Alice Lee West Movius

Alice Lee West was born on October 26, 1885. She was the daughter of George West and Rose Saltonstall. Rose was the daughter of Leverett Saltonstall, US Representative from Massachusetts. Alice was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was interested in philanthropy at an early age. On December 11, 1906, Alice, who was described as "tall, willowy and beautiful" married landscape architect and Harvard graduate Hallam Leonard Movius of Buffalo, New York.

As a member of the Vincent Club, she helped to raise funds for women's health care. In 1916, she attended the  Chicago Convention which marked the founding of the National Women's Party as head of the Massachusetts Women's Suffrage Delegation. At the end of World War I, she became the first woman in Boston to "bob" or have her hair cut short. She sold her hair to raise funds for the suffrage movement and made other donations to the cause.