Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Shindler, Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer

SHINDLER, Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer, author, b. in Beaufort, S. C., 15 Feb., 1810. Her father, the Rev. B. M. Palmer, was pastor of a Congregational church at Beaufort, and when she was three years old he removed with her to Charleston, S. C., where she was educated. In June, 1835, Miss Palmer married Charles E. Dana, and removed with him first to New York, and in 1837 to Bloomington, Iowa. On his death, soon afterward, she returned to her family in Charleston. Here she began to write, and became well known as a poet. In May, 1848, she married the Rev. Robert D. Shindler, a clergyman of the Episcopal church, who was for a time professor in Shelby college, Kentucky. She removed with her husband in 1850 to Upper Marlborough, Md., and in 1869 to Nacogdoches, Tex. She has published “The Southern Harp” (Boston, 1840); “The Northern Harp” (New York, 1841); “The Parted Family, and other Poems” (1842); “The Temperance Lyre” (1842); “Charles Morton, or the Young Patriot” (1843); “The Young Sailor” (1844); “Forecastle Tour” (1844); and “Letters to Relatives and Friends on the Trinity” (1845). She had, before her death in 1883, been a frequent contributor to popular periodicals.