- Born
- Died
- Nickname
- Mother Bloor
- Ella Reeve was born on July 8, 1862 in Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island, New York, USA. She was married to Andrew Omholt, Louis Cohen and Lucien Ware. She died on August 10, 1951 in Richlandtown, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpousesAndrew Omholt(1930 - August 10, 1951) (her death)Louis Cohen(1897 - ?) (divorced, 2 children)Lucien Ware(February 2, 1882 - 1896) (divorced, 4 children)
- Her son Harold Ware was the founder of the Soviet espionage cell The Ware Group, which included Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.
- Used the name "Bloor" - borrowed from a Welsh compatriot named Richard Bloor - as an alias while investigating the Chicago packinghouse industry in 1906. Fellow radicals took to calling her "Mother Bloor", and the name stuck.
- Co-founder of the American Communist Party. Time Magazine eulogized her: "Hot-tongued, warmhearted, indomitable, (she) was a rarity in the party's ranks -- a genuine, old-fashioned American radical".
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