Nora Trueblood Gause
{{short description|American humanitarian}}
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| birth_name = Elnora E. Trueblood
| birth_date = February 9, 1851
| birth_place = Russiaville, Indiana, U.S.
| death_date = June 13, 1955
| death_place = Kokomo, Indiana, U.S.
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| occupation = {{hlist|humanitarian|teacher|non-fiction writer}}
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| awards = Humanitarian of the Year (1952)
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Nora Trueblood Gause ({{nee}}, Trueblood; February 9, 1851 – June 13, 1955) was an American humanitarian. She spent twenty years as a school teacher in Howard County, Indiana, where she lived her entire life. Nora was active for many years in the Humane Society of the United States and the National Audubon Society,{{cite news |title=Nora T. Gause Eagerly Anticipates 100th birthday. Linguist, Teacher, County Resident All of Her Life. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/41857832/?terms=Nora%20Trueblood%20Gause&match=1 |access-date=4 October 2022 |work=The Kokomo Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=8 February 1951 |page=1 |language=en}} also she was a writer for the Humane Journal.{{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 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Nora_Trueblood_Gause |year=1893 |page=315 |publisher=Charles Wells Moulton |chapter=GAUSE, Mrs. Nora Trueblood}} {{Source-attribution}} In 1952, she was the recipient of the American Humane Association's "American Humane Award"{{cite news |title=Humane Work of Mrs. Gause Is Recognized. National Award Is Presented At Public Ceremony. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/2702644/?terms=Nora%20Trueblood%20Gause&match=1 |access-date=4 October 2022 |work=The Kokomo Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=10 November 1952 |page=17 |language=en}} (Humanitarian of the Year).{{cite news |title=Old-Timers Give Ike Big Vote |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/310014317/?terms=Nora%20Trueblood%20Gause&match=1 |access-date=4 October 2022 |work=The Times |via=Newspapers.com |date=5 November 1952 |page=6 |language=en}}
Biography
Elnora (nickname, "Nora") E. Trueblood was born on a farm {{convert|2.5|miles}} southeast of Russiaville, Indiana and {{convert|55|miles}} north of Indianapolis, Indiana, February 9, 1851. She was a daughter of Thomas Elwood and Sarah Jane Trueblood. Her siblings were Lindley (1853–1890) and Flora (1858–1943). Her parents being members of the Society of Friends, well educated and of a progressive spirit, the daughter naturally championed the cause of the downtrodden.
Career
Early in life, she manifested a love for declamation and composition, and her first writings were remarkable for their emphatic denunciation of wrong and earnest pleadings for right.
From 1868 to 1888, she served in the public schools of Indiana as a teacher. The succeeding five years, were given to home and family, but, so successful was she in reaching the public, that she was often called to the platform as a lecturer and organizer.
In October, 1886, she joined the humane workers of Chicago and spent the four succeeding months in writing for the Humane Journal. In March, 1887, she began to organize societies for the prevention of cruelty, holding public meetings and doing whatever she could to awaken thought on the humane question. She published occasional letters descriptive of her travels and work accomplished, and other articles in the Humane Journal. In 1914, The National Humane Review noted that Gause, in continuing her work as Superintendent of the Department of Mercy, of Howard County, distributed 15,000 pages of humane literature that year.{{cite magazine |title=OUR CORRESPONDENTS |magazine=The National Humane Review |date=December 1914 |volume=2 |page=285 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ADdKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA285 |access-date=4 October 2022 |publisher=American Humane Association |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}} In 1919, when she returned home from the Norfolk meeting of the American Humane Association, she gave a three column article to the Kokomo Daily Dispatch, regarding the result of her trip. The publicity which came in this way enabled the message of the convention to reach thousands of people who were not able to attend the sessions.{{cite magazine |title=OUR FIELD CORRESPONDENTS |magazine=The National Humane Review |date=January 1919 |volume=8 |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=giwrAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA17 |access-date=4 October 2022 |publisher=American Humane Association. |language=en}}
Personal life
On January 14, 1880, she married William Gause (1842–1885).{{cite web |title=Elnora E. Trueblood 9 February 1851 – 13 June 1955 • GMQP-LTB |url=https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GMQP-LTB |website=ident.familysearch.org |access-date=4 October 2022}}
In politics, she was a Republican.
A long-time resident of Kokomo, Indiana, she died at that city's Good Samaritan Hospital, June 13, 1955, and was buried at Crown Point Cemetery.{{cite news |title=Mrs. Nora Guase, Oldest City Resident, Dies at 104 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/41867758/?terms=Nora%20Trueblood%20Gause&match=1 |access-date=4 October 2022 |work=The Kokomo Tribune |via=Newspapers.com |date=13 June 1955 |page=1 |language=en}}
Awards and honors
- 1952, American Humane Award
References
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External links
- {{wikisource-inline|Woman of the Century/Nora Trueblood Gause}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Nora Trueblood Gause}}
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Category:19th-century American non-fiction writers
Category:19th-century American women writers
Category:20th-century American non-fiction writers
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