Person

Craigin, Louisa T.

• Craigin, L. T., Mrs.

1837-1886

Mrs. Louisa Tucker Craigin (also Cragin), née Simmons was born in Roxbury, now a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. She was gifted in languages: she translated musical works for both adults and children from German, French and Italian into English. She married Lorenzo Silas Craigin in 1859, and on census forms identified herself as a housewife. In the later years of her life, however, she seems to have also written both stories and articles on social, political and religious topics. One piece of music, “Song of the Viking,” even credits her for the poem it accompanies. In 1881 several literary magazines mentioned that she was to be one of the editors of a newspaper for young adults entitled “Youth and Pleasure.” She wrote a three-volume set entitled “Sweet Home Series” which Lothrop published posthumously. Craigin spent most of her life in Boston and died there but was buried in Dublin, New Hampshire, beside her son Henry Craigin.