Talk:Blanche Fisher Wright

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Dear Reader, I would be interested in knowing more about Blance Fisher Wright. I purchased a Mother Goose book pubolished by her in 1912. the book was in an old barn by an antique shop in New Hampshire. I bought the book because some of the full page illustrations were in great condition and on good quality paper. I started to frame a few as we have eleven grandchildren that we would like to show to them some early 1900 prints. Mr. Jere E. Brady of Morgantown, PA 19543-0500 4.239.195.161 17:29, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Blanche Fisher Wright seems to have dropped off the face of the earth, but here's a genealogical link that supplies her dates. http://elf-fisher-family.org/getperson.php?personID=I00057&tree=Fisher

She illustrated Leroy F. Jackson's The Peter Patter Book, a childhood favorite of mine in the 1940s, easily found online. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob Richmond (talk • contribs) 8 January 2017 (UTC)

I doubt the person on the link is actually the author. Checking the 1930 census shows Fisher still m. to Laite, and having been married for 11 years, and recorded age first married as c.1919.; seems unlikely that there was a Wright marriage. From the complete lack of genealogical records, one should suspect a pseudonym. — billinghurst sDrewth 04:28, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I will take some of that back. I can find her in 1915 New York census as Blanche F. Wright, illustrator, m. Arthur Wright, occupation "literary" living in Westchester; and in 1910 US census living in Kane, Illinois, with Arthur K Wright, Engraver in Watch factory, Blanche no occupation

Blanche Verna Fisher
1887–1971
Birth JUN 1887 • Wisconsin
Death 1971 [1]

dau. Charles Fisher and Rosa Mika

m (1) Arthur K. Wright
m. (2) William Charles Gordon Laite, 2 Mar 1920, Manhattan
m. (3) Thomas W. Holmes,

— Preceding unsigned comment added by billinghurst (talk • contribs) 24 June 2019 (UTC)

@Billinghurst: I've been brought here from Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Women#Blanche_Fisher_Wright and done what I could. It would be helpful if you could add the facts that you've gleaned from your researches above, as at present her dates appear completely unsourced and names unexplained. Thanks for anything you can add. PamD 13:57, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I notice that the Findagrave record and the family tree differ in a lot of their statements, eg parents, birth date, death date. Hmm. The book I found said that "information on her life is difficult to find" and listed her as "active 1900s-1920s". Your census info is impressive: hard officially-recorded facts. PamD 14:12, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@PamD: Generally I copy and paste research information on the author talk pages at WS s:Author talk:Blanche Verna Fisher, and will typically qualify if uncertain. I will prod the research again, just in case a fresh day brings fresh perspective. — billinghurst sDrewth 21:38, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

There are plentiful records under married name Laite, so it seems that she was a dutiful wife of a successful actor fr:Charles Laite. There may be something in the social pages of newspapers of the 1920s and 30s. I cannot find much for a Holmes connection back in Illinois, beyond the Find a grave record where she is reputedly buried with her mother, not that I spread a wide net. — billinghurst sDrewth 22:31, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Library of Congress gives death at 1978, not 1971. I’m suspecting this may be her foster-child or a sister, though. Library of Congress, like the family record at elf-fisher.org, give 1938 for death in one index... and 1978 in another. But 1938 seems more plausible as there are no works after the 1920s that i can find. Barefootliam (talk) 01:35, 29 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]