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Charlotte Reeve Conover
Charlotte Reeve Conover
Born	Charlotte Reeve; June 14, 1855; Dayton, Ohio
Died	September 23, 1940 (aged 85)
Resting place	Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum
Genre	History

Charlotte Reeve Conover (June 14, 1855 – September 23, 1940) was an American author, lecturer, political activist, educator, and "Dayton's historian".^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

Conover was born to physician Dr. John Charles and Emma Barlow Reeve on June 14, 1855.^[1] She attended Dayton Central High School, Cooper Seminary, and the University of Geneva.^[1]

Writing career

Conover wrote books about Dayton history and articles for Ladies' Home Journal, Harper's and The Atlantic. She wrote a regular column called "Mrs. Conover's Corner" for the Dayton Daily News^[1] and served as editor of the Women's Page for four years.^[3] Her four-volume history Dayton and Montgomery County was in 1965 considered "the most authentic public record of Dayton and its pioneer citizens."^[1] She was noted for her "pioneering studies" of area history.^[3]

In her later years she lost her eyesight but continued to write columns for the Dayton Daily News; friends visited to help her read, and the paper's owner and editor, Governor Cox, never knew that she was blind.^[1]

Impact

In 1901, Conover martialled the Young Women's League of Dayton to take over the publication of the Dayton Daily News – known as "The Day The Women Got Out The News" – on March 30, 1901, as a fundraiser for the organization.^[4] Conover was a leader of the Woman's Suffrage Party of Montgomery County. In The Importance for Women to have Suffrage: An Address before the Woman Suffrage Association she spoke of the importance of suffrage and equality of the sexes to the country's future.^[2] Conover was a founder of the Dayton Woman's Literary Club and served as its fourth president, from 1895 to 1897.^[1] She encouraged other writers, among them fellow Daytonian Paul Laurence Dunbar.^[3]

In 1932, one of her lectures, Ramblings of an Ancient Daytonian, was reprinted in its entirety in the Dayton Daily News.^[3]

The Dayton Daily News in 1940 called her "Dayton's foremost historian."^[5] This obituary appeared on the front pages of the Dayton Daily News^[6] and the Dayton Herald,^[7] and on the editorial page of the Dayton Journal.^[8] NCR chairman of the board E. A. Deeds called her "perhaps Dayton's most outstanding citizen."^[5]

Personal life

Conover married lawyer Frank K. Conover on October 14, 1879.^[1]^[9] They had four children,^[1] Elizabeth Dickson, John Charles Reeve, Wilbur Dickson, and Charlotte Mary.^[2]

Awards and honors

Conover was inducted into the Dayton Walk of Fame in 2007. Paul Laurence Dunbar dedicated his Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow to her.^[1] She is listed in Woman's Who's Who of America 1914–1915.

Bibliography

Some Dayton Saints and Prophets^[1]
Concerning the Forefathers: Being A Memoir, with personal narrative and letters of two pioneers Col. Robert Patterson and Col. John Johnston (1903)^[10]
Recollections of Sixty Years By John Johnston, Indian Agent for the US Government (1915, with John Johnston)
Memoirs of the Miami Valley (1919)^[1]
Dayton: An Intimate History^[1]
Dayton and Montgomery County (1932)^[1]
Builders in New Fields (1939)^[1]
David Gebhart, Alpha 1827 - Omega 1907: A Memory and an Appreciation
On Being Eighty and Other Digressions
A History of the Beck Family
The Patterson Log Cabin
The Story of Dayton
Harvest of Years: Four sprightly essays

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o Rogers, Mrs. William. "Charlotte Reeve Conover enriched a city's memories". The Journal Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c Schweikart, MLA. "Charlotte Reeve Conover". Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Charlotte Reeve Conover". Dayton Walk of Fame. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ Burba, Howard. "When the Women Got Out The News". Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Charlotte Reeve Conover". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ "Leaders Pay Tributes to Memory of Mrs. Conover". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ "Charlotte Reeve Conover, Dayton Historian, Dead". The Dayton Herald. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ "Charlotte Reeve Conover". The Dayton Journal. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ "Charlotte Reeve Conover portrait". Ohio History Connection. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
^ Jameson, John Franklin; Bourne, Henry Eldridge; Schuyler, Robert Livingston (1904). The American Historical Review. American Historical Association. p. 230–231. Retrieved 17 November 2018.