Anne Ellis
Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums. The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.
Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center. the Saguache County Museum in Saguache, Colorado had a display on her. Provided by Wikipedia
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