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Full listing > Accession MC2009/34| Accession # | MC2009/34 | | Topic | History: Indiana, Town of North Manchester and Local, | | Keywords | Famous People, Important Person, Town of North Manchester, History, Automobiles, Cars, Road Trips, | | Title | "Theodore Dreiser in North Manchester," by John Knarr | | Subtitle | John Knarr | | Location | Local History Shelves, northeast shelving unit, (IS). | | Citation | "Theodore Dreiser in North Manchester," by John Knarr , MC2009/34, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana. | | Access | Researchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials. | | Provenance | Newsletter donated by John Knarr to the Manchester College Archives on 9 March 2009 by giving the publication to Jeanine Wine, Archivist. | | Scope and Content | 1. One newsletter of the North Manchester Historical Society, Inc., Volume XXVI, Number 1, Feb 2009.
| | Date of Accession | 11 February 2009 | | Bio History Note | Author, Theodore Dreiser, visited North Manchester during the summer of 1915. His impressions and observations of the community were included on several pages in his autobiography, "A Hoosier Holiday." This article answers questions such as "What was Dreiser doing in North Manchester?" "What books and writings were authored by Dreiser?" "What makes 'A Hoosier Holiday' so special?" "What were some of Dreiser's 'firsts'?" "What were his overall impressions of the town?" "Did he have family connections in the vicinity of North Manchester?"
John Knarr writes about Dreiser's family and includes material on the Snap/Snepp/Sheneb/Shenep/Schneb/Schnebb family as well as on the Fruit family.
A second article in the newsletter prints, "A Trip to Niagara Falls, 1925." This travel account from 1925 was discovered among papers donated to the North Manchester Center for History by Descendants of Ellis and Harold Miller.
John Knarr is a historian and an alumnus of Manchester College, Class of 1964. | | Archivist Note | Description prepared 11 March by Jeanine M. Wine. |
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