From collection Candidates
Florence L. Ketchum was the Democratic, Socialist, and Prohibtionist party candidate for County Clerk in Orange County, New York in 1918. In 1907 Ketchum abandoned her career as a dramatic reader and joined her father in running The Warwick Valley Dispatch, a newspaper founded in 1885 by George Ketchum. Florence became managing editor, and in 1918 took it over completely. She was a friend of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt for many years, and served as a Democratic state committeewoman from Orange County.
