Short memoir of Ottawa University's early days

Short memoir of Ottawa University's early days

Giffin, Mrs. Ruth

Morse, Elizabeth

Jones, Nellie Kedzie

Topping, Mrs. Margaret (Atkinson)

Wind, Betty

Ottawa University--History

Ottawa, Kansas

Education

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Tauy Jones Hall

Sundials

Highland Cemetery

Autograph album

Temperance

Haskell Institute

Native Americans

Indian Burying Ground

Mission Cemetery

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Nurseries, Forest

Meeker, Silas B.

Meeker, Grace

Meeker, Jennie E.

This unsigned memoir appears to have been written by a niece of Dr. Milan Ward. The author might be Grace Meeker or her sister Jennie Meeker. They were the children of Jennie Ward's brother Silas B. Meeker.She tells about going to school at Ottawa University when she was a small child. She mentions her teachers Mrs. Ruth Giffin, Elizabeth S. Morse, and a student tutor who was later called Dr. Nellie Kedzie Jones. She describes the planting of trees on the grounds and the University nursery. She tells of how Dr. Ward prepared for classes and his belief that theory and practice went hand in hand.

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Ottawa University (Kansas) Archives

1870 - 1921

Ottawa University

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4 sheets of typed paper, 5.5" x 8"

Document

OU RG4.041.133

Ottawa, Kansas

1870 - 1921