George Parsons Lathrop Huntington #2681
Mother: Francis Maria Smith born: May 11,1826; married: January 13, 1847 Evansville, New York; died: ??
Spouse 1: Rose
Hawthorne Lathrop Born: Month 55, 5555, Location;
died:
Month 55, 5555, Location
Married: September 11, 1871, London;
Children:
"Poet, novelist, b. at Honolulu, Hawaii, 25 August, 1851; d. at New
York, 19 April,
1898. He was educated at New York and Dresden, Germany, whence
he returned
to New York, and decided on a literary career. Going to England
on a visit he was
married in London, 11 September, 1871, to Rose, daughter of Nathaniel
Hawthorne. In 1875 he became associate editor of the "Atlantic
Monthly", and
remained in that position two years, leaving it for newspaper
work in Boston and
New York. His contributions to the periodical and daily Press
were varied and
voluminous. In 1883 he founded the American Copyright League,
which finally
secured the international copyright law. He was also one of the
founders of the
Catholic Summer School of America. In March, 1891, he and his
wife became
Catholics, and were received into the Church at New York. After
his death his
widow, as Mother M. Alphonsa, organized a community of Dominican
tertiaries,
The Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer Patients, who took
charge of two
cancer hospitals at New York. Among his published works are:
"Rose and
Rose-tree" (1875), poems; "A Study of Hawthorne" (1876); "Afterglow"
(1876), a
novel; "Spanish Vistas" (1883), a work on travel; "Newport" (1884),
a novel;
"Dreams and Days" (1892), poems; "A Story of Courage" (1894),
centenary
history of the Visitation Convent, Georgetown, D.C. He edited
(1883) a complete,
and the standard, edition of Hawthorne's works, and adapted "The
Scarlet Letter"
for Walter Damrosch's opera of that title, which was produced
at New York in
1896."
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XVI
Notes:
Sources:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XVI
www.newadvent.org/cathen/16051b.htm