Hattie Horner Louthan, a former White Water, Kansas girl, is the author
of five books and many contributions to newspapers and first class
magazines. After graduation at the Normal School, Emporia, in 1883,
Miss Horner engaged in teaching and literary work. Ten years later, she
became the wife of Overton Earl Louthan, who died in 1906.
She is editor of the Great Southwest and a member of the staff of the
Denver Republican. Her first volume of poems came out in 1885; the next
year, "Some Reasons For Our Choice." "Not At Home," a book of travels,
was published in 1889; "Collection of Kansas Poetry," in 1891; and
"Thoughts Adrift," in 1902. Her work is versatile; the rhyme easy
flowing and strong.
GEORGIANA FREEMAN McCOY. and MARY FREEMAN STARTZMAN.
Georgiana Freeman McCoy, Wichita, has taught music in Kansas longer
than any other teacher in the state and incidentally writes verse. She
remodeled Elizabeth Browning's "A Drama of Exile" and wrote the musical
setting for Simon Buchhalter, the Viennese pianist and composer. A
sister, Mary Freeman Startzman, while living in Fort Scott, wrote a
volume of poems, "Wild Flowers."