Catron who would become Ada’s nemesis, was part of the " Santa Fe Ring" which acquired land through dishonest dealings and exploitation. The Company had claimed 1.7 million acres without regard to Native American and Hispanic land rights. In 1872, she and her husband and moved to Cimarron, New Mexico Territory, where he was working as general manager, surveyor, and chief engineer of the Maxwell Land Grant and Railway Company. She married William Raymond Morley, who she met in college. In 1872, she earned a degree in English Literature, one of two women in the inaugural class of the first co-ed land grant college, now called Iowa State University. Ada McPerson started a New Mexico chapter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Morley owned a ranch in the Datil Mountains where she raised cattle and was able to host meetings.Īda McPherson was born on August 26, 1852, in Winterset, Iowa. She was also involved in women's suffrage in New Mexico and helped recruit women into the Congressional Union (CU) later in her life. Morley became involved with the New Mexico chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and later served as president. Early in her time in New Mexico, she and her husband edited a newspaper and took on the Santa Fe Ring both in print and in business matters. Ada McPherson Morley (AugDecember 9, 1917) was an American author, suffragist and rancher.
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