Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Sarah Madeleine VINTON
Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton, author, was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1835; daughter of Samuel F. Vinton, representative from Ohio in 18th-24th and 28th-31st congresses, 1823-37, and 1843-51. Her mother was of French parentage. Madeleine was educated at the Putnam female seminary, at the French boarding-school of M. Picot, Philadelphia, and at the Convent of Visitation at Georgetown, D.C. She was married early in life to Daniel Conyera Goddard of Danesville, Ohio, the first assistant secretary of the interior department, and was left a widow with two children. Romaine Madeleine, afterward the Baroness Von-Overbeck, and Vinton, who died in 1877 a graduate of the U.S. military academy and lieutenant, U.S.A. On Aug. 2, 1865, she was married to Rear-Admiral John Adolph Dahlgren, U.S.N., and their three children were. Eric, Ulrica and John. Her literary work was done chiefly in Washington, D.C., where she made her home during the winter. Her first compositions appeared over the pen names"Corinne" and "Cornelia." In 1862 she produced "Catholicism, Liberalism and Socialism,'" translated from Donoso Cortes's original Spanish, together with a sketch of the life of Cortes from the Italian, for which she received an autograph letter from Pius IX., and a letter from the Queen of Spain, sent through the state department. In 1871 she began her opposition to the movement in behalf of woman suffrage, and her essays on the subject signed "Cornelia" were extensively published. Her brochure "Thoughts on Female Suffrage" published that year was [p.103] used to combat the arguments of suffragists before congress seeking for constitutional amendment. In 1872 she revised and edited "Memoirs of Ulric Dahlgren," written by his father but left by him unfinished. She built the Gothic stone chapel of St. Joseph's of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on South Mountain, Md., near her summer home, "Dahlgren." She was an early supporter and vice-president of the Literary society of Washington, and was president of the Ladies' Catholic missionary society ot Washington for some time. Her published works not already mentioned include: Idealilies (1859); a translation of Montalembert's Pius IX. (1861); Etiquette of Social Life in Washington (1873); a translation of De Chambrun's Executive Power (1874); South Sea Sketches (1874); Memoirs of Admiral Dahlgren (1882); South Mountain Magic (1882); A Washington Winter (1884); The Lost Name (1886); Light and Shadows of a Life (1887); Divorced; and Chim: His Washington Winter. She died in Washington, D.C., May 28, 1898
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