Books with author Miriam Evangeline Mason

Part of the "Childhood of Famous Americans" series that used to fill the racks of elementary school libraries throughout the USA, this book introduces the reader to Dan Beard, one of the organizers of the Boy Scouts in America. Dan Beard grew up on and around the Ohio River in the mid 1800s and wanted to emulate Daniel Boone. Though he grew up to be a civil engineer & artist, he found his way into writing and editing when he authored the "American Boys' Handy Book", a precursor to what would become familiar to later generations as the Boy Scout's manual. Written for scouting and pre-scouting age children.

1958 children's biography of Kate Douglas Wiggin, who later became a schoolteacher and became famous as an author of children's books. "Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856 – August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister during the 1880s, she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. Kate Wiggin devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labour."