Flora Warren Seymour

Flora Warren Seymour (1888 – 1948) was an American lawyer and author.^[1][2][3] She was appointed as the first woman member of the Board of Indian Commissioners by President Warren G. Harding.^[3]

Flora Warren Seymour
Seymour in 1925
Born	Flora Warren 1888 (1888) Cleveland, Ohio, US
Died	December 10, 1948(1948-12-10) (aged 59–60) Chicago, Illinois, US
Education	George Washington University
Occupation(s)	Lawyer, writer
Spouse	George Steele Seymour ​ ​ (m. 1915)​

Biography

Flora Warren was born in Cleveland, Ohio.^[4] She spent the majority of her childhood in Washington D.C. She received her B.A., LL. B., and LL. M. degrees from George Washington University.^[5] She at the Indian Service while completing her degrees.^{[citation needed]} She worked as a lawyer in Chicago.^[6]

She married writer George Steele Seymour in 1915, and was admitted to the Illinois bar in the same year. She was admitted to the practice of law before the United States Supreme Court in 1919. With her husband she helped found the Order of Bookfellows - a Chicago-based literary society- and then served as its executive head. She also helped publish and edit its organ, the monthly magazine The Step-Ladder^[7] from 1920 through 1922.^[8] Most of Seymour's published books were historical and dealt with Native Americans or frontiersmen.

She lived at 4917 Blackstone Avenue in Chicago.^[4] She died in Chicago on December 10, 1948.^[9]

Works

Books

• William De Morgan, a Post-Victorian Realist (Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1920)
• The Five Civilized American Indian Tribes (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924)
• The Story of the Sioux Indians (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924)
• The Indians of the Pueblos (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924)
• History of the New York Indians (Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius Co., 1925)
• The Indians Today (Chicago: B.H. Sanborn, 1926)
• Songs from the Stepladder (Chicago: Bookfellows, 1927)
• The Boys' Life of Frémont (New York: The Century Co., 1928)
• The Boys' Life of Kit Carson (New York: The Century Co., 1929)
• The Story of the Red Man (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929)
• Women of Trail and Wigwam (New York: Woman Press, 1930)
• Sam Houston, Patriot (New York: London, Century Co., 1930)
• Lords of the Valley: Sir William Johnson and his Mohawk Brothers (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1930)
• Daniel Boone: Pioneer (New York: Century Co., 1931)
• The Story of the Red Man (New York: Tudor Pub. Co., 1934)
• Meriwether Lewis: Trail Blazer (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1937)
• La Salle, Explorer of Our Midland Empire (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939)
• We Called Them Indians^[10] (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940)
• Indian Agents of the Old Frontier (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1941)
• The Indian in American Life (New York: Friendship Press, 1944)
• Sacagawea: Bird Girl (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Co., 1945)
• Pocahontas: Brave Girl (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Co., 1946)

Articles

• "Land Titles in the Pueblo Indian Country", American Bar Association Journal. Vol. 10, No.1, 1924. p. 37.
• "Burlesquing the American Indian", Woman Lawyers' Journal. Vol. 13, No.2, 1924. pp. 3–6.
• "Our Indian Land Policy", Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, No. 2, June–October 1926. p. 97.

References

1. Who was who Among North American Authors, 1921-1939. Gale Research Company. July 7, 1976. ISBN 9780810310414 – via Google Books.
2. Who's who in Chicago. A.N. Marquis & Company. July 7, 1926 – via Google Books.
3. Phillips, Marie Tello (September 1923). "The Honorable Flora Warren Seymour". Social Progress. VII (9): 284–285. Retrieved July 7, 2023 – via Google Books.
4. The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ... Halvord Publishing Company. July 7, 1924 – via Google Books.
5. "Flora Warren Seymour". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
6. "A Member Honored". Women Lawyers' Journal. 12 (4). Women Lawyers' Club: 30. August 1923 – via Google Books.
7. "Lovecraft and the Order of Bookfellows". www.jurn.link. Retrieved July 22, 2023.
8. Social Progress: A Magazine for the New Day. Vol. 7, No. 9. September 1923, pp. 284-285.
9. "Flora Warren Seymour". The Sheboygan Press. December 13, 1948. p. 12. Retrieved July 7, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
10. Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1942. Hw Wilson Company. July 7, 1942. ISBN 9780824204792 – via Google Books.