title=Bringing multiple values to the table: Assessing future land-use and climate change in North Kona, Hawaiʻi |journal=Ecology and Society |date=2018 |volume=23 |issue=1 |doi=10.5751/ES-09936-230133|doi-access=free }}
- {{cite news |last1=Kearns |first1=Maile |title=An old-time personality... 'Ma' Boyle |work=Sunday Star-Bulletin & Advertiser |date=13 October 1963}}
- {{cite news |title=Brevities |work=Hilo Daily Tribune |date=12 October 1917 |ref={{harvid|Hilo Daily Tribune|1917}}}}
- {{cite news |title=Christmas number of the Paradise |work=Honolulu Advertiser |date=1 December 1934 |ref={{harvid|Honolulu Advertiser|1934}}}}
- {{cite news |title=Ma Boyle |work=Honolulu Advertiser |date=18 July 1946 |ref={{harvid|Honolulu Advertiser|1946}}}}
- {{cite news |title=Women in business |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=23 April 1938 |ref={{harvid|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1938}}}}
- {{cite news |title=Paradise Pacific magazine, plant sold to workers |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=31 March 1944 |ref={{harvid|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1944}}}}
- {{cite news |title='Ma' Langton Boyle dies; made 'Paradise of the Pacific' famous |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=15 July 1946 |ref={{harvid|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1946a}}}}
- {{cite news |title=Funeral announcements |work=Honolulu Star-Bulletin |date=17 July 1946 |ref={{harvid|Honolulu Star-Bulletin|1946b}}}}
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Category:American women business executives
Category:American women journalists
Category:Editors of Hawaii newspapers
Category:People from Irasburg, Vermont