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Tillotson, Mary Ella

author, poet, teacher of hygienic law in diet and clothing, was born Nov. 15, 1816, in central New York.

She has been a successful teacher of select schools, secretary of many societies and a lecturer and writer for the liberal and radical press. Her whole life has been devoted to science, literature, and universal reform. In 1850 she was married to Mr.

C. B. Tillotson, a distant relative of the same name as her own. She studied diseases and remedies, but instead of practicing cures, taught preventives. She has traveled, lectured, formed societies, made six anti-fashions conventions, and gave to women a moral plan of teaching children. Although nearly fourscore years of age she made a speech at the World's Columbian exposition entitled Light of the World. She is the author of two works on Effects of Press on Health; and a History of the Dress Movement from 1850 to 1885. She is also the author of a poetic volume entitled Love and Transition; and a volume of Miscellaneous Poems.