Susanne Vandegrift Moore (May 15, 1848 - 1926) was an American editor and publisher. During the period of 1889–97, she was the editor and owner of the weekly, St. Louis Life. She was friends with Kate Chopin. Susanne Moore died in 1926.

Biography

Susanne ("Sue") Vandegrift Moore born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1848.

Susanne Vandegrift Moore

She was educated in a female seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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She taught for several years after graduation in private and public schools. In 1877, she married, and with her husband, moved to St. Louis, Missouri. She became a regular contributor to the St. Louis Spectator and contributed to the woman's department of the New York World. Thrown upon her own resources, she began in 1889 the publication of an illustrated weekly journal, St. Louis Life, of which she was editor and owner. The venture was successful, providing for a comfortable income. She died in Jacksonville, Florida, 1926, and was buried in that city's Evergreen Cemetery.

Susanne Vandegrift Moore

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1848 births

1926 deaths

19th-century American writers

19th-century American women writers

19th-century American newspaper editors

19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Writers from Pennsylvania People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Women newspaper editors American women non-fiction writers Wikipedia articles incorporating text from A Woman of the Century