Mary Catharine North Weston (April 14, 1822 – August 4, 1882) was an American religious writer.
Mary Catharine North Weston | |
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| Born | April 14, 1822  Albany |
| Died | August 4, 1882 (aged 60) Greenwich |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel Cony Weston |
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Mary Catharine North was born on April 14, 1822 in Albany, New York, the daughter of William Augustus Stuben North, son of William North, and Margaret Bridge North. She married the Rev. Daniel Cony Weston, son of Nathan Weston, in 1842 and they had six children.[1][2]
Weston's works were published by the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society. Her first book, Calvary Catechism (1857), was popular, selling 600,000 copies a year. It was translated into German, Russian, and Dakota.[3][4]
Mary Catharine North Weston died on 4 August 1882 in Greenwich, Connecticut.[1]
Bibliography
edit- Calvary Catechism, N. York, 1857, 32mo; 2d ed., 1859. [5]
- Catechism on the Doctrines and Usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1860, 18mo. [5]
- Synopsis of the Bible, 1865, 16mo. [5]
- Jewish Antiquities, 1866, 16mo[5]
- Biography of Old Testament Characters, 1871[6]
- Biography of New Testament Characters, 1871[6]
- Old Testament Stories about Men and Women of the Bible. Illust. N York, 1882, sq 8vo[6]
References
edit- ^ a b . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. VI. 1900. p. 443.
- ^ Van Rensselaer, Florence (1949). The Livingston family in America and its Scottish origins. Boston Public Library. New York : [S.n.]
- ^ Hart, John S. (John Seely) (1969). A manual of American literature. Internet Archive. New York : Johnson Reprint Corp.
- ^ Weston, Mary Catharine North; Cook, Joseph Witherspoon; Cook, Charles S (1893). Calvary wiwigawangapi kin qa wokiksuye anpetu kin koya. Madison, S.D: Daily Leader Press. doi:10.5479/sil.422596.39088007182983.
- ^ a b c d Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin) (1863). A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors: living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century : containing thirty thousand biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects (Volume 3). U.S. National Library of Medicine. Philadelphia : George W. Childs.
- ^ a b c John Foster Kirk (1899). A Supplement To Allibone S Critical Dictionary Of English Literature And British And American Authors Vol Ii.