Ada May Krecker

Ada May Krecker
Krecker, from a 1908 newspaper
Born1872
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedSeptember 11, 1932 (age 60)
East Orange, New Jersey, U.S.
Other namesAda du Rosaire, Audrey Marie Krecker
OccupationsWriter, suffragist, countess

Ada May Krecker du Rosaire (1872 – September 11, 1932) was an American writer, journalist, and suffragist, based in Chicago. Later in life she married a French count.

Early life and education

Krecker was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and raised in Japan, the daughter of American missionaries Frederick William Krecker and Elizabeth Landis Overholser Krecker. Her father was a medical doctor and ordained minister who served in the Union Army during the American Civil War; he died in Tokyo in 1883. Her brother Frederick H. Krecker became a zoology and botany professor at Ohio University, and her brother Preston S. Krecker became a financial reporter. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1895.

Career

Krecker's had her first published poem in 1882, when she was ten years old. She wrote for the Chicago Tribune from 1904 to 1911. She was a member of the Illinois Woman's Press Association. and spoke to the a 1907 meeting of the Chicago Press League. She was a temperance supporter, and president of the North Side Suffrage Association.

Krecker's interests lay in workers' well-being, and speculations on the large-scale issues of human life. She wrote a series of future-facing essays for the Chicago Tribune, with titles including "When the Coal is Gone Wind and Wave Will Turn Wheels of World", "Will the World Ever Run Down Like a Clock? Some Say It May" and "Shall We Fly to Other Worlds?" She wrote for Emma Goldman's anarchist magazine Mother Earth.

Publications

Chicago Tribune

Elsewhere

Personal life

In 1921, Krecker married Louis Henri Polaise du Rosaire, and became a countess. She died in 1932, at the age of 60, at her sister's home in East Orange, New Jersey.

References

  1. ↑ "Ada du Rosaire, Countess, Dies at 60; American Born Woman was an Author and Journalist, Spent Youth in Japan". The New York Times. September 12, 1932. p. 15. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  2. ↑ Leonard, John W. (1976). Woman's who's who of America : a biographical dictionary of contemporary women of the United States and Canada, 1914-1915. Rutgers University Libraries. New York, American Commonwealth Co. Detroit, Gale Research Co. p. 467.
  3. 1 2 "Countess, Native of Lebanon, Dies; Former Ada May Krelcker Succumbs at East Orange, N. J." Lancaster New Era. 1932-09-13. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ↑ "Death of Mrs. Krecker; Was for Years a Missionary in Japan". The Allentown Leader. 1903-11-17. p. 2. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Frederick H. Krecker Papers, Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Ohio University.
  6. ↑ "Preston S. Krecker, Financial Writer". The New York Times. 1958-09-05. p. 27. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  7. 1 2 Fahs, Alice (2011). Out on Assignment: Newspaper Women and the Making of Modern Public Space. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 85–86. ISBN 978-0-8078-3496-1.
  8. ↑ Wellesley College, Legenda (1895 yearbook): 207.
  9. ↑ "From Tokio, Japan". News Herald. 1882-12-07. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1908-09-20). "What Women Are Doing". Chicago Tribune. p. 38. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. 1 2 3 Krecker, Ada May (1911-08-06). "Shall We Fly to Other Worlds?". Chicago Tribune. p. 52. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ↑ The Chicago Blue Book of Selected Names of Chicago and Suburban Towns: Containing the Names and Addresses of Prominent Residents. 1909. p. 418.
  13. ↑ "Women's Clubs (brief item)". The Inter Ocean. 1907-11-03. p. 20. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ "Alcohol's Power Breaking; Ada May Krecker Declares Knell of Drink Habit is Ringing". Baldwin Republican. 1909-01-01. p. 8. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ↑ "Equal Suffrage Associations". Union Labor Advocate. 8 (12): 30. August 1908.
  16. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1908-08-23). "Music and Poetry Make Toil Easier and Cheer the Wearied Worker's Heart". Chicago Tribune. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1908-07-05). "How the Poorest Families Fight to Keep the Wolf from the Door". Chicago Tribune. p. 25. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1908-04-05). "Beauty is a Need of Life". Chicago Tribune. p. 79. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1909-03-07). "Modern Ideal is to Unite Humanity". Chicago Tribune. p. 19. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1911-01-02). "People Dwelling Together as One Nation". The Daily Herald. p. 2. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1908-08-16). "When the Coal is Gone Wind and Wave Will Turn Wheels of the World". Chicago Tribune. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. 1 2 Krecker, Ada May (1908-02-23). "Will The World Ever Run Down Like a Clock? Some Say It May". Chicago Tribune. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. 1 2 Hsu, Rachel Hui-Chi (2021-03-01). Emma Goldman, "Mother Earth," and the Anarchist Awakening. University of Notre Dame Pess. ISBN 978-0-268-20028-2.
  24. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1907-05-19). "Why People Like to Work; Only True Pleasure in Life". Chicago Tribune. p. 36. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1907-12-15). "Seven Great Wonders of Science and Industry Perfected in 1907". Chicago Tribune. p. 47. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1908-05-31). "World's Best Work Done by Old Men Whose Accomplishments Make an 'Age Limit' Absurd". Chicago Tribune. p. 21. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ↑ Krecker, Ada (1909-03-21). "Do the Vegetarians Live Longer, Work Harder and Have Better Brains than the Meat Eaters?". Chicago Tribune. p. 42. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1909-02-21). "Helpfulness Has Utilitarian Virtues". Chicago Tribune. p. 49. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1910-02-06). "Present the Age of Young Men; Will the Future Be of the Old?". Chicago Tribune. p. 35. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ↑ Krecker, Ada May. "The Canterbury Tales" Wellesley Magazine 1(2)(November 19, 1892): 83.
  31. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (February 18, 1893). "Waking Time". Wellesley Magazine. 1 (5): 388.
  32. ↑ Krecker, Ada May. "Winter Night" Wellesley Magazine 1(5)(February 18, 1893): 232.
  33. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1901-01-05). "The Wedding Day". The Bay City Times. p. 6. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  34. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1902-08-01). "Old Lefaire as Othello". Elmira Star-Gazette. p. 8. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  35. ↑ Krecker, Ada Marie (1904). Beautiful Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Krecker. Woman's Missionary Society of the United Evangelical Church.
  36. ↑ Krecker, Ada May "Report of the Press Committee" Annual Convention of the Theosophical Society in America (September 1906): 21.
  37. ↑ Krecker, Ada M. "Industry Kills and Maims a Hundred Times More Men than Fall in Battle" The Blacksmiths Journal 9(5)(1908): 12-14.
  38. ↑ Krecker, Ada May (1910-02-04). "Facts the Same However Expressed". The Genoa Times. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-09-30 – via Newspapers.com.
  39. ↑ "Married Count du Rosaire; Miss Audrey Krecker, Reared in Japan, Wed on April 21 Last". The New York Times. 1921-08-21. p. 22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-10-01.
  40. ↑ "Married Count du Rosaire; Miss Audrey Krecker, Reared in Japan, Wed on April 21 Last". The New York Times. 1921-08-21. p. 22. Retrieved 2026-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.