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Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (August 26, 1837 - August 27, 1887) was a writer and publisher. She wrote a personal account of the Siege of Vicksburg based on her diary.[1]
She graduated from Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois in 1853[2]
She was born in New York and grew up in St. Louis Missouri. She married attorney James Loughborough (1833-1876). Hope, Arkansas was named for their daughter. She published Arkansas Ladies' Journal which became Southern Ladies' Journal.[3]
She had six children.[2] A photo of her and her son Depmar is extant.[4]
Writings
[edit]- My Cave Life in Vicksburg, about her experiences during the Civil War[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mary Ann Loughborough - Biographies - The Civil War in America | Exhibitions - Library of Congress". www.loc.gov. November 12, 2012.
- ^ a b "Encyclopedia of Arkansas".
- ^ "Roberts Library". Roberts Library. March 14, 2023.
- ^ "Mary Loughborough with her son, Delmar | Adventist Digital Library".
- ^ Loughborough, Mary Ann Webster (1864). My Cave Life in Vicksburg: With Letters of Trial and Travel. D. Appleton. ISBN 978-0-608-41369-3. Retrieved 3 March 2024.