Elinor Gertrude (Mead) Howells (1837 - 1910)

Born 1 May 1837 in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Dean Howells — married 24 Dec 1862 in Paris, France

Descendants

Died 2 May 1910 at age 73 in New York City, New York County, New York, United States

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Biography

Elinor Gertrude Mead and William Dean Howells were married on 24 December 1862 in Paris, France. William Dean Howells was born on 1 March 1837 in Martins Ferry, Belmont Co., OH. He died on 11 May 1920 in New York, New York Co., NY. He appears in in Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 9, pg. 306-311 Noted author, poet, literary editor, etc.

"William D. Howells, then of Ohio, now Editor of the Atlantic and residing in Old Cambridge, Mass.,. Mr. Howells at the time of his marriage was American Consul at Venice, Italy. He is by profession an author and editor of Atlantic Monthly." Note by RBH, 1871

"Elinor Mead was born into New England’s social and intellectual aristocracy. President Rutherford B. Hayes was her cousin; an uncle was the founder of the “free love” Oneida Community. She graduated from Brattleboro (Vermont) High School. She married William Dean Howells in 1862. They had three children: Winifred, John Mead, and Mildred. The couple lived at first in Venice, where William held a consulship (1861–65), then in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1866–78). After a trip to Europe in 1882, the Howellses relocated frequently. Despite lifelong health problems, Elinor was an accomplished artist; she was the architect and interior designer for the Howellses’ first house, in Cambridge. Her husband valued her great intelligence and her exacting criticisms of his work." - https://www.marktwainproject.org/biographies/bio_howells_elinor.html

Sources

"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVY-4G9T : 11 July 2016), Elinor Gertrude Mead Howells, 1910; Burial, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States of America, Cambridge Cemetery; citing record ID 29803910, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Mead_Howells