Rosetta Luce
Born 11 Apr. 1850 at Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio.[1] Daughter of Jeremiah Pike Luce and Tamar Barton.[2] Studied at Kingsville Academy, 1864–1867.[3] Attended Oberlin College and the Conservatory of Music in Ohio, 1868–1869.[4] Taught school in Ashtabula Co. and in Iowa, Illinois, and Cleveland.[5] Married William L. Gilchrist, 13 Sept. 1876, at Kingsville; four children.[6] Wrote Apples of Sodom: A Story of Mormon Life, an exposé of polygamy, 1883; correspondent for the Ashtabula News Journal.[7] Studied medicine with her husband; graduated with honors from the Homeopathic Hospital College in Cleveland, 22 Mar. 1890.[8] Corresponded with EBW, beginning 1891.[9] Met with EBW at the World’s Columbian Exposition and the Social Purity Congress in Chicago, 1893.[10] Reported on the Relief Society Congress held after the exposition; invited by EBW to sit with her on the speaker’s platform during the closing meeting.[11] Visited Salt Lake City as a guest of EBW, 1909.[12] Died 17 Feb. 1921 in New York City; buried in Kingsville.[13]
[1] Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153. 1850 U.S. Census, Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., OH, Rosetta Luce. 1900 U.S. Census, Ashtabula, Ashtabula Co., OH, ED 7, p. 10B, Rosetta L. Gilchrist. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 3 Oct. 2018), Rosetta Luce (L4ZK-HFK).
[2] Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153. 1850 U.S. Census, District No. 7, Kingsville, Ashtabula, OH, Rosetta Luce.
[3] Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153.
[4] Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153.
[5] Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153.
[6] Ashtabula Co., OH, Marriage Records, 1812–1951, vol. G, 1872–1878, p. 376, William I. Gilchrist and Rosetta L. Luce, 13 Sept. 1876, microfilm 890266, DGS 4922506, image 237/641, FHL. Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153. 1900 U.S. Census, Ashtabula Ward 4, Ashtabula Co., OH, ED 7, p. 10B, Rosetta L. Gilchrist.
[7] Rosetta Luce Gilchrist, Apples of Sodom: A Story of Mormon Life (Cleveland: William W. Williams, 1883). Reid L. Neilson, Exhibiting Mormonism: The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 94.
[8] Biographical History of Northeastern Ohio: Embracing the Counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull and Mahoning (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1893), 153. “History of the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College from 1850 to 1890,” Cleveland Homeopathic Reporter 11, no. 5 (Sept. 1901): 21.
[9] EBW, Diary, 20 Apr. 1891; 3 May 1891; 16 and 19 June 1891.
[10] EBW, Diary, 25 May and 2 June 1893.
[11] Reid L. Neilson, Exhibiting Mormonism: The Latter-day Saints and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 96.
[12] “Literary Woman Here,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 2 Aug. 1909, 2.
[13] New York, NY, Department of Health, Death Certificates (Manhattan, NY), 1919–1948, vols. 10–11, cert. no. 4778, 1921, Rosetta Luce, microfilm 2027218, DGS 4188550, image 533/1905, FHL. “Dr. Rosetta Luce Gilchrist,” Lulu Falls Cemetery, Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., OH, Find a Grave, posted 16 Oct. 2011, memorial no. 78538777 (http://findagrave.com, accessed 12 June 2018).