Fannie Douglass Smith Tobey (August 3, 1865 - November 4, 1947) was a journalist.
Early life[edit]
Fannie Douglass Smith was born in Middletown, Ohio, on August 3, 1865, the daughter of George Cooper Smith and Emily J. Leadman. When she was a child, her parents moved to Hamilton, Ohio. [1]
She was educated in the public schools of Hamilton. [1]
Career[edit]
After leaving school Fannie Douglass Smith devoted her attention for some time to music, taking a course of vocal instruction in the College of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio. She reportedly had a fine soprano voice and was a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church choir of Hamilton. She had a local reputation as a singer, and her vocal gifts gave great promise for her future success in that line. [1]
She held the routine of society reporter on the Hamilton Daily Democrat, where she gained considerable reputation. [1]
She was a member of the Unity Club, the leading literary club of Hamilton, and she frequently contributed to the musical as well as the literary parts of its programs. [1]
Personal life[edit]
On December 19, 1894, Fannie Douglass Smith married Walter Lawrence Tobey (1870-1938), the owner of the Distinctive Newspaper Features, in Hamilton, Ohio, where Smith had a weekly, 3-column, self-contained "nursery quilt pattern" (as defined by the annual Syndicate Directory supplement published by Editor & Publisher, August 30, 1930) feature distributed from 1929 to 1934. [2]
She died on November 4, 1947, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and is buried at Oxford Cemetery, Oxford, Butler County, Ohio.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. p. 663. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
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- ^ "Quilt History Tidbits -- Old & Newly Discovered". Retrieved 26 August 2017.