Caroline (Dunton) Wetherell (1867 - 1913)

Born 23 Jun 1867 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Benjamin Wetherell — married about 1885 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 16 Feb 1913 at age 45 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States

Biography

Caroline (Dunton) Wetherell was a Pennsylvanian.

Caroline was born in Pennsylvania in 1867. She grew up in Robinson Township and Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania with her parents, English immigrants Richard and Caroline Dunton; her older siblings Mary, Hannah, Emma, Annie, Edward, Joseph, Sarah, and William; and her younger sisters Margaret, and Lydia.^[1][2]

Around 1885, she married Benjamin Wetherell in Pennsylvania. Together, they had three children:

1. Verna (b. 1887)
2. Thomas (b. 1890)
3. Margaret (b. 1898).

In 1900 and 1910, the Wetherell family lived in Scott Township.^[3][4]

In 1891, Caroline formed the Women's Press Club of Pittsburgh with Cara Reese, Virginia D. Hyde, Janey Mulhern Coard, Bell McElheny, Kathleen Hussy Watson, and Clara M. Walmer.^[5] Caroline worked as as "stunt journalist," someone who wrote short stories and essays for Sunday papers.^[6] Her earliest surviving stunt story, "Danny, the Boy Patriot," was published around April 1898;^[7] her last known stunt story was "Willow - Pussy Willow," published in 1911.^[8] Her works of fiction, puff news pieces, and poems frequently circulated with illustrations in the children's pages of newspapers nationally.^[9][10]

She passed away in 1913. She was buried at Chartiers Cemetery in Carnegie.^[11]

Research Notes

Some sites list her LNAB as "Duncan." Based on the records of her parents, her LNAB was most likely Dunton rather than "Duncan."

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZLZ-LHS : 29 May 2021), Caroline Dunton in entry for Richard Dunton, 1870.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MW68-J4F : 14 January 2022), Cariline Duncan in household of Richard Duncan, Carnegie, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1900", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3MZ-KHZ : 1 December 2021), Caroline Wetherel in entry for Bengiman Wetherel, 1900.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG7G-5T6 : accessed 30 December 2022), Carolina Wetheral in household of Benjamin Wetheral, Scott, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 218, sheet 8A, family 349, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1297; FHL microfilm 1,375,310.
5. ↑ "Guide to the Records of the Women's Press Club of Pittsburgh (Pa.), 1891-1991." Historic Pittsburgh, https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-QQS-MSS131/viewer
6. ↑ Smith, Kirstin. "Risky Enterprise: Stunts and value in public life of late nineteenth-century New York." Queen Mary University of London, thesis, 2018, p. 145. Academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/69316613/Risky_enterprise_stunts_and_value_in_public_life_of_late_nineteenth_century_New_York
7. ↑ "Danny, the Boy Patriot." St. Paul Globe (Minnesota), April 25, 1898. Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059523/1898-04-25/ed-1/seq-3/
8. ↑ Wetherell, Catherine. "Willow - Pussy Willow." Atlanta Georgian News, June 17, 1911. Georgia Historic Newspapers, https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn89053728/1911-06-17/ed-1/seq-11/
9. ↑ McKelvey, Blake. "Rochester at the Turn of the Century." Rochester History (New York), January 1950, p. 23. Monroe County Library System, https://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v12_1950/v12i1.pdf
10. ↑ Wetherell, Caroline. "The Boy's Giant Prank with Paint." Los Angeles Herald (California), November 25, 1900. California Digital Newspaper Collection, https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19001125.2.238&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------
11. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25896158/caroline-wetherell: accessed 30 December 2022), memorial page for Caroline Duncan Wetherell (23 Jun 1867–16 Feb 1913), Find a Grave Memorial ID 25896158, citing Chartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Frank K. (contributor 46941322).