Caroline E. Kelly Davis

American writer (1831–1921)

Caroline E. Kelly Davis

Born| March 29, 1831
Northwood
Died| August 14, 1921 (aged 90)
Everett
Occupation| Writer

Caroline E. Kelly Davis (March 29, 1831 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer.

Caroline Emma Kelly was born on March 29, 1831 in Northwood, New Hampshire, the daughter of politician John Kelly and Susan Hilton Kelly. She married the Reverend William F. Davis in 1867.[1]

Davis wrote dozens of Sunday School and children's books.[2] One of these was The Yachtville Boys (1869), one of the earliest novels to depict baseball.[3]

Caroline E. Kelly Davis died on 14 August 1921 in Everett, Massachusetts.[4]

## Partial bibliography

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* Little Apple Blossom. The Hillside Library. Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1863.[5]
* The Yachtville Boys. Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869. [3]
* The Sunny Path. Nashville: Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, J. D. Barbee, Agent, ca. 1887.[6]

## References

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1. ^ Kelly, Giles Merrill (1886). Genealogical account of the descendants of John Kelly of Newbury, Massachusetts. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [Albany, N.Y. : Munsell].
2. ^ prepared by the R.R. Bowker company's Database Publishing Division; in collaboration with the Publicsations Systems Department (1986). Fiction, folklore, fantasy & poetry for children, 1876–1985 : author index, illustrator index, title index, awards index. Internet Archive. New York : Bowker. ISBN 978-0-8352-2272-3.
3. ^ a b McCue, Andy (1991). Baseball by the books. Internet Archive. Dubuque, IA : Wm. C. Brown Publishers. ISBN 978-0-697-12764-8.
4. ^ "Aug 18, 1921, page 20 - The Boston Globe at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2025-03-20.
5. ^ Brown, Candy Gunther (2004). The Word in the world : evangelical writing, publishing, and reading in America, 1789–1880. Internet Archive. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-2838-0.
6. ^ Writing in the kitchen : essays on Southern literature and foodways. Internet Archive. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi. 2014. ISBN 978-1-62846-024-7.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: others (link)