| Name |
Janet Mabie |
| Birth |
8 May 1892 |
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
Jun 1900 |
29 Whiting Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts [3] |
- Henry C Mabie, Head, W, M, June 1847, 52, M, 31, Illinois, New York, New York, Minister
Edith R Mabie, Wife, W, F, May 1845, 55, M, 31, 5 children born - still living 5, England, England, England
Muriel K Mabie, Daughter, W, F, Apr 1873, 27, S, Illinois, Illinois, England, Clerk Magazine
Charles H R Mabie, Son, W, M, Feb 1882, 18, S, Indiana, Illinois, England, At School
Ruth Mabie, Daughter, W, F, May 1892, 8, S, Massachusetts, Illinois, England, At School
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| Anecdote |
- Janet Mabie was born in Boston, Mass., in 1893. She began her career as a journalist in 1915 with the Bridgeport Post-Telegram. Mabie was a featured special writer for the Christian Science Monitor in Boston (1919-28), then a staff writer until 1934. Her assignments for the Monitor included interviews with the Prince of Wales, Admiral Byrd, Charles Lindbergh, and the grandchildren of President Herbert Hoover. Mabie was author or coauthor of a number of books, including Heaven on Earth (1951), her childhood reminiscences of Northfield, Mass. and the evangelist D. L. Moody; and Fifty Years with the Golden Rule (1950), department store giant J.C. Penney's autobiography. After her marriage, she continued to be known professionally as Janet Mabie.
In 1928, Mabie met Amelia Earhart. She collaborated with Earhart on a number of writing projects until Earhart's disappearance in 1937. Mabie also collaborated with George Palmer Putnam, Earhart's husband, on a biography of Earhart entitled Soaring Wings. Their collaboration ended in controversy and Mabie began work on a biography of her own; Earhart's mother, Amy Otis Earhart, gave her encouragement and material. (See Amy Otis Earhart papers, MC 398, #112.) The original manuscript, "Lady in the High Winds," was rejected by Mabie's publisher, E.P. Dutton & Co., in 1945, and she began making major revisions. By 1959 she had retitled the revised manuscript "A Different Drummer." Health problems and working with J.C. Penney on View From the Ninth Decade (1960) postponed further work on the book indefinitely; it was never published. Mabie died in 1961.
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| Witness-Obituary |
1 May 1918 |
Brattleboro, Vermont [5] |
- Northfield, Mass – Rev Dr Henry Clay Mabie, 71, who died yesterday at his home in Roslindale, Mass. Was a summer resident of East Northfield 25 years and was identified with religious work here, being one of the important speakers at the conferences each year. He also had been interested in much of the work of the town. Mr Mabie was a graduate of a theological seminary in Chicago and was pastor of several churches in the middle West. He was a prominent official of the American Baptist Missionary union and was sent out by the union in 1907 to Asia, visiting their mission stations in Japan and China. He represented the union at the Morgan cemetery in Shanghai.
Dr Mabie married Miss Edith Roe 48 years ago. She survives with five children, Rev. Harry F. Mabie of Bluefield W. Va., Mrs J. H. Weld of Rosindale, Mrs G. A. Morse of Melrose, Roe Mabie, an art student is in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Ruth Mabie, who is on the editorial staff of a newspaper in Bridgeport, Conn. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs F. M. Chamberlain of South Dakota and Mrs H. M. Steadler of East Northfield.
Mrs Steadler and daughter, Edith, left today to attend the funeral, which will be held in the home in Roslindale Thursday
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| Residence |
1931 |
1306 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts [2] |
- Janet M Clapp, 38, Female, Married, born 8 May 1892 in Boston; and Kenneth D. Clapp, 12, Male, Single, born 15 May 1919 in Boston, address in US was 1306 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Mass; sailed on the SS American Oriente on 16 May 1931 from Havana, Cuba, and arrived at the Port of New York on 19 May 1931
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| WW2 Draft |
16 Oct 1940 |
523 Beacon Street, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts [6] |
- Kenneth Derrek Clapp, 523 Beacon St, Boston, Suffolk, Mass, born 15 May 1919 in Boston, Mass, registered for the draft. He was employed by the Yankee Network, Boston. The person who would always know his address was his mother, Mrs Janet Mabie Clapp, 71 Washington Square South, New York City, NY. He was White, 6' , 162 pounds, had blue eyes, brown hair, and a dark complexion.
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| Residence |
16 Oct 1940 |
71 Washington Square South, New York City, New York [7] |
| Death |
6 Dec 1961 |
Riverdale Nursing Home, New York City, New York [8] |
| Obituary |
8 Dec 1961 |
Boston, Massachusetts [9] |
- Services for Janet Mabie Clapp, 68, former Boston newspaper woman, free lance writer and literary collaborator, will be held Saturday here.
Mrs Clapp who was known professionally by her maiden name, died Wednesday of cancer. She was the daughter of the late Dr. Henry Clay Mabie, a well-known Baptist clergyman and missionary of Boston and Northfield.
She began with the Bridgeport Herald and was for many years was a feature writer for The Christian Science Monitor.
She covered many of the important stories of the late 1920's and the ‘30s, beginning with the Lindbergh flight. Mrs Clapp was a frequent guest of President Hoover ast the White House and was friendly with many celebrities of that period, including Amelia Earhart, with whom she wrote several books.
Since 1943, she had resided in New York City and was in demand by publishers and would-be authors as a writer and collaborator. Among well-known personalities with whom Mrs Clapp was associated were Hedda Hopper, J. C.. Penny, the department store magnate, and Dr DeForest Jarvis, whose "Folk Medicine" was a record best seller.
Mrs Clapp leaves a son Kenneth D., of Wellesley Hills and four grandchildren.
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| Occupation |
New Reporter, writer, editor [1] |
| Reference Number |
16730 |
| Person ID |
I16647 |
Maybee Society |
| Last Modified |
7 Apr 2024 |
1892 - 1961 (69 years)
