Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 1863-10-09
Death 1930-01-09
Active 1904
Active 1930
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

Editor-in-chief of Ladies' Home Journal.

From the description of Correspondence with Franklin Baldwin Wiley, 1903-1929. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 755907085

Bok was an American author.

From the description of Letters, 1893-1896. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81012747

Epithet: American writer

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x0003b1

American editor.

From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Ernest Dressel North, [1912] "Wednesday." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526987

From the description of Autograph letter signed : to Arthur Sullivan, 1896 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270125297

Bok was president of the Academy of Music Corporation. Hoopes was a member of Haverford College class of 1921.

From the description of TLS, 1921 March 29, Philadelphia, [PA] to John R. Hoopes / Edward W. Bok. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 213410933

American editor and author, opposed to women's suffrage.

From the description of Edward William Bok autograph, 1910 Oct. 17. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936712

Editor of Ladies Home Journal.

From the description of Papers of Edward William Bok, [manuscript], 1882-1953. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647897490

Author, editor, reformer, and philanthropist.

From the description of Edward William Bok papers, 1880-1926 (bulk 1920-1925). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981103

Biographical Note

1863, 9 Oct. Born, Helder, Netherlands 1870 Arrived in the United States Entered public school, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1884 Entered employ of Charles Scribner's Sons as stenographer Became editor of Brooklyn Magazine 1886 Founded the Bok Syndicated Press 1889 Became editor of Ladies' Home Journal 1896 Married Mary Louise Curtis 1907 LL.D. degree conferred by order of Pope Pius X, Villanova College, Villanova, Pa. 1917 State chairman for Pennsylvania of YMCA War Work Council 1919 Relinquished editorship of Ladies' Home Journal 1920 Published The Americanization of Edward Bok. New York: C. Scribner's Sons 1923 Published A Man From Maine. New York: C. Scribner's Sons 1925 Published Twice Thirty. New York: C. Scribner's Sons 1930 Died, Lake Wales, Fla.

From the guide to the Edward William Bok Papers, 1880-1926, (bulk 1920-1925), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

Mrs. Darling was born in New Hampshire in 1840, a descendant of Henry Adams who settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1636. She married Col. Edward Irving Darling, 22 years her senior, in 1860, and went with him to live at his Louisiana home. He died of wounds received in battle, December 2, 1863. Her only son was Edward Erving Darling, a minor musician-composer, who died July 13, 1894. Mrs. Darling suffered from repeated attacks of malarial fever and, after 1876, from deafness. Her years of widowhood were spent in writing Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War A Social Diplomat and other books.

From 1889 to 1896 her major interests and efforts were devoted to the founding of women's patriotic societies. Mrs. Darling's obsession for organizing and ruling patriotic societies, and her willingness to abandon one when her opinion or desires were thwarted, is illustrated by the rapid succession with which the societies followed each other: Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) founded October 11, 1890; Daughters of the Revolution (D.R.) founded June 18, 1891; Daughters of the United States of the War of 1812, founded January 8, 1892; founded because of disagreement over policies of the D. A. R., policies adopted over the protest of Mrs. Darling. This collection is composed almost entirely of letters written to her during these years of controversy. There are some delightful, pithy and well-written letters in the group.

From the guide to the Flora Adams Darling Papers, 1862-1908, (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary)

Links to collections

Comparison

This is only a preview comparison of Constellations. It will only exist until this window is closed.

  • Added or updated
  • Deleted or outdated

Information

Permalink:
SNAC ID:

Subjects:

  • Publishers and publishing
  • Authors, American
  • American periodicals
  • Armed Forces
  • Authors
  • Autographs
  • Coeducation
  • Daughters of the American Revolution
  • General Society of the Daughters of the Revolution
  • Journalism
  • National Society, United States Daughters of 1812
  • Patriotic societies
  • Politicians
  • Press and politics
  • Women
  • Women's periodicals, American

Occupations:

  • Authors
  • Editors
  • Philanthropists
  • Reformers

Places:

  • Egham, Surrey (as recorded)
  • United States (as recorded)

SNAC Cooperative Logo

Social Networks and Archival Context

SNAC is a discovery service for persons, families, and organizations found within archival collections at cultural heritage institutions.

Sponsors

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Endowment for the Humanities

Hosts

University of Virginia Library
National Archives and Records Administration