Elizabeth Clementine Stedman
Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other
Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman (December 10, 1810 – November 19, 1889) was an American writer. She was the author of Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianca Cappello, A Tragedy (1873).
Biography
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]
Personal life
.png){kind=link}
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:
- Elizabeth Clementine Kinney who married William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840-1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco and the son of Episcopal bishop and missionary to California, William Ingraham Kip. They had four children,[7] three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Eddie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robertson of Kansas City, KS).[6]
- Mary Burnet Kinney.[6]
Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch.
Death
She died on November 19, 1889, in Summit, New Jersey, at the age of 78.[8]
Notes
References
Template:Wikisource/outer coreScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- ↑ Gabrielsen, Laura M. "Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney, 1810–1889" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Joan N. Burstyn, editor). Syracuse University Press, 1997: 75. Template:ISBN
- ↑ The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1 retrieved January 19, 2013
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Gabrielsen, Laura M. "Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney, 1810–1889" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Joan N. Burstyn, editor). Syracuse University Press, 1997: 76. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Scholnick, Robert J. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977: 13. Template:ISBN
- ↑ a b c Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey edited by Francis Bazley Lee
- ↑ A history of the new California: its resources and people, Volume 2 edited by Leigh Hadley Irvine
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".