This penchant for giving came from a woman with a warm and perceptive soul. In the final third of her life, she gave generously to projects that stimulated her intellect as well as her love of nature, medicine and humanity. Almost from her earliest days in the seaside community, her generosity was felt not only in La Jolla, but also throughout San Diego County and the rest of Southern California. Her move to La Jolla in 1896 set the stage for the philanthropic legacy that was to flow from this amassed wealth. Louis Chronicle, Cincinnati Post, that would eventually grow to a 24-paper major newspaper chain, Miss Ellen worked beside them and became a wealthy woman. As her brothers continued building the newspapers, Cleveland Press, St. It was a lucrative progression for Miss Ellen. In 1932, the year of her death, her column was one of the world’s largest newspaper features, distributed to approximately 1,000 newspapers in the country every day. She continued her career in journalism until the end of her days. When her brother James started the Detroit Evening News, Ellen joined him, proof reading and writing a front page feature “Matters and Things,” which included thoughts from this progressive and far-thinking young woman on the yet unheard doctrines of women’s suffrage and prohibition. After graduation, she took a position as a school teacher in Rushville. One of the first women to attend college in the United States, Miss Ellen completed her studies in 1858 at Illinois’ Knox College. Even then, hers was a pursuit of education and knowledge.
Terming her the “most beloved woman in Southern California,” Time magazine honored Miss Ellen for her philanthropy which made possible the establishment of numerous major health, educational and cultural institutions throughout the state of California.īorn on October 18, 1836, Ellen Browning Scripps was seven years old when her father, James Mogg Scripps, a London bookbinder, settled with his family in Rushville, Illinois. La Jolla’s Ellen Browning Scripps, at age 89, became a member of that exclusive club on February 22, 1926.
“The most important and beautiful gift one human being can give to another is, in some way, to make life a little better to live.” -Ellen Browning Scripps, Founder, 1924įew women have graced the cover of Time magazine since the periodical’s beginning in 1923.
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