Ethel Marie Armes (1876 – 1945) was an American journalist, author and historian.

She worked as a reporter for the Chicago Chronicle in 1899 and then The Washington Post during 1900–1903.

[1] During the period from 1905–06 she was on the staff of the Birmingham Age-Herald and performed syndicated work for magazines and newspapers.

[3] She never married, but in 1925 she adopted a ten year old girl, Catherine, to whom she had been a foster parent.

[2] Her burial site is at Oak Hill Cemetery, with her mother, Lucy Hamilton Kerr Armes, in Washington, D.C.[4][citation needed]