Constellation Similarity Assertions
Barker, Elsa, 1869-1954
Elsie Barker was born in Leicester, Vermont in 1869 to Albert Galvin Barker and Louise Maria (Taylor) Barker. When she was 13, her father died. The following year, as she related, she put on long skirts and took a teaching job elsewhere in Vermont, but came home on weekends and played with her dolls. At 16, she left teaching and learned telegraphy. At 18, she learned shorthand by taking night courses and became a private secretary first in Boston and then New York City and then a court stenographer.
In 1889, she married Edwin E. Gay of Springfield, Massachusetts and although the New York Times obituary reported that he died shortly after their marriage, there are legal papers in the collection stating that Elsa divorced him in New York State in 1893. For a while she was known as Elsie Gay, then, in 1900, she resumed her maiden name but dropped "Elsie" for the less homespun "Elsa".
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Barker, Elsa, d.1954.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rr6mzh (person)
American writer of poetry and prose; spiritualist; interested in automatic writing. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1925-1954]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122348834 ...
Barker, Elsa, recipient.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mb44p0 (person)
No biographical history available for this identity.
Barker, Elsa, 1869–1954.
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66z5mcm (person)
American author Elsa Barker was born in 1869, in Leicest, Vermont, to Albert G. and Louise Marie Barker. Her first jobs were as a shorthand reporter, a teacher, and a newspaper writer. In 1901, she was the associate editor of the Consolidated Encyclopedia Library. From 1904–1905, she worked as a lecturer for the New York Board of Education, and from 1909–1910, she served on the editorial staff of Hamptons magazine. Throughout her life, Barker...
