Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Haven, Alice Bradley

HAVEN, Alice Bradley, author, b. in Hudson, N. Y., 13 Sept., 1828; d. in Mamaroneck, N. Y., 23 Aug., 1863. Her maiden name was Emily Bradley, and while attending school she sent, under the pen-name of “Alice G. Lee,” many sketches to the Philadelphia “Saturday Gazette.” In 1846 she married its editor, Joseph C. Neal, and at his request assumed and retained the name of Alice, and wrote under the pen-name of “Cousin Alice.” On her husband's death in 1847 she took editorial charge of the “Gazette,” and conducted it for several years, contributing at the same time poems, sketches, and tales to other magazines. In 1853 she married Samuel L. Haven. Her books include “The Gossips of Rivertown, with Sketches in Prose and Verse” (1850); “Helen Morton”; “Pictures from the Bible”; “No Such Word as Fail”; “Patient Waiting no Loss”; “Contentment Better than Wealth”; “All's not Gold that Glitters”; “Out of Debt, Out of Danger”; “The Coopers”; and “The Good Report: Lessons for Lent” (New York, 1867). Parts of her private diary were published under the title of “Cousin Alice: a Memoir of Alice B. Haven” (New York, 1865).