History of Boonton, (Morris County) New Jersey United States of America

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Mary Harriott Norris, author, was born in Boonton, N.J., March 16, 1848; daughter of Charles Bryan and Mary Lyon (Kerr) Norris; granddaughter of Luther and Hannah (Stout) Norris; great-granddaughter of Capt. James Stout of the Revolutionary army, and a descendent from Richard and Penelope (Van Francis) Stout, from William Joseph Kerr, from Richard and Elizabeth (Hawley) Booth, from Thomas Trowbridge and from Maj.-Gen. Humphrey and Mary (Wales) Atherton, all immigrants. She was graduated from Vassar college, Poughkeep-esi, N.Y., in 1870; founded a private school in New York city, serving as its principal, 1879-91, and was dean of women at Northwestern university, 1898-99. She is the author of: Fr?ulein Mina (1872); Ben and Bentie Series (1873-76); Dorothy Delafield (1886); Those Good-for-Naughts, a serial (1877); A Damsel of the Eighteenth Century (1889); Phebe (1890); Afterward (1893); The Nine Blessings (1893); John Applegate, Surgeon (1894); Lakewood (1895); The Gray House of the Quarries (1898); The Grapes of Wrath (1901). She edited Silas Marner in 1890; Marmien in 1891; Evangeline in 1897; Kenilworth in 1898, and Quentin Durward in 1899. She also wrote a number of short stories, letters from Europe and educational articles, as well as contributions to the Methodist Quarterly Review and The Christian Advocate.

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

History of Boonton, (Morris County) New Jersey

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