Mary Catharine North Weston Explained

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Mary Catharine North Weston (–) was an American religious writer.

Mary Catharine North was born on in Albany, New York, the daughter of William Augustus Stuben North, son of William North, and Margaret Bridge North. She married the Rev. Daniel Cony Weston, son of Nathan Weston, in 1842 and they had six children.^{[1] [2]}

Weston's works were published by the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society. Her first book, Calvary Catechism (1857), was popular, selling 600,000 copies a year. It was translated into German, Russian, and Dakota.^{[3] [4]}

Mary Catharine North Weston died on 4 August 1882 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Bibliography

• Calvary Catechism, N. York, 1857, 32mo; 2d ed., 1859. ^[5]
• Catechism on the Doctrines and Usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1860, 18mo.
• Synopsis of the Bible, 1865, 16mo.
• Jewish Antiquities, 1866, 16mo
• Biography of Old Testament Characters, 1871^[6]
• Biography of New Testament Characters, 1871
• Old Testament Stories about Men and Women of the Bible. Illust. N York, 1882, sq 8vo

Notes and References

1. Weston, Mary Catharine North . VI . 443 . 1.
2. Book: Van Rensselaer, Florence . The Livingston family in America and its Scottish origins . 1949 . New York : [S.n.] . Boston Public Library.
3. Book: Hart, John S. (John Seely) . A manual of American literature . 1969 . New York : Johnson Reprint Corp. . Internet Archive.
4. Book: Weston, Mary Catharine North . Calvary wiwigawangapi kin qa wokiksuye anpetu kin koya . Cook . Joseph Witherspoon . Cook . Charles S . 1893 . Daily Leader Press . Madison, S.D . en . 10.5479/sil.422596.39088007182983.
5. Book: Allibone, S. Austin (Samuel Austin) . A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors: living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century : containing thirty thousand biographies and literary notices, with forty indexes of subjects (Volume 3) . 1863 . Philadelphia : George W. Childs . U.S. National Library of Medicine.
6. Book: John Foster Kirk . A Supplement To Allibone S Critical Dictionary Of English Literature And British And American Authors Vol Ii . 1899.