[1] The Ohio Woman’s Press Association was formed in the spring of 1886, by a group of Cleveland women workers in various lines of journalism and literature.
[1] From its beginning, original, published literary work was a requisite to membership; and while the social element held a due place, much time and thought were given to serious study.
This feature, interesting and helpful at the time, served to preserve a continuous record of the work of the association as a whole.
That year, the various contributions of the members, comprising stories, poems, essays, editorials, serials, historical studies, foreign and home correspondence, had appeared in a list of some 70 newspapers and magazines, covering a territorial extent from Boston to San Francisco, and from Vermont to Georgia.
[1] Two years after the organization of the association, followed that of the Woman's Press Club of Cincinnati, and in May, 1889, the two hitherto separate societies, while still preserving their distinct individuality, were, as the Cleveland and Cincinnati branch of the Ohio Woman’s Press Association, united in a state organization, of which Arey, of Cleveland, was president, and Alice Williams Brotherton, of Cincinnati, vice-president, a union which has already proved a strong bond between the women writers of northern and southern Ohio, and from which still happier results are expected in the future.