Alice Huyler Ramsey
American driver (1886–1983)
Alice Huyler Ramsey (November 11, 1886 – September 10, 1983) was an American who was the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States from coast to coast, a feat she completed on August 7, 1909.
Early life
Ramsey was born Alice Taylor Huyler, the daughter of John Edwin Huyler, a lumber dealer, and Ada Mumford Farr. She attended Vassar College from 1903 to 1905. On January 10, 1906, in Hackensack, New Jersey, Ramsey married congressman John R. Ramsey (1862–1933), with whom she had two children: John Rathbone Ramsey, Jr. (1907–2000), and Alice Valleau Ramsey (1910–2015), who married Robert Stewart Bruns (1906–1981).
Career
In 1908 her husband bought her a new Maxwell runabout. That summer she drove over 6,000 miles near their Hackensack home. In September 1908 she drove one of the three Maxwells which were entered in that year's American Automobile Association's (AAA) Montauk Point endurance race, being one of only two women to participate. She won a bronze medal by getting a perfect score in the race. One of the other Maxwell drivers was Carl Kelsey, who did publicity for Maxwell-Briscoe.
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