Lee Meriwether (writer)

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Minor Lee Meriwether (born December 25, 1862 in Columbus , Lowndes County , Mississippi , † March 12, 1966 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American writer , lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Family and education

Lee Meriwether, named after Robert Edward Lee , the youngest of three children of the civil engineer , later a lawyer and during the Civil War officer of the Confederate Army Minor Meriwether (1827-1910) and his wife, the committed suffragette Elizabeth Avery Meriwether (1824-1916), received his education in Memphis in the state of Tennessee . Lee Meriwether devoted himself to studying law in St. Louis from 1889 , and in 1892 he was admitted to the bar.

Lee Meriwether was first married to Millicent Nye Meriwether (1869-1952), after the divorce in 1892 in second marriage with Jessie Maude Meriwether (1878-1945), after her death in third marriage with Ann Rucker Meriwether (1899-1957). From the first marriage came the daughter Elsa Nye Meriwether (1890-1943), from the second marriage the daughter Marie Rivers Meriwether (1897-1899) and the son Minor Lee Meriwether (1901-1927). After suffering a hip fracture in early March 1966, Lee Meriwether died a week later at the old age of 103 of a sudden heart attack at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis.

Professional background

After graduating from school in Memphis, Meriwether worked for the Philadelphia Press in California , in 1884 he took a trip to Europe , where he was on foot from Gibraltar to the Bosporus . On his return, the Secretary of the Interior Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar commissioned him to write a report on working conditions in Europe, which appeared in the Annual Report of the US Bureau of Labor in 1886. As a result, Meriwether was assigned as a special agent for the US Interior Department until 1889, entrusted with collecting data relating to working conditions in the United States and Hawaii . After visiting prisons in the Mediterranean region in 1891 , he was employed as a lawyer in St. Louis the following year. In addition, he worked there between 1889 and 1890 and 1895 and 1896 as Labor Commissioner of Missouri (Board of Directors of the Missouri Department of Labor).

In addition, Lee Meriwether was appointed Special Assistant to the American Ambassador to France in 1915 , charged with assessing the prison conditions of German prisoners of war.

Lee Meriwether stood out in particular as a travel writer .

literature

  • Virginia Historical Society: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volumes 50-51, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, 1942, p. 277.
  • Nelson Heath Meriwether: The Meriwethers and their connections, Artcraft Press, Columbia, Mo., 1964, p. 140.
  • The Bulletin, Volume 22, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, 1965, p. 490.
  • Who was Who in America with world notables: Volume IV, 1961-1968. Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1968, p. 653.
  • James B. Lloyd: Lives of Mississippi authors, 1817-1967, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 1981, p. 322.
  • Patti Carr Black, Marion Barnwell: Touring literary Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2002, pp. 210, 211.
  • Edwin Anderson Alderman (Ed.), Men Of Letters Southern Men of Letters (Ed.): Library of Southern Literature Part 15, Kessinger Pub. Co., Kila, Mont., 2005, ISBN 1417933194 , p. 299.
  • Charles Dudley Warner: A Library of the World's Best Literature - Ancient and Modern - Vol.XLIII (Forty-Five Volumes); Dictionary of Authors (KZ): 43 [English] [paperback], Cosimo Classics, New York, 2008, ISBN 1605202509 , p. 379.

Works (selection)

  • A tramp trip: how to see Europe on fifty cents a day, Harper & Bros., New York, 1887
  • The tramp at home, Harper & Bros., New York, 1889
  • Afloat and ashore on the Mediterranean, C. Scribner's Sons, New York, 1892
  • The great British northwest territory, 1894
  • Seeing Europe by automobile; a five-thousand-mile motor trip through France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy; with an excursion into Andorra, Corfu, Dalmatia, and Montenegro, The Baker & Taylor company, New York, 1911
  • The war diary of a diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1919
  • My first 98 years, 1862-1960, Artcraft Press, Columbia, Mo, 1960

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personal data
SURNAME Meriwether, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meriwether, Minor Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, lawyer, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbus , Lowndes County , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1966
Place of death St. Louis , Missouri