Greenfield, Missouri
Greenfield is a city in Dade County, Missouri. The population was 1,220 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dade County.
History
Greenfield was laid out in 1841, and named for the greenery of the original town site. A post office calle ...
Wells was born to Harry Taylor Wells (1853–1932), a dentist, and Ella Morella Wells (née Bennett; 1856–1939).
Career
Wells, in 1916, earned a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Southern California. She was an associate with Arthur Wilson Eckman (1885–1974) in the Walter P. Story Building in the Broadway Theater and Commercial Districts of Los Angeles. For a little over two years, beginning December 18, 1921, Wells was Assistant State Inheritance Tax Attorney for California. She resigned January 31, 1924, to take charge of the Women's Bureau of the Johnson-for-President Club of Southern California. She then went on to serve as Deputy City Prosecutor for Los Angeles from about 1927 to about 1939.
Affiliations
While studying law at USC, Wells was a member of
Phi Delta Delta
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Professional Women's Club
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. She was a member of the Women Lawyers' Club, Republican Study Club,
Soroptimist Club
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Wells moved to California in 1908 and lived at 1744 West 24th St., Los Angeles, California. Wells, in 1943 in Berkeley, California, married
Lloyd Stowell Shapley
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(1875–1959) (his second of three marriages; her first), a naval captain who, among other things, served as the 23rd
Naval Governor of Guam
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