Dorothy Dix, Yorke Nicholson (son of Eliza Nicholson who owned The Times-Picayune and hired Elizabeth), Lucy Mae (wife of Billy) and Billy Meriwether (her nephew) in front of a small airplane.
Dorothy Dix Collection As the forerunner of today's popular advice columnists, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (1861-1951), writing under the pen name "Dorothy Dix," was America's highest paid and most widely read female journalist at the time of her death.