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\u201cElizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a missionary and suffragist, born and raised in Coastal Maine, who rose to national prominence as a reformer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The study of her life poses a number of issues for the historian biographer. Yates left no collection of papers, and it is common for whatever papers remained from a female reformer\u2019s life to not be saved by archives, a reflection that women\u2019s history was not \u201creal history.\u201d Is it possible to write a comprehensive biography with few personal documents saved, and if so, how? Is it important to memorialize a reformer who comprised the \u201csecond tier\u201d \u2014 those whose most important work influenced state and local regions, and whose names were long ago forgotten? A study of Yates\u2019 life allows the biographer to place her ideas and actions within the greater construct of the progressive era and the paradoxes for reformers. It situates her missionary work as part of American empire building, negotiates what an intense female friendship meant for Yates\u2019 in terms of companionship and support, and discusses her complicated interactions with immigrants and people of color.\u201d<\/p>\n
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