Gertrude Ogden Tubby

Gertrude Ogden Tubby (18 June 1878-1967) was an American teacher, author, and psychical researcher. She was the first female secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research.

Life Gertrude Ogden Tubby was born on 18 June 1878 at Kingston, New York. After graduating, she was Managing Editor of the Smith Alumnae Quarterly.

In 1908, Tubby edited and published the novelist Donna R. Cole's Chums: Or, An Experiment in Economics, a "volume of contemporaneous history" (under the pseudonym D. R. C.): "sane wholesome stories of a number of living women and girls who have met and overcome various obstacles in life." This was described in The New York Times as containing "several stories relating to the experiences of several people involved in slum work."

In 1907, Tubby became the special research assistant to James H. Hyslop, President of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR). Of Psychics and Mediums, the Edinburgh Evening News wrote:She brings to her task 17 years of experience in psychic research, having for that period, first as the assistant secretary, and then the secretary, of the American Society for Psychical Research. personally conducted and recorded more than 4000 mediumistic seances. Miss Tubby has an orderly mind which enables her to clarify the matter with which she deals and to give it scientific classification. Her advice on such subjects as the individual development of mediumship, and how to conduct a psychic seance is lucidly and methodically set forth. Tubby had control of Hyslop's papers, which she ultimately donated to the Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship (now the International Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship).

Gertrude Tubby died in July 1967.