Mary Young Ridenbaugh (c. 1834 in
Shelby County, Kentucky – 1941) was an American biographer and novelist, best remembered for her novel ''Enola; Or, Her Fatal Mistake'' (1886).
Career
Ridenbaugh's works include:
*''Enola, Or Her Fatal Mistake'' (1886)
*''The Biography of
Ephraim McDowell: The Father of Ovariotomy'' (1890).
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*https://archive.org/details/biographyephrai01ridegoog
Selected Reprints from ''Biography of Ephraim McDowell'':
*''Portrait and Biographical Sketch of J.
Harvie Dew, M.D.'' (1890),
* ''Biographical sketch of George Engelmann, M.D., 1809-1884'' (1896).
* ''A sketch of the life of Joseph Eastman, M. D., LL. D., president of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons, etc., Indianapolis, Ind'' (1905).
Personal life
She was the granddaughter of
Ephraim McDowell and the wife of
William Ridenbaugh
William Fahnestock Ridenbaugh (February 19, 1821 – October 18, 1874) was a newspaper publisher who started the St. Joseph Gazette in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Ridenbaugh was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania. In 1843 he moved to Missouri and started t ...
. She was also known as Mary Thompson Valentine and Mary Thompson Young.
References
External links
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:commons:The Star of Cambridge, Leaving the Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill
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:commons:The Biography of Ephraim McDowell, M.D., "The Father of Ovariotomy"
1830s births
1941 deaths
American biographers
American writers
19th-century American novelists
American women novelists
People from Shelby County, Kentucky
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