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'''Ella Reeve Bloor''' (b. July 8, 1862), born '''Ella Reeve''' and also known as '''Mother Bloor''' was radical [[labor]] organizer, [[socialist]] and [[communist]].  She was married first to Lucien Ware, then Louis Cohen, and finally Andrew Omholt. Bloor was born on Staten Island and grew up in New Jersey.  After marrying Lucian Ware when she was nineteen, she was a mother of four by 1892. Her son, [[Harold Ware]], founded the Washington D.C. based [[Ware group]] of United States federal government employees who spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930's and 40's.
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'''Ella Reeve Bloor''' (b. July 8, 1862), born '''Ella Reeve''' and also known as '''Mother Bloor''' was radical [[labor]] organizer, [[socialist]] and [[communist]].  She was married first to Lucien Ware, then Louis Cohen, and finally Andrew Omholt. Bloor was born on Staten Island and grew up in New Jersey.  After marrying Lucian Ware when she was nineteen, she was a mother of four by 1892. Her son, [[Harold Ware]], founded the Washington D.C. based [[Ware group]]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/shamefulyearsthi1952unit#page/54/mode/2up ''The Shameful Years: Thirty Years of Soviet Espionage in the United States,''] U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Un-American Activities, 30 December 1951, 15-16, p. 54-55.</ref>  of United States federal government employees who spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930's and 40's.
    
Bloor became involved in several social movements including the prohibitionist Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and women's suffrage and wrote two books, ''Three Little Lovers of Nature'' (1895) and ''Talks About Authors and Their Work'' (1899).
 
Bloor became involved in several social movements including the prohibitionist Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and women's suffrage and wrote two books, ''Three Little Lovers of Nature'' (1895) and ''Talks About Authors and Their Work'' (1899).
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Ella Reeve Bloor, whose autobiography, ''We Are Many'', was published in 1940, died in Richlandtown on 10th August, 1951.
 
Ella Reeve Bloor, whose autobiography, ''We Are Many'', was published in 1940, died in Richlandtown on 10th August, 1951.
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==References==
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[[Category:Communist Party USA members]]
 
[[Category:Communist Party USA members]]
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