Eleanor Hiestand Moore

Eleanor Hiestand Moore (October 20, 1859 – November 29, 1923), born Eleanor Moore Gill, was an American physician, writer, editor, and suffragist. She coined the suffrage slogan "Ballots for Both", to win a 1916 contest.

Eleanor Hiestand Moore
An older white woman in academic regalia, wearing glasses. Her hair is wavy and white under the mortar board on her head.
Eleanor M. Hiestand Moore, from a 1916 publication.
Born
Eleanor Moore Gill

20 October 1859
Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Died29 November 1923
Philadelphia
Other namesEleanor Moore Hiestand
Occupation(s)Physician, writer, suffragist, editor

Early life and education

Eleanor Moore Gill was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Samuel Brown Wylie Gill and Ann Eliza Blair Gill.[1] Her father was a lawyer.[2] She attended Vassar College and Bryn Mawr College,[3] and earned a medical degree in 1890, at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.[4]

Career

Hiestand-Moore (her name was given with and without the hyphen) was assistant editor of the Medical Register from 1887 to 1889. She taught chemistry at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1890 to 1895. In 1916,[5] she entered and won a slogan contest sponsored by the National American Woman's Suffrage Association (NAWSA), with "Ballots for Both",[6] which was used on pins in the last years of the American campaign.[7][8] In 1917 she was mentioned among the prominent Philadelphia suffragists wearing foregoing new shoes as a wartime sacrifice.[9]

Cover page of "Reform in the Government of Medical School" (1896)
"Reform in the Government of Medical Schools" (1896), a report written by Eleanor M. Hiestand-Moore

Hiestand-Moore co-edited Godey's Lady's Book in the 1880s, and wrote short fiction, including "Le Valet du Diable" (1881), in Potter's American Monthly; "Up in the Greenwood Tree" (1884), "A Parisian Idyl" (1884), "Solid for Whom?" (1887), "Con Amore: A Nocturne in Gray" (1887), "The Shears of Atropos" (1887), "Allan's Masquerade" (1887), "When the Ship Comes In" (1888), and "The Wild Irishman" (1888), all in Godey's Lady's Book; "Fu Chow's Lottery",[10] "The Cigarettes of Ishmond",[11] "A Bargain in Ancestors",[12] "Miss Brown's Baggage",[13] and "A Proof of Title",[14] all published in The Pacific Monthly in 1904; and "An Episode in a Motor Car" (1906),[15] also in The Pacific Monthly. Her non-fiction writing included "Something about Tapestry" (1880, Potter's), "The Daily Papers" (1881, Potter's), "Furniture and Furnishing" (1881, Potter's), and "Novelties in Fancy Work" (1882, Godey's).

Heistand-Moore was founder and editor of The Theosophic Voice, a Chicago-based journal representing a faction of American theosophy.[16][17] She lectured at the Theosophical Society meetings in Chicago,[18][19] and in other cities.[20]

Personal life

Eleanor Blair married twice. Her first husband was John Howard Hiestand; they married in 1879. Her second husband was William Chestnut Moore; they married in 1892. She died in 1923, aged 64 years, in Philadelphia.[21]

References
  1. Blair, Edward P. "Dr. Eleanor M. Hiestand Moore" Blair Family Magazine 17(Spring 1999): 10.
  2. Steen, Moses Duncan Alexander (1917). The Steen family in Europe and America: a genealogical, historical and biographical record of nearly three hundred years, extending from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Monfort & company. p. 434.
  3. College, Bryn Mawr (1891). Calendar: Undergraduate and Graduate Courses. p. 11.
  4. "Books". The Woman's Medical Journal. 6: 230. 1897.
  5. "Notes About Women". The Des Moines Register. 1916-11-18. p. 4. Retrieved 2020-08-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. "Slogan 'Ballots for Both' Wins". Woman's Journal and Suffrage News. 47: 1. November 25, 1916.
  7. Kenneth Florey, "Suffrage Buttons" from Women's Suffrage Memorabilia: An Illustrated Historical Study (McFarland 2013) ISBN 978-0786472932.
  8. "Suffrage Meeting Opens Tomorrow". The Pittsburgh Press. 1916-11-20. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-08-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. "Suffragists to Help War by Patched Shoes". The Champaign County News. 1917-04-11. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-08-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. Hiestand-Moore, Eleanor M. (March 1904). "Fu Chow's Lottery". The Pacific Monthly. 11: 150–154.
  11. Hiestand-Moore, Eleanor M. (February 1904). "The Cigarettes of Ishmond". The Pacific Monthly. 11: 87–91.
  12. Hiestand-Moore, Eleanor M. (May 1904). "A Bargain in Ancestors". The Pacific Monthly. 11: 295–299.
  13. Hiestand-Moore, Eleanor M. (June 1904). "Miss Brown's Baggage". The Pacific Monthly. 11: 383–387.
  14. Hiestand-Moore, Eleanor M. (January 1904). "A Proof of Title". The Pacific Monthly. 11: 10–13.
  15. Hiestand-Moore, Eleanor M. (September 1906). "An Episode in a Motor Car". The Pacific Monthly. 16: 327–332.
  16. Cleather, Alice Leighton (1922). Helena Petrovna Blavatsky: A Great Betrayal. Library of Alexandria. ISBN 978-1-4655-1456-1.
  17. "John D. Sure of Heaven". The Muncie Daily Herald. 1906-10-26. p. 3. Retrieved 2020-08-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "Miscellaneous". Chicago Tribune. 1905-11-26. p. 72. Retrieved 2020-08-09 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Miscellaneous". Chicago Tribune. 1906-01-07. p. 19. Retrieved 2020-08-09.
  20. "Lectured on Ancient Wisdom". Webb City Register. 1907-06-17. p. 2. Retrieved 2020-08-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. "Dr. Eleanor M. H. Moore". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1923-12-01. p. 24. Retrieved 2020-08-10 – via Newspapers.com.
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