Bio:Mary R. P. Hatch

Born Mary R. Platt in New Hampshire, but spent most of her life in Connecticut. At 15 she entered Lancaster Academy. "From that time she contributed sketches on various subjects for the county papers, and articles under her pen name, "Mabel Percy," from time to time appeared in the Portland "Transcript," "Peterson's Magazine," "Saturday Evening Post," and other papers and periodicals. Since then, under her true name, she has written for "Zion's Herald," Springfield "Republican," Chicago "Inter-Ocean," the "Writer," the "Epoch," "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper," and others. She married Antipas M. Hatch, raised a family (2 sons), and continued writing short stories, sketches, essays, and poems. Best known for her books "The Upland Mystery: A Tragedy of New England" (1887) and "The Bank Tragedy," published serially in the Portland "Transcript" and issued in book form in 1890.

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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-Seventy Biographical Sketches, Frances E. Willard &amp; Mary A. Livermore, pub. C.W. Moulton, 1893.