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•——— Recto Runninhead ———• 377 Notes [ 377 ] Abbreviations DPLRS Davenport Public Library Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center MCLJC Manhattanville College Library Jennings Collection VCASC Vassar College Archives and Special Collections Prologue 1. Mrs. Dr. Keck ran thousands of advertisements in hundreds of newspapers across the upper Mississippi River Valley between 1873 and 1900. Using the search string “Mrs. Dr. Keck,” I was able to find and read more than a thousand of them, primarily on Newspaperarchive.com and the Quincy (Illinois) Historical Newspaper Archive. A four-page advertising flyer, “Dr. Mrs. Keck’s Medical Infirmary,” from 1894 came out of one of the family trunks. I also found her advertisements and newspaper articles mentioning her in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Times, and newspapers in Peoria and Bloomington, Illinois. 2. Chicago Daily Tribune, February 7, 1880, p. 15. 3. Peoria Medical Society Minutes, May 4, 1880, quoted by Dr. Victoria Hineman Loberg in “Peoria’s Pioneer Female Physicians Part II,” Peoria Medicine , March 1999, p. 38. Controversy surrounding her name was mentioned in the minutes and official annual reports published between 1879 and 1890 by the Illinois State Board of Health (Google Books), the annual reports for the Peoria Medical Society (Bradley University Cullom-Davis Library), and unpublished historical surveys written by retired physicians for the Scott County Medical Society (DPLRS) and the Jefferson County Medical Society, in the Fairfield, Iowa, library. 1. The Wickedest City in America 1. Iowa Writers’ Program, Scott County History, p. 103. 2. Wood, Freedom of the Streets, p. 3 and Map 2, p. 83. 3. Ibid., Map 2, p. 83. 378 •——— verso runninghead ———• 4. Online copies of the Iowa State Agricultural Society Annual Reports from 1866 through 1876 (Google Books) and the U.S. Industrial Census for 1870 (ancestry.com) provided information about Cora’s childhood in Fairfield. 5. The Davenport Gazette ran two long articles about Mrs. Dr. Keck’s purchase of the John P. Cook mansion on June 2, 1879, and November 13, 1880 (DPLRS). 6. Bloomington, Illinois, Leader, reprinted in Decatur, Illinois, August 1883. 7. January 14, 1883, page 4. 8. Illinois State Board of Health, Sixth Annual Report, p. 166. 9. Scott County Circuit Court records for 1889 (DPLRS). 10. Information on the move is from a clipping in Cora’s third scrapbook. 2. These Leap Year Girls Are Getting Awfully Bold 1. Carvey-Stewart, “Watch Tower Park.” 2. Rosen, “Superpower of Franz Liszt.” 3. Iowa Writers’ Program, Scott County History, p. 103. 4. The staff at the Davenport School Museum provided an overview of the history of Davenport High School. 5. I obtained various factual information about individuals from relevant U.S. census data but do not note each instance throughout the book. 3. Vassar’s Crisis and Cora’s Humiliation 1. Vassar’s economic crisis has received detailed behind-the-scenes scholarly attention in several books about the history of the college, particularly An Administrative History of Vassar College, 1861–2003, ed. Ronald D. Patkus and Elizabeth A. Daniels (Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2004). I have focused on statistics from the official Vassar annual college catalogs from 1883 to 1889 and on contemporary newspaper accounts that Cora saved in her scrapbooks to give an outsider’s sense of how the public perceived the unfolding events. 2. Vassar College Bulk Files Folder 1.4, Advertising (VCASC). 3. The story of college education for women in England is told in Bingham , History of Royal Holloway College. 4. Information about Cora’s gossiping classmates comes from the 1880 U.S. federal census; their fathers’ biographies in History of Scott County; cemetery records from the Oakdale Cemetery in Davenport; the Vassar College Catalog for 1883–1884; and photographs from the Upper Mississippi Valley Digital Image Archive (DPLRS). 5. Peoria Circuit Court records for April and May 1880. 6. Davenport Democrat, February 1, 1884 (DPLRS). •——— notes to pages 8–40 ———• •——— Recto Runninhead ———• 379 7. Cora wrote in her diary about her father’s accordion, and photograph albums show his beard. 8. Decatur, Illinois, Daily Republican, April 16, 1880 (Newspaperarchive .com). 9. Matthew Vassar, “Communications to the Board of Trustees by Its Founder, I. February 26, 1861,” Vassar Encyclopedia, http://vcencyclopedia. vassar.edu/trustees/communications-to-the-board-of-trustees/index.html. 10. Complaints about Vassar College’s falling admission standards were an important topic in all the articles describing the financial crisis at the college. 11. Twentieth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Vassar College, 1884–1885, p. 28. 4. Memorable Date of...

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