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Johnston

Peg Johnston: The Workbooks

My observations of real women were that some women didn’t know how to sort through the many feelings they were having, the opinions of others, and the landmines left by society’s conflict over abortion.

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Freeman

Jane Freeman, Artist

Jane Freeman, the portrait painter and artist, was born in Chesterfield England in 1871 and was brought by her mother (Mary Hall Freeman) to the United States with her two younger siblings, John Francis Freeman and Elisabeth Freeman in the mid 1870’s.

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Weiss

An Immigrant Goes To War: The Correspondence of Herman and Adeline Weiss

An Immigrant Goes to War: The Civil War Correspondence of Herman and Adeline Weiss.

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Freeman

Everything We Know About Jennie Fraser Bishop

Jennie is the mother of Blanche Bishop Freeman, who was mother of Jeanette, Ruth, John, Elizabeth, and Helen Freeman.

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Wittman

Walter T. Wittman Memorial

Walter T. Wittman was the son of Carl and Mary (Thalmeyer) Wittman, and father of Jane Vandebogart and Carl Wittman.

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Wittman

Jane, What Are You Making?

The following is a cookbook from Jane’s unwieldy box of recipes on scraps of paper. 

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Wittman

Jane (Wittman) Vandebogart

Jane is the daughter of Jeanette Freeman and Walter T. Wittman.

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Freeman

John Freeman Obituary and Union Cards

John F. Freeman lived to be 86 and for 68 years of his life he was in the Typographical Union.

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Freeman

The Wit and Wisdom of John F. Freeman

“Pop” Freeman outlived two wives and was very involved in raising his children. These collected and edited letters show his warmth and good humor toward his children and grandchildren.

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Johnston Weiss

Herman Weiss Johnston Memoir

I know I was born on July 20, 1889 in Eastchester, New York, for there was a notation in the family Bible saying so.