Monterey-Santa Clara County CA Archives Biographies.....Francis, Louise E. 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

MISS L0UISE E. FRANCIS, the gifted editor and owner of the Castroville
Enterprise, is well known in the field of Pacific coast journalism as one of the
most successful newspaper publishers on the coast.

  At the age of seventeen she left home and friends and started out into the
world to gain an independent livelihood. Having received a thorough academic
education and possessing a facile pen, she naturally drifted into literary work.
She was soon tendered an editorial position on the Santa Clara Valleys monthly
horticultural journal published at San Jose, which she accepted, and became the
editor of the household department of the publication. Later she acted as
special correspondent for the San Jose Daily and Weekly Mercury.

  In 1890 she, in partnership with C. A. Peckham, established the Monterey
Eater-prise at Monterey, California. The enterprise proved financially
unsuccessful and after six months the periodical was discontinued. In April,
1891, she began publishing the Castroville Enterprise, which she now owns.

  Through all her editorial work is seen her independent spirit and commendably
aggressive newspaper policy, the inflence [sic] of her pencil being felt
throughout the Salinas valley. Its tone is elevating and carries with it the
assurance of success in ail battles, where the principles of right are arrayed
against the wrong.

  Miss Francis is a member of the Pacific Coast Woman's Press Association and
her Enterprise is the official organ for the assocition. [sic] She is also a
member of the National Editorial Association and assistant corresponding
secretary for the same, she being the only member of the organization on this
coast who was honored with a position on its staff of officers at their recent
national convention at San Francisco.

  Miss Francis relinquishes her editorial duties for a time to aid her
associates in the national association work at the coming World's Columbian
Exposition at Chicago in 1893. She is a bright and vivacious business woman, and
her pencil is ever ready to gracefully acknowledge all courtesies shown to the
newspaper world to which she belongs.


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Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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