Eleanor Hiestand Moore (October 20, 1859 – November 29, 1923), born Eleanor Moore Gill, was an American physician, writer, editor, and suffragist. She coined the suffrage slogan "Ballots for Both", to win a 1916 contest.

Early life and education

Eleanor Moore Gill was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Samuel Brown Wylie Gill and Ann Eliza Blair Gill. Her father was a lawyer. She attended

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and

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, and earned a medical degree in 1890, at the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania''.''

Career

Hiestand-Moore (her name was given with and without the hyphen) was assistant editor of the ''Medical Register'' from 1887 to 1889. She taught chemistry at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania from 1890 to 1895. In 1916, she entered and won a slogan contest sponsored by the

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(NAWSA), with "Ballots for Both", which was used on pins in the last years of the American campaign. In 1917 she was mentioned among the prominent

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suffragists wearing foregoing new shoes as a wartime sacrifice. Hiestand-Moore co-edited '' Godey's Lady's Book'' in the 1880s, and wrote short fiction, including "Le Valet du Diable" (1881), in ''Potter's American Monthly''; "Up in the Greenwood Tree" (1884), "A Parisian Idyl" (1884), "Solid for Whom?" (1887), "Con Amore: A Nocturne in Gray" (1887), "The Shears of Atropos" (1887), "Allan's Masquerade" (1887), "When the Ship Comes In" (1888), and "The Wild Irishman" (1888), all in ''Godey's Lady's Book''; "Fu Chow's Lottery", "The Cigarettes of Ishmond", "A Bargain in Ancestors", "Miss Brown's Baggage", and "A Proof of Title", all published in ''

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'' in 1904; and "An Episode in a Motor Car" (1906), also in ''The Pacific Monthly''. Her non-fiction writing included "Something about Tapestry" (1880, ''Potter's''), "The Daily Papers" (1881, ''Potter's''), "Furniture and Furnishing" (1881, ''Potter's''), and "Novelties in Fancy Work" (1882, ''Godey's)''. Heistand-Moore was founder and editor of ''The Theosophic Voice'', a Chicago-based journal representing a faction of American

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. She lectured at the

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meetings in Chicago, and in other cities.

Personal life

Eleanor Blair married twice. Her first husband was John Howard Hiestand; they married in 1879. Her second husband was William Chestnut Moore; they married in 1892. She died in 1923, aged 64 years, in Philadelphia.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Eleanor Hiestand 1859 births 1923 deaths American women physicians American women writers American magazine editors Women magazine editors American Theosophists Suffragists from Pennsylvania People from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania