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  Ella Wheeler Wilcox Home Page
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, whilst perhaps not being one of America's greatest poets, was in her time one of the most popular, her verse appearing in innumerable magazines and periodicals as well as a number of books.
Ella was born November 5, 1850, in the village of Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote verses which appealed to the public and never one verse strained or ungramatical, as she states in her memoirs, her first check paid for a dress to wear to a wedding, in March 1869.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox was one of the brightest blooms.
The Wheelers rented a house on the present County A at Scharine Corner east of Janesville.
Wheeler announced that her unborn child would be a daughter, an author, and would travel and live as she, her mother, had always wanted.
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 Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) - Writer and Mystic Rosicrucian
Ella speaks of her hardships and drive to overcome.
As Ella had a strong interest in mysticism, she, along with Frater Hubbard, H. Spencer Lewis, and J.K. Funk, president of Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Co., (publishers of the Literary Digest and the Standard College Dictionary), became interested in the birth of the Rosicrucian movement in America.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was appointed as a member of the first Supreme Council of the American Rosicrucian movement, and thus, she played an active role in establishing it.
www.crcsite.org /Wilcox.htm   (1184 words)

  
 WER: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born November 5, 1850, in the village of Johnstown, Rock County, Wisconsin, (not in Johnstown Center as sometimes stated.) Her parents were Marcus H. Wheeler, and Sarah Pratt Wheeler, with three older children they had followed, "Grandsir Pratt" from Vermont in 1849.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote verses which appealed to the public and never one verse strained or ungramatical, as she states in her memoirs, her first check paid for a dress to wear to a wedding, in March 1869.
Many of Ella Wheeler's earlier verses were in support of total abstinence and in opposition to booze, its makers, and its venders.
www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER0109.html   (651 words)

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