1835–1924

Introduction

Born: Ap­ril 16, 1835, Rut­land, New York.

Died: Jan­ua­ry 8, 1924, Sum­mit, New Jer­sey.

Buried: Green-Wood Ce­me­te­ry, Brook­lyn, New York.

Biography

Augusta was the daugh­ter of Ze­be­dee Lar­ned and Sa­rah Ann Ethe­ridge.

She was edu­cat­ed at Wa­ter­town and Pots­dam se­mi­na­ries and the Sping­ler Ins­tit­ute for Young La­dies, at West Side Un­ion Square in New York Ci­ty.

She set­tled in New York Ci­ty as a news­pa­per cor­res­pon­dent and a con­trib­ut­or of sketch­es, sto­ries, and po­ems to pe­ri­od­ic­als.

In 1870 she ed­it­ed The Re­vo­lu­tion, a wo­man’s rights news­paper. And, for 20 years, she was a cor­res­pon­dent and edi­to­ri­al writ­er with The Chris­tian Re­gis­ter, Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts.

Works

She wrote six vol­umes of Home Sto­ries (New York, 1872–78) that were orig­in­al­ly pub­lished in ma­ga­zines and news­pa­pers.

Her oth­er works in­clude:

In 1880, Lar­ned was sin­gle, liv­ing in Man­hat­tan, New York.

Sources

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Help Needed

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Lar­ned (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),