http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:21:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Rev. Anton T. Boisen was a grandson of Theophilus and Rebecca Wylie. When his father, Hermann B. Boisen died in 1884 at the age of 38, Anton’s mother Louisa Wylie Boisen brought her two young children back to Bloomington and moved in with her parents in what is now ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2009/03/24/anton-t-and-martin-luther-king/ In the summer of 1895, Professor Carl H. Eigenmann established a “Biology Station”, the first inland biological station in America, at Turkey Lake, Kosciusko County, Indiana. He did this with the consent of Indiana University, but without financial support. The University trustees agreed to allow ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2009/03/11/iu%e2%80%99s-turkey-lake-biology-station/ [caption id="attachment_97" align="alignleft" width="193" caption="Mary Parke Foster, photo from the Wylie House Archives"][/caption] Mary Parke McFerson (known as Parke), a childhood friend of Louisa Wylie Boisen’s, married John W. Foster who served in the Union Army during the Civil War and went on to become U. S. Minister to Mexico, then ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2009/02/17/mcferson-and-foster-families/ According to Edward A. Keogh in “A Brief History of the Air Mail Service of the U. S. Post Office Department (May 15, 1918 – August 31, 1927)”  [http://www.airmailpioneers.org/history/Sagahistory.htm], the first air mail service in the United States was in September 1911, when Earle L. Ovington was appointed an air ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2009/01/13/early-airmail-delivery/ [caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="216" caption="Louise Bradley, Camp Chequesset, Cape Cod"][/caption] Louise Bradley (1908-1979) was the sister of Morton C. Bradley, Jr. the inspiration for this blog. As a young girl, she attended Camp Chequesset on Cape Cod in Massachusetts during the summers where she met a fellow camper, three years younger ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2008/12/18/correspondence-between-louise-bradley-and-elizabeth-bishop/ [caption id="attachment_50" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Louisa Wylie"][/caption] Louisa Wylie Boisen, eldest daughter of Theophilus and Rebecca Wylie, was one of the earliest female students at Indiana University, graduating in 1871. She was also an early member of I.U.s Beta chapter of Kappa Alpha Theta, the first Greek-letter women's ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2008/12/04/kappa-alpha-theta/ [caption id="attachment_24" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Cyrus Dodd, photo courtesy of IU Archives"][/caption] Cyrus Morris Dodd graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1855 and spent most of his professional life teaching at his alma mater. However, during the year or two that he spent teaching mathematics and Latin at I.U. in ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2008/11/25/%e2%80%9cmore-for-the-genealogists%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/ I often think, while transcribing letters from the Wylies and their many friends and relations, how thrilled genealogical researchers might be to discover that we have a significant number of letters from their ancestors in our collections. And yet they would never know to inquire here if we did not ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2008/11/21/%e2%80%9cof-possible-interest-to-genealogists%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/ Morton C. Bradley, Jr., great-grandson of Theophilus and Rebecca Wylie, graduated from Harvard University. He was awarded the Edward R. Bacon Art Scholarship in 1934 to study painting for two years in the principal museums and cathedrals of Europe. His mother, Marie Boisen Bradley, accompanied him in the fall of ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2008/11/07/spanish-civil-war/ We are often asked, "How did it happen that all these letters were saved for so many years?" The following is a quote from a letter dated December 22, 1898. It was written by Jennie Wylie of Philadelphia following the death of her father and step-mother a few months earlier, ... http://bl-libg-weblab.ads.iu.edu/wordpress/wylie/2008/10/16/i-have-the-family-failing-too-when-letters-are-concerned/