Eveline Burgess

Burgess circa 1915

Eveline Allen Burgess (September 19, 1856 – July 10, 1936) of Lamoni, Iowa was the American women's chess champion from 1907 to 1920.^[1][2][3][4]

Biography

She was born as Eveline Allen on September 19, 1856 in Ogden, Utah to James T. Allen, and Elizabeth Pidd. She married Samuel Rostron Burgess (1851–1918) on July 4, 1876. She won her chess title in a match with Mrs. Clarence Frey in 1907.^[2] She taught her grandson, Walter Richard Evans, to play chess.^[4] She died on July 10, 1936, in Independence, Missouri.^[5]

References

1. "Mrs. Samuel R. Burgess". Notable Women of St. Louis. 1914. Retrieved 2011-04-12. Mrs. Samuel R. Burgess has held the chess championship, among women in the United States, since March, 1907, having won it from Mrs. Clarence Frey, then playing in Newark, N.J., but a member of the Woman's Chess Club of New York. The match was played at the club headquarters of the Martha Washington Hotel in New York. For this victory Mrs. Burgess was awarded a gold medal, very beautiful in design and workmanship.
2. "Mrs. Burgess Chess Champion". Baltimore Sun. March 10, 1907. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
3. "Mrs. Burgess Still Chess Champion". Baltimore Sun. February 26, 1908. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
4. "In Memoriam Walter Richard Evans (15 January 1920 – 10 July 1999)" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-12. wanted to be one, too. He learned to play chess from his grandmother, Eveline Burgess, U.S. Women’s Champion for thirty years, 1906 [sic] - 1936 [sic], thus enhancing his ability to think a problem through many steps to a solution.
5. "Mrs. Eveline A. Burgess". New York Times. July 12, 1936. Retrieved 2011-04-12. Eveline Allen Burgess [of] Lamoni, Iowa, national women's chess champion from 1906 to 1920 died here yesterday of injuries she ...