Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen

Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen (January 1, 1878 – December 25, 1958) was the founder of the Jerusalem News, the first English-language newspaper in Jerusalem in 1919, and the Women's International Association of Aeronautics in 1929.

During World War I, McQueen, the wife of a wealthy manufacturer, served in war relief work in Palestine. McQueen returned to Palestine after the war where she and William Denison McCrackan founded the Jerusalem News, the first English-language newspaper in Jerusalem in 1919. After her interest in aviation was ignited, McQueen organized the Women's Aeronautic Association of California, which was soon merged with similar organizations internationally into the Women's International Association of Aeronautics (WIAA). The organization became the principal focus of McQueen's life. In addition to being the founding member, she was also the first vice-president of the WIAA. In 1929, McQueen conceived the idea of the Women's Air Derby an women's air race from Santa Monica, California to Cleveland, Ohio.

Early life Lippincott was born on New Year's Eve in 1878 in Salem County, New Jersey. Her parents were the Reverend Dr. Benjamin Crispin Lippincott, a Methodist minister and the first superintendent of public instruction in Washington Territory, and his second wife, Deborah Hand Diverty.

In 1900, Elizabeth married Ulysses Grant McQueen, a wealthy New York City inventor and manufacturer.

Palestine During World War I, McQueen left her home and served in war relief work in Palestine under Field Marshal Allenby.

McQueen returned to Palestine after the war a prominent retired Los Angeles physician, about 1955.

Her archive is at the University of Southern California, Doheny Memorial Library in the Rare Books & Manuscripts room.