| Kate Douglas
Wiggin |
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| Nationality - American |
Profession - Author |
| Date of birth - 28 Sep 1856
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Date of death - 1923 |
| Place of birth
- Philadelphia : Pennsylvania |
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Kate Douglas Smith was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 28, 1856.
She attended a district school, the Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland; and the Abbott Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
In 1873 she moved with her family to Santa Barbara, California. The death of her stepfather in 1877 left the Wiggin family in a perilous financial condition.
After some training at the Pacific Model Training School for Kindergartners Kate ran a private kindergarten in Santa Barbara and in 1878 she headed the Silver Street Kindergarten in San Francisco - the first free kindergarten on the West Coast of the United States.
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As a means of raising money for the Pacific Model Training School, Kate Wiggin privately published The Story of Patsy (1883) and The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887). Commercial editions of both books issued in 1889 were great successes.
After her husband's death in 1889 Wiggin retired for a time to Hollis, Maine, and there wrote Timothy's Quest (1890), a children's book. Thereafter she traveled frequently to Europe, especially after her marriage in 1895 to George C. Riggs, a New York businessman.
Kate Wiggin died on Aug. 24, 1923 at Harrow, Middlesex, England. |
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