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About Katharine Seymour Day
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Newspaper Name Index, USA, Canada, and Australia
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Katharine Seymour Day
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Sarasota Journal - 1964-06-08
Text: ... Key, for a Miss Katharine Seymour Day. day's outing as guests of Mr. former suffragette who was and. Mre. Phil Pearson. Those 1 largely responsible for Buending were Mr. and Mrs. ing Mark Twain's Hartford Homer Hazelbaker, ...
Publication title: Sarasota Journal
Publication place: Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, United States
Date: June 8 1964
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Katharine Seymour Day was a painter, philanthropist, and historic preservationist.
Day was a member of the Hartford City Planning Commission. She worked to preserve historic homes in Connecticut and helped establish the Children's Museum of Hartford and the home of Mark Twain as a memorial. She served as president of the Mark Twain Library and Memorial Commission. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994. Her home has been preserved as a museum, Katharine Seymour Day House.
She was born on May 8, 1870 to John Calvin Day. She was a granddaughter of Isabella Beecher Hooker and a grandniece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1924 she bought the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and converted it into a museum.
She died on June 4, 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 94. She was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
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DAR Information:
Page 212
Bibliographic information:
- Lineage book, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution - v. 31 (1900)
- by Daughters of the American Revolution
- Contributor FamilySearch, Family History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Notes No copyright page found.
- Pages 424
- https://archive.org/details/lineagebooknatio31daug/page/212/mode/1up
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- Title Records of the Descendants of Nathaniel Ely: The Emigrant, who Settled First in Newtown, Now Cambridge, Mass., was One of the First Settlers of Hartford, Also of Norwalk, Conn., and a Resident of Springfield, Mass., from 1659 Until His Death in 1675
- Compiled by Heman Ely
- Publisher Short & Forman, 1885
- Original from the University of Michigan
- Digitized Sep 3, 2009
- Length 515 pages
- https://books.google.com/books?id=CbDhAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&...
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Katharine Seymour Day's Timeline
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May 8, 1870
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Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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June 4, 1964
Age 94
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Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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June 4, 1964
Age 94
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Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States
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