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Title
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Book 03, Diary of J.P. D’Ooge from 1890 June to 1892 March
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Creator
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Electa Jane (Jennie) Pease D'Ooge
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Description
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"In her diary spanning June 1890 to March 1892, Jennie Pease D'Ooge documents her daily activities and thoughts, family and community news, and memorable moments with her young children. She has pasted numerous clippings from newspapers and periodicals into the front and back of this volume, including poetry and articles on diverse topics (e.g. parenthood, the population of Michigan towns and cities, Richard Wagner, how men and women try on shoes differently), some serious and others humorous. Throughout the book, she encloses newspaper articles pertaining to her family or topics of interest to her, as well as fabric swatches and other ephemera.
Jennie and her husband Benjamin L. D'Ooge continue to be busy raising their children, improving their rented house on Ballard Street, and maintaining a large familial and social network. They travel via ship on the Great Lakes to their cottage in Charlevoix each summer, along with many other Michigan State Normal School faculty families. After learning she is pregnant for a third time, Jennie worries about managing her household and parenting responsibilities. Her elder sister, Ida Pease, is an invaluable source of support for her. A son, Leonard, is born in April 1891, joining daughters Ida and Helen. His eczema concerns Jennie, as do the children's occasional illnesses, which she treats with homeopathic remedies. The 1890-1891 influenza pandemic, ""La Grippe,"" surges in spring 1891 and again in winter 1891-1892.
Jennie remains active in numerous religious and secular organizations, including the Ladies' Aid Society, Young Woman's Missionary Society, Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor, and Sappho Club, but resigns some of her leadership positions. Her husband, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, steps down from his role as superintendent of Sunday School and begins teaching a class in Italic dialects at the University of Michigan. The D'Ooges' domestic servant from the Industrial School for Girls in Adrian, Phebe Crownover, returns home, and her place is taken by Emma Johnson, who is replaced shortly thereafter by Lillie Nicholson in November 1890.
The advent of the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti Street Railway in January 1891 makes intercity travel faster, easier, and more affordable. Jennie enjoys a stroll in the sunshine with her children or an evening walk on her own, but she also uses the ""motor"" for travel within Ypsilanti, especially when it is muddy or she is tired. Jennie's sister and their father, Galusha Jackson Pease, live in Ann Arbor, and the two households have regular contact. Ben's brother, Martin L. D'Ooge, a professor at the University of Michigan, and their mother and siblings from Grand Rapids and elsewhere make frequent appearances in the diary. Jennie and Ben correspond by mail and telegram with more distant relatives. Jennie's maternal grandfather, Obil Deuel, dies in southern California in September 1891, leaving much of his $7500 estate to his four grandchildren."
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Date Span
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1890 June to 1892 March
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Subject
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Ann Arbor (Mich.); Art and recreation; Baking; Books and reading; Boys; Breastfeeding; Charlevoix (Mich.); Child rearing; Childbirth; Childhood; Children; Church entertainments; Clothing and dress; College teachers; Community and college; Congregational churches; Cooking; Dentistry; Detroit (Mich.); Diaries; Dinners and dining; Discipline of children; Dutch Americans; Etiquette; Extended families; Families; Family recreation; Fatherhood; Female friendship; First Congregational Church (Ypsilanti, Mich.); Food; Friendship; Gifts; Girls; Grippe; Home economics; Homeopathy; Horse-drawn vehicles; House cleaning; Household employees; Infants; Influenza; Inland waterway vessels; Interior decoration; Interurban railroads; Laundry; Local transit; Mackinac Island (Mich. : Island); Manners and customs; Marriage; Medicine; Michigan State Normal School; Michigan, Lake; Missions; Motherhood; Music; Musical recreation; Neighborliness; Outdoor recreation; Pandemics; Parenthood; Parenting; Parents; Play; Pregnancy; Printed ephemera; Railroad travel; Recreation; Sewing; Shopping; Social life and customs; Societies and clubs; Steamship passengers; Streetcar lines; Sunday schools; Theater; Toilet training; Universities and colleges -- Faculty; University of Michigan; University towns; University women; Women in missionary work; Young families; Ypsilanti (Mich.)
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Collection Location
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Book 3
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Cataloger
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Alexis Braun Marks, Katie Delahoyde, Luis Pena
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Relation
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04.JD
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Rights
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This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the owner, Eastern Michigan University Archives (lib_archives@emich.edu).
