Mary Isabel EllisBasten 1837-2004

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Mary Isabel EllisBasten 1837-2004

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Teacher; Homemaker. Collection consists primarily of the courtship letters of MaryIsabel Ellis and Austin Slausen Basten, who married in 1912, as well as the former's diaries from1905 through 1922 and part of 1926. There is also correspondence that post-dates the marriage andsome letters from friends and other family members, as well as photographs, scrapbooks,memorabilia, writings, and biographical information.

8 boxes; (8 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 6323154

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Emerson College

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Basten, Austin Slausen

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Rutgers College

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Rutgers was first chartered in 1766 as Queen's College, the eighth institution of higher learning to be founded in the colonies. The school opened its doors in New Brunswick in 1771 and during its early years, the college developed as a classic liberal arts institution. In 1825, the name of the college was changed to honor a former trustee and Revolutionary War veteran, Colonel Henry Rutgers. In 1864, Rutgers College became the land-grant college of New Jersey. Rutgers College attained universit...

Basten, Mary Isabel Ellis, 1886-1975

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Mary Isabel Ellis ("Mibs") was born in New York City to Isabel Fitch Ellis and Wesley Ellis. She graduated from Kingston Academy in Kingston, New York in 1905. After teaching for a year in a one-room schoolhouse in Kripplebush, New York to help finance her college education, she entered Emerson College in 1906. Emerson was a three-year college at the time and she graduated in 1909, majoring in English and dramatics. She then taught at the Bloomsburg State Normal School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvani...