Barrett Willoughby (May 18, 1901 – July 29, 1959),Library of Congress Card Catalogue Florance Barrett, was a best-selling novelist who wrote works of romantic fiction and nonfiction from the 1920s through the 1940s. Her writing was mainly mostly set in Alaska, where she spent many years. Some of her works were made into movies.
Her date of birth is disputed but in the 1910 and 1920 censuses she records her date of birth as May 1886 Wisconsin.Year: 1920; Census Place: San Francisco Assembly District 32, San Francisco, California; Roll: T625_138; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 199
Her social security application recorded May 28 of 1891.Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Florence Barrett was married three times: Oliver L. Willoughby, Robert H. Prosser and Larry O’Connor.
She married Oliver L. Willoughby in 1907 and is listed on the 1910 census living in Cordova, Alaska.Year: 1910; Census Place: Cordova, Division 3, Alaska Territory; Roll: T624_1750; Page: 2b; Enumeration District: 0001; FHL microfilm: 1375763
She married Robert Henry Prosser 19 Oct 1927 in Coconino County AZ.Arizona, County Marriage Records, 1865-1972 He contracted meningitis while visiting family in Pennsylvania and died in June 1928.The San Francisco Examiner, June 12, 1928, Page 5.The Peninsula Times Tribune, July 25, 1928, Page 3.
She married Larry O’Connor July 17, 1935 in Reno NV and filed for divorce July 20, 1942.The Peninsula Times Tribune, July 20, 1942, Page 6.
Bibliography Where the Sun Swings North (1922) The Devil Drum (1925) Rocking Moon (1925) Gentlemen Unafraid (1926) The Trail Eater (1929) Sitka, Portal to Romance (1930) Spawn of the North (1932) Alaskans All (1933) River House (1936) Alaska Holiday (1940) The Golden Totem, a novel of modern Alaska (1945)
Filmography Rocking Moon (*a movie was made in 1926 Rocking Moon) Spawn of the North
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