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"Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885-1970) was an American suffragist leader and an international lecturer and author in the field of psychology and self-improvement, recognized for speaking to over three million people throughout her lifetime. In the 1920s, she was considered the ""Best known speaker in the world."" Benedict was a pioneer and well respected expert in the fields of psychoanalysis, sociology, and biology. Benedict was born on November 2, 1885 in Montrose, Colorado andwas a student at the University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado; Columbia University, Chicago, Illinois; Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts specializing in psychology and anthropology. In 1914, married Ralph Paine Benedict, of Boston, Massachusetts, a Harvard graduate. Formerly writer for Denver Evening Post and other newspapers, Chautauqua lecturer, organizer for National American Woman Suffrage Association: Founder 1918 Benedict School of Opportunity, headquarters in New York and San Francisco, Member National Association of Pen Women, National Association Business and Professional Women, Author. During her college career, she was the first woman to win a place in an intercollegiate debate team. In 1909, Colorado Governor John F. Shafroth appointed her the official reporter of the Colorado Senate. She was appointed Chief of the Advertising Department of the State Land Office. In 1913, she became a political editor of the Denver Press and later of the Denver Post, the largest daily in Colorado at the time. Benedict served as head of the Benedict School of Opportunity, ""The Traveling University for Men and Women"", was founder of International Opportunity League, and president of the Elsie Lincoln Benedict Club. In her lifetime, she traveled to 55 countries and her book, ""Our Trip Around the World"", was considered the most extensive travel book of its time. She recorded her travels, not only in her writings, but in her postcard and scrapbook collection. Around 1920, Elsie had already achieved her goal in becoming a millionaire and built a cobblestone cottage home in the Carmel Highlands, California, with breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean which served as a quiet and spiritual place which she and Ralph could continue their writings and host friends. A 1929 postcard taken by photographer, L.S. Slevin, featured the exterior of her cobblestone cottage named ""House by the Side of the Road""."

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