History of Holly Springs, (Marion County) Mississippi United States of America

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The Biography of Katharine Sherwood (Bonner) McDowell

Katharine Sherwood (Bonner) McDowell, author, was born in Holly Springs, Miss., Feb. 26, 1849. She attended seminaries in Mississippi and Alabama. In 1872 she removed to Boston, Mass., and became private secretary to Henry W. Longfellow, who encouraged her in her literary pursuits. She is the author of "The Radical Club," a poem, in which she ridiculed that organization and which is said to have eventually killed it. She returned to Holly Springs in 1878, at the height of an epidemic of yellow fever, to nurse her father and brother, who were stricken. She was married in 1870, to Edward McDowell, of Holly Springs, Miss. Under the pen name "Sherwood Bonner," she wrote Like unto Like (1881); and Dialect Tales (1884). She died in Holly Springs, Miss., July 22, 1884.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor