Isabella Thornton Niven Wilder

Mother of Thornton Wilder

Isabella was the daughter of the minister of the Presbyterian church in Dobbs Ferry. Her maternal great grandfather was Arthur Tappan, cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, who, with his brother Lewis, did much to support the antislavery movement. Both men were also prominent in backing the Oberlin Collegiate Institution and probably ensured its survival as Oberlin College-the first college to admit blacks and women.

Isabella was a graduate of the Misses Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where she published poems in the school paper and studied languages, piano, art, and literature.

She and her husband regularly read classics and Scripture to their four children : Amos Niven (September 18, 1895), Thornton Niven (April 17, 1897), Charlotte Elizabeth (August 28, 1898), and Isabel (January 13, 1900).

Isabella Niven was a cultured, educated woman who instilled a love of literature, drama and languages in her children, and who wrote vivid poetry. She passed away in 1946.

Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery Hamden New Haven County Connecticut, USA

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Isabella Thornton Niven

Born 24 Feb 1873 [location unknown]

Daughter of Thornton MacNess Niven Jr. and Elizabeth Wilson Lewis

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Wife of Amos Parker Wilder — married 3 Dec 1894 [location unknown]

Mother of Thornton Wilder

Died 29 Jun 1946 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Profile last modified 8 Aug 2018 | Created 17 Apr 2014

Biography

Isabella was born in 1873.

Isabella was the daughter of the minister of the Presbyterian church in Dobbs Ferry. Her maternal great grandfather was Arthur Tappan, cofounder of the American Anti-Slavery Society, who, with his brother Lewis, did much to support the antislavery movement. Both men were also prominent in backing the Oberlin Collegiate Institution and probably ensured its survival as Oberlin College-the first college to admit blacks and women.

Isabella was a graduate of the Misses Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, where she published poems in the school paper and studied languages, piano, art, and literature.

She and her husband regularly read classics and Scripture to their four children : Amos Niven (September 18, 1895), Thornton Niven (April 17, 1897), Charlotte Elizabeth (August 28, 1898), and Isabel (January 13, 1900).

Isabella Niven was a cultured, educated woman who instilled a love of literature, drama and languages in her children, and who wrote vivid poetry. She passed away in 1946.

Burial: Mount Carmel Cemetery Hamden New Haven County Connecticut, USA

Sources

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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7086594 Note: Thornton Wilder. playwright, is buried in the same cemetery next to his mother, and noted in findagrave although no memorial number is given.