Helen Keller letters : to Josephine Morris Rowan : TLS, 1925 and 1928.
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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) devoted her life to bettering the education and treatment of the blind, the deaf, and the nonverbal, and was a pioneer in educating the public in the prevention of blindness in newborns. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. When Helen Keller was 19 months old she became ill with Scarlet Fever, which resulted in her becoming blind and deaf. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, a book she first wrote in 1903 at the age of 23, she desc...
Rowan, Andrew Summers
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Major, United States Army. From the description of Andrew Summers Rowan papers, 1891-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868230 Andrew Summers Rowan (1857-1943), American army officer. As a lieutenant, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898 was sent to talk with Cuban revolutionary leader General Garcia y Inigues to learn the strength of the revolutionary army. He left Washington April 8 on his secret mission and returned May 14, 1898. His explo...
Rowan, Josephine Morris.
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Josephine Rowan was poet, of San Francisco, Calif. She was married to Andrew S. Rowan, who was made famous in Elbert Hubbard's "A message to Garcia," which recounts Col. Rowan's errand to Cuban General Calixte Garcia, leader of the Cuban rebellion against Spanish rule. Josephine Rowan was also the founder of the reading room at the library for the blind in 1902. From the description of Josephine Morris Rowan papers, 1894-1949. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 1225...
