Virginia Wooding Papers, 1880-1947

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Virginia Wooding Papers, 1880-1947

Virginia Wooding was the daughter of Emma Shephard Wooding and physician Benjamin Franklin Wooding of Denver, Colo. She married Bryan Hanks, a lawyer, in 1921, and the couple had two children: art administrator Nancy Hanks (1927-1983) and Larry Hanks. The collection contains the diary Virginia Wooding kept during her summer near Boston in 1914 and during her sophomore year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, 1915-1916. Also included are personal and business papers, chiefly correspondence, of Emma Shepard Wooding and Benjamin Franklin Wooding. Their personal correspondence discusses their upcoming marriage, politics, and daily life. Also included are letters relating to Benjamin Franklin Wooding's position as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and at Josiah Simpson General Hospital near Fort Monroe, Va., in 1898 (no items relate directly to the Spanish-American War); invitations; financial materials; and unidentified photographs, mostly of individuals, some of whom may be Hanks family members.

About 140 items (0.5 linear feet)

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Emma Abigail Shephard, originally from Brooklyn, N.Y., married physician Benjamin Franklin Wooding (b. 1863) on 9 February 1897, in Denver, Colo. They had one daughter, Virginia Wooding (b. 1896). It is likely that Benjamin Franklin Wooding was graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Ill., in 1890. He then worked for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in Trinidad, Colo. Upon losing that position in the early 1890s, he moved to Denver to establish his practice. He was a membe...

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