Ethel Armes

Ethel Marie Armes (1876 – 1945) was an American journalist, author and historian.

Ethel Armes
Ethel Armes 1915
BornEthel Marie Armes
(1876-12-31)December 31, 1876
Washington, D.C., U.S.
DiedSeptember 28, 1945(1945-09-28) (aged 68)
Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.
Occupationjournalist, author, historian

Biography

Born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Col. George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr, Armes was raised in Washington, D.C. where she attended private schools. She worked as a reporter for the Chicago Chronicle in 1899 and then Washington Post during 1900–1903.[1]

During the period from 1905–06 she was on the staff of the Birmingham Age-Herald and performed syndicated work for magazines and newspapers. She authored a number of important historical works.[2]

In 1904 she became engaged to the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and planned to join him in Japan, but broke off the engagement under scandalous circumstances; learning Noguchi, was married to Léonie Gilmour, while having a love-affair with Armes, and another homosexual relationship with the writer Charles Warren Stoddard, who was a friend of Armes.[3]

She never married, but in 1925 she adopted a ten year old girl, Catherine, who she had been a foster parent to. Her daughter married Richard W. Millar, and had two children.[4]

Her burial site is at Oak Hill Cemetery, with her mother, Lucy Hamilton Kerr Armes, in Washington, D.C.[5]

Selected works
  • Midsummer in Whittier's country: a little study of Sandwich Center, Advance Press, 1905.[6]
  • The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama (original edition published by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1910), Beechwood Books, 1987.[7]
  • Studies of Red Mountain from my balcony: a fugitive essay (originally published as Christmas Booklet Number One, Pathfinder, 1911), J.P. Cather & H.W. Brown, 1982.[8]
  • The Washington manor house: England's gift to the world, co-authored with Sulgrave Institution, New York, 1922.[9]
  • Stratford on the Potomac, co-authored with Sidney Lanier, Catherine Claiborne Armes, etal., William Alexander Jr. Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1928.[10]
  • Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees, Garrett & Massie, 1936.[11]

References
  1. Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915, New York: American Commonwealth Company, p. 53.
  2. "Collection: Ethel Marie Armes papers | Special Collections & Archives". archives.lib.ua.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  3. Butler, John (2019-10-11). ""Yone Noguchi: The Stream of Fate (Volume 1: The Western Sea)" by Edward Marx". Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  4. "Collection: Ethel Marie Armes papers | Special Collections & Archives". archives.lib.ua.edu. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  5. "Ethel Marie Armes (1876-1945) - Find A Grave..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 2020-11-11.
  6. Armes, Ethel (1905). Midsummer in Whittier's country; a little study of Sandwich Center,. Birmingham, Ala.: Advance Press. OCLC 4071285.
  7. Armes, Ethel (1987). The story of coal and iron in Alabama. Leeds, Ala.: Beechwood Books. ISBN 978-0-912221-03-8. OCLC 17645013.
  8. Armes, Ethel (1982). Studies of Red Mountain from my balcony: a fugitive essay. Birmingham, Ala.: J.P. Cather & H.W. Brown. OCLC 10835815.
  9. Armes, Ethel; Sulgrave Institution (1922). The Washington manor house; England's gift to the world,. New York: American Branch of the Sulgrave Institution. OCLC 2358177.
  10. Armes, Ethel; Lanier, Sidney; Armes, Catherine Clairborne; United Daughters of the Confederacy; William Alexander, Jr. Chapter, No. 1914 (Greenwich, Conn.) (1928). Stratford on the Potomac. Greenwich, Conn.: William Alexander Jr. Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy. OCLC 3433796.
  11. Armes, Ethel (1936). Stratford Hall. The great house of the Lees, etc. [With plates, including portraits. Garrett & Massie: Richmond, Va. OCLC 556816129.
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