page_title: Ella Hamilton Durley
hierarchical_section_title: Ella Hamilton Durley
caption_attribution_description: English: Ella Hamilton Durley, from a 1905 publication.
context_page_description: Ella Hamilton Durley was an American educator, newspaper editor, and journalist. She was also a peace activist and supported woman's suffrage. Durley did noteworthy work on the Saturday Mail, a Des Moines weekly publication, but her professional life was mainly given to the Des Moines Daily News, of which her husband, Preston B. Durley and her brother, John J. Hamilton, with herself, were the principal owners. Under the pen name of "Judith Jorgenson", she conducted a column of stories of real life, "Around the Evening Lamp", for many years, and it was considered especially creditable.
  As editor of The News Junior, she became the literary guide and mentor of the children of Iowa, who competed for artistic pictures which hung in hundreds of schoolhouses all over the state. Later, she became editor of the Homemaker Magazine, and still later, associate editor of the National Daily Review of Chicago, afterwards merged in the Women's National Daily of St. Louis in the latter capacity, visiting all parts of the country, interviewing former President Grover Cleveland at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, and other men and women of distinction.
context_section_description: Ella Hamilton Durley (pen name, Judith Jorgenson; ca. 1852 – August 14, 1922) was an American educator, newspaper editor, and journalist. She was also a peace activist and supported woman's suffrage. Durley did noteworthy work on the Saturday Mail, a Des Moines weekly publication, but her professional life was mainly given to the Des Moines Daily News, of which her husband, Preston B. Durley and her brother, John J. Hamilton, with herself, were the principal owners. Under the pen name of "Judith Jorgenson", she conducted a column of stories of real life, "Around the Evening Lamp", for many years, and it was considered especially creditable.
  As editor of The News Junior, she became the literary guide and mentor of the children of Iowa, who competed for artistic pictures which hung in hundreds of schoolhouses all over the state. Later, she became editor of the Homemaker Magazine, and still later, associate editor of the National Daily Review of Chicago, afterwards merged in the Women's National Daily of St. Louis in the latter capacity, visiting all parts of the country, interviewing former President Grover Cleveland at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, and other men and women of distinction. According to Printers' Ink Publishing Company, she was "one of the two or three most successful newspaper women of the United States".
caption: Ella Hamilton Durley, "A woman of the century"
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