Background
Shelby, Gertrude Singleton Mathews was born on April 13, 1881 in Momence, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William Frank and Gertrude (Magoffin) Singleton.
Shelby, Gertrude Singleton Mathews was born on April 13, 1881 in Momence, Illinois, United States. Daughter of William Frank and Gertrude (Magoffin) Singleton.
Education high school.
Contributor to magazines, since 1915, including Harper’s, Century, Outlook, New Republic, Theatre Arts Monthly, Bookman, Nation, also lecturer. Managing editor (1917-1918) News Letter, national publication Woman’s Council of National Defense, and head of its news department. Specialist on coöperative credit.
Organizer and executive secretary National Committee for Cooperative Banks.
Testified before Senate Banking and Currency committee, 1925, on farm credits. Reported on same to American Farm Bureau Federation, and Democratic National Committee, 1928.
Wrote series for magazines. Specialist on negroid peoples and folklore, Africa, Dutch Guiana and southern United States Author: Treasure (novel, under name of Gertrude South. Mathews), 1917.
Galusha A. Grow (biography, with James T. Dubois), 1917.
How to Face Peace (community programs, under name of Gertrude Mathews Shelby), 1918. Deporte (fiction), 1927. Black Genesis (with South. G. Stoney), 1930.
Po’ Buckra (with same), 1930.
History research 16th and 17th Century America, 1930-1935. Home: Venice, Florida
Married John L. Mathews, author, September 10, 1900 (died 1915). Married second, Edmund P. Shelby, Doctor of Medicine August 31, 1917.