Mary Wilder Tileston (néeFoote; 1843–1934) was an American author andanthologist.[1] In 1884, she published a collection of selections in prose and verse with accompanying texts of scripture intended for daily reading calledDaily Strength for Daily Needs. The book attained a sale of over 250,000 copies by 1910 and was regarded in its day by many as the best of its kind. A companion book calledJoy and Strength for the Pilgrims Day was almost as popular. As editor of books of selections for children, Tileston was equally proficient. This includedThe Child's Harvest of Verse, an collection of verse for children between 6 and 13, which was a new edition ofSugar and Spice and All That's Nice. Tileston's compilation of hymns of comfort for adults, originally calledSursum Corda, was brought out later under the title ofStronghold of Hope.[2] Three works were associated with family members and these included:Memorials of Mary Wilder White,Caleb and Mary Wilder Foote: Reminiscences and Letters, andAmelia Peabody Tileston and Her Canteens for the Serbs.
Mary Wilder Foote was born inSalem, Massachusetts, August 20, 1843. She was a daughter of Caleb and Mary Wilder (White) Foote; a granddaughter of Caleb and Martha (West) Foote and of Daniel Appleton and Mary (Wilder) White; and a descendant of Pasco Foote, who had a grant of land in Salem in 1646.[3]
She attended a private school in Salem.[3]
She became known as a compiler of hymns, and of selections from religious writers. Her publications include :Quiet Hours, a collection of poems (1874 ; 2d ser., 1880);Selections from Marcus Aurelius Antonius (1876) ;Selections from the Imitation of Christ (1876) ;Sursum Corda, Hymns of Comfort (1877) ;Sunshine in the Soul (1877) ;Selections from Epictetus (1877) ;The Blessed Life, Favorite Hymns (1878);Selections from Fénelon (1870); from theApocrypha (1882) ; fromDr. John Tauler (1882) ;Heroic Ballads (1883) ;Daily Strength for Daily Needs (1883) ;Sugar and Spice, collection of nursery rhymes (1881) ;Tender and True (rev. ed., 1892) ;Selections from Isaac Pennington (1893); andPrayers, Ancient and Modern (1897 and 1902). She was residing inBoston,Massachusetts, in 1903.[3]
On September 25, 1865, she married John Boies Tileston (1834–1898), son of Edmund Pitt and Sarah McLean (Boies) Tileston ofDorchester, Massachusetts.[3] The couple had seven children: Mary Wilder Tileston, Margaret Harding Tileston, Roger Edmund Tileston, Amelia Peabody Tileston, Wilder Tileston, Edith Tileston, and Eleanor Boies Tileston.[4]
Around 1874, John bought a farm inConcord, Massachusetts, where the family lived for eight years. It was a milk farm of 200 acres (81 ha), on the slope ofPunkatasset Hill, running down to theConcord River. After 1882, when the farm was sold, the family lived for a few years inSalem, Massachusetts. and then inBrookline, Massachusetts.[5]
Mary Wilder Foote Tileston died inBrookline, Massachusetts on July 3, 1934.[1]
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