46 Facts About Marjory Stoneman

Marjory Stoneman Douglas was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for development.

Marjory Stoneman received numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and was inducted into several halls of fame.

Marjory Stoneman was born on April 7,1890 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the only child of concert violinist Florence Lillian Trefethen and Frank Bryant Stoneman.

Marjory Stoneman visited Florida when she was four, and her most vivid memory of the trip was picking an orange from a tree at the Tampa Bay Hotel.

Marjory Stoneman's father endured a series of failed entrepreneurial ventures and the instability caused her mother to move them abruptly to the Trefethen family house in Taunton, Massachusetts.

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Marjory Stoneman credited her tenuous upbringing with making her "a skeptic and a dissenter" for the rest of her life.

Marjory Stoneman left for college in 1908, despite grave misgivings about her mother's mental state.

Marjory Stoneman was a straight-A student at Wellesley College, graduating with a BA in English in 1912.

Marjory Stoneman found particular success in a class on elocution, and joined the first suffrage club with six of her classmates.

Marjory Stoneman was elected Class Orator but was unable to fulfill the office since she was already involved in other activities.

Marjory Stoneman was so impressed with his manners and surprised at the attention he showed her that she married him within three months.

The true extent of his duplicity Marjory Stoneman did not entirely reveal, despite her honesty in all other matters.

Marjory Stoneman's uncle persuaded her to move to Miami and end the marriage.

Marjory Stoneman passionately opposed the governor of Florida, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, and his attempts to drain the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman developed a rivalry with an editor at The Miami Metropolis whose greater familiarity with Miami history gave her cause to make fun of Douglas in writing.

Marjory Stoneman gained some renown for her daily column, "The Galley", becoming something of a local celebrity.

Marjory Stoneman amassed a devoted readership and attempted to begin each column with a poem.

Marjory Stoneman wrote supporting women's suffrage, civil rights, and better sanitation while opposing Prohibition and foreign trade tariffs.

Marjory Stoneman's story "Peculiar Treasure of a King" was a second-place finalist in the O Henry Award competition in 1928.

Marjory Stoneman called the garden "one of the greatest achievements for the entire area".

Marjory Stoneman got the idea from her father, who had witnessed hangings when he lived in the West and was unnerved by the creaking sound of the rope bearing the weight of the hanging body.

Marjory Stoneman wrote four novels, and several nonfiction books on regional topics including Florida birdwatching and David Fairchild, a biologist who imagined a botanical park in Miami.

Marjory Stoneman had been working on a book about W H Hudson for years, traveling to Argentina and England several times.

Marjory Stoneman spent five years researching what little was known about the ecology and history of the Everglades and South Florida.

Marjory Stoneman outlined its imminent disappearance in the last chapter, "The Eleventh Hour":.

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Marjory Stoneman toured the state giving "hundreds of ringing denunciations" of the airport project, and increased membership of Friends of the Everglades to 3,000 within three years.

Marjory Stoneman ran the public information operation full-time from her home and encountered hostility from the jetport's developers and backers, who called her a "damn butterfly chaser".

Marjory Stoneman compared Florida sugarcane agriculture to sugarcane grown in the West Indies, which, she claimed, was more environmentally sound, had a longer harvest cycle less harmful to soil nutrients, and was less expensive for consumers due to the higher sugar content.

Marjory Stoneman reminded us all of our responsibility to nature and I don't remember what else.

Marjory Stoneman's voice had the sobering effect of a one-room schoolmarm's.

Marjory Stoneman opposed the drainage of a suburb in Dade County named East Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman was not just a pioneer of the environmental movement, she was a prophet, calling out to us to save the environment for our children and our grandchildren.

Marjory Stoneman lent her support to the Equal Rights Amendment, speaking to the legislature in Tallahassee urging them to ratify it.

Marjory Stoneman wrote to Governor Bob Graham in 1985 to encourage him to assess the conditions the migrant workers endured.

Marjory Stoneman wrote that his wife was a friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and had provided Stowe with the story of Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin fleeing slavery because Douglas's great-great-aunt took care of Eliza and her infant after their escape.

Frank Marjory Stoneman grew up in a Quaker colony, and Douglas maintained he kept touches of his upbringing throughout his life, even after converting to Episcopalianism.

Marjory Stoneman witnessed her mother's emotional unraveling that caused her to be institutionalized, and even long after her mother returned to live with her, she exhibited bizarre, childlike behaviors.

Marjory Stoneman eventually quit the newspaper, but after her father's death in 1941 she suffered a third and final breakdown, when her neighbors found her roaming the neighborhood one night screaming.

Marjory Stoneman realized she had a "father complex", explaining it by saying, "Having been brought up without him all those years, and then coming back and finding him so sympathetic had a powerful effect".

Marjory Stoneman was known for speaking in perfect, precise paragraphs, and was respected for her dedication and knowledge of her subjects; even her critics admitted her authority on the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman's house had no air conditioning, electric stove, or dishwasher.

Marjory Stoneman was attached to several men after her divorce, counting one of them as the reason she enlisted in the Red Cross, as he had already gone to France as a soldier.

Marjory Stoneman told a friend she would have rather seen the Everglades restored than her name on a building.

Marjory Stoneman appears as a major supporting character in the 2014 point-and-click adventure A Golden Wake.

Marjory Stoneman would give these wonderful, curmudgeonly speeches to which there was no response.

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Marjory Stoneman wrote all of her major books and stories there, and the City of Miami designated it an historic site in 1995, not only for its famous owner but for its unique Masonry Vernacular architecture.