Ellis Meredith

Ellis Meredith (1865–1955) was an American suffragist, journalist, and novelist, known as the Susan B. Anthony of Colorado.

Early years Ellis Meredith was born in Montana Territory in 1865 to Frederick Allison and Emily R. Sorin Meredith. The Merediths were settlers of Bannack by the winter of 1862–1863 when they traveled by wagon to Bitterroot Valley in southwestern Montana. Ellis, her mother and brother, went to her grandfather's house in De Soto, Missouri, for some time. In 1885, she moved to Denver with her family, where her father was a printer and later managing editor of the Rocky Mountain News.

Journalist and author She joined the Rocky Mountain News in 1893. She began writing the column A Woman's World for the Rocky Mountain News in 1889, where she (among other things) advocated women's suffrage. In 1894 she became part of the editorial staff of the Rocky Mountain News, where was the first female journalist in Colorado, and probably the United States, to cover the legislature. she became City Election Commissioner in 1910 and served in that role until 1915. Meredith was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2018.