Nationality American Role Author Name Kate Rowland | Religion Episcopalian Ethnicity European American | |
Full Name Kate Mason Rowland Residence Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Citizenship United States of AmericaConfederate States of America Books The Life of Charles Carroll of, The Life Of George Mason 17, The life of George Mason - 1, The life of Charles Carroll of, The Life of George Mason - 1 Similar People John Edgar Wideman, Joseph Campbell, Thomas Bulfinch, Anastasia M Ashman, Louis Untermeyer | ||
Parents Catherine Armistead Mason | ||
Kate Mason Rowland (22 June 1840–28 June 1916) was an American author, historian, genealogist, biographer, editor and historic preservationist. Rowland is best known for her biography of her great-great-granduncle, George Mason, a Founding Father of the United States. Rowland was also a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She later went by the name of "Kate Mason."
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- Early life
- American Civil War
- Civic and organizational involvement
- Articles
- Books
- Essays and letters
- Edited books
- Honors and awards
- References
Early life
Kate Mason Rowland and her twin sister, Elizabeth Moir Mason Rowland (died 1905), were born on 22 June 1840 to Major Isaac S. Rowland and his wife, Catherine Armistead Mason. Rowland was a granddaughter of John Thomson Mason and a niece of Stevens Thomson Mason.
American Civil War
Rowland volunteered for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. She served as a nurse at Camp Winder Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. On 4 April 1865, after the Confederate government abandoned Richmond, Rowland, then a matron at the Marine Hospital (also known as the Naval Hospital), sang “patriotic songs” to hospitalized soldiers. She described the scene in her diary as "overflowing with merriment," in which a casual observer would “hardly realize we were all prisoners” of the Union. Both of Rowland's brothers, Thomas Rowland (1842–1874) and John Thomson Mason (1844–1901), served in the Confederate States Army.
Civic and organizational involvement
Rowland was a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Rowland found the moniker "War of the Rebellion" for the American Civil War unacceptable. She introduced a resolution at a United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in November 1899 requiring members to "use every influence, as a body and individually, to expel from the literature of the country and from the daily press, the phrase, 'war of the rebellion,' and to have substituted for it the phrase, 'War Between the States.'" Rowland's resolution went further, instructing members to induce the Federal government to use the preferred term.
In addition to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Rowland was also an active member of the Virginia Historical Society, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, and the Confederate Memorial Literary Society. She was an honorary member of the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore.
Articles
Books
Essays and letters
Edited books
Honors and awards
In 2010 the Library of Virginia posthumously honored Rowland as one of their "Virginia Women in History" for her contributions to writing.