Mary Ellicott Arnold and her life-long companion and co-worker, Mabel Reed, engaged in a variety of activities including farming, "Civilizing the Indians," and running cafeterias. Miss Arnold's correspondence, reports, etc. document the most important of their interests, those in the field of consumer cooperation, including the building of cooperative housing units for Nova Scotia miners and Newfoundland fishermen and the establishment of consumer cooperatives for the lobster fishermen along the Maine Coast. Mary Ellicott Arnold died at Riddle Memorial Hospital, Middletown Township, Delaware Township, PA., May 23, 1968 at 7:00 P.M.
From the guide to the Papers, 1908-1958, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
