Mary McIntire Pacheco
Mary Catherine McIntire Pacheco was an American novelist and playwright. The wife of California governor Romualdo Pacheco, she was First Lady of California during her husband's term in 1875.
Early life
Mary Catherine McIntire was born in Madison, Indiana, the daughter of David McIntire and Sarah J. Handley McIntire. She moved to California in the late 1850s, with her mother and sisters, after her father died.Career
She published a novel, Montalban, in 1874, which placed her "among the first of the women writers of California". Theatrical works by Pacheco include plays Betrayed, Loyal Til Death, Incog, Malisoff, To Nemesis; or, Love and Hate, American Assurance, Don Roberto, Tom, Dick, and Harry, Loyal Unto Death, The Leading Man, The Two Johnnies, and Three Twins.In her life as a politician's wife, Pacheco lived in Sacramento and was, for ten months in 1875, the First Lady of California. She hosted a literary salon in San Francisco, drawing "all that were worth knowing in California", according to Western writer Bret Harte. She was a member of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association.