Electa Matilda Ziegler

Electa Matilda Ziegler (née Electa Matilda Curtis, 13 April 1841 in Schuylerville, New York – 1932) was a US philanthropist and magazine founder.

Biography

Electa Matilda was the daughter of Henry D. and Electa Abel Curtis.^[1] From her first marriage to Edward Gamble, Ziegler had a son, Charles, who was blinded in an accident as a child. Her second marriage, on 22 July 1886, was to William Ziegler (1843–1905), an industrialist who co-founded the Royal Baking Powder Company. Ziegler, the widowed heiress, had an interest in the education of the blind because of her son Charles. In 1907, she established a monthly magazine known as the Matilda Ziegler Magazine for the Blind, which was printed in raised letters. It comprised 48 pages of fiction, scientific articles, current events, instruction in handiwork, and occasionally raised maps. Through the generosity of Ziegler, it was furnished without charge, and by a special provision of the U. S. Congress, it was sent free to every blind person in the US or Canada who could touch read.^[2]

References

• This article incorporates text from a work in the public domain: J. T. White's The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Permanent series (1918)

Bibliography

• White, J. T. (1918). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Permanent series (Public domain ed.). J. T. White.