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第11章 CORNELIA M.STOCKTON(2)

Mrs.Stockton was married twice.Her first husband was the father of her two sons,one of whom,Dr.Henry M.Downs,in his practice,came often to St.Margaret's.The second marriage,as the wife of the late Judge John S.Stockton,was a very happy one.Last year,a brother the only surviving member of her family,died,leaving Mrs.Stockton the last of a family of five children.The two sons have also passed into the Great Beyond.

In her younger days,she contributed many poems and some prose to newspapers and magazines over the name of Cora M.Downs.

Ex-Gov.St.John appointed her one of the regents of the University of Kansas.

Her beautiful poem:In Memoriam to Sarah Walter Chandler Coates was her last.

We seem like children,she was wont to say,Talking of what we cannot understand,And in the dark or daylight,all the way,Holding so trustfully a Father's hand.And this was her religion,not to dwell On tenets,creeds,or doctrines,but to live On a pure faith,and striving to do well The simple duties that each hour should give.

MARGARET HILL McCARTER.

The most successful Kansas woman writer financially and the most prolific is Margaret Hill McCarter of Topeka.From the advent of her little book in 1901,A Bunch of Things,Tied Up With Strings to the hearty reception of her latest novel every step of the way spells success.

Margaret Hill was born in Indiana and came to Kansas in 1888to teach English in the Topeka High School.Two years later,she became the wife of Dr.William McCarter.Of this union there are two daughters,students at Baker University and the Topeka High School and a young son,his mother's literary critic.

A wife and a mother first,a Kansas woman second,and an author third is the way Mrs.McCarter rates herself.She is capable of and does do all her housework.

Her love for literature she owes to her mother,who believed in higher education and taught Margaret to prize the few books that came her way.

After leaving the school room,the teacher instinct still strong within her,she argued if she could teach out of books written by others,why not out of books of her own?Then followed poems,short stories,biography,textbooks,the editing of Crane Classics,One Hundred Kansas Women and miscellanies.

In 1902,Cuddy and Other Folks was written and in 1903,The Cottonwood's Story.

This same year,The Overflowing Waters,the story of the 1903 flood,and one of her best bits of heart writing paid for the school books of almost a thousand unfortunate children.Cuddy's Baby appeared in 1908,followed the next year with In Old Quivera,a thread of Coronado history.The Price of The Prairies,three weeks after publication in the fall of 1910,became Kansas best seller.The Peace of The Solomon Valley came out in 1911and proved a popular gift book.The Wall of Men,Mrs.McCarter's 1912offering should be one of the required books in Kansas schools.It is authentic history and the close of the story leaves every Kansan with a greater respect and love for the state and the heroic pioneers who stood as a living wall between Kansas and the slave question.1913gave us the Master's Degree,considered by many her best work.This year we have Winning The Wilderness.

Mrs.McCarter founded the Club Member and organized the Sorosis,serving as president seven years and two terms as president of the Topeka Federation of Women's Clubs.Baker University,at Baldwin,Kansas,gave her an honorary Master's Degree in 1909,its semi-centennial anniversary.

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