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Businesswoman and journalist in Hawaii

Elinor Alice Veilleux Langton-Boyle (died 13 July 1946), also known as Ma Boyle, was a Hawaiian businesswoman and journalist, who operated the Paradise of the Pacific magazine from 1902 to 1944.

Life and career

Elinor Boyle was born in Irasburg, Vermont, and came to Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1900. While the magazine Paradise of the Pacific had been founded by King Kalākaua in 1888, Boyle-Langton and her husband, William Langton, took ownership and began publishing the paper four years after arrival. Even after the death of her husband in 1910, and during her second marriage to James S. Boyle, she continued to publish the paper until health issues (sustained from a fall) required she stop in 1944. After long serving as its proprietor, she sold the magazine to fourteen of its employees. Her husband died in 1945, and she died on 13 July 1946. In death, the Honolulu Sunday Advertiser described her as kamaʻāina, literally meaning a child of the land.

As the owner of the magazine, it circulated widely both inside and outside of Hawaii. Described by a contemporary of hers, Maile Kearns, as a "pioneer" in color reproductions of artwork for magazines, she routinely solicited artists to create color covers for the magazine (often reproductions) and selected them herself: For Kearns, this was a defining element of Boyle-Langton's ownership of the magazine. Under her leadership, the magazine was largely full of color, and it devoted significant attention to topics relevant to Hawaii.

At one point, Paradise of the Pacific may have been among the largest printing plants owned and run by a woman in the United States.

References

Citations

  1. Belknap 1967, p. A7; Honolulu Advertiser 1946, p. editorial; Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1946a, p. 2; Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1946b, p. 19.
  2. ^ Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1946a, p. 2.
  3. ^ Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1944, p. 1.
  4. Hilo Daily Tribune 1917, p. 4.
  5. ^ Honolulu Sunday Advertiser 1946, p. 1.
  6. Bremer et al. 2018.
  7. ^ Kearns 1963, p. D12.
  8. Honolulu Advertiser 1934, p. editorial.
  9. Honolulu Star-Bulletin 1938, p. 3.

Bibliography

  • Belknap, Jazz (28 January 1967). "When Ma boiled over". Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
  • Bremer, Leah L.; Mandle, Lisa; Trauernicht, Clay; Pascua, Puaʻala; McMillen, Heather L.; Burnett, Kimberly; Wada, Christopher A.; Kurashima, Natalie; Quazi, Shimona A.; Giambelluca, Thomas; Chock, Pia; Ticktin, Tamara (2018). "Bringing multiple values to the table: Assessing future land-use and climate change in North Kona, Hawaiʻi". Ecology and Society. 23 (1). doi:10.5751/ES-09936-230133.
  • Kearns, Maile (13 October 1963). "An old-time personality... 'Ma' Boyle". Sunday Star-Bulletin & Advertiser.
  • "Brevities". Hilo Daily Tribune. 12 October 1917.
  • "Christmas number of the Paradise". Honolulu Advertiser. 1 December 1934.
  • "Ma Boyle". Honolulu Advertiser. 18 July 1946.
  • "Women in business". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 23 April 1938.
  • "Paradise Pacific magazine, plant sold to workers". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 31 March 1944.
  • "'Ma' Langton Boyle dies; made 'Paradise of the Pacific' famous". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 15 July 1946.
  • "Funeral announcements". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. 17 July 1946.
  • "Elinor Boyle, kamaaina, dies at home". Honolulu Sunday Advertiser. 14 July 1946.
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