Anne Ellis

Anne Ellis (1875 - 1938) was an American author and local official who wrote two memoirs[1] chronicling her life in Colorado coal mining camps and her struggles with asthma including at sanitoriums.

The University of Colorado awarded her an honorary degree and has a collection of her papers.

[2] She covered subjects including cooking for a telephone gang, sheep shearing, race relations, Native Americans, county politics, and equal rights conventions in her writing.

[3] Her face is among those included in a tile mural created by Barbara Jo Revelle in 1989 at the Colorado Convention Center.

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