Ella H. Brockway Avann
Ella H. Brockway Avann (, Hoag; after first marriage, Brockway; after second marriage, Avann; May 20, 1853 – October 22, 1899) was a 19th-century American educator and writer. After graduating from Albion College of Michigan, she subsequently became preceptress of that institution. She filled the chair of English literature and also lectured on the history of music. For 10 years, she was president of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society. Avann made frequent contributions to the religious press. She held official positions in various literary, social and benevolent societies. Early life and education Ella Eleura Hoag was born in Newaygo, Michigan, May 20, 1853. Her father, the Rev. G. W. Hoag, born in Charlotte, Vermont, was of Quaker parentage and a pioneer in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Michigan, having gone to that State in boyhood. Her mother, Elizabeth Bruce Hoag, from Rochester, New York, was gifted with pen and voice, and was a high official in the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of her church. At the age of 12, Avann went to Albion College, Albion, Michigan, and was graduated in 1871. Career In 1873, she married L. Hamline Brockway, of Albion, where they lived for 15 years, when his election