Via Christi Study Class minutes, October 1905-May 1910.

Woman's Missionary Society Union (Springfield, Ill.)

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The Via Christi Study Class was a nondenominational women's club studying the footsteps of Christ in history, specifically the men, women, and events in history that contributed to the growth of Christian civilization. Open to any woman willing to to pay nominal dues and present papers, the group met twice monthly at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Illinois from mid-October to late May or early June. Catharine (Mrs. Vachel T.) Lindsay was the group leader and Eliza Condell was its main secre...

Condell, Eliza, 1872-1975

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Eliza Condell and Arthur F. Wines, both from Springfield, Ill., were engaged when Arthur committed suicide in 1899. Arthur's father, Frederick H. Wines, was Asst. Director of the 12th U.S. Census. Arthur traveled to Alaska in 1899 as a U.S. Census Office special agent. Shortly after his return, his father committed him to St. Elizabeth's Asylum in Washington, D.C., where he strangled himself on December 2, 1899. Soon thereafter, Eliza moved to Washington where she lived ...

Wakefield, Paul

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Via Christi Study Class.

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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

Lindsay, Catharine, 1848-1922.

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