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Ella Maria Ballou

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321: 28: 108:(November 15, 1852 – July 29, 1937) was an American writer who worked as a stenographer, reporter, and essayist. She started her career as a teacher, but finding the compensation for women in this vocation too small, she took up the study of shorthand and became so proficient that she went into the courts and wrote evidence and arguments until she became noted among attorneys. In 1885, upon the numerous applications of the 311: 279: 254: 132:
a teacher, she learned shorthand and adopted it as a life-work. The persistence and thoroughness that had been a characteristic of her girlhood manifested itself in her work, and she went into the courts and wrote out evidence and argument until she became noted for accuracy and skill, and in 1885, upon the unanimous application of the
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When not in court, Ballou did general work in her profession. She also did some literary work in the line of essays and addresses. Ballou was a practical example of what may be done by women, and while she earnestly claimed her rights as a woman and her full right to have as much pay for her labor as
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Immediately after leaving school, she began teaching, in which vocation she was successful, but was rebellious over what she considered the injustice of requiring her to accept for equal service a much smaller compensation than was paid to a man of equal or less ability. After a few years of labor as
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is paid to a man for the same service, she did not support suffrage or hold office.
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Ella Maria Ballou died July 29, 1937. She is buried at the Ballou-Tifft Lot in
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893).
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"A Woman of the Century"
A Woman of the Century
Wallingford, Vermont
North Smithfield, Rhode Island
Rutland County
Vermont Supreme Court
Wallingford, Vermont
Rutland County
Wheelock G. Veazey
Addison
North Smithfield, Rhode Island
"Ballou Surname Index: Genetic Reference Guide Photographs"
Logan 1912



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The Part Taken by Women in American History
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