Wife of Benoni Newkirk. Daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot James Leander Cathcart of Pennsylvania, and Jane Woodside.
DAR Real Daughter
The New York Times (Oct. 6, 1906):
MRS. NEWKIRK, AUTHOR, DEAD
Two of Her Books Were Published After She Was 83.
La Porte, Ind., Oct. 5. — Mrs. Jane B. Newkirk, an author, died here today, aged 93. Within ten years she had published two books – "The Captives," a narrative of the Algerian enslavement of her father, James Leander Cathcart, who afterward was in the United States Consular Service in Africa, and "Tripoli and Tunis," an account of American negotiations with the Barbary powers for the abolishment of piracy.
DAR Real Daughter
The New York Times (Oct. 6, 1906):
MRS. NEWKIRK, AUTHOR, DEAD
Two of Her Books Were Published After She Was 83.
La Porte, Ind., Oct. 5. — Mrs. Jane B. Newkirk, an author, died here today, aged 93. Within ten years she had published two books – "The Captives," a narrative of the Algerian enslavement of her father, James Leander Cathcart, who afterward was in the United States Consular Service in Africa, and "Tripoli and Tunis," an account of American negotiations with the Barbary powers for the abolishment of piracy.
Wife of Benoni Newkirk. Daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot James Leander Cathcart of Pennsylvania, and Jane Woodside.
DAR Real Daughter
The New York Times (Oct. 6, 1906):
MRS. NEWKIRK, AUTHOR, DEAD
Two of Her Books Were Published After She Was 83.
La Porte, Ind., Oct. 5. — Mrs. Jane B. Newkirk, an author, died here today, aged 93. Within ten years she had published two books – "The Captives," a narrative of the Algerian enslavement of her father, James Leander Cathcart, who afterward was in the United States Consular Service in Africa, and "Tripoli and Tunis," an account of American negotiations with the Barbary powers for the abolishment of piracy.
DAR Real Daughter
The New York Times (Oct. 6, 1906):
MRS. NEWKIRK, AUTHOR, DEAD
Two of Her Books Were Published After She Was 83.
La Porte, Ind., Oct. 5. — Mrs. Jane B. Newkirk, an author, died here today, aged 93. Within ten years she had published two books – "The Captives," a narrative of the Algerian enslavement of her father, James Leander Cathcart, who afterward was in the United States Consular Service in Africa, and "Tripoli and Tunis," an account of American negotiations with the Barbary powers for the abolishment of piracy.
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