I’m returning to the memoir written by Laura Denman Booth in her later years, that covered her early life in Ohio and then her married life and moves West starting in the mid-1850s. I was listening to a history podcast, …
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The first teaching job Laura was offered was in Homer, Licking county, Ohio. The typed transcript I have of Laura’s memoir says it was Horner, but that was undoubtedly a misreading of her handwriting. The very small community (an unincorporated …
Having been freed from taking care of her sister and young nephew, Laura was ready for other employment. She was fairly quickly able to find a job teaching, first the summer term at a school district in one near-by place …
As Laura described herself: “At home it was my one delight to get hold of a book or paper, both of which were limited in our family library. … A bachelor uncle lived in our family and took great interest …