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Kate Douglas Wiggin

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1856 - 1923) American author

Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia on September 28, 1856. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878. Whe was also a writer of children's books, the best know being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903).

Kate Wiggin died on Aug. 24, 1923 at Harrow, Middlesex, England.

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