Pioneer Journalist, Real Estate Agent, and Notary of Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Josiah Everett and Emeline D. (Ashley) Stevens of San Jose, she came to Southern California with her family in the 1870s. She started her career in journalism as the assistant to journalist and publisher Edward Sanford Harrison. She later became one of first women realtors in Los Angeles, and she was the real estate editor of the Los Angeles Times during the early 1900s. From 1908 to 1913, she was the editor of The Tidings, the newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles. When the State of California first allowed women to serve as notaries in 1892, she became the fourth woman notary in the State, and the second woman to serve as a notary in Los Angeles. Wife of Will M. Tipton, they married in Los Angeles in 1913, and lived for some years in New Mexico. After her husband's death in 1922, she returned to Los Angeles and served as the Secretary of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women during the late 1920s. She also worked on the committees which were formed to restore several of the California Missions that had fallen into disrepair. Author of the book, "New Mexico Cookery," published in 1916.
Pioneer Journalist, Real Estate Agent, and Notary of Los Angeles, California. The daughter of Josiah Everett and Emeline D. (Ashley) Stevens of San Jose, she came to Southern California with her family in the 1870s. She started her career in journalism as the assistant to journalist and publisher Edward Sanford Harrison. She later became one of first women realtors in Los Angeles, and she was the real estate editor of the Los Angeles Times during the early 1900s. From 1908 to 1913, she was the editor of The Tidings, the newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Monterey and Los Angeles. When the State of California first allowed women to serve as notaries in 1892, she became the fourth woman notary in the State, and the second woman to serve as a notary in Los Angeles. Wife of Will M. Tipton, they married in Los Angeles in 1913, and lived for some years in New Mexico. After her husband's death in 1922, she returned to Los Angeles and served as the Secretary of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women during the late 1920s. She also worked on the committees which were formed to restore several of the California Missions that had fallen into disrepair. Author of the book, "New Mexico Cookery," published in 1916.
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