Emily Goodrich Smith | |
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.jpg) Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Emily L. Goodrich June 1, 1830 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 12, 1903 Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Occupation | newspaper correspondent |
| Spouse |
Nathaniel Smith
(m. 1856–1877) |
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Emily Goodrich Smith (1830–1903) was an American newspaper correspondent.[1] Her father, Hon. Samuel Griswold Goodrich, widely known as "Peter Parley", was consul in Paris, affording an opportunity for Smith to be educated abroad. While living in Paris, in 1848, she witnessed the terrors enacted during the reign of Louis Philippe I. The Goodrich house was constantly filled with terror-stricken foreigners, who found their only safety under the protection of the American flag. Returning to the U.S., in 1856, she wrote many stories and verses for magazines, her letters during the civil war were widely read and copied. She was one of the founders of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle (CLSC) and state secretary for Connecticut.[2] She also served as a vice-regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association for Connecticut.[3]
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "SMITH, Mrs. Emily L. Goodrich". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. p. 661. Retrieved 21 April 2024.
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- ^ Flood, Theodore L., ed. (September 1893). "Graduate Classes". The Chautauquan. Meadville, Penn.: M. Bailey: 112. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
- ^ Logan, Mrs John A. (1912). "Emily L. Goodrich Smith". The Part Taken by Women in American History. Perry-Nalle Publishing Company. Retrieved 22 April 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
