Margaret Hooper Carter papers, 1833-1949 bulk: 1905-1918.

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Carter, Margaret Hooper, 1896-1981. Margaret Hooper Carter papers, 1833-1949 bulk: 1905-1918.

Margaret Hooper Carter papers, 1833-1949 bulk: 1905-1918.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/771027848

This collection consists primarily of letters written to Margaret Hooper Carter from 1905 to 1918. The majority of the papers in the collection are letters to Margaret from family and friends when she was a student at Peacham Academy, when she taught several years in Groton, and finally when she was a student at Castleton Normal School in 1918. Margaret Carter received many letters from her mother who gave her advice on spending and money and her girlhood friends who wrote of hometown gossip, clothes and school classes. Marion Farrington, a Peacham Academy friend and fellow alumna, who taught school in Lunenburg and later in East Barnet, was a frequent correspondent. Both original and photocopied letters comprise this correspondence. In one particularly poignant letter to Margaret Carter in 1944, the only one she saved after 1918, a Lt. Carroll McFalls officially informs her of the circumstances of her son's death during World War II at Anzio Beachhead. The collection also include miscellaneous papers of the Hooper, Millis and Stevens families. Among the oldest Hooper family papers is Elijah Hooper's 1833 State of Vermont Militia Commission. The papers of Samuel R. Hooper of Groton include miscellaneous accounts and receipts as well as an 1855 highway tax bill. Among the papers of Amasa Hooper, Margaret Carter's father, from Groton and Ryegate, are miscellaneous letters, an 1896 to 1898 account book with the Groton merchant Hallard Cochran, and his 1910 and 1911 Vermont hunting licenses. Millis papers in the collection include those of Andrew J. Millis, brother of Margaret Carter's mother, Ellen Abbie Millis Hooper. A group of undated snapshots of Skull Valley, Arizona, may date from his 1911 visit there. The collection also includes invoices for electrical supplies addressed to Millis in Barre and Montpelier in 1918. Also included in the collection are miscellaneous items dating from 1914 to 1916 from the Fred B. and Minnie (Richards) Stevens family of St. Albans, the in-laws of Margaret Carter's daughter, Isabelle.

1 linear foot.

Vermont Historical Society