Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty on February 8, 1850 of an Irish and French descent in St. Louis, Missouri. Kate grew up surrounded by smart, strong widows in her family and the scholarly nuns of her school, who taught Kate to live a life of the mind as well as the life of the home. Kate was five and a half when her parents sent her to the Academy of the Sacred Heart, where the nuns were known for their intelligence. Her father, Thomas O’Flaherty, was an Irish immigrant who was very successful in many business ventures. On November 1, 1855 being one of the founders of the Pacific Railroad, her father was aboard the train on its inaugural journey over the Gasconade Bridge

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