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824 secular press, and active worker in the charitable works and the foreign missions of the Roman Catholic Church.

Was born in 1840, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When quite young she filled a highly responsible position as critical reader of manuscripts in a large publishing house of London. While here she was a regular correspondent of the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette and the Golden Era of San Francisco, and was well-known as a writer of short stories for magazines in the United States and England. After the war, on her return to America, she became associate editor of the Capital, Don Piatt's paper published in Washington, District of Columbia. She did a great deal of translating from French and Italian. She was a writer of plays, the first of which was entitled "Rose," followed by "An American Marriage." In one of her plays Fay Templeton made her appearance and won success as a child actress. She wrote several stories and arranged and adapted from the French several plays. Her first husband was Minor K. Kellogg, an artist. After his death she married James H. Connelly, an author. She died in 1904.

Was born June 22, 1844, in New Haven, Connecticut. She is best known under her pen-name "Margaret Sidney." Daughter of Sidney Mason Stone and Harriet Mulford Stone, and is connected with some of the most distinguished of the Puritan families. Her genius for writing began to develop early and the products of her pen have had wide circulation and enjoyed an enviable reputation. She is the author of the well-known "Five Little Pepper Stories," stories for children and young people. Mrs. Lothrop has written many books. Her story, "A New Departure for Girls" was written for those who are left without the means of support with the object of having them see their opportunities. In October 1881, she married Daniel Lothrop, the publisher and founder of the D. Lothrop Company. Their home at Wayside, in Concord, New Hampshire, is well-known, having been the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Mr. Lothrop's death occurred March 18, 1892, and since that time Mrs. Lothrop has devoted herself entirely to literary work, the education of her daughter, and to the patriotic societies of which she is a member. She is the originator and organizer of the children's society known as the "Children of the American Revolution," to instill and encourage a spirit of patriotism in the children of America whose mothers are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Mrs. Lothrop is a woman of remarkable ability, fine literary talent, and possessed of unusual business qualifications. She is the author of "Polly Pepper's Chicken Pie," "Phronsie's New Shoes," "Miss Scarrett," "So as by Fire" "Judith Pettibone," "Half Year at Bronckton." "How They Went to Europe," "The Golden West," "Old Concord; Her Highways and Byways," etc. She is the author of many short stories which have been published in various periodicals for children and young people of the United States.