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Rose Wilder in the 1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Rose Wilder
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[Rosa Nelder]
Age: 13
Birth Date: Dec 1886
Birthplace: South Dakota
Home in 1900: Pleasant Valley, Wright, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Single
Father's name: A J Wilder
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's name: Laura Wilder
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
Occupation: View on Image
Household Members:
Name Age
A J Wilder 39
Laura Wilder 32
Rose Wilder 13
Source Citation
Year: 1900; Census Place: Pleasant Valley, Wright, Missouri; Roll: 908; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 0152; FHL microfilm: 1240908
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1910
Rose Wilder in the 1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Rose Wilder
[Rose Lane]
Age in 1910: 22
Birth Year: abt 1888
Birthplace: South Dakota
Home in 1910: Mansfield Ward 1, Wright, Missouri
Race: White
Gender: Female
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Marital Status: Married
Father's name: Almazo J Wilder
Father's Birthplace: New York
Mother's name: Laura A Wilder
Mother's Birthplace: Wisconsin
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Household Members:
Name Age
Almazo J Wilder 51
Laura A Wilder 41
Rose Wilder 22
Source Citation
Year: 1910; Census Place: Mansfield Ward 1, Wright, Missouri; Roll: T624_828; Page: 1B; Enumeration District: 0142; FHL microfilm: 1374841
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Early life[edit]
Wilder was the first child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Almanzo Wilder and the only child of her parents to survive into adulthood. Her early years were a difficult time for her parents due to successive crop failures, illnesses and chronic economic hardships. During her childhood, the family moved several times, living with relatives in Minnesota and then Florida, and briefly returning to De Smet, South Dakota, before settling in Mansfield, Missouri in 1894. There, her parents would eventually establish a dairy farm and fruit orchards. Wilder attended secondary school in Mansfield and Crowley, Louisiana, while living with her aunt Eliza Jane Wilder, graduating in 1904 with a class of seven.[2] Her intellect and ambition were demonstrated by her ability to compress three years of Latin into one, and by graduating at the top of her high school class in Crowley. Despite her academic success, Wilder was unable to attend college due to her parents' financial situation.[citation needed]
Early career, marriage and divorce[edit]
After high school graduation, Wilder returned to her parents' farm and learned telegraphy at the Mansfield railroad station. At age seventeen, she was working for Western Union in Kansas City as a telegrapher for $2.50 a week. She worked as a telegrapher in Missouri, Indiana, and California for the next five years.[3]
In March 1909, Wilder married salesman, promoter and occasional newspaperman Gillette Lane. Soon after, she left her job with Western Union and embarked on travels with her new husband to promote his various schemes, traversing the US including Kansas City, Ohio, New York and Maine. While staying in Salt Lake City the following November, public records indicate Lane gave birth to a premature, stillborn son.[4] The topic is mentioned only briefly in a handful of existing letters written by Lane and written years after the infant's death to express sympathy and understanding to close friends who were also dealing with the loss of a child.
For the next few years, Lane and her husband continued to live a nomadic lifestyle, traveling around the United States to work together and separately on various promotional and advertising projects. While letters to her parents described a happy-go-lucky existence, Lane's subsequent diary entries and numerous autobiographical magazine articles later described her mindset at this time as depressed and disillusioned with her marriage. She felt her intellectual interests did not mesh with the life she was living with her husband. One account even had her attempting suicide by drugging herself with chloroform, only to awake with a headache and a renewed sense of purpose in life.[citation needed]
Keenly aware of her lack of a formal education, during these years, Lane read voraciously and taught herself several languages. Her writing career began around 1910, with occasional freelance newspaper jobs that earned much needed extra cash. Between 1912 and 1914, she and her husband sold farm land in what is now the San Jose/Silicon Valley area of northern California. Conditions often required them to work separately to earn separate commissions, and Lane turned out to be the better salesperson. The marriage foundered; there were several periods of separation, and eventually an amicable divorce. Her diaries reveal subsequent romantic involvements with several men in the years following her divorce, but she never remarried, and eventually made the conscious choice to remain single and free of romantic attachments.
The threat of America's entry into World War I had seriously weakened the real estate market, so in early 1915 Lane accepted a friend's offer of a stopgap job as an editorial assistant on the staff of the San Francisco Bulletin. The stopgap turned into a watershed. She immediately caught the attention of her editors not only through her talents as a writer in her own right, but also as a highly skilled editor for other writers. Before long, her photo and byline were running in the Bulletin daily, churning out formulaic romantic fiction serials that would run for weeks at a time. Lane's first-hand accounts of the lives of Henry Ford, Charlie Chaplin, Jack London, and Herbert Hoover were published in book form.
Later in 1915, Lane's mother visited San Francisco for several months. Together they attended the Panama-Pacific International Exposition; details of this visit and Lane's daily life in 1915 are preserved in Wilder's letters to her husband in West from Home, published in 1974. Although Lane's diaries indicate she was separated from her husband in 1915, Wilder's letters do not indicate this. Lane and her husband are recorded as living together with him unemployed and looking for work during Wilder's two-month visit. It seems the separation was either covered up, or had not yet involved separate households.[5]
Freelance writing career[edit]
By 1918, Lane's marriage officially ended and she had quit her job with the San Francisco Bulletin following the resignation of managing editor, Fremont Older. It was at this point that Lane launched her career as a freelance writer. From this period through the early 1940s, her work regularly appeared in leading publications such as Harper's, Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Good Housekeeping, and Ladies' Home Journal. Several of her short stories were nominated for O. Henry Prizes and a few novels became top sellers.
Lane became the first biographer of Herbert Hoover, writing The Making of Herbert Hoover in 1920 in collaboration with Charles K. Field, editor of Sunset magazine. A friend and defender of Hoover's for the remainder of her life, many of her personal papers would later be included in the Rose Wilder-Lane Collection at the Herbert Hoover Library in West Branch, Iowa. Lane's papers contain little actual correspondence between them, however, the Hoover Post-Presidential Individual series contains a file of Rose's correspondence that spans from 1936–1963.[6]
In the late 1920s, Lane was reputed to be one of the highest-paid female writers in America, and along with Hoover, she counted among her friends well known such as Herbert Hoover, Sinclair Lewis, Isabel Paterson, Dorothy Thompson, and Lowell Thomas. Despite this success, her compulsive generosity with her family and friends often found her strapped for cash and forced to work on material that paid well, but did not engage her growing interests in political theory and world history. She suffered from periodic bouts of self-doubt and depression in mid-life, diagnosing herself as Bipolar disorder. During these times of depression, she was unable to move ahead with her own writing, but would easily find work as a ghostwriter or "silent" editor for other well-known writers.
Lane's occasional work as a traveling war correspondent began with a stint with the American Red Cross Publicity Bureau in post-WWI Europe. She would with the Red Cross though 1965, reporting from Vietnam at the age of 78 for Woman's Day magazine to provide "a woman's point of view." She traveled extensively in Europe and Asia as part of the Red Cross. In 1926, Lane, Helen Dore Boylston, and their French maid traveled from France to Albania in a car they had named "Zenobia". An account of the journey, Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford was published in 1983. Lane became enamored with Albania, and lived there for several long periods during the 1920s, spaced between sojourns to Paris and her parents' Rocky Ridge Farm in Missouri. She informally adopted a young Albanian boy named Rexh Meta, who she claimed saved her life on a dangerous mountain trek; she later sponsored his education at Oxford University in England.
In 1928, Lane returned to the United States to live on her parents' farm. Confident in her sales of her books and short stories, as well as her growing stock market investments, she spent freely, building a new home for her parents on the property and modernizing the farmhouse for herself and a steady stream of visiting literary friends.
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1886 - 1968 (81 years)