Evaleen was an author and artist.
Evaleen Stein, a regionally famous yet reclusive Lafayette poet, artist and author, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital after a heart attack on Dec. 11, 1923.
Born in October 1863, she was the daughter of attorney John A. and Virginia Stein. Her father died when she was 22. Of a shy and retiring nature, she lived with her mother in homes at 252 Columbia St., 629 South St., an apartment at Sixth and Main streets, and then at 708 Hitt St., in a structure they built in 1911 and named their "Little House of Dreams."
She studied for a time at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by 1892, at age 29, gained notice for her poetry, mostly published locally and in Indianapolis newspapers, plus a few magazines.
She produced a small number of nature-oriented watercolor paintings inspired by scenes she visited as a guest at private cottages on the Kankakee River in northern Indiana. She also painted minutely detailed illuminations to illustrate various subjects, for example, "The Twenty-Third Psalm" and "St. Francis' Sermon to the Birds" and became adept at decorative sewing as well.
Miss Stein, who never married, published several hundred poems, mostly about nature, and simple rhymes for children. She collected many in her volumes One Way to the Woods in 1897, and Among the Trees Again in 1902.
After 1903, she concentrated on epic poems, saluting the Battle of Tippecanoe's centennial in 1911 and Indiana's Statehood Centennial in 1916, and upon juvenile fiction.
She produced 12 children's books, two other books of translations of poems from Japan and Italy and of poetry for little ones in Child Songs of Cheer.
One of the many delights in the latter book she titled "Who Was It?": Of course I've heard the moon's green cheese,/ But will somebody tell me, please,/ Who was it took so big a bite/ There's scarcely any left tonight?
Fellow authors James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Meredith Nicholson and Charles Major appeared at a testimonial in her honor at Purdue University in May 1907.
Posthumous publication
Evaleen Stein often worked with her widowed mother, named city librarian in the late 1880s and attended meetings and programs of the literary group called the Parlor Club. After 1920, she bore the additional burden of caring for her aged mother.
About a year after Evaleen's death, Virginia Stein died. Both are buried in Greenbush Cemetery.
Lafayette Journal & Courier Bio.
Evaleen Stein, a regionally famous yet reclusive Lafayette poet, artist and author, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital after a heart attack on Dec. 11, 1923.
Born in October 1863, she was the daughter of attorney John A. and Virginia Stein. Her father died when she was 22. Of a shy and retiring nature, she lived with her mother in homes at 252 Columbia St., 629 South St., an apartment at Sixth and Main streets, and then at 708 Hitt St., in a structure they built in 1911 and named their "Little House of Dreams."
She studied for a time at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by 1892, at age 29, gained notice for her poetry, mostly published locally and in Indianapolis newspapers, plus a few magazines.
She produced a small number of nature-oriented watercolor paintings inspired by scenes she visited as a guest at private cottages on the Kankakee River in northern Indiana. She also painted minutely detailed illuminations to illustrate various subjects, for example, "The Twenty-Third Psalm" and "St. Francis' Sermon to the Birds" and became adept at decorative sewing as well.
Miss Stein, who never married, published several hundred poems, mostly about nature, and simple rhymes for children. She collected many in her volumes One Way to the Woods in 1897, and Among the Trees Again in 1902.
After 1903, she concentrated on epic poems, saluting the Battle of Tippecanoe's centennial in 1911 and Indiana's Statehood Centennial in 1916, and upon juvenile fiction.
She produced 12 children's books, two other books of translations of poems from Japan and Italy and of poetry for little ones in Child Songs of Cheer.
One of the many delights in the latter book she titled "Who Was It?": Of course I've heard the moon's green cheese,/ But will somebody tell me, please,/ Who was it took so big a bite/ There's scarcely any left tonight?
Fellow authors James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Meredith Nicholson and Charles Major appeared at a testimonial in her honor at Purdue University in May 1907.
Posthumous publication
Evaleen Stein often worked with her widowed mother, named city librarian in the late 1880s and attended meetings and programs of the literary group called the Parlor Club. After 1920, she bore the additional burden of caring for her aged mother.
About a year after Evaleen's death, Virginia Stein died. Both are buried in Greenbush Cemetery.
Lafayette Journal & Courier Bio.
Evaleen was an author and artist.
Evaleen Stein, a regionally famous yet reclusive Lafayette poet, artist and author, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital after a heart attack on Dec. 11, 1923.
Born in October 1863, she was the daughter of attorney John A. and Virginia Stein. Her father died when she was 22. Of a shy and retiring nature, she lived with her mother in homes at 252 Columbia St., 629 South St., an apartment at Sixth and Main streets, and then at 708 Hitt St., in a structure they built in 1911 and named their "Little House of Dreams."
She studied for a time at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by 1892, at age 29, gained notice for her poetry, mostly published locally and in Indianapolis newspapers, plus a few magazines.
She produced a small number of nature-oriented watercolor paintings inspired by scenes she visited as a guest at private cottages on the Kankakee River in northern Indiana. She also painted minutely detailed illuminations to illustrate various subjects, for example, "The Twenty-Third Psalm" and "St. Francis' Sermon to the Birds" and became adept at decorative sewing as well.
Miss Stein, who never married, published several hundred poems, mostly about nature, and simple rhymes for children. She collected many in her volumes One Way to the Woods in 1897, and Among the Trees Again in 1902.
After 1903, she concentrated on epic poems, saluting the Battle of Tippecanoe's centennial in 1911 and Indiana's Statehood Centennial in 1916, and upon juvenile fiction.
She produced 12 children's books, two other books of translations of poems from Japan and Italy and of poetry for little ones in Child Songs of Cheer.
One of the many delights in the latter book she titled "Who Was It?": Of course I've heard the moon's green cheese,/ But will somebody tell me, please,/ Who was it took so big a bite/ There's scarcely any left tonight?
Fellow authors James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Meredith Nicholson and Charles Major appeared at a testimonial in her honor at Purdue University in May 1907.
Posthumous publication
Evaleen Stein often worked with her widowed mother, named city librarian in the late 1880s and attended meetings and programs of the literary group called the Parlor Club. After 1920, she bore the additional burden of caring for her aged mother.
About a year after Evaleen's death, Virginia Stein died. Both are buried in Greenbush Cemetery.
Lafayette Journal & Courier Bio.
Evaleen Stein, a regionally famous yet reclusive Lafayette poet, artist and author, died in St. Elizabeth Hospital after a heart attack on Dec. 11, 1923.
Born in October 1863, she was the daughter of attorney John A. and Virginia Stein. Her father died when she was 22. Of a shy and retiring nature, she lived with her mother in homes at 252 Columbia St., 629 South St., an apartment at Sixth and Main streets, and then at 708 Hitt St., in a structure they built in 1911 and named their "Little House of Dreams."
She studied for a time at the Art Institute of Chicago, but by 1892, at age 29, gained notice for her poetry, mostly published locally and in Indianapolis newspapers, plus a few magazines.
She produced a small number of nature-oriented watercolor paintings inspired by scenes she visited as a guest at private cottages on the Kankakee River in northern Indiana. She also painted minutely detailed illuminations to illustrate various subjects, for example, "The Twenty-Third Psalm" and "St. Francis' Sermon to the Birds" and became adept at decorative sewing as well.
Miss Stein, who never married, published several hundred poems, mostly about nature, and simple rhymes for children. She collected many in her volumes One Way to the Woods in 1897, and Among the Trees Again in 1902.
After 1903, she concentrated on epic poems, saluting the Battle of Tippecanoe's centennial in 1911 and Indiana's Statehood Centennial in 1916, and upon juvenile fiction.
She produced 12 children's books, two other books of translations of poems from Japan and Italy and of poetry for little ones in Child Songs of Cheer.
One of the many delights in the latter book she titled "Who Was It?": Of course I've heard the moon's green cheese,/ But will somebody tell me, please,/ Who was it took so big a bite/ There's scarcely any left tonight?
Fellow authors James Whitcomb Riley, George Ade, Meredith Nicholson and Charles Major appeared at a testimonial in her honor at Purdue University in May 1907.
Posthumous publication
Evaleen Stein often worked with her widowed mother, named city librarian in the late 1880s and attended meetings and programs of the literary group called the Parlor Club. After 1920, she bore the additional burden of caring for her aged mother.
About a year after Evaleen's death, Virginia Stein died. Both are buried in Greenbush Cemetery.
Lafayette Journal & Courier Bio.
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