1862-1951
Radical Labor Organizer, Journalist, Suffragist

Radical Activist.

A radical activist, Ella Bloor had little patience with ideological debate. Her single goal was "to make life happier for the world's unfortunates." Reeve grew up on Staten Island, New York. She attended public schools, briefly went to the Ivy Hall Seminary, and then was taught by her mother at home. When Reeve was seventeen, her mother died in childbirth, and Ella was responsible for caring for her nine younger siblings.

Early Political Interests and First Marriage.

Reeve's father leaned toward political and religious conservatism, so that when she became interested in social and political reform as a teenager, she turned to her great uncle, Dan Ware, who was an abolitionist, Unitarian, and freethinker. Ware had a strong influence on her intellectual growth. When she was nineteen, Reeve married Dan Ware's son, Lucien Ware...