Mary Catharine North Weston ( – ) was an American religious writer.

Mary Catharine North was born on in Albany, New York, the daughter of William Augustus Stuben North, son of William North, and Margaret Bridge North. She married the Rev. Daniel Cony Weston, son of Nathan Weston, in 1842 and they had six children.

Weston's works were published by the General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society. Her first book, Calvary Catechism (1857), was popular, selling 600,000 copies a year. It was translated into German, Russian, and Dakota.

Mary Catharine North Weston died on 4 August 1882 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Bibliography

Calvary Catechism, N. York, 1857, 32mo; 2d ed., 1859.

Catechism on the Doctrines and Usages of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1860, 18mo. Synopsis of the Bible, 1865, 16mo. Jewish Antiquities, 1866, 16mo Biography of Old Testament Characters, 1871 Biography of New Testament Characters, 1871 Old Testament Stories about Men and Women of the Bible. Illust. N York, 1882, sq 8vo

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