(OHIO) McKean Betsey M Diaries of a Methodist teacher and mi

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(OHIO.) McKean, Betsey M. Diaries of a Methodist teacher and minister's wife. [55] pages. 6 volumes, one in the back of a 4to commonplace book, the others 12mo, each stitched or unbound, generally sound condition. Vp, 1838-51

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Elizabeth Minerva Harris (1821-1904) was a devout Methodist who worked as a teacher in northern Ohio for ten years. Her irregularly kept diaries were written in small towns like Hiram, Stony Ridge, and Woodville. In 1850 she received a marriage proposal from the Rev. John McKean (1817-1898): "I may consider well the responsibilities which must necessarily devolve upon one filling such a station, the privations which must inevitably be endured, the self denial which must be practiced, in such a life" (20 April 1850). After closing her final school in Hessville just prior to her wedding, she wrote: "Felt much attached to my scholars, & it was not without regret that I bid them farewell, & by the tears which moistened the eyes of many of them, they showed that they had a common sympathy with me" (9 August 1850). with--related family papers: a commonplace book featuring many of Betsey's writings from 1835 to 1854; an undated spiritual testament from one of Betsey's relatives circa 1835; and manuscript biographical notes on Rev. McKean circa 1900.