The following courtesy of the Author Barry L. Kauffman
Mary Catherine Stevens
Mary Catherine Stevens was bornin Reading, Pa. on April 23, 1889, the youngest of five children born to Garrett B. (1848-1911) and M. Catherine (Zeller) Stevens (1848- 1912). Mary Catherine's father was a prominent Reading attorney and her family lived at 323 N. 5th St. in Reading.
To anyone familiar with Reading's history, the combination of the family address and surname readily identifies our heroine, called Catherine, as the sister of Pulitizer prize winning poet Wallace Stevens. In fall 1959, The Historical Review of Berks County, for the first and only time, devoted an entire issue to one subject: Reading's own Wallace Stevens. Many pages were written about his life and times as well as his Mary Catherine Stevens was the sister of Wallace Stevens, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, and of John Stevens, the founder of the Stevens and Lee Law Firm. Originally interred in the military cemetery in St. Nazaire, France following her death on May 21, 1919, her remains were returned to the U.S. and reinterred on the family plot in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa. in 1920.
The following courtesy of the Author Barry L. Kauffman
Mary Catherine Stevens
Mary Catherine Stevens was bornin Reading, Pa. on April 23, 1889, the youngest of five children born to Garrett B. (1848-1911) and M. Catherine (Zeller) Stevens (1848- 1912). Mary Catherine's father was a prominent Reading attorney and her family lived at 323 N. 5th St. in Reading.
To anyone familiar with Reading's history, the combination of the family address and surname readily identifies our heroine, called Catherine, as the sister of Pulitizer prize winning poet Wallace Stevens. In fall 1959, The Historical Review of Berks County, for the first and only time, devoted an entire issue to one subject: Reading's own Wallace Stevens. Many pages were written about his life and times as well as his Mary Catherine Stevens was the sister of Wallace Stevens, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, and of John Stevens, the founder of the Stevens and Lee Law Firm. Originally interred in the military cemetery in St. Nazaire, France following her death on May 21, 1919, her remains were returned to the U.S. and reinterred on the family plot in Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Pa. in 1920.
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