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Cora Stuart Wheeler

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Cora Stuart Wheeler

Birth
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA
Death
10 Mar 1897 (aged 47)
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of Buel Goodsell Wheeler and Harriet L. Norton. Was married to Alfred Jonathan Harwi on 01 Sep 1869 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and had three children before divorcing.

Poet, Author and Lecturer - It is said that she inherited her poetic talents from her mother who contributed to the Youth's Companion and died when Cora was just two years old. Attended Howland College, Springport, NY. Her first story "Twixt Cup and Lip" was published in 1884. Wrote for the Hartford (CT) Courant, Cleveland Leader, Kansas City Journal, Detroit Post, Detroit Tribune and Detroit Free Press under the pen name Tre-bor Ohl. For ten years she wrote under her own name and published stories and poetry in many literary publications. Served as Art Critic for the Boston Transcript. Founded the New England Women's Press Association with six other women in 1885.

With her father, she was at Ford's Theater in Washington the night of President Lincoln's assassination.
Daughter of Buel Goodsell Wheeler and Harriet L. Norton. Was married to Alfred Jonathan Harwi on 01 Sep 1869 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio and had three children before divorcing.

Poet, Author and Lecturer - It is said that she inherited her poetic talents from her mother who contributed to the Youth's Companion and died when Cora was just two years old. Attended Howland College, Springport, NY. Her first story "Twixt Cup and Lip" was published in 1884. Wrote for the Hartford (CT) Courant, Cleveland Leader, Kansas City Journal, Detroit Post, Detroit Tribune and Detroit Free Press under the pen name Tre-bor Ohl. For ten years she wrote under her own name and published stories and poetry in many literary publications. Served as Art Critic for the Boston Transcript. Founded the New England Women's Press Association with six other women in 1885.

With her father, she was at Ford's Theater in Washington the night of President Lincoln's assassination.

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After the storm, a calm;
After the bruise, a balm;
For the ill brings good
in the Lord's own time.
And the sigh becomes a psalm.



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