Mabel Craft Deering

Mabel Craft Deering (born Mabel Clare Craft, 1873–1953) was a San Francisco Bay Area socialite, journalist and supporter of progressive causes such as women's suffrage and the admission of black women to a national women's organization. As a University of California student, she protested the awarding of a medal for scholarship that was given to a man instead of to her. She was the first woman to edit a national Sunday magazine. Early life and education Mabel Clare Craft was born on November 5, 1873, in Rochelle, Illinois, to Ellen Eugenia Coolbaugh and Richard Corson Craft. Her father became "a wealthy grocer in East Oakland," California.