Eliza Bellows King Dooley (May 31, 1880 – August 7, 1958), also seen as Elisa B. K. Dooley, was an American government official, artist, and writer. She was appointed US District Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1933.
Early life
Eliza Bellows King was born in Hudson, Wisconsin,[1] the daughter of Charles Frederick King and Ella Frances Hoyt King. She graduated from Hudson High School in 1900.[2] She studied art and taught piano and organ as a young woman.[2][3]
Career
Dooley visited her brother in Puerto Rico as a young woman,[4] and moved there with her new husband in 1904. She was appointed US District Commissioner of Immigration in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1933.[5][6][7] In 1933, she was "slightly injured" when a rock was thrown at her car, and struck her, during a gasoline strike.[8][9] She was an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1924,[10] 1928, 1932 (unable to attend),[11] and 1940, representing Puerto Rico.[12]
Dooley painted landscapes and seascapes in Puerto Rico; her paintings and etchings were published as postcards and exhibited in New York. She also wrote about Puerto Rico, in her books The Old Churches of San Juan (1935),[13]Puerto Rican Cookbook (1948, illustrated by Dooley, with an introduction by Muna Lee),[14] and Old San Juan (1955, illustrated by Dooley).[15] She created at least two maps, "Old World Porto Rico"[16] and "Cuba Ever Faithful Isle" (1941).[17] In 1942, she presented on "Puerto Rican Folk Traditions" at the National Folk Festival in Washington, D.C.[18]
^Yohn, Madge (1942-05-04). "All Around the Town". The Capital Times. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-01-17 – via Newspapers.com.
^"The State". Wisconsin Magazine of History. 26: 371. March 1943.
^Hamersly, Lewis Randolph; Leonard, John William; Mohr, William Frederick; Holmes, Frank R.; Knox, Herman Warren; Downs, Winfield Scott (1924). Who's who in New York City and State. L.R. Hamersly Company. p. 376.
