10 Facts About Lilian Whiting

Lilian Whiting was an American journalist, editor, and author of poetry and short stories.

Lilian Whiting served as literary editor of the Boston Evening Traveller, editor-in-chief of the Boston Budget, and afterward, spent much of her time in Europe.

Emily Lilian Whiting was born in Niagara Falls, New York, on October 3,1847, though she often claimed her date of birth as October 3,1859.

Lilian Whiting's ancestry included Rev William Whiting, the first Unitarian minister of Concord, Massachusetts, in the early part of the 17th century.

Lilian Whiting's paternal grandmother was born Mather, and was a direct descendant of Cotton Mather.

Lilian Whiting was one of the framers of the constitution of Illinois.

Lilian Whiting attended the Mount Carroll Seminary in Illinois.

Lilian Whiting inherited from her mother much of the temperament of the mystic and the visionary, and her bent was always toward books and the world of thought.

Lilian Whiting went to St Louis, Missouri, in 1876, to pursue a career in journalism, remaining there for three years.

Lilian Whiting died at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on April 30,1942.