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    Emily Mestayer

    Birth: 1814

    Death: 4-25-1882

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Biography

Noted Shakespearean actress, married Dr. Charles Houpt who died in 1851 after leaving her to seek his fortunes in California. Mestayer left the stage in 1878. Fanny Seward references her in her 1862-1863 diary as performing in a production of Richard III in Washington, D.C.

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Biography: 
Noted Shakespearean actress, married Dr. Charles Houpt who died in 1851 after leaving her to seek his fortunes in California. Mestayer left the stage in 1878. Fanny Seward references her in her 1862-1863 diary as performing in a production of Richard III in Washington, D.C.
Citation for Birth Info:
Citation Type: 
Book or Book Chapter
Book or Monograph Title: 
A History of the New York Stage, Vol. 1
Author(s) or Editor(s): 
Thomas Allston Brown
Publisher Location: 
New York
Publisher Name: 
Dodd, Mead, & Co.
Year: 
1903
Start Page: 
109
Citation Notes: 
Google Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=CDALAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA109#v=onepage&q&f=false
Citation for Death Info:
Citation Type: 
Newspaper Article
Journal or Newspaper Title: 
San Francisco Bulletin
Article Title: 
"Death of Emily Mestayer"
Month: 
April
Day: 
26
Year: 
1882
Start Page: 
4
Citation Notes: 
"Morning Dispatches. the Chinese Bill under Fire in the Senate Yesterday." San Francisco Bulletin, vol. LIV, no. 16, 26 Apr. 1882, p. 4. Readex: America's Historical Newspapers, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/readex/doc?p=EANX&docref=image/v2%3A113ACFC4DAF84818%40EANX-11A5EE6CB3FA7908%402408562-11A5EE6D0F875F50%403-11A5EE6E1647C7F8%40Morning%2BDispatches.%2Bthe%2BChinese%2BBill%2Bunder%2BFire%2Bin%2Bthe%2BSenate%2BYesterday. Accessed 29 Dec. 2020.