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Title
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Arthur Calvin Mellette, 1842-1896
Publisher
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Wylie House Museum
Date
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1894
Identifier
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2005.003.1097
Person
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Birth Date
6 August 1842
Death Date
29 November 1938
Biographical Text
Margaret Wylie Mellette, who went by “Maggie,” was born to <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/item/441">Rebecca Dennis</a></span> and <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/item/440">Theophilus Wylie</a></span> in Bloomington, Indiana, on 6 August 1842. She was very artistic and painted one of the earliest known renditions of the IU trident logo on a teacup that is now on display in the Wylie House. She attended the Monroe County Female Seminary and the Glendale Female College near Cincinnati, Ohio. She met Arthur Calvin Mellette (1842-1896) while he was boarding at her parents’ home as a student at Indiana University, and they were married at the Wylie House on 29 May 1866. They then settled in Muncie, Indiana, where Arthur practiced law and edited the local newspaper. They had four sons: <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/item/447">Wylie</a></span> (b. 1867), <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/item/448">Charlie</a></span> (b. 1869), <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/item/449">Anton</a></span> (b. 1872), and <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/item/450">Dick</a></span> (b. 1874). The Mellettes moved to the Dakota Territory in 1878 in part because it was thought that the climate would benefit Maggie’s poor health. Arthur eventually became the governor of the Territory and then the first governor of the state of South Dakota. Maggie was widowed in 1896 and spent the rest of her life in Pittsburg, Kansas. She died on 29 November 1938 and is buried in Watertown, South Dakota.
Occupation
First Lady of South Dakota
Found In
<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://collections.libraries.indiana.edu/wyliehouse/exhibits/show/family/family">Wylie Family Tree</a></span>
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Title
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Margaret “Maggie” Wylie Mellette