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Identifier: marylouisaduncan00putn (find matches)
Title: Mary Louisa Duncan Putnam : a memoir ; William Clement Putman : a memoir
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Putnam, Elizabeth Duncan, b. 1867 Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU
Subjects: Putnam, Mary Louisa Duncan, 1832-1903 Putnam, William Clement, 1862-1906 Davenport Academy of Sciences Philanthropists
Publisher: Davenport, Ia., Davenport Academy of Sciences
Contributing Library: University of Illinois at Chicago
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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the man or woman with a hobby,feeling that the interest in outside affairs broadened the homelife and, when sorrows came, enabled a person to rise above them,in work for others. As a friend said, She was a woman whowas not afraid to live up to her convictions. This fearless, un-selfish character was what enabled her to go on with the work ofthe Academy, when a weaker woman would have been discour-aged at the difficulties and would have counted the cost and per-sonal sacrifice. With her earnest purpose and unselfish devotion, Mrs. Putnamwas enabled in her well-rounded life of three score and ten yearsto crystalize her high ideals into permanent results. She was ofa most hopeful, cheerful disposition, and while she rememberedthe past and while it influenced strongly her life, she lived in thepresent, planning for the future. Her children arise up and call her blessed.Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own workspraise her in the gates. Davenport, Iowa, December 14, 1905. 42
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WILLIAM CLEMENT PUTNAM WILLIAM CLEMENT PUTNAM A MEMOIR BY ELIZABETH DUNCAN PUTNAM On the western banks of the Mississippi, on the bluffs over-looking the broad river, lies the town of Davenport, in Iowa.The scene is one of quiet beauty, with the river winding onward,peacefully and majestically, amid the encircling hills. Here wasborn on the twenty-sixth day of June, 1862, William ClementPutnam, the fifth son of Charles Edwin Putnam and Mary LouisaDuncan, his wife. Brief was his life as the years are told, but into his forty-threeyears he crowded the work and achievement of a long life. Thesame traits of foresight, courage, energy and perseverence thathad sent his ancestors from their homes in Massachusetts andVirginia to develop new lands, kept him in his native city andenabled him to build up a fortune and leave it for the benefit ofDavenport. Descended on his fathers side from New Englandfamilies, men and women who led industrious, simple lives, andon the mothers side from Scotch an

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