Flora Warren Seymour (1888 – 1948) was an American lawyer and author.[1][2][3] She was appointed as the first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners by President Warren G. Harding.[3]
Flora Warren Seymour | |
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 Seymour in 1925 | |
| Born | Flora Warren 1888 Cleveland, Ohio, US |
| Died | December 10, 1948 (aged 59–60) Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Education | George Washington University |
| Occupation(s) | Lawyer, writer |
| Spouse | George Steele Seymour (m. 1915) |
Biography
Flora Warren was born in Cleveland, Ohio.[4] 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.[5] She at the Indian Service while completing her degrees.[citation needed] She worked as a lawyer in Chicago.[6]
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[7] from 1920 through 1922.[8] Most of Seymour's published books were historical and dealt with Native Americans or frontiersmen.
She lived at 4917 Blackstone Avenue in Chicago.[4] She died in Chicago on December 10, 1948.[9]
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)
- 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)
- 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[10] (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.
