Florence Trumbull Carpenter was born in New York City, March 10, 1854. She was a daughter of the artist, Francis Bicknell Carpenter. Her father's position in the literary and artistic world and her own beauty made her one of the favorites of the intellectual circles of New York City.
Career
On May 12, 1877, soon after her graduation from Rutgers Female College, she married Albert Chester Ives, a journalist of New York, at that time stationed in London, England, where their home for several years was one of the centers of attraction for Americans and Englishmen. They lived for several years in a like manner in Paris, France, and also spent time in Dresden and Dublin. Their son, Emerson Ives, was born in 1882, during a year spent in the United States. In 1887, after her return to New York City, Ives made her first attempts in newspaper work. Her first position was as a general worker on the Press, where she performed various tasks, including art criticism, society news, fashions, gossip, and articles about women. Her work finally settled into that of literary editor, which place she held as long as her connection with the paper lasted. In 1891, she widened her field of work so as to include many of the leading New York papers, her articles on topics of important and permanent interest appearing in the Sun, the Tribune, the World, the Herald and other journals. She became editor of the woman's department of the Metropolitan and Rural Home. With the opening of executive work for the World's Columbian Exposition, she was put in charge of all the press work sent out by the general board of lady managers to the New York papers. A few months later, she received an appointment by the World's Fairboard of managers of the State of New York as chief executive clerk of the woman's board of that State. That position required her to move to Albany and her temporary withdrawal from active newspaper work in New York, although she retained certain of her connections with the press. She died December 20, 1900, at Quaker Hill, Dutchess County, New York. Interment was in Homer, New York.
