Florence L. Lattimore

Florence Larrabee Lattimore (April 24, 1876 – June 2, 1956) was an American writer and social worker associated with the Russell Sage Foundation. She was a member of the Ford Peace Ship expedition in 1915.^[1]

Lattimore was born in Rochester, New York, the youngest daughter of Samuel Allen Lattimore and Ellen Frances Larrabee Lattimore. Her father was a chemistry professor and her mother was a poet. Her sister Rose Lattimore Alling was a probation officer and a clubwoman.^[2] Her sister Eleanor Larrabee Lattimore was a sociologist.^[3] Writers Owen Lattimore, Eleanor Frances Lattimore, and Richmond Lattimore were their cousins.^[4]

Lattimore was a volunteer probation officer in Rochester, like her older sister.^[5] She was assistant director^[6] of the Russell Sage Foundation's Child Helping Department until 1915.^[7][8] She planned^[9] and spoke^[10] at state and national conferences on child welfare.^[11] She was an officer of the National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1910.^[12] She joined the Ford Peace Ship expedition in 1915,^[13] and wrote about it for The Survey magazine.^[8][14]

• "A Palace of Delight" (1913, Charities and Commons)^[15]
• "Skunk Hollow: The Squatter" (1914)^[16]
• Pittsburgh as a Foster Mother; A Concrete Community-Study of Child-caring Methods (1914)^[17][18]
• "The Children in Springfield Institutions" part of The charities of Springfield, Illinois (1916)^[19][20]
• "Aboard the Oscar II" (1916, The Survey)^[14]
• "Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" (1919, World Outlook)^[21]
• "Friendliness Enough to Go Round" (1919, World Outlook)^[22]
• Alice and Jumbo (1957, a children's book)^[23][24]
• The Honey Pod Tree: The Life Story of Thomas Calhoun Walker (as told to Florence L. Lattimore) (1958)^[25][26]

Lattimore lived with her longtime partner, Nellie May Smith (1876–1962), in New York City, and later in Monterey, Massachusetts, where Lattimore died in 1956, aged 80 years.^[27] Her will was disallowed because it included only two, not three, witness signatures.^[28] Her estate went to her sister, a niece, and two nephews,^[29] one of whom was noted geologist Harold Lattimore Alling.^[30]