Sue Douglas Berry and Margaret Keller Douglas oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 11.

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Sue Douglas Berry and Margaret Keller Douglas oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 11.

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Sue Douglas Berry and Margaret Keller Douglas on November 11, 1977 in which they discuss Rockfort College and Douglas family tradition; Jane Addams and Hull House; family background; reason for family's move South; Douglas family becomes Unitarian; significance of number "11" to Douglas; Douglas family traits; Douglas family and Atlanta society; Helen Douglas Mankin's first engagement; Red Cross button; Mankin's personality; Guy Mankin Jr.'s relationship with Mankin; Mankin's will; the Douglas family and Michigan Tech; Mankin's father; Mankin's broken engagement; Mankin and Catholicism; Mankin's death; Mankin's relationship with Guy Mankin Sr.; and Nancy Downing.

2 audiotapes ; cassette.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403228

Georgia State University

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Mankin, Guy Mark, 1896-1957

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When Guy Mark Mankin was born on 11 September 1896, in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, his father, William Armour Mankin, was 28 and his mother, Elisabeth Guy Blake, was 22. He married Leona Gertrude Davis in 1918, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1929 and lived in District 722, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Fulton, Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States in 1957. He died...

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)

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Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club. With its innovative social, educat...

Michigan Technological University

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A native of Bessemer, Michigan, Margaret Holley Chapman grew up in Lake Linden and graduated from Calumet High School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Lawrence College in 1932 and went on to attend Michigan College of Mining and Technology, becoming the first female to receive a degree from the college. After receiving a B.S. in General Science in 1933, she also received a B.S. in Chemistry in 1934 and worked on a master's degree in 1934 and 1935. She worked in the Corrosion Lab for ...

Berry, Sue Douglas.

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Sue Douglas Berry, niece of Helen Douglas Mankin and sister to Hamilton Douglas III. From the description of Sue Douglas Berry and Margaret Keller Douglas oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 11. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476377 ...

Spritzer, Lorraine Nelson

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Rockfort College (Rockfort, Ill.)

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Mankin, Helen Douglas, 1896-1956

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Helen Douglas Mankin (September 11, 1896 – July 25, 1956) was an American lawyer and politician. She was the second woman to represent Georgia in the United States House of Representatives, serving from February 1946 to January 1947. Born Helen Douglas in Atlanta, she attended public and private schools there before attending Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, where she graduated with an A.B. in 1917. After serving as a civilian ambulasnce driver in a Red Cross unit attached to the Frenc...

Downing, Nancy, 1910-

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Nancy Downing (1910- ), Helen Douglas Mankin's goddaughter. From the description of Nancy Downing oral history interview, 1977 July 23. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38476381 ...

Douglas, Margaret Keller,

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