Ella B. Kendrick

Ella B. Kendrick ( Bagnell; May 24, 1849 – May 11, 1928) was an American temperance activist. She also served as the associate editor of New England Home, one of the leading prohibition newspapers of the country. Through the columns, she waged a systematic campaign against all liquor traffic.

Early life and education Ella B. Bagnell was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, close to Plymouth Rock, May 24, 1849. She was the daughter of Richard William Bagnell (1822-1918) and Harriet S. Allen Bagnell (1826-1891). Kendrick's siblings were Susan (b. 1854), Richard (b. 1856), and Timothy (b. 1860). and in the following year removed to Meriden, Connecticut, where she spent several years in her husband's store and acquired skill in business management. In 1922, she announced:— "I am out to be chief of police and I will support the man for mayor who will appoint me to that position."

Personal life Her home in Meriden was a museum of antiques and curios, books, pictures, china, articles of furniture and bric-a-brac, together with various objects of natural history, stones and plants, including a unique fossil of a fruit of the cycad, taken by her husband from the Triassic shales of Durham, Connecticut.