| Mary Louise Peebles | |
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| Born | December 10, 1833 Lansingburgh, New York, U.S.A. |
| Died | April 25, 1915 (aged 81) Lansingburgh, New York, U.S.A. |
| Occupation | Author of children's books |
Mary Louise Peebles, née Parmelee (1833–1915), was an American author of children’s stories who wrote under the name Mrs. A. Lynde Palmer.[1]
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Mary Louise Peebles was the daughter of Elias Ripley Parmelee and Eleanor Allen, descendants of early settlers of the town of Lansingburgh (now part of Troy), New York.[2] Peebles was born at Lansingburgh on December 10, 1833 and completed her education there seventeen years later at the Lansingburgh Academy.[2][3] She married banker Anthony Augustus Peebles (1822–1905) on July 7, 1862, and eventually became the mother of two sons who did not survive infancy.[4][2] Her aunt, Mary Eleanor Parmelee, was known for being an early love interest of the writer Herman Melville before she chose to marry instead a local merchant.[5]
Mary Louise Peebles died on April 25, 1915. She had been a lifelong resident of Lansingburgh, New York.[1]
Mary Louise Peebles' book ,The Little Captain, published around 1861, was the first of a number of children's stories she would author over the following twenty years or so. In 1877 she released The Magnet Stories a collection of children's yarns that included Drifting and Steering, One Day’s Weaving, Archie’s Shadow and John Jack.[6]