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SHINDLER, Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer, author, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, 15 February, 1810. Her father, the Reverend B. M. Palmer, was pastor of a Congregational church at Beaufort, and when she was three years old he removed with her to Charleston, South Carolina, where she was educated. In June, 1835, Miss Palmer married Charles E. Dana, and removed with him first to New York, and in 1837 to Bloomington, Iowa. On his death, soon afterward, she returned to her family in Charleston. Here she began to write, and became well known as a poet. In May, 1848, she married the Reverend Robert D. Shindler, a clergyman of the Episcopal church, who was for a time professor in Shelby college, Kentucky. She removed with her husband in 1850 to Upper Marlborough, Maryland, and in 1869 to Nacogdoches, Texas She has published " The Southern Harp" (Boston, 1840) ; "The Northern Harp" (New York, 1841) ; "The Parted Family, and other Poems" (1842) ; "The Temperance Lyre" (1842) ; "Charles Morton, or the Young Patriot" (1843) ; "The Young Sailor" (1844) ; "Forecastle Tour" (1844) ; and "Letters to Relatives and Friends on the Trinity" (1845). She has been a frequent contributor to popular periodicals.
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