Katherine (O'Flaherty) Chopin (1850 - 1904)

Born 8 Feb 1850 in St. Louis City, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Aurelian Roselius Oscar Chopin — married 9 Jun 1870 in Holy Angels Church, St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Descendants

Died 22 Aug 1904 at age 54 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

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Biography

Kate (O'Flaherty) Chopin was a Missourian.

Kate (O'Flaherty) Chopin is Notable.

Most sources listed give Chopin's birth year as 1851 (but U. S. Census records show 1850). Widely known as "Kate Chopin". Author of two different collections of short stories as well as the novel, _The Awakening._ In 1904, Kate suffered a brain hemorrhage after visiting the St. Louis World's Fair. She is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Chopin is buried in Calvary Cemetery, along the Way of the Second Dolor (Section 17, Lot 47).

Birth

February 8, 1850

Death

Kate died after a hot day at the World's Fair. August 22, 1904 St. Louis,,Missouri,

MLA (Modern Language Assoc.) Chopin, Kate, et al. Kate Chopin’s Private Papers. Indiana University Press, 1998.

APA (American Psychological Assoc.) Chopin, K., Toth, E., Seyersted, P., & Bonnell, C. (1998). Kate Chopin’s Private Papers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

The first chapter, "A Curious Child," of Emily Toth's book, Kate Chopin, includes many interesting genealogical and historical insights into Kate Chopin's early years. The source is freely available, with a free membership, from The Internet Archive (archive.org).

Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 24 December 2019), memorial page for Kate Chopin (8 Feb 1850–22 Aug 1904), Find A Grave: Memorial #4166, citing Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA ; Maintained by Find A Grave.

• WikiPedia entry is here: [1]

• Possibly the first biographical and critical discussion of Kate Chopin's work appeared in The Writer, volume 7, number 8 (1894), pages 115 - 117. This article is freely available from Italic textThe Hathi Trust (hathitrust.org). This might be the URL for this article:

https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015059398399?urlappend=%3Bseq=125

• The Dictionary of American Biography (1935), volume 4 (Chanfrau - Cushing), pages 90 - 91, contains a brief biographical treatment of Kate Chopin. This source is freely available from The Internet Archive (archive.org); accessed 25 Dec 2019.

• 1850 U. S. Census, St. Louis [ "Cath" is shown as age 7 months in her parents' household]

(source for 1850 birthdate)

• Rankin, Daniel S., Kate Chopin and her Creole Stories, (Philadelphia, 1932)

Notes

In the 1900 Census, Kate reported her occupation as "Capitalist."

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile O'Flaherty-13 created by Andrew Morrow.