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CHRONOLOGY OF WOOLSON'S LIFE
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June 26, 1806
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Charles Jarvis Woolson born, Chester, VT |
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November 15, 1808
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Hannah Cooper Pomeroy born, Cooperstown, NY |
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Summer 1830
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Hannah Pomeroy marries Jarvis Woolson; they move to Claremont, NH, in October 1830 where Jarvis joins his father's stove manufacturing business. |
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March 2, 1831
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Georgiana Pomeroy Woolson born, Claremont, NH |
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March 22, 1833
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Emma Cornelia Clark Woolson born, Claremont, NH |
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January 14, 1835
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Ann Cooper Woolson born, Claremont, NH |
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June 28, 1836
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Gertrude Elizabeth Woolson born, Claremont, NH |
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April 30, 1838
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Julia Campbell Woolson born, Claremont, NH |
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March 5, 1840
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Constance Fenimore Woolson born, Claremont, NH |
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March 21, 1840
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Julia dies of scarlet fever, age 2 years
Gertrude dies of scarlet fever, age 4 years
Ann dies of scarlet fever, age 5 years
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Fall 1840
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Woolson family moves to Cleveland, OH, stopping first in Cooperstown. |
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December 2, 1843
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Clara Woolson born, Cleveland, OH; dies March 2, 1923. |
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January or June 8, 1845
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Alida Woolson born, Cleveland, OH; dies 1846. |
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September 7, 1846
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Charles Jarvis Woolson, Jr. born, Cleveland, OH. |
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Late 1840s
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Attends Miss Hayden's school |
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1850s
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Attends Cleveland Female Seminary |
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September 24, 1850
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Georgiana marries Samuel Livingston Mather (1817-1890). |
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July 13, 1851
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Samuel Mather born, Woolson's nephew and eventual financial advisor; he marries Flora A. Stone, sister-in-law to diplomat John Hay, on October 19, 1881; dies October 18, 1931. |
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May 7, 1851
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Emma marries Rev. Timothy Jarvis Carter; he dies that November of an obscure illness. |
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August 14, 1852
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Emma dies of tuberculosis. |
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September 3, 1853
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Woolson's niece Katherine Livingston Mather born; dies 1939. |
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November 2, 1853
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Georgiana dies, shortly after the birth of her second child. |
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Summer 1855
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Begins summer visits to Mackinac Island |
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1858
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Graduates from Madame Chegarary's School, New York City |
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1861-1865
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Works for Union cause during Civil War, whereabouts uncertain, but part of the time in Cleveland and New York |
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January 31, 1867
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Clara marries George Stone Benedict |
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December 20, 1868
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Clare Rathbone Benedict, Woolson's niece and biographer, born, Cleveland, OH; dies in Lucerne, Switzerland, 1961. |
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August 6, 1869
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Charles Jarvis, Sr. dies, possibly of a heart condition. |
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1870-1871
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Travels to New York City and publishes travel sketches in Daily Cleveland Herald |
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February 6, 1871
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George Benedict killed in train crash. |
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1871-1873
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Spends time with relatives in Cooperstown, NY |
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Fall, 1873-1879
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Moves south, mostly to St. Augustine, Florida. Letters document extensive travel through the Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia with at least one trip in Summer 1876 to Cooperstown. |
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March 1874
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Meets poet/critic Edmund Clarence Stedman in St. Augustine |
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May 1, 1875
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Begins correspondence with poet Paul Hamilton Hayne |
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February 13, 1879
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Hannah dies |
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November 1879
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Leaves for Europe, stopping first in England |
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February 1880
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Spends time in Mentone, France |
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Spring 1880
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Meets Henry James |
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1880-1883
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Lives mostly in Florence, with periods in February and March 1882 in Sorrento; April and May 1883 in Venice; July 1883 in Engelberg, Switzerland, and August 1883 in Baden-Baden, Germany |
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September 1883-Spring 1886
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Lives in Sloane Street, London, in 1884, and in Leamington in 1885. Trips to Vienna, Austria in April 1885 and Geneva, Switzerland in July 1886 |
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1883
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Charles, Jr. dies in California, possibly a suicide; may also have been drug addicted and have suffered from the family tendency to depression. |
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1885-1889
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Lives, mostly in Florence, renting rooms in the Villa Castellani on Bellosguardo Hill in 1886 and in the Villa Brichieri on Bellosguardo from January 1, 1887 through 1889; Henry James rents rooms in Villa Brichieri in April and May 1887; spends time in Switzerland in Fall 1888 where James also stays, but in different housing arrangements; spends time in October 1889 in Richmond, England. |
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1890-1893
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Spends the winter on trip to Greek Islands and Egypt; returns to Cheltenham, England and then to Oxford in fall 1891-early 1893. |
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1893-1894
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Rents room in Casa Semeticolo in Venice. |
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January 24, 1894
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Falls to her death from her window in Casa Semeticolo. |
Sharon Dean with Gary W. Woolson for The Constance Fenimore Woolson Society
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