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Minerva Brace Norton
b. 1837
A 19th-century American educator and writer, she spent decades contributing to magazines and books while balancing literary work with life in church and school communities. Her writing includes travel, biography, and religiously minded nonfiction.
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In and Around Berlin
by Minerva Brace Norton
About the author
Born in Rochester, New York, on January 7, 1837, she later grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin. She studied in Wisconsin schools, at Milwaukee College under Mary Mortimer, and at Baraboo Seminary, where she graduated in 1861.
She worked as a teacher and became known as a steady contributor to periodical literature from an early age onward. Sources also describe her as an educator and author whose life was closely tied to religious service; after marrying Rev. Joseph B. Norton in 1861, she spent much of her adult life in the role of a pastor's wife while continuing to write.
Her books include In and Around Berlin and A Great Mother: Sketches of Madam Willard, the latter written with Frances E. Willard. She died on October 2, 1894, in Beloit, Wisconsin.