RABB, KATE MILNER (MRS. ALBERT)" 1866-1937.
Born on Aug. 9, 1866, in Rockport, Ind., Kate Milner was the daughter of the town's leading physician (Dr. I. Livingston Milner) and a descendant of pioneers who had moved to Indiana from Kentucky prior to the Civil War. After graduation from the Rockport High School she entered Indiana University, where she became engaged to Albert Rabb. She received the A.M. degree at Indiana , then taught school in Jeffersonville and Rockport before her marriage to Albert Rabb in 1891. They made their home in Indianapolis , where Mr. Rabb was a prominent attorney. He died in 1918.
Although she had shown an early interest in writing and had had poems and stories published in the local papers, it was only after her marriage that she began to take her writing seriously. In addition to her books, she wrote stories for various magazines–the DELINEATOR, ST. NICHOLAS, and the YOUTH'S COMPANION–and she conducted a weekly column in the INDIANAPOLIS STAR known as the "Hoosier Listening Post." Mrs. Rabb died in Indianapolis on July 3, 1937.
Mrs. Rabb translated a juvenile from the German, compiled a collection of essays and edited a ten-volume collection of humor, besides the works listed here.
Information from the Indianapolis Public Library and the INDIANA HISTORY BULLETIN, Feb., 1938.
- The Pageant of Spencer County, Presented July 4, 1916 at
Rockport, Indiana. n.p., 1916.
- A Tour Through Indiana in 1840; the Diary of John Parsons of
Petersburg, Virginia. (Editor [actually author].)
New York, 1920.
- No Mean City. Indianapolis,
1922.
