Mary Hillard Loines

Mary Hillard Loines (4 May 1844 – 1 April 1944) was a suffragist and civic worker, the daughter of writer Harriet Low.

Life

Mary Hillard Loines was born on 4 May 1844 in London, England, to American-born parents John Hillard and Harriet Low, who had emigrated to England soon after they married. helping to educate those emancipated from enslavement.

Hillard subsequently worked as a secretary for G. P. Putnam's Sons publishers before her marriage, remembered as a 'leading insurance broker' and 'yachting enthusiast'. Mary Hillard Loines survived him for nearly 15 years, dying in 1944, aged 99, in a nursing home in Florida.

Loines' son, Russell, a lawyer and lover of poetry, assisted in establishing Dongan Hall school on Staten Island. A poetry prize was established in his name at the National Institute of Arts and Letters.