Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Whitmarsh, Caroline Snowden

WHITMARSH, Caroline Snowden, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 1 June, 1827. At the age of five she was hurried home from the Ursuline convent in Charlestown, Mass., by the mob that destroyed it, and afterward, being a delicate child, attended school but little. She has written and compiled about twenty-three volumes, chiefly religious and educational. In 1870 she married James Guild, of Roxbury. Her books include “Violet” (Boston, 1855); “Daisy” (1856); “Never mind the Face” (New York, 1856); and the “Summer-House Series” on scientific subjects (7 vols., Boston, 1859-'64). She has compiled “Hymns for Mothers and Children” (2 series, Boston, 1860); “Hymns of the Ages,” the first series with Mrs. Anne E. Guild (3 series, 1859-'64); and “Prayers of the Ages” (1867). — Mr. Guild's first wife, Anne (1826-'68), whose maiden name was Gore, was a co-worker of Miss Whitmarsh, and the author of “Grandmother Lee's Portfolio” (Boston, 1857).