Jenny Terrill Ruprecht Explained

Jennie Terrill Ruprecht
Pseudonym:	Jenny Terrill Ruprecht
Birth Name:	Jane Elizabeth Terrill
Birth Date:	May 23, 1839
Birth Place:	Liverpool Township, Medina County, Ohio, U.S.
Death Date:	January 19, 1916
Death Place:	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation:	writer
Spouse:	Charles Ruprecht

Jane Elizabeth Terrill Ruprecht (pen name, Jenny Terrill Ruprecht; nickname, Jennie Terrill Ruprecht; May 23, 1839 – January 19, 1916) was an American writer. She published poems, sketches, and juvenile stories in magazines and newspapers.^[1] Her poems were widely copied. She also did a large amount of work for children, consisting of poems, stories, and articles.

Biography

Jane Elizabeth Terrill^[2] was born in Liverpool Township, Medina County, Ohio, May 23, 1839.^[3] She was of New England parentage, both of her parents, Nelson Terrill (1798-1862) and Elizabeth (née) Prindle (1798-1867) having been born in Vermont.^[4] Many of her ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War.

She received limited encouragement to cultivate her early talent for writing as her parents feared that writing, along with the ordinary routine of study, would prove too great a strain on their child's sensitivities. Ruprecht's childhood, with the exception of two or three years, was spent in the countryside. For this reason, many of her poems deal with nature.^[5]

After a brief experience as a school teacher, Terrill married Charles Ruprecht,^[6] in Cuyahoga, Ohio, on June 20, 1861. He was a native of Baden, Germany. For many years, Ruprecht's home was in Cleveland, Ohio.

While she contributed largely to the local press, many of Ruprecht's poems and sketches appeared in eastern and other magazines and papers, as well as in many religious weeklies. Some of her poems were published under a pseudonym. She wrote numerous juvenile stories and poems, as well as a volume entitled Home Rhymes.

Ruprecht was a charter member of the Cleveland Woman's Press Association and a member of the Ohio Woman's Press Association. She was also a member of the Cleveland Sorosis, and other literary and social organizations.

For many years, Ruprecht was engaged in home missionary work, particularly in areas of Cleveland where emigrants lived. Many emigrant children became members of the Sunday school, organized and put under her supervision while she was superintendent.

Jenny Terrill Ruprecht died in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 19, 1916.

Selected works

Poems

• "A Woman's Patriotism" (1898), Spanish-American War Songs^[7]
• "Mary Magdalene" (1899), Christian Advocate^[8]
• "Midsummer" (1898), Lippincott's Monthly Magazine^[9]
• "November" (1900), Outing^[10]
• "Red-Eyed Vireo" (1900), Through the Year with Birds and Poets^[11]
• "Tented" (1891), Peterson's Magazine^[12]
• "The Cloud" (1899), Churchman^[13]
• "The Club Woman's Husband" (1898), The Herald^[14]
• "The Preacher-Bird" (1899), Birds and Nature^[15]
• "The Star of the Street" (1912), The Edison Monthly^[16]
• "The Walk to Emmaus" (1903),'^[17]
• "The Wild Clematis" (1901), Birds and Nature^[18]
• "What is True Art?" (1900), The Stevenson Chronicle^[19]
• "Would Thou Wert Here" (1900), The Standard^[20]

Articles

• "Isabella of Castille" (1915), The Western Reserve of Ohio ...^[21]
• "What Kinds of Poetry Are Most in Demand?" (1897), The Editor^[22]

Notes and References

1. Book: Willard . Frances Elizabeth . Frances Willard . Livermore . Mary Ashton Rice . Mary Livermore . A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life . 1893 . . 626 . RUPRECHT, Mrs. Jenny Terrill .
2. Book: Jerome . Margaret Tyrrell . Butler . Frances Jerome . Tyrrell . Bruce Wilkins . Tyrrell . Roger B. . Roger and Abigail (Ufford) Terrill and Some Descendants, 1632-1993: Including Turrills, Tyrrells, Etc . 1995 . B.W. Tyrrell . 978-0-9697366-0-8 . 147 . 15 September 2023 . en.
3. Web site: Ohio Death Certificate . familysearch.org . State of Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics . 15 September 2023 . 20 January 1916.
4. Web site: Jane E. Terrill Female 23 May 1839 – 19 January 1916 . www.familysearch.org . 15 September 2023.
5. Hills . William Henry . Luce . Robert . Jenny Terrill Ruprecht . The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers . 1898 . 15 September 2023 . Writer Publishing Company . en.
6. Book: Wickham . Gertrude Van Rensselaer . Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve . 1896 . Woman's Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission . 610 . 15 September 2023 . en.
7. Book: Witherbee . Sidney A. . Spanish-American War Songs: A Complete Collection of Newspaper Verse During the Recent War with Spain . 1898 . Sidney A. Witherbee . 978-0-7222-7940-3 . 772 . 15 September 2023 . en.
8. Kelley . William V. . Mary Magdalene . Christian Advocate . March 1899 . LXXXI . 2 . 488 . 15 September 2023 . Hunt & Eaton . New York . en.
9. Midsummer . Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: A Popular Journal of General Literature, Science and Politics . July 1898 . 62 . 150 . 15 September 2023 . J.B. Lippincott and Company . en.
10. Worman . James Henry . Worman . Ben James . November . Outing Magazine: The Outdoor Magazine of Human Interest . 1900 . 35 . 143 . 15 September 2023 . Outing Publishing Company . en.
11. Book: Williams . Sarah . Through the Year with Birds and Poets [poems] ]. 1900 . Lee and Shepard . 179 . 15 September 2023 . en.
12. Tented . Peterson's Magazine . November 1891 . 100 . 5 . 415 . 15 September 2023 . C. J. Peterson . Philadelphia . en.
13. The Cloud . Churchman . 4 November 1899 . 80 . 18 . 563 . 15 September 2023 . George S. Mallory . New York City . en.
14. News: The Club Woman's Husband . 15 September 2023 . The Herald . Newspapers.com . 13 January 1898 . 7 . en.
15. The Preacher-Bird . Birds and Nature . May 1899 . 5 . 5 . 194 . 15 September 2023 . A.W. Mumford, Publisher . en.
16. The Star of the Street . The Edison Monthly . October 1912 . 5 . 5 . 189 . 15 September 2023 . New York Edison Company . New York City . en.
17. Gilbert . Levi . The Walk to Emmaus . The Western Christian Advocate . 29 April 1903 . LXIX . 17 . 14 . 15 September 2023 . C. Holliday and J.F. Wright . Cincinnati . en.
18. The Wild Clematis . Birds and Nature . September 1901 . 10 . 2 . 84 . 15 September 2023 . Nature Study Publishing Company . en.
19. News: What is True Art? . 15 September 2023 . The Stevenson Chronicle . . 19 December 1900 . 6 . Stevenson, Alabama . en.
20. Would Thou Wert Here . The Standard . 24 March 1900 . 47 . 30 . 18 . 15 September 2023 . Leroy Church, Edward Goodman . Chicago . en.
21. Book: Rose . Martha Emily Parmelee . The Western Reserve of Ohio and Some of Its Pioneers, Places and Women's Clubs . 1915 . 2 . Press of Euclid Print. Company . Cleveland . 145-48 . 15 September 2023 . en.
22. What Kinds of Poetry Are Most in Demand? . The Editor; the Journal of Information for Literary Workers . March 1897 . 5 . 3 . 62–66 . 15 September 2023 . en.