Eda Hurd Lord

Eda Hurd Lord

Eda Isadore Hurd Lord (March 8, 1854 - February 26, 1938) was a successful businesswomen, one of the first in Evanston, Illinois, in the United States, and is responsible for plotting the city’s land and developing the residential spaces.

Early life

Eda Isadore Hurd Lord was born on March 8, 1854, the daughter of Harvey B. Hurd (1828-1906) and Cornelia A. Hilliard. She had two sisters: Hettie B. Hurd (1855-1884) and Nellie Hurd Comstock (1857-1940).[1]

Career

Real Estate developer

Eda Hurd Lord, was a successful businesswoman, one of the first in Evanston, and is responsbile for plotting the city’s land and developing the residential spaces.[1] She designed 32 houses on the land she inherited from her father.[1] Among her real estate properties (or related to her family):[2]

Lord's father, Harvey B. Hurd, was the first president of the Evanston village board of trustees, and founder and first president of the Evanston Historical Society.[1] He hired Myron Hunt to devolop his properties. Lord instead engaged Dwight Perkins and George W. Maher and opened Elinor Place. Her grandnephew Hurd Comstock, son of her sister Nellie Hurd Comstock, hired Walter Burley Griffin[2]

Patron of arts

A Woman with a Rose by Winslow Homer

She was the owner of the watercolor on paper A Woman with a Rose by Winslow Homer, ca. 1879, donated in 1938 to the San Diego Museum of Art. She also owned the watercolor Sheperdesses Resting (1879) and the drawing The Sheperdess (1878). In December 1879 at an auction held by William A. Butters and Company, she bought Man with Plow Horse, currently on loan to the Chicago Art Institute.[5] At the same auction she possible bought the pencil and gouache on paper Through the Fields (1879), in 1923 appeared at the J.W. Young Galleries, in Chicago, Illinois.[6]

Personal life

Children of Eda Hurd Lord

On April 29, 1873, she married George Sterling Lord (1850-1916), a wholesale druggist for Lord, Owen & Co., a company started by his father Thomas Lord.[1][7] She is the mother of Eda Lord Dixon (1876-1926). Her other children are: Jeannie Henry Ayers (b. 1875), Harvey Hurd Lord (1878-1920), Thomas Lord (1880-1951), Kate Kimball Lord (1882-1908), Sterling Lord (b. 1884), Robert Owen Lord (1886-1968), a banker, Margaret Lord Burnham (1892-1979), George Willis Lord (1894-1977). She is the grandmother of Eda Lord and Suzanne Lord Folds.[8]

She was a talented musician and a patron of arts.[1] She moved to California in 1921.[9]

She died on February 26, 1938, at La Jolla, California, and is buried at Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Illinois.[1][9]

Legacy

The novel "Childsplay" is an semi-autobiographical novel recounting in part Eda Lord's life as a child living with her grandmother at 1558 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, Illinois.[10]

In 1963 Sterling Lord published Victorian Vignettes: Eda Hurd Lord 1963.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Eda (Edithe) Lord (Hurd)". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  2. 1 2 Perkins, Margery Blair (2013). Evanston: A Tour Through the City's History: A Tour Through the City's History. Lulu.com. p. 155. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  3. ↑ "DollarTimes". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  4. ↑ "19 Sep 1909, Sun • Page 18". The Inter Ocean: 18. 1909. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  5. ↑ Tedeschi, Martha; Dahm, Kristi (2008). Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light. Yale University Press. p. 28. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "Winslow Homer (1836–1910)". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  7. ↑ "George S. Lord - 11 Jul 1916, Tue • Page 17". Chicago Tribune: 17. 1916. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  8. ↑ "Folds, Suzanne Lord". Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Eda Hurd Lord - 28 Feb 1938, Mon • Page 10". Chicago Tribune: 10. 1938. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  10. ↑ "Authentic Restoration of Childhood - 12 Mar 1961, Sun • Page 124". Chicago Tribune: 124. 1961. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  11. ↑ Lord, Sterling (1963). Victorian Vignettes. Bittersweet Press. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
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