"Gladys Phillips Sinclair was born in 1891 in Waterbury, Connecticut.Her parents were of Canadian-American Loyalist heritage. Calno Phillips and Ella McMartin Phillips moved to the U.S.soon after their marriage, first to industrial Connecticut,then to the far West in Washington state. Their journey
followed the expansion of the railroads and opening of territories in the Pacific Northwest. There they homesteaded a sheep ranch located near Euphrata in Eastern Washington. In 1907, when Gladys was 16 years old, her father, Calno Phillips died; soon after, her youth was transformed as she, her widowed mother and brother Allen, returned "East" to Montreal where they lived with her mother's McMartin sisters. Montreal at that time was a British city. Their home was in the urbane and elegant area of Westmount . There Gladys enjoyed bilingual ( French-English ) schooling at a " young ladies " finishing school in Bertier-en-Haut, as well as music and voice lessons. She developed a lifelong interest in French language and literature and English Romantic poetry."
"In 1911 at age 19, she married dashing Canadian- American lawyer, John Sinclair, in Montreal; they immediately removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in the US where he had taken a legal/ administrative position with the state government, developing agricultural cooperative and progressive farm credit legislation. As his career developed the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he soon founded his own finance & agricultural loan business.
In Minneapolis young Gladys helped organize the Minneapolis chapter of the Women's League of Peace and Freedom. She also joined local suffragette groups, marched for women's voting rights and campaigned for anti-war pacifist causes. She was a lifelong temperance and women's rights advocate."
"Gladys lived in the turbulent times of American's economic roller coaster of the 1920's and 1930's; the Sinclairs moved often - residing in Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York City, Los Angeles, as John Sinclair was pulled into the Western farm and banking crisis, then the Depression Era programs of the Roosevelt administration. All the while Gladys set up house in each new location, gathered new friends and cared for her growing daughters.
This was no easy feat. She suffered from childhood from a debilitating heart condition, her physical capacities were increasiny limited over the years. She became bedridden in her later years, but continued to enjoy poetry and literature, amassing a large personal library. She carried on extensive correspondence with prominent women, religious and political leaders and when able, was hostess for her husband's many social/political events. She accompanied her family several times to Hawaii, the Orient and Western Europe-often in the style of the day, by ocean liner and train travel. Her love of gardens and flowers prompted her husband to finally move to southern California; there they acquired a large home with patio and terraced gardens for her benefit. In 1949 she died at this Brentwood home. Its lush and colorful gardens and the ocean of southern California were an inspiration for the poetry she wrote in her last years. She was 58 years old at the time of her death." The John F. Sinclair Family History" D.Montgomery,(1999).
followed the expansion of the railroads and opening of territories in the Pacific Northwest. There they homesteaded a sheep ranch located near Euphrata in Eastern Washington. In 1907, when Gladys was 16 years old, her father, Calno Phillips died; soon after, her youth was transformed as she, her widowed mother and brother Allen, returned "East" to Montreal where they lived with her mother's McMartin sisters. Montreal at that time was a British city. Their home was in the urbane and elegant area of Westmount . There Gladys enjoyed bilingual ( French-English ) schooling at a " young ladies " finishing school in Bertier-en-Haut, as well as music and voice lessons. She developed a lifelong interest in French language and literature and English Romantic poetry."
"In 1911 at age 19, she married dashing Canadian- American lawyer, John Sinclair, in Montreal; they immediately removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in the US where he had taken a legal/ administrative position with the state government, developing agricultural cooperative and progressive farm credit legislation. As his career developed the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he soon founded his own finance & agricultural loan business.
In Minneapolis young Gladys helped organize the Minneapolis chapter of the Women's League of Peace and Freedom. She also joined local suffragette groups, marched for women's voting rights and campaigned for anti-war pacifist causes. She was a lifelong temperance and women's rights advocate."
"Gladys lived in the turbulent times of American's economic roller coaster of the 1920's and 1930's; the Sinclairs moved often - residing in Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York City, Los Angeles, as John Sinclair was pulled into the Western farm and banking crisis, then the Depression Era programs of the Roosevelt administration. All the while Gladys set up house in each new location, gathered new friends and cared for her growing daughters.
This was no easy feat. She suffered from childhood from a debilitating heart condition, her physical capacities were increasiny limited over the years. She became bedridden in her later years, but continued to enjoy poetry and literature, amassing a large personal library. She carried on extensive correspondence with prominent women, religious and political leaders and when able, was hostess for her husband's many social/political events. She accompanied her family several times to Hawaii, the Orient and Western Europe-often in the style of the day, by ocean liner and train travel. Her love of gardens and flowers prompted her husband to finally move to southern California; there they acquired a large home with patio and terraced gardens for her benefit. In 1949 she died at this Brentwood home. Its lush and colorful gardens and the ocean of southern California were an inspiration for the poetry she wrote in her last years. She was 58 years old at the time of her death." The John F. Sinclair Family History" D.Montgomery,(1999).
"Gladys Phillips Sinclair was born in 1891 in Waterbury, Connecticut.Her parents were of Canadian-American Loyalist heritage. Calno Phillips and Ella McMartin Phillips moved to the U.S.soon after their marriage, first to industrial Connecticut,then to the far West in Washington state. Their journey
followed the expansion of the railroads and opening of territories in the Pacific Northwest. There they homesteaded a sheep ranch located near Euphrata in Eastern Washington. In 1907, when Gladys was 16 years old, her father, Calno Phillips died; soon after, her youth was transformed as she, her widowed mother and brother Allen, returned "East" to Montreal where they lived with her mother's McMartin sisters. Montreal at that time was a British city. Their home was in the urbane and elegant area of Westmount . There Gladys enjoyed bilingual ( French-English ) schooling at a " young ladies " finishing school in Bertier-en-Haut, as well as music and voice lessons. She developed a lifelong interest in French language and literature and English Romantic poetry."
"In 1911 at age 19, she married dashing Canadian- American lawyer, John Sinclair, in Montreal; they immediately removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in the US where he had taken a legal/ administrative position with the state government, developing agricultural cooperative and progressive farm credit legislation. As his career developed the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he soon founded his own finance & agricultural loan business.
In Minneapolis young Gladys helped organize the Minneapolis chapter of the Women's League of Peace and Freedom. She also joined local suffragette groups, marched for women's voting rights and campaigned for anti-war pacifist causes. She was a lifelong temperance and women's rights advocate."
"Gladys lived in the turbulent times of American's economic roller coaster of the 1920's and 1930's; the Sinclairs moved often - residing in Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York City, Los Angeles, as John Sinclair was pulled into the Western farm and banking crisis, then the Depression Era programs of the Roosevelt administration. All the while Gladys set up house in each new location, gathered new friends and cared for her growing daughters.
This was no easy feat. She suffered from childhood from a debilitating heart condition, her physical capacities were increasiny limited over the years. She became bedridden in her later years, but continued to enjoy poetry and literature, amassing a large personal library. She carried on extensive correspondence with prominent women, religious and political leaders and when able, was hostess for her husband's many social/political events. She accompanied her family several times to Hawaii, the Orient and Western Europe-often in the style of the day, by ocean liner and train travel. Her love of gardens and flowers prompted her husband to finally move to southern California; there they acquired a large home with patio and terraced gardens for her benefit. In 1949 she died at this Brentwood home. Its lush and colorful gardens and the ocean of southern California were an inspiration for the poetry she wrote in her last years. She was 58 years old at the time of her death." The John F. Sinclair Family History" D.Montgomery,(1999).
followed the expansion of the railroads and opening of territories in the Pacific Northwest. There they homesteaded a sheep ranch located near Euphrata in Eastern Washington. In 1907, when Gladys was 16 years old, her father, Calno Phillips died; soon after, her youth was transformed as she, her widowed mother and brother Allen, returned "East" to Montreal where they lived with her mother's McMartin sisters. Montreal at that time was a British city. Their home was in the urbane and elegant area of Westmount . There Gladys enjoyed bilingual ( French-English ) schooling at a " young ladies " finishing school in Bertier-en-Haut, as well as music and voice lessons. She developed a lifelong interest in French language and literature and English Romantic poetry."
"In 1911 at age 19, she married dashing Canadian- American lawyer, John Sinclair, in Montreal; they immediately removed to Madison, Wisconsin, in the US where he had taken a legal/ administrative position with the state government, developing agricultural cooperative and progressive farm credit legislation. As his career developed the family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he soon founded his own finance & agricultural loan business.
In Minneapolis young Gladys helped organize the Minneapolis chapter of the Women's League of Peace and Freedom. She also joined local suffragette groups, marched for women's voting rights and campaigned for anti-war pacifist causes. She was a lifelong temperance and women's rights advocate."
"Gladys lived in the turbulent times of American's economic roller coaster of the 1920's and 1930's; the Sinclairs moved often - residing in Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York City, Los Angeles, as John Sinclair was pulled into the Western farm and banking crisis, then the Depression Era programs of the Roosevelt administration. All the while Gladys set up house in each new location, gathered new friends and cared for her growing daughters.
This was no easy feat. She suffered from childhood from a debilitating heart condition, her physical capacities were increasiny limited over the years. She became bedridden in her later years, but continued to enjoy poetry and literature, amassing a large personal library. She carried on extensive correspondence with prominent women, religious and political leaders and when able, was hostess for her husband's many social/political events. She accompanied her family several times to Hawaii, the Orient and Western Europe-often in the style of the day, by ocean liner and train travel. Her love of gardens and flowers prompted her husband to finally move to southern California; there they acquired a large home with patio and terraced gardens for her benefit. In 1949 she died at this Brentwood home. Its lush and colorful gardens and the ocean of southern California were an inspiration for the poetry she wrote in her last years. She was 58 years old at the time of her death." The John F. Sinclair Family History" D.Montgomery,(1999).
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