Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — DEATH OF KATE FIELD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEATH OF KATE FIELD.

Brilliant Newspaper Writer Expires in tbe Hawaiian Islands. “Kate Field died of pneumonia” was The brief cable message received in Chicago from ex-Minister Thurston announcing the death of perhaps the best-known

woman connected with American newspapers. Miss Field went to the Hawaiian Islands several months ago in search of health. Miss Field was born in St. Louis in 1840. She was the daughter of Joseph N. Field, an Englishman, who was brought to this country by his parents, who were exiled from Ireland. She re-

ceived her early education in the schools of St. Louis, and later entered a seminary in Massachusetts. After her graduation she visited Europe, and while there she became acquainted with George Eliot and the Brownings. Miss Field's first newspaper work consisted in contributions to the St. Louis Journal and the St. Louis Times. After that she had been a constant writer for a number of papers. She went to Honolulu to study the habits of the inhabitants of Hawaii. Her letters from that island have given information which the people of this country have sought eagerly, especially as regards the trouble in Hawaii.

KATE FIELD.