Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Dalsheimer, Alice

DALSHEIMER, Alice, poet, b. in New Orleans, La., 1 Dec., 1845; d. there, 15 Jan., 1880. Her maiden name was Solomon. She received her education in the city schools, and in 1865 became a teacher, in her examination as to qualifications standing at the head of 250 applicants. She married, in 1867, Mr. Dalsheimer, a lawyer, and gave up teaching, but resumed it in 1873, when she became principal of the girls' department of a school under the management of the Hebrew educational society, where she remained until 1878. Her writings consist of numerous sketches, short stories, and poems, principally the latter, all of which appeared in the daily papers of New Orleans under the pseudonym of “Salvia Dale,” but have never been collected and published in book-form. Of her poems, those entitled “Motherhood” and “Twilight Shadows” are among the best.