Flavia Camp Canfield

Flavia Camp Canfield (January 28, 1844 – August 12, 1930) was an American artist, author, and founder of the Columbus Federation of Women's Clubs.

Early life Flavia Camp was raised in Black Earth, Wisconsin by her mother and step-father, the Congregational pastor Asa A. Allen, with a combined total of fifteen siblings, half-siblings, and step-siblings. She taught in a local school in her late teens, and went to the University of Wisconsin in 1863, the first year it admitted women. Although she didn't speak any foreign languages, she made many trips to Europe with her daughter, for example studying art for a year in Paris.

Organisational work Canfield became interested in the nascent Women's Club Movement, and accordingly while her husband was president of Ohio State University, she began a campaign to organize and federate clubs in the Columbus region. In all she founded 26 such clubs and the Columbus Federation of Women's Clubs. and was president of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs from 1898–1900.