Mary Louise Mabie

1904 - 1972  (68 years)

• Name	Mary Louise Mabie
  Birth	4 Feb 1904	Manhattan, New York City, New York   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	Apr 1910	15 SE Nicholas Place, Manhattan, New York County, New York   [3]
  	James H. Kennedy, Head, M, W, 61, M1, 35, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Editor, Magazine, owns home Mary G. Kennedy, F, W, 58, M1, 35, 1 child born and living, New York, Scotland, Scotland, none Louise K Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 32, D, Ohio, Ohio, New York, Music Writer, at home Louise Mabie, Granddaughter, F, W, 6, S, New York, New York, Ohio, in school
  Census	Jan 1920	25 Orange Road, Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey   [4]
  	James Kennedy, Head, M, W, 71, M, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Editor, Magazine, owns home free of mortgage Mary G. Kennedy, Wife, F, W, 68, M, New York, Ireland, Ireland, none Louisa K Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 41, W, Ohio, Ohio, New York Mary L Mabie, Granddaughter, F, W, 15, S, New York, New York, Ohio, in school
  Memo	24 Jun 1922  [5]
  	a divorcee, of Montclair, New Jersey, accompanied by minor daughter Mary Louise Mabie, was issued a passport to travel to British Isles, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Gibralter
  Census	Apr 1930	1281 Holliston Avenue, Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California   [6]
  	James H. Kennedy, Head, owns house worth $20,000, M, W, 81, Wd, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, editor, newspaper Louise K Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 48, D, Ohio, Ohio, New York, author, magazines Mary B Mabie, Grandchild, F, W, 25, S, New York, Ohio, New York, author, books
  Vote	Between 1936 and 1938	1281 Avocado Terrace, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California   [7]
  	Louise and Mary were listed as writers
  Census	Abt Apr 1940	51 Emerald Bay, South of Highway, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California   [8]
  	Louse K Mabie, Head, F, W, 58, D, completed 4 years high school, born in Ohio, residence 1 April 1935 was Altadena, California, Writer, Short Stories Mary L Mabie, Daughter, F, W, 34, S, completed 4 years high school, born in New York, residence 1 April 1935 was Altadena, California, Writer, Fiction
  Vote	Between 1942 and 1944	Laguna Beach, Orange County, California   [7]
  	Louise and Mary were listed as writers
  Census	27 Apr 1950	Cedar Street, Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona   [9]
  	Louise K Mabie, Head, White, Male, 60, Widow, born in Ohio Mary L Mabie, Daughter, White, Female, 40, never married, born in New York, Story Writer, Writer
  Obituary	Mary Louise Mabie was born in 1904 at the home of her maternal grandparents, James H. and Mary Kennedy, in St. Nicholas Place, NYC. Her father, Webster Boutelle Mabie, was a New York real estate broker and her mother, Louise Kennedy Mabie, was a prolific short story writer whose work regularly appeared in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal. Her parents divorced in 1909 and Mary Louise Mabie was raised primarily by her mother and grandparents. She enjoyed a privileged upbringing: holidays spent in fashionable resorts, a secondary education at a private girls' school in New Jersey, and a European tour in 1922. As a teen she began writing stories and, under the pseudonym Hall Pegg, poems, many of which were published in newspapers and magazines. The Kennedy-Mabie household moved to California in 1926 where mother and daughter continued their literary efforts. In 1928, Mary Louise Mabie's first novel, The Long Knives Walked, appeared in serial form (published in one volume in 1932); she would eventually produce a raft of short stories and four other novels: The Saints, the Devil, and the King (1930), The Pale Survivors (1934), The Root of the Lotus (1938), and Prepare Them for Caesar (1949). In 1948 she and her mother moved to Flagstaff, AZ and resided together until Louise Kennedy Mabie was confined to a sanitarium in the early 1950s. Around this time, Mary Louise Mabie began working as a reporter for The Arizona Republic, The Daily Sun, and Flagstaff's radio station KCLS. She was also briefly married to John "Slim" Ellis in the late 1950s; the union ended in divorce in 1960. After her mother's death in 1957, Mary Louise Mabie achieved little literary success although she worked assiduously on projects concerning George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Earl of Sandwich throughout the 1960s. She was declared mentally incompetent in 1971 and died the following year at the state hospital in Phoenix.
  Reference Number	27914
  Death	9 May 1972	Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona   [11, 12]
  Burial	1973	Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum, Altadena, Los Angeles County, California   [12]
  Person ID	I27713	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Webster Boutelle Mabie,   b. 11 Oct 1865, Buffalo, Erie County, New York d. 5 Oct 1940, Los Angeles County, California (Age 74 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Louise Kennedy,   b. 14 Oct 1877, Cleveland, Ohio d. 10 Nov 1957, Los Angeles County, California (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	19 Oct 1897	Second Collegiate Reformed Church, Manhattan, New York City, New York   [13, 14]
  	Webster Boutelle Mabie and Louise Kennedy, daughter of James Kennedy, in the Second Collegiate Reformed Church, 123rd Street and Lenox Ave., by Rev. William Justin Harsha.
  Divorce	1909  [10]
  Family ID	F6327	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

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