SHARKEY, Mrs. Emma Augusta, journalist and story-writer, born in Rochester, N.Y., 15th September, 1858. She is known to the literary world as " Mrs. E. Burke Collins." Her father, W. S. Brown, was a successful business man in that city. Her mother, an accomplished lady, was the only sister of Hon. Frederic Whiting, of Great Barring- ton, Mass , whose published genealogy traces the family back six-hundred years. Conspicuous among her ancestors was the famous Capt. John Mason, whose valor saved from hostile savages the first settlers of Connecticut. In early childhood Mrs. Sharkey lost her most excellent mother, who died in mid-life, of consumption. Her lack of physical vigor precluded her from joining in the sports of other children, and, being much alone, her thoughts turned in upon themselves, and she was called a dreamy child. Yet she enjoyed companionship, and often attracted a circle of little ------------------------------------------------------https://play.google.com/books/reader? id=3nAEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA646------------------------------------------------------------------- The source is above.
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SHARKEY, Mrs. Emma Augusta, journalist and story-writer, born in Rochester, N.Y., 15th September, 1858. She is known to the literary world as " Mrs. E. Burke Collins." Her father, W. S. Brown, was a successful business man in that city. Her mother, an accomplished lady, was the only sister of Hon. Frederic Whiting, of Great Barring- ton, Mass , whose published genealogy traces the family back six-hundred years. Conspicuous among her ancestors was the famous Capt. John Mason, whose valor saved from hostile savages the first settlers of Connecticut. In early childhood Mrs. Sharkey lost her most excellent mother, who died in mid-life, of consumption. Her lack of physical vigor precluded her from joining in the sports of other children, and, being much alone, her thoughts turned in upon themselves, and she was called a dreamy child. Yet she enjoyed companionship, and often attracted a circle of little ------------------------------------------------------https://play.google.com/books/reader? id=3nAEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA646------------------------------------------------------------------- The source is above.
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Emma Augusta Sharkey Sept. 15, 1849 - May 6, 1902 Known by her pen name, Mrs. E. Burke Collins
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