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Smith, M. B. (Mary Bell), 1818-1894


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    • Smith, M. B., Mrs., active 19th century
    • Blair, Mary Perkins, 1818-1894
    • Bell, Mary Perkins Blair, 1818-1894
    • Smith, Mary Bell, 1818-1894
    • Wood, Hazel, 1818-1894

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    • Birth Date

        1818-09-03

    • Death Date

        1894-12-09

    • Birth Place

        Becket (Mass.)

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Children's literature

      Temperance


    • Occupation

      (itoamc) Artists

      (itoamc) Authors

      (itoamc) Social activists

      (itoamc) Teachers

      Authors

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  • Earlier Established Forms

    • Smith, M. B., Mrs., active 19th century

  • Sources

    • found: My uncle's family, or, Ten months at the South, 1860:title page (Mrs. M.B. Smith)
    • found: On the quicksands, 1897:t.p. (Hazel Wood)
    • found: LC manual files:(hdg.: Wood, Hazel, pseud.)
    • found: Google Books, via WWW, Nov. 28, 2022:In memoriam of Mary Perkins Blair Bell and Smith, 1818-1894, 1899, p. 4, etc. (Mary Perkins Blair; artist; author; teacher; temperance crusader; in 1832 came to Rochester, Lorain Co., Ohio with her parents; began teaching at a country school at age 14; secured a position as teacher at the Academy at Ashland, Ohio; m. John Johnston Bell; removed to Wisconsin in 1837; later returned to Ohio; worked as an artist and writer after the death of her husband; m. Daniel Smith in 1847; contributed regularly to the Advocate, Guardian and the Lily, a paper devoted to women's suffrage; author of My uncle's family, a sabbath school book which won a prize in 1863; author of Ellen Grant, or Who was the murderer; teacher at Oskaloosa College, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 1863; became a fine art teacher at Pattie Female College, St. Joseph, Mo., 1867-1869; elected matron of the Home of the Friendless at Leavenworth, Kansas; spent her last years with her daughters; b. Aug. 3, 1818, at Becket, Mass., dau. of Luther Blair and Emblem Perkins; m. John Johnston Bell, 1836; m. Daniel Smith, 1847; d. Dec. 9, 1894, at Kansas City, Kansas)

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    • 2020-02-20: new
    • 2023-03-30: revised

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