- SAVAGE, Mrs. Minnie STEBBINS, known also under her pen-name,
"Marion LISLE," writer
- of poetry and prose, born in the town of Porter, Wis., 25th
March, 1850. Her father was Harrison STEBBINS, a well-to-do farmer
and an influential man in Rock county, a man of integrity and
solid worth. Her mother's maiden name was Mary BASSETT. She was
a woman of much mental strength and nobility of character. Both
had a taste for literature. Both were of New England stock. The
childhood and early womanhood of Minnie STEBBINS were passed
in a pleasant country homestead, full of light and life. Imperfect
health and consequent leisure, good books and pictures, a piano
and standard periodicals may be counted among the influences
that helped to mold her. She has written both poetry and prose,
more of the former than the latter, for the "Woman's Journal,"
the "Woman's Tribune," the "Christ1an Register,"
"Unity," the Chicago "Inter-Ocean," the "Weekly
Wisconsin" and other journals. She became the wife of Edwin
Parker SAVAGE in 1876, and since that time has lived in Cooksville,
Wis. She has been long identified with the temperance work of
the State. Both in emanations from her pen and in practical personal
efforts she has manifested her belief in a widening future for
women. She is also active in Unitarian Church work. It is as
a poet she deserves special mention.
-
- [Taken from "American Women, Vol. II" edited
by Francis A. Willard and Mary A. Livermore; (c)1897 Mast, Crowell
& Kirkpatrick, New York; Chicago; Springfield, OH; p. 634]
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