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Harmon P. & myrtle w. marble
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According to Nina Martyris, in her article on NPR Iowa Public Radio published in 2015, the first Women's Suffrage Cookbook was published in 1886. History of Women's Suffrage: 1900-1920 edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al., states that Marble took part in the cookbook initiative in 1904 by helping to publish and mail the books. Nina Martyris also claims that these cookbooks were used as a fundraiser for the suffrage movement. This was arguably the most influential project Marble took part in because it raised awareness of the issues with discrimination against women and raised money for the suffrage cause.
The Omaha Daily Bee, published on March 17, 1903, states that Marble took part in other suffragist activities. For instance, the newspaper details how she attended the National Women's Suffrage Convention in New Orleans to represent Nebraska. The Omaha Daily Bee, published on February 3, 1907, also states that Marble was a member of the Nebraska Women's Suffrage Association, and in 1907, she attended the Chicago meeting to represent Nebraska.
According to the 1920 and 1940 United States Federal Census given by ancestry.com, Marble and her family moved to South Dakota and Las Vegas. The California Death Index from 1940-1997 from ancestry.com also provides her death certificate, revealing that she died in Los Angeles in 1951. Marble and her family were primarily following Harmon's career; however, Myrtle was also independent in her works as a suffragist.
The Omaha Daily Bee, published on March 17, 1903, states that Marble took part in other suffragist activities. For instance, the newspaper details how she attended the National Women's Suffrage Convention in New Orleans to represent Nebraska. The Omaha Daily Bee, published on February 3, 1907, also states that Marble was a member of the Nebraska Women's Suffrage Association, and in 1907, she attended the Chicago meeting to represent Nebraska.
According to the 1920 and 1940 United States Federal Census given by ancestry.com, Marble and her family moved to South Dakota and Las Vegas. The California Death Index from 1940-1997 from ancestry.com also provides her death certificate, revealing that she died in Los Angeles in 1951. Marble and her family were primarily following Harmon's career; however, Myrtle was also independent in her works as a suffragist.
SOURCE MATERIALS
general biographical information
Harmon Marble has his own wikipedia entry! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmon_Percy_Marble.
About the wikipedia entry for Harmon Marble: A source on the wikipedia entry has a YouTube video showing a slide show of his works. The Wikipedia notes his unartistic but honest portrayal and the description with this video says: "Harmon Percy Marble extensively documented Native America. The Indian Agent was born in 1870 and entered Government Indian Service in 1911. Until he retired in 1926, Marble was assigned to many reservations in the Plains and Southwest areas. While his images lack some of the quality of others, his possibly is the most honest portrayal of actual Native American life at the time."
Another source that the Wikipedia article listed is a nice collection accompanied by an anthropology professor's commentary: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121191927/http://www.nativeamericanlinks.com/harmonmarble.htm
Harmon Marble founded the Humboldt Leader in 1897, Myrtle joined as editor at some point and became sold working editor toward then end, and they sold it in 1911. Unsourced history.
Photograph of Harmon & Myrtle's only child, Zora Marble Grant: index of University of Las Vegas archive collection says it includes pictures of Zora: https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=photocoll&recid=100
FANTASTIC WOODS FAMILY TREE, includes Marbles: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/20215823/person/918550492/facts
About the wikipedia entry for Harmon Marble: A source on the wikipedia entry has a YouTube video showing a slide show of his works. The Wikipedia notes his unartistic but honest portrayal and the description with this video says: "Harmon Percy Marble extensively documented Native America. The Indian Agent was born in 1870 and entered Government Indian Service in 1911. Until he retired in 1926, Marble was assigned to many reservations in the Plains and Southwest areas. While his images lack some of the quality of others, his possibly is the most honest portrayal of actual Native American life at the time."
Another source that the Wikipedia article listed is a nice collection accompanied by an anthropology professor's commentary: https://web.archive.org/web/20130121191927/http://www.nativeamericanlinks.com/harmonmarble.htm
Harmon Marble founded the Humboldt Leader in 1897, Myrtle joined as editor at some point and became sold working editor toward then end, and they sold it in 1911. Unsourced history.
Photograph of Harmon & Myrtle's only child, Zora Marble Grant: index of University of Las Vegas archive collection says it includes pictures of Zora: https://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/databases/index.php?coll=photocoll&recid=100
FANTASTIC WOODS FAMILY TREE, includes Marbles: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/20215823/person/918550492/facts
Biographical sketch, modern, Iowa "Biographical Sketch of Myrtle W. Marble, written by Haley Spengler. Included in Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920": https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009656392
FindaGrave.com memorial for Harmon Marble: Findagrave memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165330051/harmon-percival-marble
FindaGrave.com memorial for Harmon Marble: Findagrave memorial: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/165330051/harmon-percival-marble
harmon's photographs of native americans
Auction, looks like 2013, of images, collection $9,200. https://www.morphyauctions.com/jamesdjulia/item/lot-2179-outstanding-lot-of-over-300-native-american-photographs-by-harmon-p-marble-27417/
Pinterest site with his photos: https://www.pinterest.com/sonyaneumann/harmon-percy-marble-photographs-native-americans-n/
Images for search for him; he photographed native americans, Ebay photos listed for hundreds of dollars each. https://www.google.com/search?q=harmon+p.+marble&sxsrf=ALeKk01HjFKjVxDpt_YUmAE3qv5QtZkjTQ:1611597614524&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=hi1PiHh0uiAK8M%252CDFBB-F6ydZpngM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSIYutw4gb6OCG5XpWUDDNpe9TKOQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvnNb61LfuAhWpxVkKHf55D5IQ9QF6BAgGEAE#imgrc=hi1PiHh0uiAK8M
Pinterest site with his photos: https://www.pinterest.com/sonyaneumann/harmon-percy-marble-photographs-native-americans-n/
Images for search for him; he photographed native americans, Ebay photos listed for hundreds of dollars each. https://www.google.com/search?q=harmon+p.+marble&sxsrf=ALeKk01HjFKjVxDpt_YUmAE3qv5QtZkjTQ:1611597614524&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=hi1PiHh0uiAK8M%252CDFBB-F6ydZpngM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSIYutw4gb6OCG5XpWUDDNpe9TKOQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjvnNb61LfuAhWpxVkKHf55D5IQ9QF6BAgGEAE#imgrc=hi1PiHh0uiAK8M
information by date
April 9, 1872 - Harmon's mother, Maria Bump Marble, dies not long after the family arrives in Table Rock (1870). She was only 28. Her oldest, Edith, was almost 7 years old; Alice was 5, and Harmon was about 18 months.
October 31, 1872 -- Harmon acquires a loving step mother as his father marries Amanda Linn. (Amanda would pass away in 1910, at the age of 64.)
March 27, 1887 Nebraska State Journal. Harmon, still living in Table Rock, went to Elk Creek for a visit. (He was about 15.)
July 12, 1891 Nebrask State Journal. Harmon, now of Elk Creek, visits Pawnee City. (Article appears in the Pawnee City socials column.)
December 1, 1892, Harmon Percy Marble, by then of Elk Creek, married Myrtle P,. Woolsey at her parents' home in Elk Creek:.
1892 wedding portraits of Harmon & Myrtle, from a 1942 article about their 50th wedding anniversary
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August 6, 1897 Dawson (Nebraska) News Boy:
July 22, 1898 Nebraska State Journal-- First mention found of suffrage as a cause of Myrtle Marble. A 50th anniversary of suffrage celebration is held in Table Rock, and attended by Myrtle, now of Humboldt.
March 17, 1903 Omaha Daily Bee (Myrtle represented Nebraska at the National Women's Suffrage Convention in New Orlean
1904 - Myrtle took part in a cook book initiative by women's suffragists, helping to publish and mail the books. These books were used as a fundraiser for the suffragist movement, and also raised awareness of the issues of discrionation against women. (Nina Maretyrist, 2015 article for NPR Iowa Public Radio, according to biographical sketch by Haley Spengler in "Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920."
May 23, 1907 Elk Creek Herald
February 3, 1907 Omaha Daily Bee (Mytle belonged to the Nebraska Women's Suffrage Association, and she was a representative from Nebraska at a Chicago meeting of women's suffragists.
April 9, 1910 - Harmon's step mother, Amanda Linn Marble, passes away at age 64. She was the only mother he had known. His mother Maria had died when he was a baby, and Amanda married Harmon's father about six months later.
October 8, 1910 Lincoln Star -- the Leader quoted about prediction that politicians will someday need "airships"
1911 - Harmon's father, M. H. Marble, marries a third time, Amy Linn Marble. (Amy would pass away in 1983 at the age of 98. She was only 27 when she married M. H. Marble, he was 72. Amy Marble was born in 1884, when Harmon was 14. Amy was the daughter of Amanda's half-brother Samuel Linn. Samuel's father Richard Linn was Amanda's father and Amy's grandfather.)
March 15, 1911 Willmar (Minnesota) Tribune: the Leader sold to George Krause, formerly of Minnesota
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Meanwhile, back in Humboldt: July 15, 1915 Falls City Journal: Krause has apparently sold the Leader since he boutght it in 1911 and now W. R. S. Anstine has sold it to J. J. Hayden.
Meanwhile, back in Humboldt -- even though Harmon & Myrtle sold the Leader, they apparently retained some sort of interest in it. January 9, 1920 Falls City Journal
June 1, 1922 Albuquerque Journal. H. P. begins stint as agent for Pueblo Indians
June 8, 1922 Albuquerque Journal
June 1, 1924, Lincoln Journal Star. The Marbles headed for North Dakota reservation post. His and her history in the newspaper industry are cited:
May 17, 1926 Nebraska State Journal: H. P. resigns from the Indian Service. His and her history of setting type for the Nebraska State Journal cited.
March 16, 1838 -- Harmon's father, M. H. Marble of Table Rock, turns 99, and there is a big party to celebrate.
July 20, 1938 Lincoln Journal Star
March 16, 1939 -- Harmon's father, M. H. Marble of Table Rock, turns 100.
December 20, 1940 - Harmon's father, M. H. Marble, passes away at the age of 101.
1941: An extended article about the wedding of Zora's daughter in the November 19, 1941 San Bernardino County Sun cites the Marbles (two excerpts)
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December 3, 1942 Reno Gazette reports on the 50th wedding anniversary
The 50th wedding anniversary article was originally located in Ancestry. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/110212319:62116tid=&pid=&queryId=55671205b8b83637b5c1301b6a91c508&_phsrc=pyl770&_phstart=successSource
February 9, 1945 Lincoln Star
representative articles from the humboldt leader
November 11, 1904
Husband (and thus daughter) Mayflower descendant. March 15, 1940 Sentinel
1940 - The federal census records that Myrtle lived at 310 South 7th Street, Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband Harmon, and daughter Zora and Zora's husband Archie Grant.https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Nevada/Myrtle-Marble_9txh
1951 -- Myrtle died in Los Angeles
1940 - The federal census records that Myrtle lived at 310 South 7th Street, Las Vegas, Nevada with her husband Harmon, and daughter Zora and Zora's husband Archie Grant.https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/Nevada/Myrtle-Marble_9txh
1951 -- Myrtle died in Los Angeles
Biographical Sketch of Myrtle W. Marble, written by Haley Spengler. Included in Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920. Online at https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1009656392. The text of this online article in full:
Biography of Myrtle W. Marble, 1875-1951
Haley Spengler
Iowa State University
Faculty Sponsor: Sarah Chase Crosby
Subject Librarian: Susan A. Vega Garcia
Printer and Publisher of Woman's Suffrage Cookbook, Member of Nebraska Woman's Suffrage Association
Many women were involved in the suffrage movement, including the lesser-known Myrtle W. Marble. Along with her early life and marriage, Marble took part in many activities and organizations, such as the Women's Suffrage Cook Book and the Nebraska Woman Suffrage Association.
According to the 1880 United States Federal Census given by ancestry.com, Myrtle W. Marble was born as Myrtle W. Wosley. She was born in Illinois sometime around 1875 to William and Martha Wosley. Ancestry.com also reveals, through the Nebraska State Census Collection, 1860-1885, that she had three older brothers and two younger sisters. Based on this information, her family moved from Illinois to Nebraska sometime between 1875 and 1885.
The 1910 United States Federal Census given by ancestry.com claims that Myrtle was married to a man named Harmon Percy Marble. F. Andrew Taylor, from the Las Vegas Review Journal, published in 2014, reveals that Harmon and Myrtle lived in Humboldt, Nebraska together and had a daughter named Zora. Taylor also claims that Harmon was a popular photographer of Native Americans and very involved in Indian affrairs, and that, in 1897, the couple "founded a newspaper company called The Humboldt Leader."
According to Nina Martyris, in her article on NPR Iowa Public Radio published in 2015, the first Women's Suffrage Cookbook was published in 1886. History of Women's Suffrage: 1900-1920 edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, et al., states that Marble took part in the cookbook initiative in 1904 by helping to publish and mail the books. Nina Martyris also claims that these cookbooks were used as a fundraiser for the suffrage movement. This was arguably the most influential project Marble took part in because it raised awareness of the issues with discrimination against women and raised money for the suffrage cause.
The Omaha Daily Bee, published on March 17, 1903, states that Marble took part in other suffragist activities. For instance, the newspaper details how she attended the National Women's Suffrage Convention in New Orleans to represent Nebraska. The Omaha Daily Bee, published on February 3, 1907, also states that Marble was a member of the Nebraska Women's Suffrage Association, and in 1907, she attended the Chicago meeting to represent Nebraska.
According to the 1920 and 1940 United States Federal Census given by ancestry.com, Marble and her family moved to South Dakota and Las Vegas. The California Death Index from 1940-1997 from ancestry.com also provides her death certificate, revealing that she died in Los Angeles in 1951. Marble and her family were primarily following Harmon's career; however, Myrtle was also independent in her works as a suffragist.
Sources:
Ancestry.com. "M.W. Marble." 1920 United States Federal Census. Ancestry.com. Accessed September 26, 2017. http://search.ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com. "Myrtle W Marble." California Death Index, 1940-1997. Ancestry.com. Accessed September 26, 2017. http://search.ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com. "Myrtle Wolsey." 1880 United States Federal Census. Ancestry.com. Accessed September 26, 2017. http://search.ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com. "Myrtle W Marble." 1910 United States Federal Census. Ancestry.com. Accessed September 26, 2017. http://search.ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com. "Myrtle Woosley." Nebraska, State Census Collection, 1860-1885. Ancestry.com. Accessed September 26, 2017. http://search.ancestry.com.
Ancestry.com. "Myrtle Marble." 1940 United States Federal Census. Ancestry.com. Accessed September 26, 2017. http://search.ancestry.com.
"Leave for Suffrage Convention." Omaha Daily Bee, March 17, 1903. Page 3, Image 3. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1903-03-17/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1789&index=5&rows=20&words=Marble+Myrtle+W&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1925&proxtext=myrtle+w+marble&y=13&x=26&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=.
Martyris, Nina. "How Suffragist Used Cookbooks As A Recipe For Subversion." NPR Iowa Public Radio, November 5, 2015. http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/05/454246666/how-suffragists-used-cookbooks-as-a-recipe-for-subversion.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady., Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper, ed. The History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920, vol. 6. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company, 1922. https://books.google.com/books?id=rIoEAAAAYAAJ&q=myrtle+w+marble#v=onepage&q=myrtle%20w%20marble&f=false.
Taylor, Andrew F. "One-Time Las Vegas Mayor Documented Native Americans," Las Vegas Review Journal, August 6, 2014. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/downtown/one-time-las-vegas-mayor-documented-native-americans/.
"The Work of the Club Women." Omaha Daily Bee, February 3, 1907, Page 2, Image 2. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1907-02-03/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&index=3&rows=20&words=Marble+Myrtle+W&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1925&proxtext=myrtle+w+marble&y=13&x=26&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1.