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style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Emma May Alexander<br />January 6, 1853<br /><a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">March 22, 1920<span style="display:none">(1920-03-22)</span> (aged 67)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Pen name</th><td class="infobox-data nickname" style="line-height:1.4em;">Gale Forest</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>prose sketches</li><li>opinion pieces</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><i>Five Cousins in California</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Robert C. Keinertsen</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1871)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">2 sons</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">William Tecumseh Sherman</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Emma May Alexander Reinertsen</b> (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span>, <b>Alexander</b>; <a href="/wiki/Pen_name" title="Pen name">pen name</a>, <b>Gale Forest</b>; also known as, <b>Mrs. R. C. Reinertsen</b>; January 6, 1853 – March 22, 1920) was a <a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">pseudonymous</a> American writer of prose sketches,<sup id="cite_ref-WillardLivermore-1893_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WillardLivermore-1893-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and articles on social reform issues. As "Gale Forest", she was the author of <i>Five Cousins in California</i>. She also wrote about <a href="/wiki/Temperance_movement_in_the_United_States" title="Temperance movement in the United States">temperance</a> and various customs such as wearing hats in theaters, and <a href="/wiki/Spitting" title="Spitting">spitting</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tram" title="Tram">street cars</a> and on <a href="/wiki/Sidewalk" title="Sidewalk">sidewalks</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emma_May_Alexander_Reinertsen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Emma May Alexander was born in <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>, January 6, 1853. Her father was Capt. Squire Alexander and her mother was Henrietta E. Sherman.<sup id="cite_ref-WillardLivermore-1893_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WillardLivermore-1893-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her great-grandfather, Peter Belknap, was a soldier in the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">Revolutionary War</a>. Her grandfather, Jacob Alexander, was a soldier in the <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">War of 1812</a>. Her father was master of some of the largest transports in government service during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>; at a <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter" title="Battle of Fort Sumter">bombardment of Fort Sumter</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Ironclad_warship" title="Ironclad warship">ironclads</a>, he was captain of the <a href="/wiki/Dispatch_boat#Dispatch_boats_during_the_American_Revolution" title="Dispatch boat">dispatch boat</a>, <i>Governor</i>, which, because of her high speed, was of great service to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">navy</a>. Reinertsen's mother, a relative of General <a href="/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman" title="William Tecumseh Sherman">William Tecumseh Sherman</a>, was orphaned in infancy and was adopted by Col. Samuel French, who traced his ancestry to the <i><a href="/wiki/Mayflower" title="Mayflower">Mayflower</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reinertsen came to <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a>, when four years of age, her father having made that decision after receiving a shipbuilding patent and a portion of <a href="/wiki/Jones_Island,_Milwaukee" title="Jones Island, Milwaukee">Jones Island</a>. After some financial disappointments, he returned to his life on the sea, where he died and was <a href="/wiki/Burial_at_sea" title="Burial at sea">buried</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reinertsen was educated in public and private schools in Milwaukee. She was for some time a student at the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_College" title="Milwaukee College">Milwaukee Female College</a>. She dropped out of the College in what would have been her final year, in order to get married.<sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emma_May_Alexander_Reinertsen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Using the pen name "Gale Forest", Reinertsen built a reputation beyond her local region. Her sketches were characterized as "bright with wit and condensed wisdom". Called the <a href="/wiki/Fanny_Fern" title="Fanny Fern">Fanny Fern</a> of the West as an indication of her literary style, her writing, though not voluminous, had merit.<sup id="cite_ref-WillardLivermore-1893_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WillardLivermore-1893-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her early writing efforts appeared in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cincinnati_Times-Star" title="The Cincinnati Times-Star">The Cincinnati Times</a></i>. She was also a contributor to the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune </a></i>, <i>Christian Union</i> (renamed, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Outlook_(New_York_City)" title="The Outlook (New York City)">The Outlook</a></i>) <i>Good Cheer</i>, as well as the Milwaukee <i>Wisconsin</i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel" title="Milwaukee Journal Sentinel">Sentinel</a></i>, <i>Telegraph</i>, and the <i>Milwaukee Monthly Magazine</i>. One of her best sketches, "A Forbidden Topic", was incorporated in Osgood Eaton Fuller's 1884 book entitled <i>Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures and Triumphs</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-WillardLivermore-1893_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WillardLivermore-1893-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Fuller-1884_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fuller-1884-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Published in 1909, <i>Five Cousins in California</i> was a children's book set in <a href="/wiki/Pasadena,_California" title="Pasadena, California">Pasadena, California</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BOSTON-21dec1909_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOSTON-21dec1909-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Five-1909_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Five-1909-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Reinertsen also wrote on social reform issues. In 1873, she began addressing the topic of temperance, particularly the custom of children being allowed to carry <a href="/wiki/Beer" title="Beer">beer</a> from <a href="/wiki/Bar_(establishment)" title="Bar (establishment)">saloons</a> to homes and shops. One of her later articles on the subject was forwarded to <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>, who highly commended it and was strongly in favor of the reform.<sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reinertsen was the first in the "West" to protest against the wearing of hats in theaters. From that reform came a movement to remove hats in all churches. Two other reforms were credited to her, that of the custom of spitting in street cars and spitting on the sidewalk.<sup id="cite_ref-Rounds-1918_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Rounds-1918-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually, an ordinance was secured in Milwaukee, and thereafter, hundreds of cities and villages passed laws against the custom of spitting on sidewalks.<sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Daughters_of_the_American_Revolution" title="Daughters of the American Revolution">Daughters of the American Revolution</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-DAR-1924_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DAR-1924-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/National_Society_United_States_Daughters_of_1812" class="mw-redirect" title="National Society United States Daughters of 1812">National Society United States Daughters of 1812</a>, College Endowment Association, and the Milwaukee Outdoor Art Association.<sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emma_May_Alexander_Reinertsen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On October 18, 1871, she married Robert C. Reinertsen (1846–1923), a <a href="/wiki/Civil_engineer" title="Civil engineer">civil engineer</a> of Milwaukee. The couple had two sons, Rex and Don.<sup id="cite_ref-WillardLivermore-1893_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WillardLivermore-1893-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Watrous-1909_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Watrous-1909-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-familysearch_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-familysearch-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her son Rex was killed in September 1907 when he suffered a fractured skull after being thrown from an automobile, aged 30.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Emma May Alexander Reinertsen died on March 22, 1920, in <a href="/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</a>, aged 67.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emma_May_Alexander_Reinertsen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Five_Cousins_in_California_(1909).png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Five_Cousins_in_California_%281909%29.png/220px-Five_Cousins_in_California_%281909%29.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Five_Cousins_in_California_%281909%29.png/330px-Five_Cousins_in_California_%281909%29.png 1.5x, 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Girl's Soliloquy in Church" (1874)<sup id="cite_ref-HARRISBURG-10mar1874_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HARRISBURG-10mar1874-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"How to Keep Your Husband's Love" (1876)<sup id="cite_ref-THEFAIRBURY-1876_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-THEFAIRBURY-1876-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"How To Keep Your Wife's Love" (1876)<sup id="cite_ref-STLANDRY-8sep1876_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-STLANDRY-8sep1876-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"For Whom the Boot Fits" (1878)<sup id="cite_ref-THEWESTERN-13dec1878_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-THEWESTERN-13dec1878-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"My Neighbors" (1881)<sup id="cite_ref-CHICTRIB-29jan1881_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CHICTRIB-29jan1881-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"How They Meet and Part" (1881)<sup id="cite_ref-WEEKLY-29dec1881_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WEEKLY-29dec1881-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"A Forbidden Topic" (1884)</li> <li>"The Model Husband" (1886)<sup id="cite_ref-THEBALDWIN-20nov1886_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-THEBALDWIN-20nov1886-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"The Model Authoress" (1887)<sup id="cite_ref-THEATCHISON-7oct1887_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-THEATCHISON-7oct1887-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"My Experience With Christian Science" (1887)<sup id="cite_ref-THEWEEKLY-31dec1887_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-THEWEEKLY-31dec1887-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emma_May_Alexander_Reinertsen&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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