Program for the Dedication of the Lincoln Room, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Friday, October Eighteenth, Eight O'clock, Ford Memorial Chapel (Classic Reprint)

Name: Program for the Dedication of the Lincoln Room, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania: Friday, October Eighteenth, Eight O'clock, Ford Memorial Chapel (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Program for the Dedication of the Lincoln Room, Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania<br/><br/>Iin the latter part of the nineteenth century, S. S. Mcclure, dynamic founder of the magazine that bore his name, persuaded a young journalist to terminate her free lance writing in Paris and devote her energies and enthusiasm to American history. An early assignment was the assembling and editing of unpublished reminiscences about Abraham Lincoln. Thus opened a great new field to Ida M. Tarbell, an Allegheny College alumna of the class of 1880. A rare comi bination of reporter and scholar, Ida Tarbell soon wanted to know more about the human side of the great Civil War presi dent. She was curious to uncover neglected material about Lincoln's childhood and family, his life as a young man before he became a figure in the public eye. These were the keys that people could use to understand Lincoln's character, personality and actions. She wrote and published five books and numerous articles about Lincoln, and her name became linked with his. Through the years, Ida Tarbell gathered Lincoln material books, newspapers, pamphlets, unbound periodicals, photographs, cartoons, maps and letters. Almost before she knew it, she had become a zealous Lincoln collector. But hers was a working collection, one that was used and studied, a collection with the breath of life in it. In 1933, Miss Tarbell announced that she would some day like to send her collection to Allegheny College. It was an offer for which her Alma Mater was grateful, and plans were made by Miss Edith Rowley, librarian, to house the material in an appropriate and accessible setting. The project crystallized in the spring of 1939, when Miss Tarbell returned to Allegheny for a month as a resident lec turer.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 11
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Publication Date:: 2018-08-24

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