Mary Ormsbee Whitton
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Mary Royce Ormsbee Whitton (February 23, 1886 - January 31, 1971) was a 20th-century American author. She wrote First First Ladies (1948) and other books focusing on women in American history.[1]
Mary Royce Ormsbee was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. She graduated from Smith College in 1907,[2] and published short stories and poems in various publications.
Her 1927 book "The New Servant" was about new and pervasive use of electrical appliances at home.[1] Her books were published under the name "Mary Ormsbee Whitton".
Her husband William H. Whitton died in 1951.[1][3][4] She died of a heart attack at her home in Pound Ridge, New York at the age of 84 on January 31, 1971. She was survived by a daughter, also named Mary Ormsbee Whitton, who married journalist George E. Bria,[5] and two grandchildren.[1]
Selected bibliography
- The New Servant: Electricity in the Home (1927)
- First First Ladies 1789-1865: A Study of the Wives of the Early Presidents (1948)[6]
- These Were the Women: U.S.A. 1776-1860 (1954)