Eleanor "Ella" Collier McWilliams Chamberlain (née McWilliams; born September 1848; died July 1934)[1] was an American women's rights activist and journalist who has been credited with starting the women's suffrage movement in Florida.
[2][3] Chamberlain was born in Mahaska County, Iowa, in September 1848, and moved to Florida in the early 1880s after she married.
[4] In the early 1890s, she organized the Florida Women's Suffrage Association and began writing articles for the "Tampa Weekly Tribune."
'"[5] Chamberlain was born in Mahaska County, Iowa, in September 1848, the oldest child of Samuel and Sarah (Jones) McWilliams.
After attending a women's rights convention in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1892, she began using the newspaper column that she wrote in the "Tampa Weekly Tribune" to further the cause.