She was married first to Mayo Gerrish Smith (m. 1842; div. 1857) and then to Daniel S. Blake (m. 1863).
She had two children with Smith:
Mayo Vale Smith (June 25, 1844-)
Euphemia Smith (September 20, 1848-)
Euphemia Vale Blake was born in England in 1824. She came to the US at a very young age with her family. Her father, Gilbert Vale, was a well known and repsected writer and teacher. He was publisher of the New York Beacon in the mid 1800's and wrote a biography of Thomas Paine.
Euphemia followed in her father's footsteps when it came to writing. She was the author and editor of several non fiction works, published under her first married name, E Vale Smith and second married name E Vale Blake. She lived with her first husband in Newburyport, MA where she wrote "A History of Newburyport; from the Earliest Settlement of the Country to the Present Time" in 1854.
Euphemia moved to New York City after divorcing her first husband and remarried. In New York she edited "Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is added a general arctic chronology" in 1874. In 1901 she wrote "History of the Tammany society from its organization to the present time".
She died of "Old Age Myocarditis-Pulmonary Oedema & Exhaustion" at her home at 218 Carlton Av, Brooklyn on October 21, 1904 and was buried at historic Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
She had two children with Smith:
Mayo Vale Smith (June 25, 1844-)
Euphemia Smith (September 20, 1848-)
Euphemia Vale Blake was born in England in 1824. She came to the US at a very young age with her family. Her father, Gilbert Vale, was a well known and repsected writer and teacher. He was publisher of the New York Beacon in the mid 1800's and wrote a biography of Thomas Paine.
Euphemia followed in her father's footsteps when it came to writing. She was the author and editor of several non fiction works, published under her first married name, E Vale Smith and second married name E Vale Blake. She lived with her first husband in Newburyport, MA where she wrote "A History of Newburyport; from the Earliest Settlement of the Country to the Present Time" in 1854.
Euphemia moved to New York City after divorcing her first husband and remarried. In New York she edited "Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is added a general arctic chronology" in 1874. In 1901 she wrote "History of the Tammany society from its organization to the present time".
She died of "Old Age Myocarditis-Pulmonary Oedema & Exhaustion" at her home at 218 Carlton Av, Brooklyn on October 21, 1904 and was buried at historic Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
She was married first to Mayo Gerrish Smith (m. 1842; div. 1857) and then to Daniel S. Blake (m. 1863).
She had two children with Smith:
Mayo Vale Smith (June 25, 1844-)
Euphemia Smith (September 20, 1848-)
Euphemia Vale Blake was born in England in 1824. She came to the US at a very young age with her family. Her father, Gilbert Vale, was a well known and repsected writer and teacher. He was publisher of the New York Beacon in the mid 1800's and wrote a biography of Thomas Paine.
Euphemia followed in her father's footsteps when it came to writing. She was the author and editor of several non fiction works, published under her first married name, E Vale Smith and second married name E Vale Blake. She lived with her first husband in Newburyport, MA where she wrote "A History of Newburyport; from the Earliest Settlement of the Country to the Present Time" in 1854.
Euphemia moved to New York City after divorcing her first husband and remarried. In New York she edited "Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is added a general arctic chronology" in 1874. In 1901 she wrote "History of the Tammany society from its organization to the present time".
She died of "Old Age Myocarditis-Pulmonary Oedema & Exhaustion" at her home at 218 Carlton Av, Brooklyn on October 21, 1904 and was buried at historic Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
She had two children with Smith:
Mayo Vale Smith (June 25, 1844-)
Euphemia Smith (September 20, 1848-)
Euphemia Vale Blake was born in England in 1824. She came to the US at a very young age with her family. Her father, Gilbert Vale, was a well known and repsected writer and teacher. He was publisher of the New York Beacon in the mid 1800's and wrote a biography of Thomas Paine.
Euphemia followed in her father's footsteps when it came to writing. She was the author and editor of several non fiction works, published under her first married name, E Vale Smith and second married name E Vale Blake. She lived with her first husband in Newburyport, MA where she wrote "A History of Newburyport; from the Earliest Settlement of the Country to the Present Time" in 1854.
Euphemia moved to New York City after divorcing her first husband and remarried. In New York she edited "Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expedition and six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is added a general arctic chronology" in 1874. In 1901 she wrote "History of the Tammany society from its organization to the present time".
She died of "Old Age Myocarditis-Pulmonary Oedema & Exhaustion" at her home at 218 Carlton Av, Brooklyn on October 21, 1904 and was buried at historic Green-wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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