Elizabeth Clementine Stedman

Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman (December 10, 1810 – November 19, 1889) was an American writer. She was the author of Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianca Cappello, A Tragedy (1873).

Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman
BornElizabeth Clementine Dodge
(1810-12-10)December 10, 1810
New York City, U.S.
DiedNovember 19, 1889(1889-11-19) (aged 78)
Summit, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Spouse
  • Edmund Burke Stedman
    (m. 1830; died 1835)
  • (m. 1841; died 1880)
Children4, including Edmund Clarence Stedman
Signature

Biography

She was born Elizabeth Clementine Dodge in New York City on December 10, 1810.[1] Her father was David Low Dodge, who helped establish the New York Peace Society. Her mother was Sarah Cleveland, the daughter of minister Aaron Cleveland.[2] Her brother was William E. Dodge, noted abolitionist, Native American rights activist, past president of the National Temperance Society, and founding member of YMCA of the USA.

Elizabeth was a contributor to the Knickerbocker and to Blackwood's. During a 14-year stay in Europe she was a friend of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. She published Felicita, a Metrical Romance (1855), Poems (1867), and Bianco Capello, A Tragedy (1873), written during her time abroad in Italy.[3]

Personal life

Elizabeth Clementine Kinney (1852)

She married Edmund Burke Stedman, a merchant from Hartford, Connecticut, in 1830 at age 19.[3][4] He died of tuberculosis in December 1835.[5] They had two sons, the eldest was the poet and critic Edmund Clarence Stedman.

In 1841, she married the U.S. diplomat and politician, William Burnet Kinney.[6] They remained married until his death in 1880.[3] They had two children:

  • Elizabeth Clementine Kinney who married William Ingraham Kip Jr. (1840-1902), the rector of Good Samaritan Missions in San Francisco and the son of Episcopal bishop and missionary to California, William Ingraham Kip. They had four children,[7] three of whom survived to adulthood: Elizabeth Clementine Kip (married Guy L. Eddie of the U.S. Army); Lawrence Kip; and Mary Burnet Kip (married to Dr. Ernest Franklin Robertson of Kansas City, KS).[6]
  • Mary Burnet Kinney.[6]

Her great-great-grandsons are businesspeople Frederick R. Koch, Charles Koch, David Koch, and Bill Koch.

Death

She died on November 19, 1889 in Summit, New Jersey at the age of 78.[8]

Notes

  1. Gabrielsen, Laura M. "Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney, 1810–1889" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Joan N. Burstyn, editor). Syracuse University Press, 1997: 75. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1
  2. The Descendants of John Porter of Windsor, Conn. 1635-9, Volume 1 retrieved January 19, 2013
  3. "Formerly of Hartford". The Morning Journal-Courier. New Haven, CT. November 22, 1889. p. 4. Retrieved January 28, 2021 via Newspapers.com.
  4. Gabrielsen, Laura M. "Elizabeth Clementine Dodge Stedman Kinney, 1810–1889" in Past and Promise: Lives of New Jersey Women (Joan N. Burstyn, editor). Syracuse University Press, 1997: 76. ISBN 0-8156-0418-1
  5. Scholnick, Robert J. Edmund Clarence Stedman. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977: 13. ISBN 0-8057-7188-3
  6. Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey edited by Francis Bazley Lee
  7. A history of the new California: its resources and people, Volume 2 edited by Leigh Hadley Irvine
  8. "Death of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Kinney". Hartford Courant. November 21, 1889. p. 1. Retrieved January 28, 2021 via Newspapers.com.

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