Cynthia Morgan St. John

Cynthia Morgan St. John
"A Woman of the Century"
BornCynthia Morgan
October 11, 1852
Ithaca, New York, U.S.
DiedAugust 10, 1919
Clifton Springs, New York, U.S.
Occupation
Notable worksWordsworth for the Young
Spouse
Henry Ancel St. John
(m. 1883)
Children2
RelativesAndrew DeWitt Bruyn (grandfather)

Cynthia Morgan St. John (née, Morgan; October 11, 1852 – August 10, 1919) was an American Wordsworthian, book collector, and author.[1] In her day, she owned the largest and most valuable Wordsworth library in the U.S.[2][3] she was engaged in collecting books for 40 years.[4]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "ST. JOHN, Mrs. Cynthia Morgan". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 629–30. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ "NOTES". Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express. 1 March 1896. p. 11. Retrieved 26 September 2022 – via Newspapers.com. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ "ST. JOHN, Cynthia Morgan". Who's who in New York City and State. L.R. Hamersly Company. 1907. pp. 1141–42. Retrieved 26 September 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, 1914–1915. American Commonwealth Company. p. 713. Retrieved 26 September 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.