Waupaca County, WI - Obituary of Miss Margaret E. ASHMUN d.  West Springfield, Mass.

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Subject: Death Record of Miss Margaret E. ASHMUN d.  West Springfield, Mass.
Researchers Name: Joanna M. Ashmun
EMAIL: jmashmun@halcyon.com
Date Submitted: May 24, 1999

Surnames: ASHMUN
Source: obituary in hand, undated, newspaper unknown.

Name of the Deceased: Miss Margaret E. ASHMUN

Place of Death: West Springfield, Mass.

Residence at time of Death: West Springfield, Mass. 
Age: 65
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: near Rural, Waupaca County

Survivors: three brothers, Van, of Ashland, Wis.; Walter, of Portland, Ore., and Clifford, of Minneapolis, and two
sisters, Mrs. Mary Roberts, of New York, and Alice, of Chicago. 

Obituary:

Miss Ashmun Dead in East
Native of Wisconsin, She Was Author of Textbooks, Novels and Girls' Stories
Journal Special Correspondence
Stevens Point, Wis. -- Miss Margaret E. Ashmun, native Wisconsin author of girls' and adults' novels, short stories
and English textbooks, died at her home in West Springfield, Mass., Thursday. Funeral services will be held here
Monday.

Miss Ashmun was about 65. She had lived in the east since 1912 and for the last year had lived at West Springfield.
She was born on a potato farm near Rural, Waupaca county. Following her graduation from the Stevens Point State
Teachers' college (then the Stevens Point Normal school), she taught at the Stout Institute and attended the
University of Wisconsin, where she received her M.A. degree in 1908. She was English instructor there until 1912,
when she left for New York to write.

Although five early books for girls, called the Isabel Carleton series, brought her wide recognition, Miss Ashmun
received her greatest acclaim for "The Lake," a novel with its setting in the Waupaca chain of lakes country which she
knew as a girl. The novel she liked best of her work was "Pa -- the Head of the Family."

A frequent visitor to England, she lived there on several occasions for long periods and once did research in the
British museum.

Miss Ashmun is survived by three brothers, Van, of Ashland, Wis.; Walter, of Portland, Ore., and Clifford, of
Minneapolis, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Roberts, of New York, and Alice, of Chicago.