Hulda Barker Loud
BornSeptember 13, 1844
Rockland, Massachusetts
DiedApril 6, 1911
NationalityAmerican
Known forNewspaper editor

Hulda Barker Loud (September 13, 1844 – April 6, 1911) was an American newspaper editor and publisher in Massachusetts who was an advocate for labor rights and equal rights for women.

Career

Hulda Barker Loud was born in East Abington (now Rockland), Massachusetts, to Reuben Loud and Betsey (Whiting) Loud.[1][2] She went to public schools until, at eighteen, she became a schoolteacher.[1] She taught in her home town the next twenty-two years, and for fifteen years she was the principal of a grammar school.[2] A strong advocate for equal rights and pay for women, she convinced the school board that she should be paid the same salary as a man.[2]

In 1884, a local paper was founded and she became editor-in-chief.[1] She named the paper The Independent.[1][3] Five years later, she bought the business, which encompassed both the newspaper and a job-printing shop.[1] She used the paper to champion equal rights for women and labor rights.[1]

Loud served on the school board for three years (1887–90) and addressed the town meetings on local issues.[1] She represented the Knights of Labor at the 1888 International Council of Women meeting in Washington, D.C.[1][3]

Loud died in Rockland on April 6, 1911, at the age of 66.[4]

Family

Loud lived on her mother's farm.[1] In 1891, she adopted two grand-nephews, Ralph and Carl Powers.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Willard, Frances E., and Mary A. Livermore, eds. A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Moulton, 1893, p. 474.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Howe, Julia Ward, and Mary Hannah Graves, eds. Representative Women of New England. New England Historical Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 471-72.
  3. 1 2 Herringshaw, Thomas William, ed. Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life Who Are or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation. American Publishers' Association, 1904, p. 598.
  4. ↑ "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2022-02-13.

Further reading

  • Donald Cann and John Galluzzo, Rockland. Arcadia Publishing, 2003
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