Papers of Elizabeth Gillet Stimson Corwin, 1886-1943 (inclusive), 1886-1894 (bulk).

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Papers of Elizabeth Gillet Stimson Corwin, 1886-1943 (inclusive), 1886-1894 (bulk).

Collection consists of letters to Elizabeth Gillet Stimson Corwin, mostly from Clifford Corwin before their marriage, detailing summers on eastern Long Island, New York, where his parents ran a boarding house for tourists and where he sailed and fished, as well as his experiences running the high school in Crookston, Minnesota. Also included are letters to Corwin from Louise C. Ketter, a friend from Marietta, who spent several months at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan, and letters from friends in the 1930s and 1940s, mostly sympathy notes on Clifford's death in 1943.

.8 linear ft. (2 file boxes)

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Battle Creek Sanitarium.

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In 1866, the Seventh-Day Adventists established the Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Mich. Out of this organization developed the Battle Creek Sanitarium, on of the earliest training schools for nurses in the country. The major promoter of this facility was John H. Kellogg, creator of the breakfast food industry. From the description of Battle Creek Sanitarium collection. (State Archive of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 41286700 ...

Corwin, Clifford, d. 1943.

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Corwin, Elizabeth Gillet Stimson.

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Elizabeth Gillet Stimson Corwin was the only daughter of Rodney Metcalf Stimson (b. 1822), editor, state senator, and treasurer of Marietta College (Marietta, Ohio). She married Clifford Corwin, a graduate of Marietta College and principal of a high school in Crookston, Minnnesota. From the description of Papers of Elizabeth Gillet Stimson Corwin, 1886-1943 (inclusive), 1886-1894 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 682629306 ...

Ketter, Louise C.

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