Flora Warren Seymour
{{Short description|U.S. lawyer and writer}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date text|1888}}
| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|12|10|1888||}}
| death_place = Chicago, Illinois, US
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| occupation = Lawyer, writer
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| spouse = {{Marriage|George Steele Seymour|1915}}
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| education = George Washington University
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Flora Warren Seymour (1888 – 1948) was an American lawyer and author.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mJEUAQAAIAAJ&q=george+steele+seymour|title=Who was who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939|date=July 7, 1976|publisher=Gale Research Company|isbn=9780810310414 |via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTDTAAAAMAAJ&dq=george+steele+seymour&pg=PA784|title=Who's who in Chicago|date=July 7, 1926|publisher=A.N. Marquis & Company|via=Google Books}}{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aNUgAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA284 |title=The Honorable Flora Warren Seymour |first=Marie Tello |last=Phillips |journal=Social Progress |volume=VII |number=9 |pages=284–285 |date=September 1923 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Google Books}} She was appointed as the first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners by President Warren G. Harding.
Biography
Flora Warren was born in Cleveland, Ohio.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bjDTAAAAMAAJ&dq=george+steele+seymour&pg=PA317|title=The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ...|date=July 7, 1924|publisher=Halvord Publishing Company|via=Google Books}} She spent the majority of her childhood in Washington D.C. She received her B.A., LL. B., and LL. M. degrees from George Washington University.{{cite web |title=Flora Warren Seymour |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Flora-Warren-Seymour/707225 |website=Simon & Schuster |access-date=22 July 2023 |language=en}} She at the Indian Service while completing her degrees.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} She worked as a lawyer in Chicago.{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vZIqAAAAYAAJ&dq=george+steele+seymour&pg=RA4-PA30|title=A Member Honored |journal=Women Lawyers' Journal |volume=12 |number=4 |date=August 1923 |publisher=Women Lawyers' Club |page=30 |via=Google Books}}
She married writer George Steele Seymour in 1915, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in the same year. She was admitted to the practice of law before the United States Supreme Court in 1919. With her husband she helped found the Order of Bookfellows - a Chicago-based literary society- and then served as its executive head. She also helped publish and edit its organ, the monthly magazine The Step-Ladder{{cite web |title=Lovecraft and the Order of Bookfellows |url=https://jurn.link/tentaclii/index.php/2014/06/29/lovecraft-and-the-order-of-the-bookfellows/ |website=www.jurn.link |access-date=22 July 2023}} from 1920 through 1922.Social Progress: A Magazine for the New Day. Vol. 7, No. 9. September 1923, pp. 284-285. Most of Seymour's published books were historical and dealt with Native Americans or frontiersmen.
She lived at 4917 Blackstone Avenue in Chicago. She died in Chicago on December 10, 1948.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sheboygan-press-obituary-for-flora-w/126053492/ |title=Flora Warren Seymour |newspaper=The Sheboygan Press |page=12 |date=1948-12-13 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}
Works
=Books=
- William De Morgan, a Post-Victorian Realist (Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1920)
- The Five Civilized American Indian Tribes (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924)
- The Story of the Sioux Indians (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924)
- The Indians of the Pueblos (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924)
- History of the New York Indians (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1925)
- [https://archive.org/details/indianstoday0000flor The Indians Today] (Chicago: B.H. Sanborn, 1926)
- Songs from the Stepladder (Chicago: Bookfellows, 1927)
- The Boys' Life of Frémont (New York: The Century Co., 1928)
- The Boys' Life of Kit Carson (New York: The Century Co., 1929)
- [https://archive.org/details/storyoftheredman000402mbp The Story of the Red Man] (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929)
- Women of Trail and Wigwam (New York: Woman Press, 1930)
- Sam Houston, Patriot (New York: London, Century Co., 1930)
- Lords of the Valley: Sir William Johnson and his Mohawk Brothers (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930)
- Daniel Boone: Pioneer (New York: Century Co., 1931)
- The Story of the Red Man (New York: Tudor Pub. Co., 1934)
- Meriwether Lewis: Trail Blazer (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1937)
- La Salle, Explorer of Our Midland Empire (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939)
- We Called Them Indians{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bLSDTRdhgKMC&q=george+steele+seymour|title=Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1942|date=July 7, 1942|publisher=Hw Wilson Company|isbn=9780824204792 |via=Google Books}} (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940)
- Indian Agents of the Old Frontier (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941)
- The Indian in American Life (New York: Friendship Press, 1944)
- Sacagawea: Bird Girl (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Co., 1945)
- Pocahontas: Brave Girl (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Co., 1946)
=Articles=
- "Land Titles in the Pueblo Indian Country", American Bar Association Journal. Vol. 10, No.1, 1924. p. 37.
- "Burlesquing the American Indian", Woman Lawyers' Journal. Vol. 13, No.2, 1924. pp. 3–6.
- "Our Indian Land Policy", Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, No. 2, June–October 1926. p. 97.
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