Amabel Anderson Arnold

Her father was a natural-born United States citizen and her mother belonged to the Burgess family, of English ancestry, known among the most progressive people of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - well educated, prosperous and of sterling quality.

Without completing high school, at 16, she started to teach in the lower grades and at the same time she was actively engaged in church and club work, on several occasions organizing and promoting literary and physical culture clubs.

[3] After some years spent as a teacher, in 1910 Anderson entered the City College of Law and Finance, attending the night courses.

The fourth year, the work field, she enrolled at Benton College of Law, again the only woman.

[1][3] In 1907 Anderson moved to St. Louis and she opened and managed for 6 years the Arnold Preparatory School in the Benoist Building.

Anderson and her assistants tutored them privately and placed them in nearly every department of every college and university in St. Louis and in other cities.

[3][4] In 1908, while operating her own school, Anderson also accepted a position as instructor of Latin in the Dental Department of the Saint Louis University, the only woman in the faculty.

[3] Anderson was an advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment and Women's suffrage in the United States.