De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975

Maynard Shipley (1872-1934) was a criminologist and scientist who often spoke out in favor of science and evolution and against religious fanaticism and capital punishment. Shipley also worked as an editor, speaker, and organizer for the Socialist Party alongside Eugene V. Debs. Shipley married Miriam Allen De Ford in 1921. Ford was a writer and eventually wrote about Shipley in a biography entitled Up-Hill All The Way (1956), also in the Tamiment Library.

From the guide to the Miriam Allen De Ford Papers Relating to Maynard Shipley, 1950s, undated, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)

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