Margaret Sellers Friendship Book
A Page From Mattie
Shipley's Autograph Book
Here is an entry from
another autograph book
because 8 January 1902 was another date not included in
Madge Sellers Friendship Book.
Mattie Shipley Culver
is a woman I have written
about using home sources which led me to primary sources.
Home sources were the
clue to Mattie's history.
This autograph book provided the answers to Mattie's past,
her family and her co-workers.
The Orchard family members from Schenectady, New York
were special friends
to Mattie.
J. E. Orchard signed more than once using an artistic hand.
My House Transformed
My house was built in 1902 with a 1915 addition
that, according to the permit was said to be a "store."
So the house had two entrances, one to the main house
and one to the addition.
Of course that was way before my time.
I have photos from the 1940s to present to see
the transformation of the house.
This porch would become part of the house over time.
Maggie Smith's Autograph Book
The Friendship Book of Madge Sellers
which I have been posting, has no entry for 7 January 1902.
Since I have numerous autograph books, I decided to share a page from
a different book.
This entry is from an 1884 autograph book that belonged to Minnie Smith.
No date on the page but I love the drawing.
It was a common image in this time period.
Minnie received her book as a gift on 25 December 1884
from Mrs. M. L. Kohner.
The entries are from Baltimore, Maryland.
Friendship Book of Madge Sellers
This is the entry of Edith Johnson Fussell
for the 5th and 6th of January 1902.
Below see the 1880 census when she, and her husband Linnaeus
and daughter Ellen, were living in her parents household.
Edith lived until 1914 in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
She was 61 years old.
Friendship Book of Madge Sellers
Friend Mary W. Akinson (Atkinson) added entries for
3 and 4 January 1902.
On the 3rd Akinson posted an image of historic Buckingham Meeting House
in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
It was built in 1768 and the image is from 1900.
I have added an current image below.
By Smallbones - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17556516
Margaret Garrett Seller's 1902 Friendship Album
I collect interesting autography books of the past.
Although this book isn't an autograph book as such,
it is a friendship album.
I will share each day of Margaret's 1902 album through the year.
Just a bit of background on her. Her nickname was Madge.
She was the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Taylor Sellers
was born in in April 1869.
She and her family members and many of her friends were Quaker.
She was living in Delaware County, Pennsylvania when she kept her album.
This is an "introduction" to the album and the first and second of
January 1902 entries.
I'm not sure who the author of the "introduction" is
however Marge wrote the first two of the year,
quoting poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
