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Laura Ingalls Wilder ( February_7, 1867- February_10, 1957), was an American author. She authored the series of historical fiction books for children based on her childhood in a pioneer family. The most well-known of her books is Little House on the Prairie, most people today are familiar with the long-running television series of the same name.
Born Laura Elizabeth Ingalls near Pepin, Wisconsin, she and her family moved extensively throughout the mid-west during her childhood and adolescence, eventually settling in De Smet, Dakota Territory, where she met and later married Almanzo James Wilder ( 1857- 1949). Wilder attended school in De Smet and occasionally worked as a seamstress and a schoolteacher before marrying Almanzo Wilder in 1885. She had two children: the novelist, journalist and political theorist Rose Wilder Lane( 1886- 1968) and an unnamed baby boy who died soon after his birth in 1889Events January-April January 8 Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine January 22 Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, DC. February 11 Meiji Constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet convenes in 1890 January 30 ? Crown.
In the late 1880's, a bout of diptheria followed by a stroke left Almanzo partially disabled for the remainder of his life. This setback began a series of disastrous events that included the death of their infant son, the destruction of their home and barn by fire and several years of severe drought leaving them in debt, physically ill and unable to earn a living from their 320 acres (1.3 kmē) of prairie land.
In about 1890Events January 2 Alice Sanger becomes the first female staffer for the U. White House. January 25 The United Mine Workers of America is founded. January 25 Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. March 1 Leon Bourgeois succeeds Ernest, the Wilders left South Dakota and spent about a year living on Almanzo's parents' prosperous Minnesota farm, before moving briefly in Florida. The Florida climate was sought to improve Almanzo's health, but Laura, used to living on the dry plains, hated the southern humidity. They soon returned to De Smet, got special permission to start precocious Rose in school early, and took jobs (Almanzo as a day laborer, Laura at a dressmaker's shop) to save enough money to once again start up a farming operation.
In 1894Events January 8 A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage. January 9 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard ( Lexington, Massachusetts). February 15 04:51 GMT, the hard-pressed young couple relocated to Mansfield, MissouriMansfield is a city located in Wright County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 1,349. Geography Mansfield is located at 37°6'23" North, 92°34'52" West (37. 106458, -92. According to the United States Census Bureau, the c, making a partial downpayment on a piece of property just outside town that they named Rocky Ridge Farm. What began as about 40 acres (0.2 kmē) of uncleared hillside with a ramshackle log cabin, over the next 20 years, evolved into a 200 acre (0.8 kmē), relatively prosperous poultry, dairy and fruit farm. The log cabin was eventually replaced with an impressive ten-room farmhouse.
The climb to financial security was a slow and halting process. Unable to eke out a subsistance living on the farm, the Wilders moved into nearby Mansfield in the late 1890's, where Almanzo found work as a oil salesman and delivery man. Laura took in borders and served meals to local railroad workers. Their spare time was spent working at the farm and hoping for a better future.
Rose Wilder Lane grew into an intelligent, restless young woman who was not satisfied with the rural lifestyle her parents loved. She quickly surpassed the other students at the local Mansfield school and was sent to her Aunt Eliza Jane Wilder in Crowley, Louisiana to attend a more advanced high school. She graduated in 1904 and returned to Mansfield. Her options were limited - she did not want to marry a local boy and there was no money for college. She went to the Railroad station in Mansfield and asked the telegraph operator to teach her Morse Code. She quickly mastered the telegraph key and soon departed Mansfield for Kansas City, where she secured a job with Western Union as a telegraph operator. A remarkable transformation occurred in the ensuing years, and Rose Wilder Lane became a well-known, if not famous, literary figure of her day. She became the most famous person to hail from Mansfield Missouri, at least until Laura Ingalls Wilder began to publish her "Little House" Books in the 1930s.| Politics | Business | Finance |
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