Today’s #womeninthearchiveswednesdays is Ella Davis Isaacs.
Ella Davis Isaacs was born on October 5, 1885 to Charles K. and Ida (Fletcher) Davis in Cincinnati, Ohio. She attended the University of Cincinnati, where she met her future husband, Nathan Isaacs. After graduating in 1908, she traveled with her father Charles through Europe and around the Mediterranean between 1909 and 1910. She married Nathan in 1912. In 1924, the couple moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she became active in the Jewish community. A Life Member of Hadassah, she began attending their luncheons in 1927. The New England Women’s Association of the Hebrew College was founded at her home on March 19, 1931. As such, she was an honorary Vice-President and permanent member of the Board of Directors. She was also a Life Member of the Builders of Congregation Young Israel of Brookline, Beth Israel Hospital Women’s Auxiliary, Daughters of Israel, and the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Maimonides Educational Institute. Ella died in June 1975.
Check out her finding aid at http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1471293.
