First page of Mary Katherine Reely's first published play Born in 1881 in the hamlet of Spring Green, Wisconsin, Kate Reely neve...

Mount Vernon, N.Y., 1910 After her father’s death, Nellie’s life meandered along. There she is, in the social pages of the Mount Verno...

Nellie Hickey stands at right outside Chicago's Medinah Temple, 1915; image is backwards  (Chicago Historical Society) Mount Ver...

Advertisement for 555 Park Avenue, where Nellie Ridder lived after her divorce from Bernard H. Ridder, Jr. Three ex-wives of a news...

Willard W. Beatty, early 1920s It has long interested me that Willard W. Beatty was one of the few prominent progressive educators w...

Willard W. Beatty, age 15 The child’s parents, Mabel and William Beatty, met at the University of California-Berkeley during the ea...

Martha Johnson Patterson, devoted daughter of President Andrew Johnson Around 1900, President Andrew Johnson’s daughter entrusted ...