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25 August 2025

  • 09:2909:29, 25 August 2025 Lucy Webb Hayes (hist | edit) [2,123 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Lucy Hayes was born Lucy Ware Webb on 28th August 1831 in Chillicothe, OH. She married Rutherford B. Hayes in December 1852 who was elected US president in 1877. Lucy Hayes was the first woman to be addressed as the "First Lady" in formal settings. She died on 25th June 1889 in Fremont, OH (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/25GN44QT Caroli]) Throughout her life, Lucy Hayes showed interest in a number of charitable causes and political activiti...")
  • 09:2409:24, 25 August 2025 Almira Russel Hancock (hist | edit) [480 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Almira Russell Hancock's book ''Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock'' ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/ZW2VBHWA 1887]) was published by Mark Twain’s publishing firm, Webster & Company (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/U87CGFSU Scharnhorst, ''The life of Mark Twain: The Middle Years'', 506]). {{TopicLinkList}} Category:Topic Pages Hancock, Almira Russel")
  • 09:1009:10, 25 August 2025 Ossip Gabrilowitsch (hist | edit) [2,146 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born on 7 Feb. 1878 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Aged ten and considered a child prodigy, he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and later took lessons with Theodor Leschetizky in Vienna. When the Clemens family stayed in Vienna, Clara Langdon Clemens became one of Leschetizky’s pupils as well and  she met Gabrilowitsch for the first time at a dinner party in April 1898 (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/443...")
  • 09:0009:00, 25 August 2025 Samuel Eastman (hist | edit) [462 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Samuel Eastman was pastor at Elmira's Park Church. His wife, Annis Ford Eastman, shared his position and was one of the first female ministers in the US (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/CXFR9JST Irmscher 12]). Eastman was born 17th May 1846 and died 7th Feb. 1925. {{TopicLinkList}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:Samuel Elijah Eastman}} Category:Topic Pages Eastman, Samuel Elijah Category:Preliminary Information")
  • 07:5807:58, 25 August 2025 Olivia Susan Clemens (hist | edit) [1,700 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Olivia Susan Clemens was born 19 March 1872 in [Elmira], N.Y., and Samuel and Olivia Clemens’ oldest daughter. She was called Susy by her family. As a child, she began writing a biography of her father who later included some of the material (and his own commentary on it) in his [Autobiography] (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/99VQ8Z4R Rasmussen et al. 2:644]). Olivia Susan Clemens attended Bryn Mawr College for a short time and later...")

22 August 2025

  • 13:2213:22, 22 August 2025 Olivia Langdon Clemens (hist | edit) [4,644 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Olivia (Livy) Louise Langdon was born on 27 Nov. 1845 in [Elmira], N.Y., as the second child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon.<br /> Her father was a wealthy man who owned a flourishing coal business (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/FIZ6WARP Rasmussen et al. 2:641]) enabling his family to live in considerable comfort. Olivia Langdon’s health was frail throughout her life and over the years there has been a lot of speculation on the natu...") originally created as "Clemens • Olivia Langdon"
  • 12:5812:58, 22 August 2025 Jane Lampton Clemens (hist | edit) [3,136 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Samuel Clemens and [Olivia Langdon Clemens]’ third and youngest daughter was born on 26 July 1880 on [Quarry Farm] in Elmira, N.Y., and named Jane Lampton Clemens (after her paternal grandmother) but she was usually called Jean. Throughout her life, Jean Clemens’ health was a matter of concern for the whole family. Seizures, which started at some point between ages ten and sixteen and might have been caused by a childhood infection with scarlet fever, led to her pa...") originally created as "Clemens • Jane Lampton"
  • 11:2811:28, 22 August 2025 Clara Langdon Clemens (hist | edit) [4,503 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Clara Clemens was born on 8 June 1874 on [Quarry Farm] in Elmira, N.Y., and the second daughter of Samuel L. Clemens and his wife [Olivia Langdon Clemens]. Compared to her sisters, [Susy] and [Jean], Clara was more open to travelling and sometimes accompanied her parents when Suzy and Jean would not. For example, Clara was the only one of the three sisters to join her parents on her father’s lecture tour around the world in 1895-1896 (see [https://www.zotero.org/groups...") originally created as "Clemens • Clara Langdon"
  • 11:2411:24, 22 August 2025 Charles Brookheim (hist | edit) [696 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Charles. L. Brookheim was a New York lawyer who worked on bankruptcy cases, usually as official receiver/trustee. He was responsible for assessing the bankrupt company’s assets and income and for redistributing funds to the creditors. Articles which mention Brookheim are, for example, [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1906-01-04/ed-1/seq-10/ "Bettors a Poor Third," ''New-York Tribune'', 04 Jan. 1906, 10] and [https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn...") originally created as "Brookheim • Charles"
  • 11:2011:20, 22 August 2025 Hans Blum (hist | edit) [636 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Ahns Blum was born on 8th June 1841 in Leipzig. He worked as a lawyer, journalist and writer, and wrote for (among others) the literary magazines ''Daheim'' and ''Grenzboten''. He died on 1st Feb. 1910. Preliminary Sources: * [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blum_(Autor) German Wikipedia page] * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Blum_(journalist) English Wikipedia page] * [https://www.retrobibliothek.de/retrobib/seite.html?id=122481 Brockhaus Konversationslexiko...") originally created as "Blum • Hans"

21 August 2025

  • 10:1610:16, 21 August 2025 Vienna/Book Announcement (hist | edit) [1,182 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This book announcement was a joke made by Mark Twain during his last week in Vienna and everybody believed it. In an interview with Dr. Johannes Horowitz, correspondent for the ''New York Times'', Mark Twain further expanded on his joke by explaining that his book would not be published until 100 years after his death, because then he would not have to bear the consequences of offending anyone ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/items/TJGIKW4J/ Scharnhorst...")
  • 10:1210:12, 21 August 2025 Vienna/Visit to Parliament (hist | edit) [1,017 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb|right|350px|{{File:Austrian_parliament_harpers_1897.jpg}} Shortly after arriving in Vienna, Mark Twain started to take an interest in local politics. On 28th October 1897, he attended a sitting of the Austro-Hungarian parliament for the first time ([https://www.zotero.org/groups/4437667/mtxdigital/search/dolmetsch/titleCreatorYear/items/97PABR4V/item-list Dolmetsch] 72). He describes it in great detail in his essay "St...")
  • 09:1609:16, 21 August 2025 Vienna/Hotel Krantz (hist | edit) [3,275 bytes] KB (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{DISPLAYTITLE:Vienna: Hotel Krantz}} left|400px|{{File:1898-10-16-MT-Hotel-Krantz-Vienna-arrival.png}} On October 16, 1898, the Austrian daily newspaper ''Neue Freie Presse'' reported that Mark Twain arrived at the Hotel Krantz from Kaltleutgeben with the intention of spending the winter in Vienna (see [https://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfp&datum=18981016&query=%22hotel+krantz%22&ref=anno-search&seite=5 "M...")

18 August 2025

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