Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | Elizabeth Clementine Dodge December 10, 1810 New York City |
| Died | November 19, 1889 (aged 78) Summit, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse |
|
| Children | 4, including Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| Signature | |
 | |
Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman (1810–1889) was an American writer. She was the author of Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianca Cappello, A Tragedy (1873).
She was born Elizabeth Clementine Dodge in New York City on December 10, 1810. [1] Her father was David Low Dodge, who helped establish the New York Peace Society. Her mother was Sarah Cleveland, the daughter of minister Aaron Cleveland. [2] Her brother was William E. Dodge, noted abolitionist, Native American rights activist, past president of the National Temperance Society, and founding member of YMCA of the USA.
Elizabeth was a contributor to the Knickerbocker and to Blackwood's . During a 14-year stay in Europe she was a friend of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She published Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianco Capello, A Tragedy (1873), written during her time abroad in Italy. [3]
She married Edmund Burke Stedman, a merchant from Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830 at age 19. [3] [4] He died of tuberculosis in December 1835. [5] They had two sons, the eldest was the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman.
In 1841, she married the U.S. diplomat and politician, William Burnet Kinney. [6] They remained married until his death in 1880. [3] They had two children:
Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch.
She died on November 19, 1889 in Summit, New Jersey at the age of 78. [8]
Elizabeth Estaugh, née Haddon was an American pioneer. She was the founder of Haddon Township and Haddonfield, New Jersey.
Edmund Clarence Stedman was an American poet, critic, essayist, banker, and scientist.
David Low Dodge was an American activist and theologian who helped to establish the New York Peace Society and was a founder of the New York Bible Society and the New York Tract Society. According to historian Dale R. Steiner, he wrote "some of the earliest and most effective antiwar literature in the United States."
William Burnet Kinney was an American politician and diplomat.
William Ingraham Koch is an American billionaire businessman, sailor, and collector. His boat was the winner of the America's Cup in 1992. Forbes estimated Koch's net worth at $1.8 billion in 2019, from oil and other investments.
Cedar Lawn Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Paterson, New Jersey, and is also considered one of the finest Victorian cemeteries in the USA. Cedar Lawn Cemetery officially opened in September 1867, and recorded its first burial on September 27, 1867.
Stedman is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:
Esther Jane "Jennie" Hobart was the wife of Vice President Garret Hobart and a philanthropist and community activist in New Jersey.
William Ingraham Kip was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop.
Frederick Frelinghuysen was an American businessman. He was the president of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company in Newark, New Jersey, for 25 years.
William Stedman was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Dodge is a surname.
Frederick Robinson Koch was an American collector and philanthropist, the eldest of the four sons born to American industrialist Fred Chase Koch, founder of what is now Koch Industries, and Mary Clementine Koch.
Fred Chase Koch was an American chemical engineer and entrepreneur who founded the oil refinery firm that later became Koch Industries, a privately held company which -- under the principal ownership and leadership of Koch's sons Charles and David -- would be listed by Forbes as the second-largest privately held company in the United States in 2015.
Beatrice Winser was an American librarian. She spent 53 years at the Newark Public Library in Newark, New Jersey and was its third librarian, from 1929 to 1942.
Viola Gertrude Wells Evans, better known by her stage names Viola Wells or Miss Rhapsody, was an American jazz, blues, and religious singer.
Rita Sapiro Finkler was a Russian Empire-born American physician. She practiced pediatrics and gynecology in her early career, but is best known for her work as an endocrinologist. She established and directed the department of endocrinology at Newark Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
Charlotte Fowler Wells was an American phrenologist and publisher from New York. Along with her brothers, Orson Squire Fowler and Lorenzo Niles Fowler, her sister-in-law, Lydia Folger Fowler, and her husband, Samuel Roberts Wells, she was an early American popularizer of phrenology. Wells founded Fowler & Wells Company, published the American Phrenological Journal, and taught the first class in phrenology in the United States. She died at her home in New Jersey in 1901.
Lawrence Kip was an American soldier, author, and sportsman who was prominent in New York society during the Gilded Age.
Dorothea Schwarcz Greenbaum (1893–1986) was an American painter and sculptor.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
