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Rh father, wishing to try farm life, purchased a farm in the township of North Royalton, near Cleveland, Ohio, being induced to settle there by an older brother, who had left England ten years before. At the age of twenty-two years Miss Scarr was married to a young Englishman residing in Twinsburgh, Ohio, and, shortly afterwards, began to contribute occasionally to some of the periodicals of the day under various pen-names. At a later period verses appeared under her own name. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War her brother enlisted in the Union Army, and soon after the battle of Shiloh, in which he fought, died of disease brought on by the hardships and exposure of a soldier's life. His death was succeeded by that of the older sister, a few months later. Emma's husband throughout all the dark years of war had been very outspoken in his denunciation of the secession project and all those favoring it, thus making enemies of certain secret sympathizers in the neighborhood. A few days preceding the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, while the family were on a visit to her parents, some twenty miles distant, a friend came post-haste on horseback from Twinsburgh to inform them that their house, together with all its contents, had been reduced to ashes during the night. Not an article was saved, since no one save the incendiary had witnessed the burning. Then came the news of the President's murder, and to her depressed mind all the world seemed going to "wreck and ruin," especially when, nine weeks later, her husband's mills with their entire contents were fired and totally destroyed. As none of the property had been insured, this misfortune reduced the formerly well-to-do pair to comparative poverty, and soon afterward they left the town, removing to Painesville, Ohio. There the wife obtained some needlework, while the husband went to the oil regions near Titusville, Pa., where he found employment. There, under the influence of lawless associates, he forgot his duties as a husband, and the result was a final separation a few years later. Meanwhile, Emma had removed to Cleveland, Ohio, and there supported herself by teaching music, not wishing to become dependent upon her parents, who had, however, kindly offered her a home with them. Some time later her parents sold their farm and went to reside in Cleveland, in order to be near their daughter. After the father's death, in 1872, Emma took up her abode with her mother, still continuing to give music lessons. In 1873 she was married again. Her second husband was an American Her home since that time has been in Cleveland Three years ago she went alone to Europe, among other places visiting the haunts of her childhood. Since her return she has become much intererested in all movements for the advancement of women Mrs. Booth has published three volumes in book form, "Karan Kringle's Journal (Philadelphia, 1885), "A Willful Heiress" Buffalo, 1892), and "Poems" (Buffalo, 1892). She has composed songs and Instrumental pieces, which have been published.

BOOTH, Miss Mary Louise, author, translator and editor, born in Millville, now Yaphank, N. Y., 19th April, 1831. On her father's side she is descended from John Booth, who came to the Colonies in 1649. Her mother was the granddaughter of a refugee of the French Revolution. Mary's talents were displayed in childhood, and she was yet only a girl when her first contributions were published. Her father was a teacher, and in 1845 and 1846 she taught in his school in Williamsburg, L. I. Her health failed and she was obliged to abandon teaching. She then turned to literature. She wrote many stories and sketches for newspapers and magazines, and translated from the French "The Marble-Worker's Manual" (New York. 1856), and "The Clock and Watch Maker's Manual." For "Emerson's Magazine " she translated Mery's "Andre Chenier" and About's "King of the Mountains," and for that journal she wrote a number of stories. She translated Victor Cousin's "Secret History of the French Court; or. Life and Times of Madame de Chevreuse" (1859). The first edition of her "History of the City of New

York" appeared in 1S59. It is a work embodying the results of much study and research. She next assisted in making a translation of the French classics, and she translated About's "Germaine" (Boston, i86ot. During the Civil War she translated the writings of eminent Frenchmen who favored the cause of the Union. Among these were: Gasparin's " Uprising of a Great People" and "America before Europe" (New York, 1861), Edouard Laboulaye's "Paris in America" (New York, 1865), and Augustin Cochin's "Results of Emancipation" and "Results of Slavery" (Boston, 1862). Her work in that field won the commendation of President Lincoln, Senator Sumner and other statesmen. Among others of her translations at that time were the Countess de Gasparin's "Vesper," "Camille" and "Human Sorrows," and Count de Gasparin's "Happiness." Her translations of French documents were published in pamphlet form by the Union League Club, or printed in New York City newspapers. Her next translation was Henri Martin's "History of France. " In 1864 she published two volumes treating of "The Age of Louis XIV." In 1866 she published two others, the last two of the seventeen volumes, under the title of "The Decline of the French Monarchy." In 1880 she published the translation Of Martin's abridged "History of France." Her later translations from the French include Labonlaye's "Fairy Book" and Mace's " Fairy Tales."