Ethel Armes

Ethel Marie Armes (born December 1, 1876 in Washington D.C.; died September 28, 1945 in Peterborough, New Hampshire) was a journalist, social reformer and historian.

Armes was the daughter of George Augustus Armes, a former Union officer and aide to General Grant, and his wife, the former Lucy Hamilton Kerr, daughter of John Bozman Kerr, a former U.S. Representative from Maryland.

Armes attended private schools in Washington D.C. and studied journalism at George Washington University. She began her career with the Chicago Chronicle in 1899. After a year she returned to DC to join the staff of the Washington Post. Between 1901 and 1903 she began a collaboration as editor of the poems and writings of Yone Noguchi, and was briefly engaged to marry him. His undivulged marriage to Léonie Gilmour and dalliance with Charles Warren Stoddard led her to break off the engagement. In 1905 she left the Post and moved to Birmingham to join her brother, engineer George K. Armes, and their mother in Glen Iris.

Armes was hired by The Birmingham Age-Herald and also wrote a regular syndicated column which was distributed across the country. In 1906 she was hired as editor of The Advance magazine.