Born in Warsaw of Polish and French extraction,[1] von Ende emigrated to the United States when she was six, settling with her family in Milwaukee.
She moved at 19 to Chicago,[2] becoming a radical journalist in partnership with her husband, Heinrich von Ende, who died in 1879.
[3] The following year she opened a boarding school for girls of German-American extraction, the Minerva Institute.
[1] Her compositions, some of which remain in manuscript, include works for solo voice, chorus, piano, and violin.
[2] She published a variety of translations during her career, of works by writers including Georges Clemenceau, Carl Hauptmann, Egbert W. Fowler,[1] and Jakob Schaffner.