Arizona republican., 1913-01-26
CLUB WOMAN OF
 NOTE IN CITY
Miss Elizabeth Murray Coffin Pays Visit Here and May be Heard from Lecture Platform Later on

Miss Elizabeth Murray Coffin. club woman, theologian. suffragist
 and charming young woman, is an interested and interesting visitor to the millionaire philanthropist, former ly of Fort Dodge Ia, but now of Los Angeles, Miss Coffin has chosen 1 like Helen Gould chose early in life to be more than a society belle She is even now engaged in the study Of law with a view of further increas- ing her efficiency and hopes soon to complete book upon which she has been engaged for some time.
 Primarily the ambition of Miss Golf fin is to help the working girls, but her work is so broad in it's scope as to include whatever she feels a young ] woman of resource can do for the entire advancement of the human | race Agricultural schools for girls, the removal of county jails into the open country. votes for women and | free expression of uplifting teachings l through the press are some of the 1 lines along which she works. Just now. besides giving voice to her sen ! tfments through the medium of the 1 lecture stage. she is actively en- gagged in editorial work upon the West Coast Magazine sharing honors 1 with John S. McGroarty. While Miss Coffin leaves tonight for her home ! in Los Angeles, she will have had 1 conferences with the leaders of the various Phoenix women's clubs before 1 leaving with the end in view of ar
 ranging for her public appearance here at some later date.
 | Of her father and his work, Miss
 Coffin never tires of talking. She
 has been long identified with him l in his work and talks more of hin l than of herself. Colonel Coffin was for several years Railroad Commis- sioner of Iowa and held other posi- ttions of public trust in that state
 He has done more for railroad mer
 than any other man in his native state and is known as the fathe of the safety laws" He also es
 tablished the Home for Aged anC
 Disabled Railroad Men and is seek
 ing to obtain for it permanen
 endowment.
 Another monument to the living i
 the agricultural college for girls, es
 tabIshed by Mir Coffin in one o his ranches in Iowa. the first of it
 kind in the world Miss Coffil , hopes some day to see similar in stitution firmly established in tn } southwest
 f Independently Miss Coffin is en gagged in all the forward movement of her adopted state. She is an ac / tive club woman, a reader and lee ' turer of ability and is also an au : thoress of note having written no vels and short stories that have plac I cd her name among those of tn nations prominent writers She I now engaged in writing a story c 2 the middle west, which she state t last evening would be complete | shortly
 3 She was chairman of the state or I ganization for suffrage work in low
 | where her experience as a lecture
 made her especially efficient. Sh
 was the first girl to win prize fc e original oratory in the Northwester e University at Evanston, Hi, afte S having won six scholarships in ht = 1 prep. school. She also took a theC k logical course. but concluded that sl '. could be more useful as an actiN - campaigner for her sex. Miss Golf d has just returned from a visit O Detroit. where she was the guest = Mme. Calve in her beautiful hom 1 and also visited Mrs. Pennybacl1e
 the president of the National FeC
 eration of Womans clubs. in Austi Ia | Texas.
 sr There is every probability that Mi. h Coffin will be induced to give or ,e of her lectures here in the near fl n ture and if she does. those who hei le her. upon whatever subject she cleo
 to speak, will be assured of tres