Belle R. Harrison (1856-1940) was a poet and short story author of the American South, [1] as well as an educator. [2]
Belle R. Harrison (1856-1940) was a poet and short story author of the American South, [1] as well as an educator. [2]
Lucy Belle Richardson was born October 20, 1856, at Camden, Alabama. She was the daughter of Professor Warfield Creath Richardson [3] (1823-1914) and Catherine Cole (Jones) Richardson (1833-1911). [1] Her siblings were Clement (b. 1859) and Ida (b. 1861). [4] She was educated at Stafford school and the Tuscaloosa female college. [1]
Harrison was the author of, Poems, 1898, [1] as well as a collection of negro short stories. [5] She was a Methodist and a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. [1] Harrison served as president of the Kettledrum Club of Tuscaloosa. [6]
On July 21, 1881, she married John Calhoun Harrison, of Tuscaloosa. They resided in that city. [1] Their children were Katie (b. 1882) and Adeline (b. 1888). [4] Belle R. Harrison died in Tuscaloosa, December 4, 1940. [5]
The Belle R. Harrison Literary Society was named in her honor. [7]
Amelia Gayle Gorgas was librarian and postmaster of the University of Alabama for 25 years until her retirement at the age of eighty in 1907. She expanded the library from 6,000 to 20,000 volumes. The primary library at the university is named after her. A native of Greensboro, Alabama, Amelia was the daughter of Alabama governor John Gayle, the wife of Pennsylvania-born Confederate general Josiah Gorgas and the mother of Surgeon General William C. Gorgas. She was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1977.
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Emma Whitcomb Babcock was an American litterateur and author. She did considerable work as a book reviewer, and contributed to various leading magazines. She was the author of Household Hints, a domestic management guide, and A Mother's Note Book, as well as other works. She was president of The Belles-Lettres club, well known in western Pennsylvania, which founded a public library. Babcock died in 1926.
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Rev. Emma Pow Bauder was an American evangelist, missionary, reformer, and author. Affiliated with the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in Michigan since 1879, she soon thereafter relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was also active with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.), the largest women's organization in the U.S. during the Gilded Age.
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