Kate Aplington
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| Born | March 1, 1859  |
| Died | September 26, 1928 (aged 69) Miami |
| Occupation | Writer |
Kate Adele Aplington (née Smith; March 1, 1859 – September 26, 1928) was an American novelist, photographer, painter, suffragist, and clubwoman.
She was born Kate Adele Smith, the daughter of Henry H. Smith, a school superintendent, and Elizabeth Melinda (Deming) Smith.[1] She graduated from Polo High SchoolinPolo, Illinois.[2] She taught high school herself briefly at Ottawa High SchoolinOttawa, Illinois. In 1879, she married John Aplington, a lawyer, and they moved to Council Grove, Kansas the next year.[1]
In Council Grove, Kate Aplington operated a photography studio.[3] She was active in many civic causes. She served as recording secretary of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association.[4] She worked to preserve Hermit's Cave on Belfry Hill as a public park.[5] She established the Aplington Art Gallery or the Kansas State Art Collection, a collection of art prints that toured the state of Kansas.[1][2] In 1913, the Aplingtons moved to Florida, and Kate Aplington engaged in similar civic work in Miami, Florida.[2][3]
Her novel Pilgrim of the Plains: A Romance of the Santa Fe Trail (1913) is the diary of Delia Randall, a girl travelling in a prairie caravan in the 1830s.[6][7] At the time of her death, she had completed a book about Florida, The Strangler Tree.[3]
Kate Adele Aplington died on September 26, 1928, aged 69, in Miami, Florida, aged .[3]
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