Ellen Call Long, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1825
Place of Birth: Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: preservationist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Ellen Call Long
- Ellen Call Long (1825-1905) was the daughter of Florida territorial governor Richard Keith Call and a member of the influential Call-Walker political family of Florida.
- She acquired The Grove from her father in 1851 and held it until 1903.
- She received distinction after the Civil War for her efforts in historic preservation, history, memorialization, forestry, silkworm cultivation, and the promotion of Florida.
- She was the author of Florida Breezes, a semi-fictional account of antebellum life primarily set in Middle Florida which is widely regarded as one of the best primary source accounts of the planter class lifestyle in Florida.
- She was the founder of the Florida chapters of the Mount Vernon Ladies Association and the Ladies Hermitage Association.
- She was also named a Florida delegate to several important expositions, including the Centennial International Exhibition in Philadelphia (1876), the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893), and the Exposition Universelle in Paris, France (1889).
- She was the founder of the Ladies Memorial Association of Tallahassee, a group that is now known as the Anna Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
- Her published report made before the American Forestry Congress in 1888 titled “Notes of Some of the Forest Features of Florida”, is considered a seminal work in the field of fire ecology.
- She was also a tireless promoter of silk culture in Florida, representing the Ladies Silk Culture Association of Philadelphia and emerging as a local expert in cultivation.
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