Autobiography: History
Great Works 143/144
Sarah McNair Vosmeier
Choose one of the following historic diaries - - one that you
might want to read over the course of this term - - and read the
entry closest to Sept. 5.
Depending on your classmates' interest, you may be following
your diarist day by day, keeping up with what he or she was
doing in September through December of that year's diary as you
move from September to December of this year.
Selected Diaries
Andrew Ferguson, diary, 1854-1855. Ferguson was a Mormon who traveled the overland trail to Salt Lake City in 1855. More information about the diary is available here.
Horatio Nelson Taft, diary, 1861. Taft lived in Washington during the Lincoln administration, and his children played with the Lincoln children at the White House. More information about Taft and his diary is available here.
H. Greene, diary, 1887. Greene, a single woman, was a farmer in Ohio. More information about the diary is available here.
Delia Kingsley,
diary, 1908. Kingsley was a teacher in Massachusetts, and
her diary also records trips she made (to Washington, D.C., for
instance). More information about the diary is available here.
Lillian Schoedler, diary, 1913. Schoedler was an administrative assistant in New York City. More information about the diary is available here.