From collection Candidates
Ella June Purcell was elected to the Columbus, Ohio school board in 1911. Purcell's successful campaign was supported by the Columbus Equal Suffrage League, which was instrumental in the election of several women to the board between 1909 and 1919. Purcell graduated from Ohio State University with a law degree in 1910. In the federal census of that year Purcell was living with attorney H. Anna Quinby in Columbus. At some point Purcell married and used the name June Purcell Guild. She moved to Richmond, Virginia, with her husband Arthur Alden Guild. June Guild worked on social justice and race issues in Virginia, and in 1936 published a survey of state laws affecting African Americans, Black Laws of Virginia : A Summary of the Legislative Acts of Virginia Concerning Negroes from Earliest Times to the Present.
