IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES

IOWA CITY, IOWA

ELLA BUSHNELL-HAMLIN

PAPERS, 1912-1985

(bulk 1912-1930)

7 items

ACQUISITION: The papers (donor no. 282) were donated by Cindy Partington in 1995.

ACCESS: The papers are open for research.

COPYRIGHT: Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa.

PROCESSED BY: Kristen Rassbach, 1997.

Biography

          Ella Bushnell-Hamlin, portrait artist, musician, teacher, suffragist, and editor, was born Ella Grace Coney, married Jonathan Cline, divorced him, and changed her name legally to Ella G. Bushnell-Hamlin. Her name was taken from her mother's name, Martha Bushnell, and a long line of Hamlins on her father's side stemming from the Hamlins who came to England with William the Conqueror's army.

         Bushnell-Hamlin edited both The Trident, a weekly magazine, between 1904 and 1910, and the magazine, Farm Gist. Later, she owned and operated Trident Publishing Company in Davenport, Iowa. She was also a schoolteacher in Atalissa, Iowa for a short time.        

Scope and Content Note

         The Ella Bushnell-Hamlin papers date from 1912 to 1985 and contain 7 items. The bulk of the collection is photocopies of newspaper clippings. A section of a master's project on women's suffrage which discusses Bushnell-Hamlin and a photocopy of the "Iowa State Song" written by Bushnell-Hamlin are also part of the collection.

Related Collections

         Copies of The Trident for the years 1904-1906 are held in the Special Collections Department, University of Iowa Libraries.