Diaries, 1909-1942.

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Diaries, 1909-1942.

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Fifteen diaries kept by Holliday, 1909 and 1930-1942, documenting her daily activities. Topics include club meetings, visitors, people she dined with, books she read, and trips with her husband. Interesting entries note attending Booth Tarkington's play Colonel Satan; visiting President Herbert Hoover; dinner with Meredith Nicholson; and her anti-Prohibition activities with the local chapter of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. There is also a 1941 diary of unknown authorship.

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946

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"These were written at periods when Mr. Tarkington and Susanah [his wife] were in Indianapolis and they wanted to have news from Kennebunkport, Maine. We had known him very shortly after we moved to Kennebunkport in about 1917, after the war. He was known as 'the gentleman from Indiana' and was a well known author at the time the first letter in this collection was written. . . . Mr. Tarkington had rented a house in Kennebunkport for many years but decided that he would like to design his own pl...

Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Indiana Division.

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Nicholson, Meredith, 1866-1947

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Nicholson was an Indiana author; he served as the U.S. Envoy to Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. From the description of [Letter] 1912 May 23, University Club, Indianapolis [to] William Wallace / Meredith Nicholson. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 300034819 Nicholson was born in Crawfordsville, Ind. and lived in Indianapolis. An author, diplomat, and lecturer, he was active in Democratic politics; served as minister to Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua; and publish...

Holliday, Jaquelin S. (Jaquelin Smith), 1867-1944.

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Jaquelin S. Holliday was president of W.J. Holliday and Company, a wholesale iron and steel firm in Indianapolis, Ind. His wife, Florence Baker Holliday, was the daughter of Conrad Baker and had wide cultural and philanthropic interests. Both were lifelong friends of writer and diplomat Meredith Nicholson. From the description of Papers, 1891-1933. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 33804889 ...

Holliday, Florence Baker, 1871-1947

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A native and resident of Indianapolis, Ind., Holliday was the daughter of Indiana governor Conrad Baker. She married businessman Jaquelin S. Holliday. Holliday was a clubwoman and philanthropist, and an active anti-prohibitionist. From the description of Diaries, 1909-1942. (Indiana Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 38749641 ...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...