 Portrait from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Mary Ann Mann September 25, 1829 Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | April 18, 1918 (aged 88) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Resting place | Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery |
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| Genre | novels, occult |
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| Literary movement | temperance |
| Notable works | Little Wolf |
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Samuel Cornelius
(m. 1850; died 1886) |
Mary Ann Mann Cornelius (née, Mann; pen name, Mrs. Mary A. Cornelius; September 25, 1829 – April 18, 1918) was an American author and social reformer.[1] A temperance activist, she served as president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) of Arkansas.[2] She lived several years in Tacoma, Washington, where she established a free reading room and circulating library for the young. In Tacoma and also in Topeka, Kansas, Cornelius served as a director of the humane society. She was the author of various novels and occult stories, including Little Wolf; Uncle Nathan's Farm; The White Flame; and Why? or A Kansas Girl's Query. She favored woman's suffrage.[3]
- ^ Not to be confused with the writer, Mary Ann Hooker Cornelius (1796-1880)
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "CORNELIUS, Mrs. Mary A.". 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. pp. 207–08.
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- ^ "Cornelius, Mary Ann (Mrs. Samuel Cornelius)". Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. American commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 206. Retrieved 10 September 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
