Emma Shaw Colcleugh
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| Born | Emma Shaw September 3, 1846 Thompson, Connecticut, US |
| Died | 1940 |
| Occupation | journalist, lecturer, traveler, collector |
| Spouse | Frederick Colcleugh |
Emma Shaw Colcleugh (née Emma Shaw; September 3, 1846 - 1940) was a 19th-century American journalist, lecturer, traveler, and collector from Connecticut. She edited a department in the Providence Journal and was a frequent contributor to the Boston Evening Transcript as well as several other prominent papers, her writings having attracted wide-spread attention. Her traveler were sponsored by New England newspapers, which published her reports. A poet, her first poem was "New Year's Eve". She was also the author of "World Wide Wisdom Words", a yearbook of proverbs. Starting in 1895, she was a book reviewer and edited a department in the Providence Journal.
Colcleugh's lectures regarding travels included "Up the Saskatchewan," "Through Hawaii with a Kodak" and "From Ocean to Ocean". She sold over 200 of the artifacts she collected during her travels to Rudolf F. Haffenreffer; these are held by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Two islands in the Mackenzie River are named in her honor. Agnes Deans Cameron, Elizabeth Taylor, and Clara Coltman Rogers Vyvyan were Colcleugh's contemporaries in traveling through the Western Arctic.
Her marriage to Frederick Colcleugh, the merchant and Canadian political figure, occurred at the age of 47. Known as a clubwoman, she was a member of the New England Women's Press Association, Rhode Island Woman's Club, Providence Fortnightly Club, Providence Mothers' Club, Sarah E. Doyle Club, and the Unity Club. Colcleugh died in Florida in 1940.
Emma Shaw was born in Thompson, Connecticut, September 3, 1846, the second child of George W. and Abbey (Carpenter) Shaw. Her siblings included Rosamond (1844-1847), Julia (1850-1909), George E., Edward (b. 1857). She was educated in a private school in Thompson until 1862.
In 1862, she became a teacher of country schools. She taught until 1872, when she made her home in Providence, Rhode Island. She taught there as well, rising to a high position.
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