Background
She was born on April 6, 1807, in Brunswick, Rensselaer County, New York, the daughter of Congressman William McManus and Catharine (Coons) McManus.
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Education
She attended Troy Female Seminary, one of the earliest colleges for women, but did not graduate.
Career
Their son, William Mountain. Storm (b August 2, 1826), became an inventor who patented in April 1853 an "Improved Process for Mixing Air and Steam for Actuating Engines.". They separated in 1831, and Allen Storm died 1838 in New York City.
She returned home with her father to Brunswick, New New York Her brother Robert remained in Texas and eventually became a wealthy planter.
With the outbreak of the, she went to the front, where she witnessed Winfield Scott"s capture of the fortress of Vera Cruz in March 1847, the first female war correspondent in American history. At the end of the she turned her attention to Cuba, and the potential it represented, advocating its annexation, and denouncing its Spanish colonial overlords.
She later settled at Eagle Pass, a frontier village three hundred miles up the Rio Grande from the Gulf of Mexico, getting to know many of the local Indian chiefs. They moved to the Dominican Republic in 1855.
Despite her earlier sympathies for southern expansionism she disapproved of secession, and was hired by William H. Seward, Lincoln"s Secretary of State, to write denunciations of the Confederacy.
lieutenant was a matter of simple principle for her: the war was a serious interruption to further prospects of American expansion in the In 1878, she was drowned on her way to Santo Domingo, after the steamer on which she was travelling was caught in a huge storm.
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December 12, 1878 (aged 71)