Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-08-18
"GAIL HAMILTON DEAD.
Miss Dodge Did Not Regnin Counsellor
ness After Sundays IsaraIyttc Strol

Miss Dodge Did Not Regain Conscious
ness After Sundays ParaIytic Stroke.
Miss Mary Abigail Dodge, better known
as Gail Hamilton" the writer, whose Sc
rious condition was announced in yester-
days Star. died at . O'Clock last night at
her home AT Hamilton, Mass Sunday
morning she sustained stroke of paraly-
Sis while sitting at the breakfast table
and fell from her chair She was picked
up in an Unconscious condition and re-
manned SO until her Geath.
Miss Dodge had a similar shock while in
Washington about a year ago. Miss Au-
susta Dodge and other relatives were at
the bedside when the end came. Too much
work in mailing her last book. The Val
ley of Death" during the hot weather
broke her strength.
Gail HamiltOn's Career.
Miss Mary Abigail Dodge, writer, biogra-
pher and controrersialist widely know n
under the pen name OF Gail Hamilton :"
was native of the town in which she
died, having been born in 1890 At the age
Of ten years she went TO Dr. Clarks pri-
vate school in Cambridge She was grad
uated from Ipswich Academy at the age of
twenty. In 1851 She went to Hartford as
assistant in the Hartford High School. Sh.
refused to take the customary exam:na
ticn, but was given the position without
cong so. She was also instructor in phy-
steal science In this school for several
years, and was subsequently governess in
the family of DIR. Gamaliel Bailey I'm this
city. the editor of the National Era, to
winch paper she became contributor.
In 1867 she was one of the editors of
Our Young Folks, a magazine published in
Boston. From 1870 until a little over a
year ago she had lived most of the time
~ LII,
this city. In the course of this daily con-
tact with the Blaine family Miss Dodge
was led into very close friendship with
Mr.. Blaine and at the death of the latter
she became his literary executor, being in
possession of all his papers and documents
of value to he-- as his authorized biogra-
pher: She was engaged. as frequently as
her health would permit on Mr. Blaine $
biography from the time Of his death I'M
TIL her illness of last year.
Since the illness which came on so sud
denly in the Blaine mansion, Miss Dodge
lived quietly at her old home at Hamilton,
Mass.
Gail Hamilton was a frequent contrIbu-
tor to prominent magazines, and her pub
lished works. written in witty and ag-
tons from her contributions. Her books
Thinking" Gala Days" New Atmos-
and Sketches" Red Letter Days and APP
plethorp' and Summer Rest" Wool
Gathering "Wonan's Wrongs" "A Coun-
ter Irritant," Battle of Books "Woman's
Life" Child World Twelve Miles From
Lemon Summons for the Clergy
First Love is Best What Think Ye Of
Christi" Our Common School System.
Dodge and "Insuppressive Book"
In 1887 she wrote series of letters on
civil service reform for q New York pa
per. Letters on wide range Of public
questions, written for the Boston Journal
were widely copied throughout the United
States. Miss Dodges one novel, First
Love is Best" had not the success which
recent years she engaged i'm political writ.
ing and many famous review articles ant,
political interviews were accredited to
her, which reused much warm discussion.
and exerted more or less influence upon ma
tional politics.