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Elizabeth I Barr President Arthur ( née , Barr ; after marriage , King Arthur ; compose name ,
Elizabeth N. Barr ; 1884–1971 ) was an American poet , author , journalist , librarian , and
suffragist .In 1913 , she joined the police force in Topeka , Kansas River together with Eva
Corning , the two of them becoming the low gear cleaning woman in the United States to
hold view of regular flatfoot .She was the editor and publisher of the ball club Member and
Current Topics written document .She was a fecund writer , writing editorial , historical and
feature piece of music , but she preferred to be remembered as a poet .== Early life and
education == Elizabeth Barr was born in a bunker in Lincoln County , Kansas , in
1884 .William Lovejoy Barr ( 1845–1936 ) and Mary Jane ( Brassica oleracea acephala )
Barr ( 1857–1925 ) .Her parents were siblings were Anna , John , Margaret , and Gertrude
Lawrence .When Elizabeth II was two class of age , her parents removed to Huron County ,
Wolverine State .After a district school course , she acquired a high gear school education in
the Badaxe gamey school , graduating in 1902 , but through many hardships , such as casual
covering 6 miles ( 9.7 km ) of bad roadstead .== Career == During a sojourn in Everglade
State for two eld , she went all over that state and Empire State of the South as an labor
organizer of the temperance Educational Bureau , having always been a trailblazer in
reforms and welfare employment for womanhood and nipper .In 1904 , she went to
Sunflower State urban center , Missouri , where she was for a metre employed on the
advertisement force out of the Kansas City Journal .In 1905 , she went to Topeka , Kansas
with a total capital of US $ 11 and entered Washburn College , determined to work her
elbow room through that establishment .With an Department of Energy rarely equaled in
her sex activity she succeeded , and in 1908 graduated in the liberal art course .Elizabeth
Barr was graduated from Washburn College in 1908 .While in college , she attained
considerable local reputation as a poet and writer of short stories .In 1906 , her first Holy
Scripture , a collection of college poems entitled Washburn Ballads , was published .After
her commencement ceremony from college , Arthur became the assistant editor in chief and
later the editor of the Club Member , the organ of the Women 's golf-club of the state .In this
capacity , King Arthur met all the leading adult female in Kansas and became known to
thousands .Being an warm suffragist , Barr made her newspaper an active suffrage organ
and took an important part in the campaign before the legislature in 1911 which resulted in
a favourable amendment .For the next two years , Arthur did research study and was a co-
writer on Blackmar 's Encyclopedia History of Kansas published in 1912 .Arthur was the
commencement entrant for examination for police matron in capital of Kansas .Early in
1913 , Arthur became a member of the police force in Topeka with the rubric of patrolman-
at-large .She and her colleague , Miss Eva Corning , were the firstly cleaning woman in the
U.S. to hold perspective of regular patrolmen .After leaving law work -she had married
Chester B. Arthur in the meantime- she again did research body of work and was one of the
writers on the Connelly history of Kaw River .Her master contribution to this work was a
45,000 word article on `` The Populist Uprising '' , which was considered by some critics to
be the best account on the subject .When human race War I broke out , Arthur went to
Booker Taliaferro Washington , District of Columbia , as an editorial salesclerk for the
Government .After leaving the Government serving , she became associated with the Federal
Employees conjugation as assistant editor of its powder magazine , and later of the
Reclassificationist , a hebdomadally paper devoted to Civil Service reform .For more than a
year prior to coming to Olathe , Sunflower State in July 1922 , Arthur was a graduate
student at Research University in Washington in spare-time activity of a lord 's degree from
that institution .Under her write figure , `` Elizabeth N. Barr '' , she contributed poems and
exceptional article to Munseys Magazine , forcible finish , and other Eastern mag .In 1923 ,
also under her pen name , Arthur published a new Bible of poem , The senior high school
breaking wind of household .Most of her other verse form are found in her three published
books .Arthur 's poetry is widely varied in its mood and style , from the song type of the
ballad to the deeply mysterious , touched at prison term with the extreme serious music and
oriental .The reader can notice the influence of her early life of the northland , and amidst
the flowering savannas of the South with bang everglades , while the prairie of her indigene
Kansas home often shapes her base .Barr was also the author of several short county story
of various counties in Kansas .In 1923 , Chester A. Arthur became Olathe 's bibliothec .As
one of the charter extremity of the Kansas writer 's Club , her freelance style of poetry and
independence in arguing always enlivened its meetings during the golf club 's formative
years , even if it often shocked those devoted to old school repertoire .In 1907 , Arthur
served as clubhouse Secretary .== Personal life story == She married Chester Barnet Arthur
( 1885–1957 ) .Elizabeth II Barr Arthur died at Roeland Park , KS , Crataegus oxycantha 8 ,
1971 .== Selected works == Business Directory and History of Jackson County , 1907 ( text )
A souvenir history of Lincoln County , Kansas , 1908 ( textual matter ) === Contributor ===
Blackmar , Frank watt .( ED .) , Kansas ; a cyclopedia of state story , embracing upshot ,
institutions , manufacture , counties , cities , town , spectacular persons , etc .... with a
supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and recall ( 1912 ) ( text
edition ) Connelley , William tocopherol .( ed .) , story of Kansas ( 1917 , 1918 , and 1929 )
( text ) === poesy solicitation === Washburn Ballads , 1906 The High Winds of Home , 1923
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