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Mary Davison Bradford, Memoirs
Memoirs of Mary Bradford containing reminiscences of education in Wisconsin, rural school teaching and city superintendent
Description
Born in the farming community of Paris, Kenosha County, in 1856, Mary Davison Bradford was forced by her father's ill health to begin teaching at the age of sixteen--before she had finished high school. She continued to work actively as an educator until 1922. Bradford describes how she taught in small rural schools, in the expanding Kenosha system, and at centers of educational experimentation such as Central State Teachers College at Stevens Point and the Stout Training School at Menomonie. Eventually appointed superintendent of schools in Kenosha, Bradford instituted kindergarten, vocational training programs, breakfast programs for needy children, and politically independent procurement and hiring processes, she advocated courses in citizenship and health education. Bradford's autobiography chronicles the development of Wisconsin's public school system in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Wisconsin had a strong commitment to primary, secondary, and higher public education in this era, and Bradford's work reflects at the grassroots level many of the pedagogic reforms then sweeping the country.
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Clifford Allen, Rail Trip to California, early 1900s Narrative of a railroad trip across the United States to California
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Stevensville, Ravalli County, Montana Cemeteries Cemetery inscriptions for over 3,200 persons interred in four central Montana cemeteries
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Swanton, Vermont Church Records, 1858-84 Records of marriages and baptisms in St. Mary's Parish, Vermont between 1858 and 1884
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Walter Colton, Three Years in California, 1846-49 The 1846-1849 journal of Walter Colton, member of California's high society
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Friedrich Gerstacker, A German Perspective The perspective of a German adventurer in California
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William H. Davis, Seventy-Five Years in California Seventy-five years in California as recounted and observed by one prominent citizen
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Leicestershire, England: Parish and Probate Records A collection of parish and probate records in England and Wales, from the 1500s to the 1800s.
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Ship Passenger Lists to the Carolinas: Miscellaneous Ships
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Edgecombe County, North Carolina Vital Records, 1720-1880 Vital information for people who lived in Edgecombe County, North Carolina between 1720 and 1880.
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George W. Bryan, Recollections of a California Pioneer The long progress of one pioneer family
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