Ketchum, Florence L.

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.