Ethel Marie Armes (1876 – 1945) was an American journalist, author and historian.

Biography

Born in

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, to Col. George Augustus Armes and Lucy Hamilton Kerr (daughter of

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), Armes was raised in Washington, D.C. where she attended private schools. She worked as a reporter for the ''Chicago Chronicle'' in 1899 and then ''

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'' during 1900–1903. During the period from 1905–06 she was on the staff of the '' Birmingham Age-Herald'' and performed syndicated work for magazines and newspapers. She authored a number of important historical works. In 1904 she became engaged to the Japanese poet

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and planned to join him in Japan, but broke off the engagement after learning that, during their engagement, he had been sexually involved with another woman, Léonie Gilmour, who had borne his child (future artist

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). She never married, but in 1925 she adopted a ten year old girl, Catherine, to whom she had been a foster parent. Her daughter married Richard W. Millar, and had two children. Her burial site is at Oak Hill Cemetery, with her mother, Lucy Hamilton Kerr Armes, in Washington, D.C.

Selected works

*''Midsummer in Whittier's country: a little study of Sandwich Center'', Advance Press, 1905. *''The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama'' (original edition published by the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, 1910), Beechwood Books, 1987. *''Studies of Red Mountain from my balcony: a fugitive essay'' (originally published as Christmas Booklet Number One, Pathfinder, 1911), J.P. Cather & H.W. Brown, 1982. *''The Washington manor house: England's gift to the world'', co-authored with Sulgrave Institution, New York, 1922. *''Stratford on the Potomac'', co-authored with Sidney Lanier, Catherine Claiborne Armes, etal., William Alexander Jr. Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1928. *''Stratford Hall: The Great House of the Lees'', Garrett & Massie, 1936.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Armes, Ethel 1876 births 1945 deaths Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)