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.

 

 


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