Elizabeth Cameron (editor)
{{Infobox writer
| image = ELIZABETH CAMERON.jpg
| caption = Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century
| birth_name = Elizabeth Millar
| birth_date = 8 March 1851
| birth_place = Niagara, Ontario, Canada
| death_date = 17 November 1929
| death_place = Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
| resting_place = Graceland Cemetery
| occupation = magazine editor
| movement = temperance
| notable_works = Wives and Daughters
| spouse = {{married|John Cameron|1869}}
}}
Elizabeth Cameron (1851-1929) was a Canadian magazine editor.{{cite book |last1=Willard |first1=Frances Elizabeth |author1-link=Frances Willard |last2=Livermore |first2=Mary Ashton Rice |author2-link=Mary Livermore |title=A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life |year=1893 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Elizabeth_Cameron |page=146 |chapter=CAMERON, Mrs. Elizabeth |access-date=18 February 2025}} {{Source-attribution}}
Early life and education
Elizabeth Millar was born in Niagara, Ontario, Canada, 8 March 1851. Her early years were passed in Montreal and Kingston, and afterwards in London, Ontario.
Educated in private and public schools, Cameron was an insatiable reader.
Career
She established several reading clubs for women.
She was strongly interested in temperance work. Cameron served as superintendent of the franchise department of the London Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and was of the opinion that intemperance would never be overthrown permanently till women were allowed to vote.
Between 1890 and 1892, Cameron conducted a monthly paper, Wives and Daughters, a monthly supplement to the London Advertiser. Ethelwyn Wetherald served as assistant editor. It had a large circulation in the U.S. as well as in Canada. A call for articles -compositions for and about wives and daughters- was recorded in The Canadian Magazine of Science and the Industrial Arts, Patent Office Record.{{cite book |title=The Canadian Magazine of Science and the Industrial Arts, Patent Office Record |date=October 1890 |page=592 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HNc6AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA592 |access-date=18 February 2025 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}} As editor of that journal, Cameron's mission was to stimulate women to become, not only housekeepers, but to be better furnished mentally by systematic good reading, more intelligent as mothers, well informed concerning the chief wants of the day, and thoroughly equipped intellectually and spiritually for all the duties of woman of that era.{{cite journal |last1=Campbell |first1=Isabel |title=Wives and Daughters |journal=The Mirror |date=1981 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=95-98 }}
Personal life
On 30 September 1869, in London, Ontario, she married John Cameron, founder and conductor of the London Ontario Advertiser.
In 1927, Elizabeth Cameron relocated to Evanston, Illinois where she died 17 November 1929. Interment was at Graceland Cemetery.{{cite news |title=Elizabeth Cameron |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-elizabeth-cameron/166119787/ |access-date=18 February 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=18 November 1929 |page=34 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}{{cite news |title=Elizabeth Cameron |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/chicago-tribune-elizabeth-cameron/166119674/ |access-date=18 February 2025 |work=Chicago Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=24 November 1929 |page=43 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}
References
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External links
- {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Elizabeth Cameron}}
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Category:People from the Regional Municipality of Niagara
Category:Canadian magazine editors
Category:Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Chicago)
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