The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Krout, Mary Hannah

KROUT, Mary Hannah, American journalist and author: b. Crawfordsville, Ind., 3 Nov. 1857. She was educated at home, became associate editor of the Crawfordsville Journal in 1881, and editor on the Terre Haute Express in 1882. She was for 10 years on the staff of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, was its staff correspondent in Hawaii during the revolution in 1893, furnishing special data subsequently for the State Department. She was also staff correspondent in London from 1895 to 1898, then went to China for a syndicate of representative newspapers specially to investigate the commercial relations of China and the United States. In 1907 she visited Australia for the second time, lecturing on American political and economic conditions and writing a series of articles for the Sydney and Auckland press on American topics. In recent years she has engaged in miscellaneous literary work, and lecturing on literary and general topics. She has published ‘Hawaii and a Revolution’ (1888); ‘Alice in the Hawaiian Islands’ (1899); ‘A Looker-on in London’ (1899); ‘Two Girls in China’ (1900); completed the ‘Memoirs’ of Gen. Lew Wallace' (1907); ‘Memoirs of Bernice Pauahi Bishop’ (1909); ‘Reminiscences of Mary S. Rice’ (1908); ‘Platters and Pipkins’ (1908); ‘The Coign of Vantage’ (1909).