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This item is a memoir of Charles Homer Dewey's life to 1943 and a postscript to 1944. Included are recollections of his life on the farm near Piedmont, Kansas; studies at the Kansas State Normal School (now Emporia State University); work as a teacher and school superintendent, the latter at Randolph and Grenola, Kansas; college and medical school at the University of Kansas; medical practice in Buffalo and Elk city, Kansas, during the Great Depression; and military service as a physician at Civilian Conservation Corps camps in Kansas, Missouri, and the western United States and a prisoner of war camp at Little Rock, Arkansas. The memoirs also describe farm life and the agricultural economy in the late 1880s and the political debate over the Spanish-American War.
Creator: Dewey, Charles Homer, 1885-1976
Date: Between 1940 and 1944
Item Number: 211977
Call Number: Collection 816
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 211977
Agriculture - Family farming
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Physicians
Collections - Manuscript
Date - 1940s
Education - Higher education - Institutions - Kansas State Normal School (Emporia)
Education - Higher education - Institutions - University of Kansas
Education - Secondary - Teachers
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Civilian Conservation Corps
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - New Deal
Military - Wars - Spanish American War
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront - Prisoner of war
Places - Cities and towns - Buffalo
Places - Cities and towns - Elk City
Places - Cities and towns - Grenola
Places - Cities and towns - Randolph
Places - Counties - Elk
Places - Counties - Montgomery
Places - Counties - Riley
Places - Counties - Wilson
Places - Other States - Arkansas
Places - Other States - Missouri
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Reminiscences and Memoirs
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