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What you might have learned about the Ingalls family in 1921. To see the following article as it was printed in the Portland (Oregon) Morning Oregonian, click HERE:

ROSE WILDER LANE, the American writer who is now describing European conditions in a series of striking letters from American Red Cross headquarters in various countries, is herself an example of the pioneer work which American women are doing in Europe today. On her recent trips into the Balkan interior she penetrated into regions where only one foreign woman has ever before visited. She has followed American relief activities into the remotest districts of Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Dalmatia, Italy, Montenegro, Albania and many other countries.

Mrs. Lane belongs to an old Scotch-English family of American pioneers. Her great-grandfather, Samuel Ingalls, wrote a book on his life as a soldier in the revolution. Her grandfather, Charles Phillippe [sic] Ingalls, was a famous scout, hunter, Indian fighter and railroad contractor in old Dakota territory. Her cousin was Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas, and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, is a well-known middle-western writer for farm journals. Her father, A.J. is a farmer in Wright County, Missouri.

Born in Dakota territory in 1888, Mrs. Lane graduated from the Crowley (La.) high school in 1901. She began her career as a writer on the San Francisco Bulletin in 1915. Her newspaper feature serials, widely syndicated, led to magazine work with the Sunset Magazine. She wrote the "Life of Henry Ford" as a Bulletin serial and followed it with "Life and Jack London," which has recently been republished in England, "The Making of Herbert Hoover" and "Diverging Roads," a novel. She was co-author of "White Shadows in the South Seas." Since 1918 she has written for many leading magazines--Century, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, Asia and others.

Mrs. Lane went abroad in May 1920, and her first work was a translation of stories by Sara Bernhardt, recently published. She has a studio apartment in Paris, but has spent most of the past year traveling, doing magazine articles and volunteer work for the American Red Cross.
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