Joan Esther Broadaway Newberry materials [manuscript] 1904

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Joan Esther Broadaway Newberry materials [manuscript] 1904

The collection contains a speech by Broadaway debating the question of which gender is superior and a photograph.

.15 linear ft. (1 box)

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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries. Special Collections.

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Newberry, Joan Esther Broadway , 1884-1945.

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Born in 1884 in Center Ridge, Conway County, Arkansas, Joan Esther Broadaway, known as Esther, was the thirteenth and last child of Reverend James Knox Broadaway, Jr., and Rebecca Ann Holmes. These two pioneering families had migrated from Wayne County, Tennessee, to Conway County, Arkansas, in the late 1840s. When Esther's parents married in Dover, Pope County, Arkansas, in 1859, her father was eighteen years old and her mother was seventeen. The American agrarian dream for men like James requi...