CORNELIUS, MARY CHILTON CHASE, 1879-1952

Biography:

Writer. Born 1879– North Carolina. Parents– George Franklin and Emma (Pearson) Chase. Married– Jesse Nelson Cornelius, June 5, 1900. Education– Private schools. Member of the American Literary Association and the Verse Writers Guild of America. Contributed poems and essays to magazines and newspapers. Between 1912 and 1926, she won fourteen literary prizes and, between 1913 and 1920, she won four prizes from the State of Alabama for proficiency in Home Arts. Helped edit the Gammadion. In 1926 she was living in Birmingham.  Died April 14, 1952.

Source:

Anthology of Magazine Verse, 1926.

Publication(s):

Flowers From the Foothills. S.l.; s.n., 1923.