City: Nashville
PAGE, (Mrs.) Elizabeth Fry, associate editor Taylor-Trotwood Magazine; born in Virginia; paternally, a lineal descendant of Sir Joshua FRY, and on her mother’s side, a descendant of Pocahontas and John ROLFE, through the BOLLINGS and FLEMINGS of Va.; her father was the late Col. George Thomson FRY, who was a lawyer and orator, and her mother is a writer of ability; paternal grandparents, Henry H. and Elizabeth Sharkey (Peck) FRY, maternal grandparents, Andrew Jackson and Lucy (Evans) COOLEY; she was reared and educated in Georgia, and has been a resident of Nashville since her marriage to David S. PAGE in 1898; she began to write when quite young, and after contributing a feature article, story or poem to the Chattanooga Sunday Times for three years, she became editor of the Southern Florist and Gardener, a horticultural monthly, published in Chattanooga and Louisville; at that time she was the only woman in America in charge of such a magazine; she has been editorially connected with several well-known publications; she was one of the organizers of the Tennessee Woman’s Press and Authors’ Club, was its first secretary and fourth president; founder and president of the first Metaphysical club in the State; is a member of the Daughters of the Revolution, and Daughters of the Confederacy; issued “Vagabond Victor,” in 1908; she has written numerous stories, poems and essays for Eastern and Southern magazines and papers; delivered lectures at home and abroad on literary and psychological subjects; issued “Edward Mc Dowell; His Work and Ideals,” in 1910.
Source: Who’s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day. Memphis: Paul & Douglas Co, 1911.
