Background
Flavia Camp was raised in Black Earth, Wisconsin by her mother and step-father Rev Asa A Allen, a Congregational pastor, with a combined total of fifteen siblings, half-siblings and step-siblings.
Flavia Camp was raised in Black Earth, Wisconsin by her mother and step-father Rev Asa A Allen, a Congregational pastor, with a combined total of fifteen siblings, half-siblings and step-siblings.
University of Wisconsin–Madison.
She taught in a local school in her late teens, and went to the University of Wisconsin in 1863, the first year it admitted women. In all she founded 26 such clubs and the Columbus Federation of Women"s Clubs. She was the first president (1895-1897) of the Ohio State University Women"s Club, and was president of the Ohio Federation of Women"s Clubs from 1898-1900.
Canfield continued her interest in the arts as president of The Columbus Art Association, in which role she "broadened the policy of the association and enlarged the membership".
Her published novels include "The Refugee Family", "The Kidnapped Campers", and "The Big Tent" (1921).