Manuscripts ca. 1974.

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Manuscripts ca. 1974.

Autobiography written by Mary Wigley Harper, ca. 1974, entitled "The Wind is From the East," which concerns her early life and work as a teacher and home demonstration agent. Consists of original typescript (634 p.), edited typescript (286 p.), and a bibliography of writings by Harper's husband, Roland McMillan Harper (1878-1966), a bioecologist.

.5 lin. ft. (1 archives box, letter)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7257519

Auburn University.

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Wigley, William Edward (English painter, 1880-1941)

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Harper, Mary Wigley, 1893-1979.

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Home demonstration agent from Sand Mountain, Alabama; born Mary Wigley. From the description of Manuscripts ca. 1974. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 28360409 ...

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Harper, Roland M. (Roland McMillan), 1878-1966

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Roland Harper was born in Farmington, Maine in 1878. He studied engineering at University of Georgia, 1894 – 1897, during which time he became interested in botany. He completed his PhD at Columbia University in 1905. He then began his career at the Alabama Geological Survey in 1905 as a botanist and geographer. He published over 500 papers, many on botany and also including some on more sociological topics such as “Significance of bachelors and spinsters” and “Corn bread, appendicitis, and the ...

Wigley, James Anderson.

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