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HARRIET CONNOR BROWN PAPERS, 1856-1960 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE Harriet Chedie Connor was born in Burlington, Iowa on September 11, 1872. She spent a winter at Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Massachusetts before entering Cornell University. Conner was the first woman on the staff of Era, the University newspaper. She graduated in 1894, spent a year to study in Berlin, and began her journalism career in 1896. Conner worked for the New York Tribune, the New York Journal, and the Buffalo Enquirer. Conner married Herbert D. Brown in 1897. They collaborated on reports to government agencies, including: Civil Service, Congress, Bureau of Labor, and President Taft's Commission on Economy and Efficiency. Harriet Brown prepared the United States Geological Survey's press bulletin from 1903 to 1907. She participated in official missions to Caribbean countries. In 1929 Harriet Brown was awarded the Atlantic Monthly prize for biography for her book Grandmother Brown's Hundred Years, 1827-1927. This study of pioneer life is the story of Maria Dean Foster Brown, her mother-in-law from Ft. Madison, Iowa. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE The donor maintains copyright for the unpublished writings of Harriet Brown. Those materials may be duplicated but may not be published without permission. The collection is divided into three series: CORRESPONDENCE: primarily contains letters with family and friends. SUBJECT FILES: Materials include: diaries, letters, scrapbooks, postcards, photographs, and pamphlets. Subjects include: Burlington High School, Cornell University, Wheaton Seminary, social issues, political issues, women’s suffrage, world disarmament, and peace. MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTES: Materials include: outlines, drafts, background material, and correspondence. Topics include: the National Republican and Democratic conventions of 1896, FOLDER LIST CORRESPONDENCE Box Contents General, 1890-1959 (6 folders) Brown, A. P. "Gus", 1898-1933 2 Connor family (Edward, Kate, Margaret, Kathleen & Frank), 1889-1891 (11 folders) 3 Connor family, 1892-1895, 1899-1913 (14 folders) Hoover, Herbert and Lou Henry, 1929-1954 SUBJECT FILES 4 Diaries, 1921-1925, 1927, 1933 (typescript) 5 Diaries, 1939-1960 (handwritten, 3 folders) 6 American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1911, 1923 Biographical Data, 1877-1944 Bryan and the Democratic National Convention (See: Manuscripts & Notes, Campaign of 1896) Business Tides by Henry Hazlitt, 1955, 1957 General, 1949-1950, 1954-1956 (4 folders) National Council for Prevention of War, 1922 Family and friends 7 Schools Burlington High School General, 1887-1911, and undated Birthday Gift, 1910 The Echo, 1896 Cornell University Alumnae, 1932-1955, and undated Wheaton Seminary, 1889-1921 8 Wheaton Seminary, 1923-1958 (3 folders) MANUSCRIPTS AND NOTES 9 A Sea Trip in Maytime, 1897 1. McKinley and the Republican National Convention Cornell of the Nineties Book Outline, 1890-1894 Copy 1. Chapters 1-20 (5 folders; chapter 1 only fragments) 10 Copy 2. Chapters 16-33 (2 folders) Sophomore Year, 1891-1892 Copy 1. Chapters 1-12 (2 folders) Junior Year, 1892-1893 Copy 1. Chapters 1-13 (3 folders) 11 Copy 2. Chapter 8 -13 Fragments Senior Year, 1893-1894 (4 folders) Cuba, 1896 Background Material Athens Homecoming, 1904 12 Congratulatory Letters, 1929-1930 (7 folders) Early Married Life in Ohio Draft, Apr 1927 13 Draft, May 1928 14 Draft, Apr 1929 Atlantic Monthly, 1929-1935 Finished book (2 copies) 15 Illustrations, 1955 and undated Before I Entered Cornell 16 Hebe On The Lawn (8 folders) Whose Surprise? SUBJECT FILES – SCRAPBOOKS (in SUIT oversize boxes) 17 1. Berlin 1894-1895, Burlington 1895-1896, New York 1896-1897, Clippings, Women’s issues (brittle) 18 3. Washington 1903-1910, Photographs, letters, clippings, postcards. Ewald Poppe, National American Woman Suffrage Association, Civil Service Retirement, family. 4. Washington 1912-1913; Suffrage, Constance – school. Clippings, cards, photographs, postcards, NAWSA programs & invites, women’s issues 19 5. Washington 1917-1923; Herbert’s Efficiency Bureau – 1917; HCB’s Appropriation Pie 1920-1921; WIL – Constance in stock. Newspaper Clippings, Women’s issues 6. Peace and theatre 1924-1934; Washington; WIL – Women’s Committee for political action, Constance and G.W. “Cue and Curtain.” Newspaper clippings, Women’s issues 20 8. Grandmother Brown - 100 Birthday, and death. Letters, Clippings, Telegrams, Cards 21 11. Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, Nov. 28, 1929 to Jan 28, 1930. Photographs, cards, newspaper clippings, postcards, personal 22 12. Porto Rico and Virgin Islands, June 18-Oct 20, 1930 (photo, cards, postcards, 3 negatives)
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