Libbie Beach Brown

Her parents, Freedus Poe Beach (1827-1912) and Nancy (née, Lewis) (1828-1903),[2] were known as leaders in reform movements.

[1] Brown entered the teacher's profession, performing this work for five years before her marriage, in Champaign, Illinois in 1883,[2][a] to Ernest B. Hoel.

[1] She took up the teacher's vocation again, until 1890, when she accepted the position of superintendent of the Home for the Friendless, in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Brown accepted the position of superintendent for Oregon and Washington of the children's home finding society.

[7] She also served as president of Seattle's City Federation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).