Civil War: Emma-Lindsay Squier

Wabash Valley profiles : a series of tributes to hometown people and events that have shaped our history

Description:	One typed page including photograph; biography of Emma-Lindsay Squier, author of books, newspaper columns, and magazine stories. ABASH VALLEY WP R O F I L E SA series of tributes to hometown heroes who have made a difference.Emma-Lindsay Squierh ugh she resided Theruotsuccessful careerinbyVigo Countyaaonly five years, a hor Emma-Lindsay Squier laid foundation for publishing neighborhoodnewsletter in Terre Haute. Born Dec. 1, 1892, in Marion, Ind., to Russell Lafayette and Helen Adelaide Ada (Lindsay) Squier, Emma-Lindsay became known as Emily to family and friends. A disabled Civil War veteran, Russell Squier was a traveling salesman but spent considerable time caring for his elderly mother. Ada Squier was a teacher and an elocutionist. By the time Emily was three years old, she could recite poems and readings from memory in perfect English and began making public appearances at community events and chautauquas. Identified in promotional material as Baby Squier, she became a significant family financial resource at a youthful age. Emma-Lindsay, age 10, Terre Haute, 1903 The Squier family briefly resided in Martinsville, Ind., prior to renting a home at 620 Cherry St. in Terre Haute in late 1900, a time when the street was lined with expensive residences owned by influential families. Neighbors included Dr. William Wood Parsons, president of Indiana State Normal; banker-philanthropist Deloss W. Minshall; Benjamin Hudnut of the Hudnut Hominy Co.; affluent wholesale grocer William S. Rea; pharmacist William C. Buntin; banker Frank McKeen; and Flora Gulick, founder of the Terre Haute Boys Club. Precocious Emily created a weekly newsletter, peddling it to friends and neighbors for One Cent a copy. She typed the final product on a machine borrowed from photographer Frank Martin. In late 1905 the Squiers moved from Terre Haute to join Emilys half-sister, Etta (Squier) Seley, and her family, in Salem, Ore. A graduate of Hillsdale College in Michigan, Etta was a concert singer and voice teacher at Willamette College. After attending Sacred Heart Academy in Salem and Bremerton (Wash.) High School, Emily enrolled at the University of Washington to study journalism but dropped out after two years when her fathers health failed. Relocating with her family to Glendale, Cal., she secured a job as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Soon she wrote a society column for the newspaper and became an assistant editor of California Life, a monthly periodical published in Pasadena. By 1920 Emily was a significant author of travel, adventure and animal books for young adults. Installments of her earliest work were published in Good Housekeeping magazine. Her stories of The Wild Heart, later collected in a book, captured the imagination of readers from coast to coast. Hoosier nature writer Gene Stratton-Porter endorsed Squiers stories from the outset. Until September 1941, when she died of tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, N.Y., at age 48, Emma-Lindsay Squier wrote books-- including The Wild Heart (1922), On Autumn Trails (1923), Children of the Twilight (1924), The Bride of the Sacred Well (1927) and Gringa (1934)--and dozens of short stories for popular magazines such as Colliers, Ladies Home Journal, McCalls and The American Girl. For the last 13 years of her life, she was married to future television producer John Bransby. The Wild Heart and Glorious Buccaneer--a short story renamed The Dancing Pirate--were made into motion pictures. 238-6000 MEMBER FDICAlways Close to HomeHO HO HO! Join ourMember FDICChr ist mas Club for Holiday DoughOpen your account today at any First banking center -- and have more dough for holiday spending next year!File name: Emma-Lindsay Squier profileDate Published: Nov. 24, 2005
Origin:	2005-11-28
Created By:	McCormick, Mike
Publisher:	Terre Haute Tribune-Star
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/vchs/id/658
Collection:	Vigo County Historical Society
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/
Copyright:	Copyright Undetermined
Subjects:	Squier, Emma-Lindsay, 1892-1941 Authors Magazine publishing industry Journalism Women Famous Hoosiers People

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