Emily Emerson Lantz (1862-1931)
Emily Emerson Lantz (1862-1931) was a Baltimore native and a contributor to the Baltimore Sun’s literary department, where she published a number of columns that delved, with extraordinary detail and accuracy, into local lore. Her Maryland Heraldry series compiled the genealogical histories of many of the state’s most eminent families, and another series, Do You Know the Street on Which You Live, ran weekly for nearly two years and traced the histories of twenty-seven of Baltimore’s most significant thoroughfares. She also wrote a book of Maryland county histories, The Spirit of Maryland, which her obituary called “her chief monument,” and her series Suburban Baltimore displayed a deep interest in the areas surrounding Baltimore’s urban heart. Lantz was one of the more progressive women in the Club, with many of her articles discussing women in the workplace, women writers, and notable women activists. Lantz was a member of the Woman’s Literary Club in the 1910s-1920s and featured the WLCB in several of her pieces for the Sun.
Sources
“I See Dead People. Emily Emerson Lantz.” Find a Grave, Jan. 8 2013. Accessed May 1, 2018.
Shepherd, Henry Elliot. The Representative Authors of Maryland. New York: Whitehall Publishing Company, 1911, 126.
Death announcement. Baltimore Sun, Apr. 24, 1931: 19.
Contributors
Hunter Flynn; Nicole Day