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CAROLINE DALE SNEDEKER
HAVING LEVED AMD WRITTEN (N BAY ST. LOUIS SINCE 19T8 CAROLINE DALE SNEDEKER WAS CLAIMED ASr A RESIDENT AUTHOR.
SHE WAS BORN IN NEW HARMONY, INDIANA, THE TOWN SETTLED BY THE F/HTED ROBERT OWEN, HER GREAT GRANDFATHER.
SHE WRffTE FROM THE AGE OF NINE YEARS, FIRST VERSE, THEN STORIES PUBLISHED fN MAGAZINES, AND FINALLY FIFTEEN HISTORICAL NOVELS, SOME OF WHICH HAVE REMAINED IN PRfNT FOR FORTY YEARS.
AT THE AGE OF FOURTEEN HER FAMILY MOVED TO Cl NCI NWAT f. THERE, BESIDES HB? SCHOOLING, SHE ATTENDED THE COLL BSE OF MUSIC WHERE SHE GRADUATED WITH HONORS AND WON A GOLD MEDAL •
SHE LIVED IN CINCINNATI UNTIL HER MARRIAGE TO THE REVEREND CHARLES SNEDEKER, WHBI THEY MOVED TO LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, WERE AFTER MANY YEARS HIS HEALTH BROKE DOV/N . THEY SPBJT THE REST OF THEIR LIVES IN BAY ST * LOUIS.