Deland, Margaret Deland Deland Company. The Marlborough, N. H., who made available family pa- ment as an assistant instructor of drawing and f his consulting pers, including a brief MS. autobiography by his fa- ther. The family also has an oil painting of de Forest design at the Normal College of the City of method of detect- by Rosamund Burgess. Other sources biographical New York (later Hunter College), where she or cracks in a sketch by Edward C. McDonald, Jr in Metal Prog- ress, Mar. 1944 (with photograph Frank G. Tat- taught for nearly four years. 1 the process of nall, Tatnall on Testing (1966) which makes extensive During a summer holiday in Vermont in 1878 e or wear. This reference to de Forest and his work; obituary in she met Lorin Fuller Deland, the junior member : the Magnaflux the M.I.T. Technology Rev., May 1945 personal recollections of a professional associate, Mr. Albert of a Boston printing firm. Deland and Son. They president. Eplett, Orange, Conn.; and Genealogy of the DuPont were married on May 12, 1880, at her uncle's rn for his son's Family (privately printed, 1958), Chart I5, which traces the Kemble and de Forest families. See also house in Fairfield, Pa, Established in Boston, the and for the en- N. Y. Times, Apr. 6, 1945 Who Was Who in Amer- Delands compromised their religious differences- ation, de Forest ica, vol (1950) ; and Nat. Cyc. Am. Biog., XXXV, he was a Unitarian, she a Presbyterian-by: at- or at Massachu- 408-09.] JAMES A. MULHOLLAND tending Episcopalian services at Trinity Church. on the urging of Coming under the influence of its rector, Phillips .d Jerome Hun- MARGARET (Feb. 23, 1857-Jan. Brooks [q.v.], and his ideals of community and nd aeronautical I3, 1945), author, was born near Allegheny, Pa., social service, the couple adopted a cause which y nothing and I the only child of Sample Campbell, a Pittsburgh at that time was widely regarded as shocking tent of mechan- clothing merchant, and his second wife, Mar- helping unmarried mothers. Themselves childless, ut the challenge garetta Wade, daughter of an ordnance manufac- the Delands took into their home both mothers udents and the turer whose English ancestors had been early and infants, in the belief that a fallen woman, if with the M.I.T. settlers in Maryland. She was christened Mar- permitted to keep her child and allowed to be- : It was a posi- garetta Wade but later shortened the name to come self-supporting, would be transformed, her rtile mind and Margaret. Her father, who had two grown chil- life redeemed by the healing power of her infant's d it with skill dren by an earlier marriage, was a native of love. This theory was confirmed by considerable Kentucky. Her mother died at Margaret's birth, success among the some sixty girls whom they Forest, partially and she was placed in the household of her aided in this fashion over a period of four years. ented a striking maternal aunt and uncle, Lois (Wade) and Ben- To help make ends meet during these years, forehead topped jamin Bakewell Campbell. (Her uncle, though Mrs. Deland began painting china, which she hair, his flash- of the same name, was not related to her father, sold to a Boston merchant, and also (at her hus- trace of a smile who died when she was about four.) Reared as band's suggestion) sold verses to be used on man of wisdom a daughter amid a colony of aunts, uncles, and Christmas cards, then coming into vogue. She associates were cousins, she grew up on a plantation-like estate in had often written poems for her own pleasure, nd precision of Manchester, on the banks of the Ohio River near but her entrance into the literary world came about isiasm and en- Allegheny. It was apparently an agreeable child- by chance when a friend, without her knowledge, ed with Prof. hood despite religious training in a gloomy Cal- took some of her poems to the editor of Harper's ) the Ruge-de vinism "only faintly brightened by a stratum of Magazine, which published them. Encouraged, nership turned Episcopalianism from my Wade grandparents." she continued to write, and in 1886 Houghton, eas relating to A spirited girl, Maggie Campbell did not easily Mifflin & Company published a collection of her The most im- accept the rules of propriety laid down for young poems, The Old Garden, which had a good sale. led wire strain women of her day. At the age of sixteen, follow- Urged by her husband to try her hand at lication in the ing a youthful love affair, she was sent to Pelham fiction, Mrs. Deland had by this time begun writ- ies in World Priory, a boarding school near New Rochelle, ing a novel on a theme which had long pre- N. Y., for "young females of good family con- occupied her : the consequences of fanatic bor, Maine, de nections." The school stressed religion and de- Calvinism. John Ward, Preacher (1888) portrays Philadelphia, a portment, and she was once censured for the a zealot who in carrying Calvinist dogma to its t of Freud and "indecorum" of running into the hall. This was logical end is driven to sacrifice his beloved wife children, a son, the first of many indecorums of which Mrs. because she is unable to embrace the doctrine of Judith Brasher Deland would be accused, as, through works both reprobation. Conventionally written, the novel ation was with of fiction and of charity-her two central OC- exhibits Mrs. Deland's skill in devising a complex VO days before cupations-she extended her reputation for daring plot to illustrate those doctrinal intricacies that of a heart at- and resolution from her family circle to a vastly she hoped to condemn, Among "those readers in ere he had a larger audience. England and America who regarded it as an mily cemetery. She returned home from Pelham Priory at the attack on religion, the book acquired the reputa- on the forma- end of a year, determined to live independent of tion of a scandalous work. Today it is little read ern inspection family authority, and in 1875 she was allowed to and is chiefly of historical interest, as an example go to New York City to study art and design at of the influence of Olive Schreiner's noted work was a detailed Cooper Union. The next year, by way of a of protest against religious intolerance, The Story de Forest, of competitive examination, she received an appoint- of an African Farm (1883), and as a novel which 22I Deland DeLee used the genre of genteel domestic fiction to DeLEE, JOSEPH BOLIVAR (Oct. 28, express dissent. 1869-Apr. 2, 1942), obstetrician, was born at Two later novels in a similar vein, The Cold Spring, N. Y., in the Hudson Valley, the Awakening of Helena Richie (1906) and The fifth son and ninth of ten children of Morris Iron Woman (1911), also received considerable and Dora (Tobias) DeLee. Both parents were réclame. Mrs. Deland's concern, however, was Jewish immigrants from Poland; his father was solely with the moral issues in personal relation- the son of a French army surgeon who had settled ships. In none of her work did she strike a note there after Napoleon's defeat at Moscow. Joseph of social protest. She was opposed to woman attended elementary school in Cold Spring and suffrage, and those of ner heromes who impibed finished grammar school in New Haven, Conn., the social philosophy of the Progressive era were where his father had moved his dry goods busi- presented with a touch of caricature. Her code of ness. After a brief residence in New York City, ethics was likewise traditional (she refused, for the family moved in 1885 to Chicago. Joseph instance, to countenance divorce). Her basic graduated from the South Division High School lovalty to the values of an earlier day 1S most in 1888 and, although his father had wished him apparent in her short stories about the orderly to become a rabbi, entered the Chicago Medical and sheltered world of "Old Chester," a Pennsyl- College (later the Northwestern University Med- vania village patterned after the Manchester of ical School), receiving the M.D. degree in 1891. her childhood, and its lovable Episcopalian shep- Among his professors he was particularly influ- herd, Dr. Lavendar. Collected in Old Chester enced by W. W. Jaggard in obstetrics. Tales (1898), Dr. Lavendar's People (1903), DeLee's eighteen months' internship at the and other volumes, these stories won Mrs. Deland Cook County (III.) Hospital gave him a close a devoted following in the two decades before the acquaintance with the low state of obstetrical First World War. Her autobiographical volumes, care, and he determined to devote himself to the If This Be (1935) and Golden Yesterdays goal of raising both the standards and the stand- (1941), still warrant attention as a record of the ing of obstetrics as a medical specialty. He con- many transformations of American social history tinued his training in Europe, studying maternity during the nearly eighty years of her adult life. hospitals and home obstetrical services in Berlin, In 1917, the year when her husband died, Vienna, and Paris, and in 1894 returned to Chi- Margaret Deland received an honorary degree cago. The next year he rented four rooms in a from Rutgers University; she received similar tenement basement and opened the Chicago honors from Tufts (1920), Bates (1920), and Lying-in Dispensary, a maternity clinic which Bowdoin (1931). Elected to the National In- offered free prenatal care and obstetric service in stitute of Arts and Letters in 1926, she was the patient's home. He secured interns and senior among the first women (after Julia Ward Howe medical students to assist in the work and in [q.v.] in 1907) to receive that distinction. She 1896 himself became chairman of the department died in 1945 of coronary heart disease at her of obstetrics and gynecology at Northwestern home in the Hotel Sheraton in Boston and was University Medical School, but the Dispensary buried in Forest Hills Cemetery. At her death remained an independent undertaking. A hospital the New York Times wondered that the writings was added in 1899, and in 1917 a new 100-bed of this "mildest and most serene of gentlewomen" building was erected. DeLee himself did most of should have stirred up "such bitter and hostile the fund raising, initially from Chicago's Jewish feelings." Twenty-five years after her death, she community (although the Lying-in Hospital was had almost disappeared from the standard studies never sectarian), after 1908 with the aid of a of American literature, and it was necessary to Women's Board headed by Janet Ayer (Mrs. recall from obscurity Mrs. Deland's modest but Kellogg) Fairbank, a well-to-do Chicagoan. permanent contribution to the long history of DeLee's life was a crusade to prevent unneces- resistance to intolerance and cruelty in America. sary death in childbirth. When he began, most babies among the working classes were delivered [Mrs. Deland's If This Be I and Golden Yesterdays are the "principal sources. 'Short biographical entries by midwives, and none of the abler medical stu- are found in Nat. Cyc. Am. Biog., XXXIII, 506; dents thought of specializing in such a field. Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, Twentieth Century Authors (1942) ; and Who Was Who in Through teaching and writing DeLee sought to America, vol. II (1950). Small efforts of appraisal give medical students practical training in child- are given in Percy H. Boynton, America in Contem- porary Fiction (1940), and in the N. Y. Times obit- birth as well as careful instruction in pathological uary, Jan. 14, 1945. The only recent scholarly esti- cases. As a teacher he was unsurpassed. Chiefly mate is that of J. C. Levenson in Notable Am. he taught by precept. He spoke to large groups Women, I, 454-56.] WILLIAM WASSERSTROM of observers while delivering a patient; never 222 AMC[weir mitchel1[1,1017,2,3,3,3,4,6,5,100,6,1 (45-1) Page 1 of 2 Records 45 through 45 of 132 returned. Author: Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945. Title: Papers: of Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, 1888-1945 [manuscript] Description: 132 items. Notes: Forms part of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library. Deland was an American author best know for her tales of "Old Chester" grouped about the character "Dr. Lavendar." The collection contains manuscripts of poems "May in New England, II "The waits, " "Bossy and the daisy," "Pronouns, " "Dandelion gold, " "The succory," and "The clover, II and two stanzas from "The message of the lilies." A two page excert "The promise of Dorothea" from "Old Chester Tales"; a one page excerpt from her autobiography; an outline of her novel "Sidney" and a quotation are also included. Deland corresponds regularly with editors and publishers about the development of her stories and articles, proofreading, royalties, serialization, publication in the United States and England, pirated editions and possible dramatizations. Other letters discuss her speaking engagements; social causes, particularly her work with unwed mothers; reader reaction to her books and characters; religious beliefs; fellow authors; and friendship with her physician B. H. Ragle. Many of the letters mention her husband, Lorin Fuller Deland, and his encouragement of her literary and charitable endeavors. Five letters are written from Aix-les-Bains, France, where Deland travelled in 1917 to do relief work for the Authors Fund. The collection also contains several clippings and a watercolor, possibly a self portrait caricature. Annotated list available. Cite as Margaret Campbell Deland Papers in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Accession #7641 through 7641-g, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va. Subjects: Obituaries aat Watercolors aat Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907. Anglin, Margaret Mary, 1876-1958. Notz: The Subject Annable, Sylvia. Atlantic Monthly. (M.W.C.Deland) Century Magazine. lived at 35 Newbury Copeland, Charles Townsend, 1860-1952. Deland, Lorin Fuller, 1855-1917. St., Boston. This Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945. old Chester tales. address is digned Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945 -- Portraits. by sight with the Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945 18 Common wealth Ave. Religion. Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945. home of the DORR Sidney. Hampton Institute. Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. family http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?present+3981364+Default+45+1+F+1.2.840.10003.5.10+45+/c... 5/17/2005 BIB[AND(Margaret Deland [1,1016,2,3,4,6,3,3,5,100]AMC[1,5080,4,2])]0 (12-1) Page 1 of 1 Records 12 through 12 of 43 returned. Author: Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1943. Title: Letters, 1897-1931. Description: 3 items. Notes: [1] ALS, [n.d.], Boston, to Mrs. Hale: Accepts invitation to meet Mrs. Richard Hale at lunch. [2] TLS, 1897, Feb. 1, Boston, to Editor, Boston Herald: Asks for comment in "Herald" about sale of plants at her house, the proceeds of which will be given to fund to encourage window gardening. [3] TLS, 1931, May 8, Kennebunkport, Me., , to Miss Franklin: Asks for assistance in raising money to buy William Hunt's portrait of Ida Mason from her estate and present it to the Newport Art Association. Subjects: Hunt, William Morris, 1824-1879. The Boston Herald. Letters -- United States -- 1876-1900. ftamc Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1943. Women authors. Other authors: Hale, Mrs., , recipient. Franklin, Mrs., recipient. Location: RPB-JH Ms. 15.75 Control No. : RIBV85-A714 Tagged display | Previous Record | Next Record | Brief Record Display | New Search This display was generated by the CNIDR Web-Z39.50 gateway, version 1.08, with Library of Congress Modifications. http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?present+270700+Default+12+1+F+1.2.840.10003.5.10+1... 6/7/2007