History of Millville, (Orleans County) New York United States of America

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Mary Louise Booth, author, was born at Millville (L. I.), N.Y., April 19, 1831. Her father was a school teacher at Williamsburg, L. I., and at an early age she became his assistant. She abandoned this work, however, to give her time to literary work. She became a popular contributor to periodical literature, and published many translations from the French. When Harper's Bazar was established in 1867 she became its editor, and held the position during the rest of her life. For several years she was engaged in preparing a "History of the City of New York," which, on its publication in 1859, attracted much favorable comment. Her published works, consisting chiefly of translations, include the following: Cousin's "Secret History of the French Court under Richelieu and Mazarin; or, Life and Times of Madame de Chevreuse" (1859); Gasparin's "The Uprising of a Great People. The United States in 1861" (1861), and "America before Europe: Principles and Interests" (1862); Cochin's "The Results of Slavery" (1863); Gasparin's "Reconstruction" (1865); the Countess de Gasparin's" Human Sorrows," "Vesper," and "Camille"; Laboulaye's "Paris in America" (1865), and "Fairy Book" (1867), and Martin's "History of France" (2 vols., 1866). She also compiled the "New and Complete Clock and Watch-maker's Manual" (1860). She died in New York city, March 5, 1889.

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

History of Millville, (Orleans County) New York

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