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64Elia Wilkinson Peattie Served World-Herald Mrs. Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Mrs. Peattie was born in Michigan While here, Mrs. Peattie helped She wrote many novels, and Mrs. Peattie was guest speaker | 64Elia Wilkinson Peattie Succumbs; Noted Writer Served World-Herald as First Newspaper Woman in Omaha Mrs. Elia Wilkinson Peattie, author, critic, and 50 years ago the first newspaper woman in Omaha, where she worked for The World-Herald, died of heart trouble Friday at the summer home of a son, Prof. Roderick Peattie, of Ohio State university, at Wallingford, Conn. Mrs. Peattie was born in Michigan in 1862, and was reared in comparative poverty. At 13 she left school to help her mother. She married Robert Burns Peattie, well known Chicago and New York newspaperman, in 1883, and herself joined the Chicago Tribue staff in 1884. Four years later she and her husband came to Omaha, and for the next eight years both were employed by The World-Herald. While here, Mrs. Peattie helped organize the Omaha Woman's club, of which she was a charter member and which she served as president in 1896. The couple remained here until 1896. The couple remained here until 1898, when Mr. Peattie rejoined the Tribune staff and they returned to Chicago. There Mrs. Peattie became literary critic, which position she held until 1917. She wrote many novels, and later turned her attention to playwriting with much success. Mrs. Peattie was guest speaker for the Omaha Women's Press club here in February, 1923, when many social events were held in her honor. |