Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930

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)