Alice Moore McComas

Alice Moore McComas
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Alice Moore June 18, 1850 Paris, Illinois, US
Died	December 19, 1919(1919-12-19) (aged 69) Los Angeles, California, US
Occupation	author, editor, lecturer, reformer
Language	English
Alma mater	Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College
Notable works	The Women of the Canal Zone, Under the Peppers
Spouse	Charles C. McComas ​ (m. 1871)​

Alice Moore McComas (née, Moore; June 18, 1850 – December 19, 1919) was an American author, editor, lecturer and reformer. She was a pioneer suffragist in California and served as president of the Los Angeles Equal Suffrage Association. During the various suffrage campaigns, McComas contributed articles to over seventy newspapers and magazines, and she was well known throughout the west as an educator and lecturer. She was accredited with being the first woman to conduct a department for women in a daily paper in California, and the first woman to address a state Republican ratification meeting. She was one of the earliest organizers of the Free Kindergarten Association and of clubs for working women, and was prominent in many movements for civic welfare. She was Associate Editor of The Household Journal of California and author of several books, among them The Women of the Canal Zone and Under the Peppers. McComas contributed travel sketches to many magazines.^[1][2] She died in 1919.