Kate Mason Rowland
Kate Mason Rowland | |
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 Portrait of Rowland | |
| Born | June 22, 1840 Detroit,Michigan |
| Died | June 28, 1916(aged 76) |
| Occupation(s) | author,genealogist,historian,biographer,editor,historic preservationist |
| Relatives | great-great-grandniece ofGeorge Mason |
Kate Mason Rowland(June 22, 1840 – June 28, 1916)[1][2]was an Americanauthor,historian,genealogist,biographer,editorandhistoric preservationist.Rowland is best known for her biography of her great-great-granduncle,George Mason,aFounding Father of the United States.Rowland was also a charter member of theUnited Daughters of the Confederacy.[3]She later went by the name of "Kate Mason."[1]
Early life
[edit]Kate Mason Rowland and her twin sister, Elizabeth Moir Mason Rowland, were born on June 22, 1840, to Major Isaac S. Rowland and his wife, Catherine Armistead Mason.[1][2]Rowland was a granddaughter ofJohn Thomson Masonand a niece ofStevens Thomson Mason.[1][2]
American Civil War
[edit]Rowland volunteered for theConfederate States Armyduring theAmerican Civil War.[4]She served as a nurse at Camp Winder Hospital inRichmond,Virginia.[4]On April 4, 1865, after the Confederate government abandoned Richmond, Rowland, then a matron at the Marine Hospital (also known as the Naval Hospital), sang "patriotic songs" to hospitalized soldiers.[5]She described the scene in her diary as "overflowing with merriment," in which a casual observer would "hardly realize we were all prisoners" of theUnion.[5]Both of Rowland's brothers, Thomas Rowland (1842–1874) and John Thomson Mason (1844–1901), served in the Confederate States Army.[4]
Civic and organizational involvement
[edit]Rowland was a charter member of theUnited Daughters of the Confederacy.[3][6]Rowland found the moniker "War of the Rebellion" for theAmerican Civil Warunacceptable.[7]She introduced a resolution at a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in November 1899 requiring members to "use every influence, as a body and individually, to expel from the literature of the country and from the daily press, the phrase, 'war of the rebellion,' and to have substituted for it the phrase, 'War Between the States.'"[7]Rowland's resolution went further, instructing members to induce the Federal government to use the preferred term.[7]
In addition to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Rowland was also an active member of theVirginia Historical Society,theAssociation for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities,and theConfederate Memorial Literary Society.[6]She was an honorary member of theWoman's Literary Club of Baltimore.[6]
List of works
[edit]Articles
[edit]- "The family of George III."Harper's Magazine.September 1880.
- "Robert Carter of Virginia."Magazine of American History.1893.
- "The fortunes of the Bourbons."Harper's Magazine.January 1895.
- "Gunston Hall, Virginia.""The Olympian Magazine "1903.
- "Robert Carter of Virginia: A Revolutionary Sketch."Taylor-Trotwood Magazine.September 1910.
- "GENERAL JOHN THOMSON MASON: An Early Friend of Texas."Volume 011, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 163 - 198.
Books
[edit]- The Virginia Cavaliers.1886.
- The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792, Volume 1.G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1892.
- The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792, Volume 2.G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York. 1892.
- The Maryland Delegates to the Albany Congress.Dixie Publishing Company. 1900.
- The Life of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, 1737-1832.Kessinger Publishing, LLC. 2007.
Essays and letters
[edit]- "Three Papers Written for and Read on the Third Historical Evening - Richmond, Virginia, Thursday, November 9, 1911."1911.
- "Letters from Kate Mason Rowland to Robert Alonzo Brock, 1883-1892."
Edited books
[edit]- The Poems of Frank O. Ticknor, M.D..J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1879.
- The Real Lincoln.Everett Waddey Company. 1901.
- The Journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863.Everett Waddey Co. 1911.
Honors and awards
[edit]In 2010 theLibrary of Virginiaposthumously honored Rowland as one of their "Virginia Women in History"for her contributions to writing.[8]
References
[edit]- ^abcdGunston Hall."Kate Mason Rowland".Archived fromthe originalon October 23, 2009.RetrievedApril 3,2009.
- ^abcarlisherring.com (February 9, 2008)."Kate Mason Rowland".Archivedfrom the original on July 7, 2011.RetrievedApril 3,2009.
- ^abUnited Confederate Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans (Organization, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Confederated Southern Memorial Association) (1895).The Confederate Veteran Magazine.Blue and Grey Press.Archivedfrom the original on February 15, 2017.
{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^abcWilliam and Mary College (April 1893)."The Ohio Company; William and Mary College Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 4".William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers.Archivedfrom the original on July 18, 2011.RetrievedApril 3,2009.
- ^abTim Sheehan (January 1, 2009)."Economy Rules the Day:" The Civil War Sacrifices of Judith Walker McGuire "".historynut.info. Archived fromthe originalon July 5, 2008.RetrievedApril 3,2009.
- ^abcLeonard, John William; Albert Nelson Marquis (1903).Who's who in America.Marquis.
- ^abc"A War Of Words About The Civil War".The Washington Post.George Mason University's History News Network.Archivedfrom the original on September 21, 2005.RetrievedApril 3,2009.
- ^"Virginia Women in History: Kate Mason Rowland".Library of Virginia.Archivedfrom the original on March 21, 2015.RetrievedMarch 4,2015.
External links
[edit]- Works by or about Kate Mason RowlandatInternet Archive
- Library of Virginia 2010 Virginia Women in History biographywith photograph
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- 1840 births
- 1916 deaths
- American biographers
- American book editors
- American Episcopalians
- American genealogists
- 19th-century American historians
- Historical preservationists
- Mason family
- Writers from Baltimore
- Writers from Detroit
- Writers from Richmond, Virginia
- People of Virginia in the American Civil War
- American twins
- American women historians
- 19th-century American women writers
- American Civil War nurses
- American women nurses
- American women biographers