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Show GREAT WESTERN WRITER DEAD. Literary World Loses Leader in Mrs. Mary H. Catherwood. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, regarded re-garded as the foremost writer of western west-ern . historical romance, died at Chicago Chi-cago last week. ; - Mary Hartwell Catherwood was born - In Luray, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1847. Her parents died when she was 10 years old. - She was educated at the Woman's Wom-an's college, Granville, O., from which ' she graduated in 1868. She settled at Newburg, N. Y.,- on the Hudson, where she earned her living by writing stories for the New York weekly papers pa-pers and later for the magazines. Her earliest stories were for children and were published in Wide Awake. Mrs. Catherwood came to Illinois in 1877 from her New York home and located at Hoopeston, 111., where she was married to James Steele Catherwood Cather-wood twenty-five years ago. From Hoopeston the Catherwoods removed to. Indianapolis, but returned to Hoopeston Hoop-eston in 1885, where they lived until 1900, when they went to ..Chicago. Her first great success was achieved through a historical romance called "Romance of the Dollard," founded on events in Canadian history, and her last and most famous book, "Lazarre," la her short stories, some of which are published in a volume entitled "Queen of the Swamp," Mrs. Cather- yrmumm ,'Trm"" ' IPS MAPY' HAPmeil CATHEPWOO I wood depicted country life in Ohio, Kentucky and Illinois with an art and fidelity equal to the New England Character drawings of Mary Wilkins. |