Lloy Galpin

Ava Lloy Galpin was born in Saginaw, Michigan,Parrello, Frank. [http://eaglerockhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Summer2012.pdf "The Galpins of Eagle Rock"] Eagle Rock Valley Historical Society Newsletter (Summer 2012): pages 3-5. and raised in Los Angeles,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35860106/lloy_galpin_1935/|title=Funeral Slated Tuesday for Pioneer Teacher|date=April 21, 1935|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=6|via=Newspapers.com}} the daughter of Cromwell Galpin and Clara Wood Galpin. Her father was mayor of Eagle Rock from 1914 to 1916, before it became part of Los Angeles.{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=ERS19270826.2.61&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Cromwell Galpin Seriously Ill|date=August 26, 1927|work=Eagle Rock Sentinel|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=8|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} Her mother died in 1888.{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=ERS19270916.2.9&srpos=10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Plan Funeral of Pioneer|date=September 16, 1927|work=Eagle Rock Sentinel|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} Her stepmother after 1890 was educator and suffragist Kate Tupper Galpin.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/losangelesfrommo02mcgr|quote=Lloy Galpin.|title=Los Angeles from the Mountains to the Sea: With Selected Biography of Actors and Witnesses to the Period of Growth and Achievement|last=McGroarty|first=John Steven|date=1921|publisher=American Historical Society|pages=[https://archive.org/details/losangelesfrommo02mcgr/page/n581 350]–351|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19060111.2.99&srpos=32&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Her Body Will Lie In State|date=January 11, 1906|work=Los Angeles Herald|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=6|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} Lloy Galpin graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison{{Cite journal|date=June 23, 1924|title=Los Angeles High School|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x2YvAQAAMAAJ&q=Lloy+Galpin&pg=RA8-PA46|journal=Los Angeles School Journal|volume=7|pages=46}} and the University of California, Berkeley.{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=ERS19230414.2.4&srpos=5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Local Girl for Senator|date=April 14, 1923|work=Eagle Rock Sentinel|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=1|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

Galpin taught at a school and at a teacher's college in the Philippines in 1903.{{Cite journal|date=October 1901|title=Alumni as Teachers in the Orient|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J1oMAQAAIAAJ&q=Ava%20Lloy%20Galpin&pg=PA305|journal=University of California Chronicle|volume=4|pages=305}} She taught in Los Angeles city schools from 1905, and was active for many years in the California Teachers' Association.{{Cite journal|date=December 1914|title=Proposed Amendments to Constitution, Southern Section, C. T. A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r2IeAQAAIAAJ&q=Lloy+Galpin&pg=PA702|journal=Sierra Educational News|volume=10|pages=702}}{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19310810.2.69&srpos=23&e=-------en--20--21--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=City Teachers' Club to Join Southern District|date=August 10, 1931|work=San Pedro News Pilot|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=5|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} In 1909 she lectured on Los Angeles at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in Seattle.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35859133/lloy_galpin_1909/|title=Los Angeles at Exposition|date=August 1, 1909|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=23|via=Newspapers.com}} She was the first woman president of the Los Angeles High School Teachers' Association.

Galpin was president of the National College Women's Equal Suffrage League in 1909,{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35859443/lloy_galpin_1909/|title=Suffragettes Attention|date=February 5, 1909|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=22|via=Newspapers.com}} and a leader in the California Equal Suffrage Association.{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=ERS19110802.2.5&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Miss Galpin in Charge|date=August 2, 1911|work=Eagle Rock Sentinel|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=1|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} In 1912 she toured California lecturing on "Why the Progressive Platform is a Woman's Platform", in support of the Progressive Party.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35859294/lloy_galpin_1912/|title=Miss Lloy Galpin to Tour State for Progressives|date=October 10, 1912|work=Santa Ana Register|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=8|via=Newspapers.com}} She ran for seats in Congress and the California state senate in 1923.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35859803/lloy_galpin_for_congress_1923/|title=Attorney Leading in Coast Election|date=May 2, 1923|work=Great Falls Tribune|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} She was a California delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1924. She spoke in favor of Prohibition at a 1928 campaign rally in Los Angeles for presidential candidate Al Smith.{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=ERS19280928.2.8&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Miss Lloy Galpin Speaker Saturday at Smith Meeting|date=September 28, 1928|work=Eagle Rock Sentinel|access-date=September 11, 2019|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}

Galpin was active in the California Federation of Women's Clubs, and president of the Los Angeles County Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vi1NAQAAMAAJ&q=Lloy+Galpin&pg=PA178|title=Who's who Among the Women of California|date=1922|pages=178|language=en |last1=Lyons |first1=Louis S. |last2=Wilson |first2=Josephine }}{{Cite news|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19320211.2.51&srpos=12&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-Lloy+Galpin-------1|title=Miss Lloy Galpin to Address Club|date=February 11, 1932|work=San Pedro News Pilot|access-date=September 11, 2019|page=2|via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}} She served on executive boards of the Women's Vocational Alliance and the Survey on Race Relations.

Galpin lived in Los Angeles with her half-sister, puppeteer Ellen Galpin, in her later years. Lloy Galpin died of heart disease in 1935, aged 58 years, while visiting another sister, Hazel Galpin Lowe, in San Diego.

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