| 词条 | Elia Goode Byington |
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| name = Elia Goode Byington | embed = | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = ELIA GOODE BYINGTON.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = "A woman of the century" | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Elia Warren Goode | birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|3|24}} | birth_place = Thomaston, Georgia, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1936|2|3|1858|3|24}} | death_place = | resting_place = Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Georgia, U.S. | occupation = journalist | language = English | residence = | nationality = American | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = Furlow Female College, Georgia Female College | period = | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = {{marriage|Edward Telfair Byington|1877}} | partner = | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = }} Elia Goode Byington (March 24, 1858 – February 3, 1936) was an American journalist. With her husband, she was joint proprietor, editor, and manager of the Columbus Evening Ledger. Early years and educationElia Warren Goode{{sfn|Davidson|2009|p=528}} was born in Thomaston, Georgia, March 24, 1858.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=143}} She came from a distinguished Georgia family, being the daughter of Col. Charles T. Goode, of Americus, and granddaughter of Gen. Eli Warren, of Perry.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=144}} She received her education in the Furlow Female College, in Americus and in the Georgia Female College in Madison.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=144}} CareerHer father died when she was sixteen, leaving a large family and a limited income. Because of her knowledge of music, she became a teacher. After two years,{{sfn|Illustrated American Publishing Company|1890|p=627}} in 1877, she married Edward Telfair Byington. Becoming interested in her husband’s journalistic labors, she began to assist him with her writing. With her husband, she was joint proprietor, editor and manager of the Columbus Evening Ledger, a successful southern daily. She was interested in the intellectual and industrial progress of woman, and as such, with the exception of the carrier boys and four men for outdoor work, all of the employees of the Evening Ledger office were women. Byington also organized a Worker's Club as an aid to the many young girls who were burdened with southern conservatism.{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=144}}{{sfn|Illustrated American Publishing Company|1890|p=627}} Byington was president of the Woman's Press Club of Georgia,{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=143}} as well as secretary and treasurer of the Art Club, the leading social and literary organization of Columbus.{{sfn|Illustrated American Publishing Company|1890|p=627}} She was also a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, serving as Recording Secretary of the Oglethorpe Chapter of Columbus.{{sfn|National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution|1899|p=79}} Byington lived in Georgia all her life,{{sfn|Willard|Livermore|1893|p=144}} and died February 3, 1936, and is buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, Georgia. ReferencesAttribution
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10 : 1858 births|1936 deaths|19th-century American journalists|19th-century American women writers|19th-century American newspaper publishers (people)|19th-century American newspaper editors|People from Thomaston, Georgia|Daughters of the American Revolution|American women non-fiction writers|Women newspaper editors |
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