and then sold to take a position on the editorial staff of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. She was editor of the first literary magazine in Minnesota, The Busy West, also editor of the St. Paul Chronotype. In 1874, she started the American Sketch Book, an eighty-page historical magazine, at La Crosse, Wisconsin, which, on account of ill health, she removed to Texas in 1877, when she was forty years of age. During the same year, 1877, she was associate editor of the Texas New Yorker published at Galveston, and editor of the Sketch Book in Austin, Texas. In October, 1878, she married Col. John Milton Swisher (1819–1891), of Austin, a man sympathetic in his literary tastes, and abundant in his material wealth. Two years later, she established a health spa, the "Thermo Water Cure or Hot Air Bath and Hygienic Institute", for those who suffered from neuralgia, paralysis, and rheumatism. In 1882, on account of family cares and sickness, she was obliged to suspend the Sketch Book. Among her published works were the History of Brown County, Wisconsin, in several volumes, Struggling up to the Lights, Homeless Thought at Home, Cassie, The Story of a Woman's Love, and Rocks and Shoals. Her obituary in The Austin Weekly Statesman (1893) mentioned that two posthumous volumes would be published, one a work on the symbology of the Bible, the other a collection of poems. Swisher and her husband were both members of the Texas Esoteric Society. She studied painting under some of the best artists in the United States, and painted landscapes and portraits that commanded admiration. She was remembered as a sort of universal genius: she cooked a dinner, made a dress, nailed up a broken fence, harnessed her horses for a drive, edited a paper, wrote a story, and then entertained with her verses in the afternoon. She was at one time a prominent lecturer. Personal life The couple resided in Austin until the husband died in 1890, when she removed to Sausalito, California. She died September 28, 1893, at her residence in Sausalito, and was buried at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California. Selected works We shall meet and love in heaven, 1873 Menomonie and Dunn County, Wisconsin., 1875 Struggling up to the light : the story of a woman's life 1876 The American sketch book : an historical and home magazine (1878-1882) History of Austin, Travis County, Texas,