Stories of pennsylvania elsie singmaster mansion

Elsie Singmaster Lewars is perhaps Macungie's most famous citizen.!

Then she told her story, Herbert's long illness, the advice of the doctors, their discovery that their mother still owned her father's property.

Elsie Singmaster

American novelist

Elsie Singmaster Lewars (August 29, 1879 – September 30, 1958) was an American author from Macungie, Pennsylvania, who has been described as "perhaps Macungie's most famous citizen".^[1] She was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1934.

Early life and education

Singmaster was born on August 29, 1879, in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, to parents of German ancestry. She was educated at Allentown High School and West Chester Normal School, before studying at Cornell University from 1898 to 1900.

She then attended Radcliffe College, where she graduated in 1907.

Elsie Singmaster was a local author.

Elsie Singmaster was a local Adams County author.

Elsie Singmaster Lewars is perhaps Macungie's most famous citizen.

When Elizabeth Scott and her brother, Herbert, return to the East, they take up residence in their grandfather's old home in Cashtown, Pennsylvania.

"John Baring's House," written by Elsie Singmaster, is a captivating tale set against the backdrop of a 19th-century Pennsylvania farmstead.

In 1912, she married musician and English professor Harold Steck Lewars. She added his surname to hers but continued to publish as Elsie Singmaster. She was pregnant with Lewars' child when he died at the age of 33 in March 1915.

Their baby, Singmaster's only child, died two months later in May.

Career

Singmaster wrote many short stories and books between 1905 and 1950. Her