Ida Fuller

Ida Mable Fuller Pierce (November 28, 1854 – September 26, 1930) was one of the founders of Sigma Kappa sorority.

Early life Ida Fuller was born on November 28, 1854, in Albion, Maine. Her parents were Louise J. and David B. Fuller. However, she left the college during her junior year due to illness and never graduated. Fuller and Mary Caffrey Low Carver, Elizabeth Gorham Hoag, Frances Elliott Mann Hall, and Louise Helen Coburn decided to form a literary and social society.

She was honored at the sorority's 39th annual convention in Denver, Colorado in July 1913.

Personal life After leaving Colby College, Fuller went to Kansas in 1880 to seek a drier climate for her health. Pierce was a physician and pharmacist. The couple lived in Eureka, Kansas, where she was active in club and social life. Her husband predeceased her in May 5, 1890.

After her husband died in 1890, she was the vice-president of a Kansas bank and established the Girls' Hotel in Kansas City, an affordable accommodation for lower-income women. During World War I, she was in charge of organizing supply depots for the American Red Cross in Eureka and also lectured on food conservation across the United States. She was a relief worker during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

In her last two years, she lived at 1176 Sunnyhill Road in Oakland, California, with Mrs. F. G. Battram. She died on September 26, 1930, aged 76, in Oakland. She was buried at Greenwood Cemetery in Eureka.