Born: 1847, United States (assumed)
Died: 1913
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
Louise Purington was a physician who became a leader in the temperance movement. Ella Gilbert Ives was an educator and author of The Evolution of a Teacher. Together Purington and Ives founded a private girls school and operated it for nearly a quarter of a century.