Diary 1887
Published: 1887
Language: eng
Subjects: School children; Teenage girls; Rural conditions; Social life and customs
Description: Diary details her social life, daily activities, church and school attendence, cooking, etc.; also included are her expenditures for the year.
Notes: Mary Chaffee Diary. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Mary Chaffee was one of five children born to Phebe Ann Padelford and Alonzo Duane Chaffee. Her father was a successful dairy farmer in Campton Township, Kane County, Illinois.

Unpublished finding aid.