Torrey Pines Park and the San Diego Zoo also received substantial funding from Scripps. She also funded the Scripps Memorial Hospital in her new hometown of La Jolla, later known as the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, dedicated to the study of metabolism. With her brother Edward, she spearheaded the establishment of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, which later became the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Although she worked in the newspaper business, Scripps also had a keen interest in science and established institutions geared towards research her donations reflected her eclectic interests. She donated much of her money to causes she considered worthy, and her generosity made her a major philanthropic figure. Aided by investments in local real estate, her income increased over 40 times in the first 30 years of the 20th century, and she chose to manage the money herself rather than entrust it to lawyers. When Edward moved to California, Scripps followed him and eventually built her own home in La Jolla. Eventually, she had holdings in 16 daily newspapers across the country, greatly multiplying her income. While she eventually cut down on her work duties, Scripps continued to reinvest in the newspaper ventures and helped Edward lay the basis for what would become the Scripps-Howard conglomerate of papers. In 1878, Scripps provided financial backing for her younger half-brother, Edward Scripps, to begin a newspaper of his own, the Penny Press, in Cleveland, Ohio for a time, she worked at the new paper as well as the Detroit Evening News. Scripps' presence also helped to smooth occasional rifts between her brother and other family members, a number of whom were also employed at the paper. Her column, "Matters and Things," was aimed at a large audience and included items of special interest to women. In 1873, James launched a new newspaper, the Detroit Evening News, and Scripps served as proofreader, copyreader, and front-page feature writer.
Scripps, in his management of a Detroit newspaper by serving as a proofreader and investing her meager savings in the venture. In 1867, Scripps began what was to become an involved career in journalism. Sanitary Commission and the Freedmen's Association. With the advent of the Civil War, Scripps involved herself in war-relief efforts, working for the U.S. She enrolled in the two-year course of the Female Department at Knox College, graduating in 1859, and then spent several years teaching. When she got older, she had the rare opportunity for a woman of her time to attend college. Scripps developed an interest in literature early in life, through reading books from her father's large library to her many younger brothers and sisters (her father remarried and had five more children). Her mother died when Scripps was five, and three years later her father moved his six children to farmland he owned in Illinois. The energetic and eclectic Ellen Browning Scripps started her life in London, England, on October 18, 1836.
Born on October 18, 1836, in London, England died in her sleep on August 3, 1932, in La Jolla, California daughter of James Mogg Scripps and Ellen Mary Scripps graduated from Knox College in 1859 never married no children. English-born American newspaper publisher and philanthropist.
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