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Eliza A. Pittsinger

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• Born 18 March 1837 in Westhampton, Massachusetts
• Died 22 February 1908 in San Francisco, California
• She considered her greatest poem, her masterpiece, "Song of the Soul Victorious" (1880), about the immortality of life, one of her favorite themes.
• Once Popular and Famous as California Poetess
  • Performed around California and USA in Halls and Outdoors at Public Gatherings
    • Poems Performed were reprinted in newspapers
  • Her poems were recited in the schools and at public meetings, and taught by teachers of elocution.
  • Now taught by teachers in schools.
• sister, Mrs. Almira Ingram Holcomb
• Home at 57½ Prospect Avenue, San Francisco CA
• contributor to the World's Advance Thought (magazine), Golden Era, the Carrier Dove and the Banner of Light. (magazines ?)

In Popular Culture

• Referred to by the character MacGyver, in the pilot (s01e01) of the TV series MacGyver (2016).

SF Morning Call Obituary

• Chesterfield, Massachusetts (last residence before first moving westward)
• San Francisco Call 25 February 1908 — California Digital Newspaper Collection
  

"MEETS DEATH SHE DEFIED IN VERSE
Eliza A. Pittsinger, Once Famous as California Poetess, Answers Final Call
Passing of Aged Woman Whose Writings Were Popular in Early Days

Eliza A. Pittsinger at one time one of the most popular of California poetesses is dead, and in the homes of many, who as little children learned to recite and reverence her poems and verses there is the sorrow that comes with the loss of a dearly loved friend. Early in the morning of Washington's birthday, just as the sun rose on the beautiful vista, of the spreading city that she had loved to watch from her home at 57½ Prospect Avenue, the woman who 30 years ago was one of the best known poets in all the west and whose name was a household word here, passed quietly away, her popularity but a memory save to those who had known her in childhood and the small coterie of old time friends who gathered around her. To them almost her last words were, "I am not dying — do not think of me as dying," and her thoughts were centered on a hereafter of poetic fancy and freedom of soul that she had often pictured to them by voice and in song. She was 84 years of age.

WRITES WAR SONGS
In the early sixties and the seventies the name of Eliza A. Pittsinger was one to conjure with in the poetic world. Then her poems breathed of the eternity of life, the sublimity of love, and the glory of patriotism in a way that thrilled the people. With patriotic fervor she wrote war songs, the inspiring words of which stirred many a California youth for the cause of the union in the days of the civil war. There was something about them, so said an old pioneer friend, that seemed to make tho mood quicken and to move the spirits of the sluggish.

"The California Poetess" she was called. Her poems were recited in the schools and taught by teachers of elocution. No public meeting was complete in those days without a rendition of one of her thrilling "Bugle Peals" or her "Song of the Soul Victorious," a lyric on the immortality of life which she considered her masterpiece. From one end to the other of the state of California she was known and revered, and her fame did not rest there.

But in later days the lyrics of the gifted woman grew less inspiring, though her enthusiasm never wavered. Slowly among the rising generations of young people her popularity waned siTd faded away. At the time of her death her name was practically unknown save to those who remembered end could not forget her triumphs of former days.

Eliza A. Pittsinger was born in Massachusetts and came to California from her home in Chesterfield in 1852, making the voyage around the horn. At the outbreak of the civil war she devoted her whole energies for a time toward molding the public sentiment for the union. After a visit home to Massachusetts she was married, but her life proving unhappy, she was soon divorced. When she again returned to California she began writing for different papers, taking a deep interest in spiritualistic investigations and phenomena. She was a regular contributor to the Golden Era, the Carrier Dove and the Banner of Light.

POEM OF EARTHQUAKE
For many years Eliza Pittsinger lived with her invalid sister, Almira Ingram Holcomb and after she died last May she had lived practically alone. As late as 1906 she wrote a short poem on the earthquake, and it was one of her hopes to some time have all her works gathered and published. Though her great age of 84 years had made her very feeble, she had been ill but four days before her death. To the last she protested that she was going to recover.

What she considered her greatest poem. "Song of the Soul Victorious." treated of the eternity of life, one of her favorite themes.

Some of the best verses follow:

They say I am only mortal,
Like others I'm born to die,
In tb« mighty will of the spirit,
I answer "Death I defy."

And I feel a power arising,
Like the power of an embryo god,
With a glorious wall it surrounds me,
And lifts me up from the sod.

"I am born to die?" Oh never,
This spirit is all of me,
I stand in the great forever,
O God, I am one with thee.

(Photo Caption:)
Eliza A. Pittsinger, at one time one of the most popular of California poetesses, who died last Saturday."

A Woman of the Century

• WILLARD, FRANCES E.; LIVERMORE, MARY A., eds. (1893). "579" (djvu). A Woman of the Century FOURTEEN HUNDRED-SEVENTY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ACCOMPANIED BY PORTRAITS OF LEADING AMERICAN WOMEN IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. BUFFALO: CHARLES WELLS MOULTON. Retrieved 2016-10-16. ASSISTED BY A CORPS OF ABLE CONTRIBUTORS {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

• short biography of Eliza Pittsinger
• s:Page:Woman of the Century.djvu/3 - title page
• s:Page:Woman of the Century.djvu/579
• s:Page:Woman of the Century.djvu/580

"PITTSINGER, Mrs. Eliza A., poet, born in Westhampton, Mass., 18th March, 1837. Her father was of German descent, and a most humane man. Her mother was of Anglo-Saxon birth and blended unusual personal attractions with a nature bold and aspiring. At the age of sixteen Eliza was the teacher of a school in her native State, and she afterwards occupied a position as proof reader and reviewer in a large stereotype establishment in Boston. She went to California, where she soon became known by her stirring war-songs and poems written during the Civil War. Her pen has kept pace with the march of thought that leaves its marks upon the present age. She writes wholly from inspiration. Her heart is filled with philanthropy and abhorrence of oppression. Freedom and justice to all is her motto. She accepts the theory of reincarnation, embodiments in the material form, and the varied experiences thereby obtained, to prepare it for its immortal destiny. That idea is embodied in a number of her most remarkable poems. She was chosen the poet for the fortieth anniversary celebration of the raising of the first American Flag in California. She wrote a stirring poem for the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther, which was recited by herself and others on that occasion. Her poems are varied and numerous. With the exception of eight years spent in the northern Atlantic States, she has lived in San Francisco since the days of the war. Her home is with her only sister, Mrs. Ingram Holcomb, who is known among her friends as a woman of sterling qualities."

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Books

• Pittsinger, Eliza A. 1837-1908 - WorldCat Identities

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?-1860s

• "The San Francisco directory for the year 1862. page 384" (PDF). Pittsinger Eliza Miss, poetess, dwl with Mrs. Elmira Ingraham. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
• "Miss Pittsinger's Poetic Reading on Tuesday Evening". Elevator. November 24, 1865. The writer gives a review of poetry readings that he attended. (Newspaper Clipping) {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

• Adkins, JB. "Literary prose and poetry in San Francisco's black newspapers, 1862--1885". p. 65. Literary Focus of the Elevator Newspaper in its Initial Year, 1865 {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

1870s

• Bryant, William Cullen. Thomas G. Voss (ed.). "The Letters of William Cullen Bryant: 1872-1878". p. 369. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

• literary opinion of Eliza Pittsinger

1880s

• Slocum, William N. (July 30, 1887). "Eliza A. Pittsinger" Poetess and Prophet. The Carrier Dove. OCLC 58895882. California State Library, California History Room ; qB P69s - In Library Use Only {{cite web}}: Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

1890s

• Mighels, Ella Sterling (1893). "The Story of the Files: A Review of California Writers and Literature". Cooperative printing Company. p. 24. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

• literary opinion of Eliza Pittsinger

• WILLARD, FRANCES E.; LIVERMORE, MARY A. (1893). "579" (djvu). A Woman of the Century FOURTEEN HUNDRED-SEVENTY BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES ACCOMPANIED BY PORTRAITS OF LEADING AMERICAN WOMEN IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. BUFFALO: CHARLES WELLS MOULTON. ASSISTED BY A CORPS OF ABLE CONTRIBUTORS {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

• short biography of Eliza Pittsinger

June 13, 1896

• "History of the Celebration of the Fifieth Anniversary of the Taking Possession of California and Raising of the American Flag at Monterey, Cal., by Commodore John Drake Sloat, U.S.N., July 7th, 1846: Held Under the Auspices of the Associated Veterans of the Mexican War, Assisted by the U.S. Army and Navy, the National Guard of California, the Sloat Monument Association, the California Pioneers, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of California, Boards of Supervisors, Fraternal Societies, Public Schools, and Citizens of the State, Held at Monterey, California, July 7th, 1896; Also of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Raising of the American Flag at San Francisco, California, July 9th, 1846, by Captain James B. Montgomery, U.S.N., Commanding the U.S. Sloop of War Portsmouth, Held July 9th, 1896, Preceded by the Account of the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Raising of the Bear Flag at Sonoma, California, June 14th, 1894, Held Saturday, June 13, 1896". California: Carruth and Carruth Printers. 1896. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)

• "She was chosen the poet for the fortieth anniversary celebration of the raising of the first American Flag in California." - Willard

1900s

• Mighels, Ella Sterling (1918). "Literary California, Poetry, Prose and Portraits". SF, CA: Harr Wagner. Book digitized by Google from the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

• literary opinion of Eliza Pittsinger

• Hinkel, Edgar Joseph; McCann, William E (1942). Biographies of California Authors and Indexes of California Literature. Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States: Alameda County Free Library, Work Projects Administration : project no. 65-1-08-2356 – via San Francisco Public Library. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• Arlt, Gustave O. "California's Literary Women." Hist Soc South Calif Q, Vol. 36 No. 2, June, 1954; (pp. 99-114) DOI: 10.2307/41168465
• Dumas, John. Poetess’s Legacy to Universal Language October 14, 2014

• impofthediverse.blogspot.com

• Baker, Joseph Eugene, ed. (1914). "Tuolumne annual reunions and organization". Past and present of Alameda County, California. CHICAGO: THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY – via Books digitized by the Internet Archive for the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |last-author-amp=, and |dead-url= (help)
• Ullmann, Helen Schatvet (2012). Western Massachusetts families of 1790. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. pp. xiii, 313. ISBN 9780880822879 – via Sutro Library ; Sutro Reading Room ; F63 .W47 2012 In Library Use Only. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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1860s

• Pittsinger, Eliza A (1800). The eternal now. New Theology Leaflet and Mottoes. Vol. 8. OCLC 32663958. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |last-author-amp=, and |dead-url= (help)
• Anti-Blaine campaign poem
• Gem of the grand encampment: California's welcome to the Grand Army of the Republic
• Sherman, Edwin Allen (1883). "THE TEMPLARS' CROSS AND MARTYR'S CROWN. By Eliza A Pittsinger pg. 266.". The Engineer Corps of Hell Rome's sappers and miners.. Containing the tactics of the "militia of the Pope," of the Secret manual of the Jesuits, and other matter intensely interesting, especially to the Freemasons and lovers of civil and religious liberty, whithersoever dispersed throughout the globe. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |last-author-amp=, and |dead-url= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help)

July 7th, 1862

• Farwell, Willard B; Pittsinger, Eliza A; Washburn, E H (1862). Society of California Pioneers (ed.). Ceremonies at the laying of the corner stone of the new Pioneer Hall, July 7th, 1862 Oration by Williard B. Farwell, Poem by Miss Eliza A. Pittsinger. San Francisco: Charles A. Calhoun. OCLC 166589437. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

1863

• Pittsinger (lyricist), Eliza A.; Simonsen (composer), Martin (1863). "The National Rally" A New Patriotic Song [Dedicated to All True Unionists]. San Francisco: Wm. P. Harrison & Co. OCLC 46696571. {{cite web}}: Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

1870s

• Pittsinger, Eliza A (1877). The limits of creation. The Truth seeker collection of forms, hymns, and recitations : original and selected by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress). New York: D.M. Bennett, Liberal and Scientific Publishing House. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |last-author-amp=, and |dead-url= (help)
• Pittsinger, Eliza A. (1882). Bugle peals or songs of warning for the America people. SF, CA: Edward A. Weed. p. 34. OCLC 30136950. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

1890s

• Columbus and Isabella - 1893
• Pittsinger, Eliza A. COME INTO THE HEAVENLY SILENCE (Poem). The Metaphysical Magazine Vol Ix Jan-Jun 1899. p. 302. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |last-author-amp=, and |dead-url= (help)

1900s

• Pittsinger, Eliza A.; Hancox (illustrator), Henry Allen (1900). The Song of the Soul Victorious a Poem. Hudson, MA: Henry A. Hancox. OCLC 18349268. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• Poem of the The Earthquake Written on its First Anniversary. OCLC 58872706. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp= and |last-author-amp= (help); Invalid |script-title=: missing prefix (help); Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• Pittsinger, Eliza A. (1886). Poetical gems. OCLC 18349267. Bound with other pamphlets. Binder's title: California poetry, v.2. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |nopp=, |last-author-amp=, and |dead-url= (help)

Newspapers

1900s

• "Fight over money Left". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. Oct 14, 1908. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Meets Death - Eliza Pittsinger". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. Feb 25, 1908. p. 16 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Obituary - Eliza Pittsinger". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. Feb 25, 1908. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.
• Obituary. San Francisco Call 25 February 1908 — California Digital Newspaper Collection

• (84 years)
• MEETS DEATH SHE DEFIED IN VERSE
• Eliza A. Pittsinger, Once Famous as California Poetess, Answers Final Call
• Passing of Aged Woman Whose • Writings Were Popular in Early Days
• Chesterfield, Massachusetts

• Chesterfield Massachusetts to Westhampton Massachusetts
• "Holcomb, Almira Ingram (née Pittsinger) Death". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. May 10, 1907. p. 13 – via Newspapers.com.
  • Westhampton, Massachusetts

1890s

• "Answers To Queries : 7726 ... The author of the poem, Mrs. Eliza Pittsinger of San Francisco, writes from that city as follows: Song of the Soul Victorious" is an inspiration that sprang from my ..." Boston Evening Transcript - May 14, 1898. Page 14
• "Admission Day Poems". San Francisco, California: San Francisco Chronicle. Sep 10, 1894. p. 5 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Women's Pens". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Apr 26, 1890. p. 15 – via Newspapers.com.

• Literary Survey

1896-07-08 Masons Dedicate Sloat Monument, Monterey CA

• "MAST - Cheapest Daily Paper - Santa Cruz - California". Santa Cruz, California: Evening Sentinel. Jul 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Sloat Monterey". Santa Cruz, California: Evening Sentinel. Jul 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Sloat , Monterey - CSL". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. Jul 8, 1896. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Sloat , Monterey - CSL". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. Jul 8, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Masons Dedicate Sloat Monument, Monterey CA". San Francisco, California: The San Francisco Call. Jul 8, 1896. p. 8 – via Newspapers.com.

1893 Fair

• "News of the Fair - Earnest - Eliza A Pittsinger". San Francisco, California: San Francisco Chronicle. Dec 10, 1893. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.
• "News of the Fair - Eliza A Pittsinger". San Francisco, California: San Francisco Chronicle. Dec 10, 1893. p. 22 – via Newspapers.com.

1880s

• "World's Advance Thought". Worthington, Minnesota: The Worthington Advance. Jun 16, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Spiritual Pablum". Worthington, Minnesota: The Worthington Advance. Apr 14, 1887. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

1870s

• "Overland Passengers". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. May 30, 1879. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Oakland Brevities". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. May 19, 1877. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Poetry Show , $0.50". Fort Wayne, Indiana: The Fort Wayne Sentinel. Dec 13, 1870. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
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1877 Tuolumne Reunion Association Picnic

• "Tuolumne Reunion Association , Thanks". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Jun 25, 1877. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Tuolumne Reunion Assoc. Picnic (today)". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Jun 16, 1877. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Tuolumne Reunion Picnic AD". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Jun 14, 1877. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Tuolumne Reunion Picnic AD". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Jun 12, 1877. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Tuolumne Reunion Picnic AD". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Jun 9, 1877. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
• "Tuolumne Reunion Picnic AD". Oakland, California: Oakland Tribune. Jun 2, 1877. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.

1860s

• "Proofreader". Davenport, Iowa: The Davenport Daily Gazette. Dec 16, 1868. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.

Historical Records

• Search : California Death Index
• California Death Index 1905-1939 (FamilySearch Historical Records) Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki
• FamilySearch Catalog: California death indexes, 1905-1988 ; 1940-1994 — FamilySearch.org
• California Death Index

• "California Death Index, 1905-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-4WTX : 5 June 2015), Eliza A Pittsinger, 1908; citing 5346, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento.
• Eliza A Pittsinger, 1908; Female, Age 84, Certificate Number 5346
• "California Death Index, 1905-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-4WTX : 5 June 2015), Eliza A Pittsinger, 1908; citing 5346, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento. VIEWER
• "California Death Index, 1905-1939," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKSM-4WTX : 5 June 2015), Eliza A Pittsinger, 1908; citing 5346, Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Department, Sacramento. IMAGE

• Born 18 March 1837 in Westhampton, Massachusetts (Death Certificate implies 1822-24)
• Died 22 February 1908 in San Francisco, California (Death Certificate says 84)
• Eliza Pittsinger Born 1822 in Massachusetts Died 1908 in California - MyTrees.com
• Eliza Pittsinger - records and family trees - MyHeritage
• Almira Pittsinger (Sister) Born 1818 in Massachusetts - MyTrees.com
• JONATHAN2 PITTSINGER (John1), b. in Westhampton, 11 Apr. 1790, d. 25 Feb. 1868, suicide by cutting his throat. He m. (int. 24 Dec. 1814), Polly Stephenson (No. 15). She d. 15 Apr. 1829. At least three children were born in Westhampton
• census-records.us/last/PITTSINGER
• Pittsinger, Eliza A. 1837-1908 - WorldCat Identities
• Pittsinger - Ancestry.com

Hymns

• Eliza A. Pittsinger - Hymnary.org
• Eliza A. Pittsinger - Open Music Library

MacGyver

• Surpless, Emily (September 23, 2016). "'MacGyver' Series Premiere Recap: MacGyver is Still an Expert at Improvising". buddytv.com. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
• MacGyver (2016) s01e01 - Script
• MacGyver_1._Sezon_1 - Script