Lucie Fulton Isaacs

As a writer of essays and descriptive articles, she was known to early readers of the Overland magazine and other western periodicals under various pen names, suffering from shyness that made her shrink from publicity.

[6][better source needed] Isaacs crossed the Great Plains in an emigrant wagon train that left St. Joseph, Missouri in April 1847, and reached the Willamette Valley via the Oregon Trail and the Barlow Road.

[7] During the long, hot summer, as the covered wagons wound their way across the prairies, Isaacs often rode with her father mounted on her mother's mare, "Zilpha".

[7] It was in the traditional log cabin schoolhouse of Yamhill that Isaacs received the beginnings of her education, riding 3 miles (4.8 km) through the woods each morning, with her brother Jamie and other neighborhood children.

[7] On Sundays they went to church in the family carryall to the same schoolhouse, where there was a sermon in the morning and another in the afternoon with a basket luncheon in between, the children being expected to sit quietly through hours of scripture reading.

Isaacs gradually expanded her own innate talent and became known as a writer of essays and descriptive articles for such magazines as the Overland, edited by Bret Harte.

[5] Born in Philadelphia, he was a son of Joshua Isaacs, a native of England, and Elizabeth Stuart Perry, of Scotch descent from Derry, Ireland.

With five women coadjutors, she secured the institution and appointment of a woman probation officer for that city, credit being due to Isaacs for the idea of the Salvation Army captain serving in that role.

Her activities were always diversified and her interest intelligently applied by striking at the most acute of the city's needs at the proper time to bring them to prompt adoption.

Under the guidance of Abigail Scott Duniway of Portland, Oregon, a lifelong friend and coworker, Isaacs was instrumental in securing from Congress a "head" for the "headless" Suffrage bill passed by the Legislature of the Washington Territory in 1885, later declared unconstitutional by Judge George Turner.

[8] None of her poetry was ever published, but some essays and historical sketches were printed in The Pacific Monthly, Overland, and other periodicals under various pen names, while her correspondence was extensive as historian and letter writer for some years for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association, and the National Council of Women Voters.