births
March 18, 1857
Harriet Converse Moody, American businesswoman and arts patron (died 1932)
Harriet Converse Moody
Harriet Converse Moody was an American businesswoman and arts patron. Moody began her career in Chicago in 1889, working as a schoolteacher and then forming a successful restaurant and catering business that operated for almost 40 years. After her brief marriage to the poet William Vaughn Moody, which ended upon his death of brain cancer, she became a patron to artists, particularly poets.
March 18
March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 288 days remain until the end of the year.