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For information on Josephine Conger, you might contact one of my graduate students, Cliff Hawkins. His email address is cchawkins@ucdavis.edu. Ruth Rosen U.C. Davis >I have been searching the net, unsuccessfully, for information on Josephine >Conger who was editor of a magazine published briefly entitled "The >Progressive Woman." My interest stems from information I have that Helen >Rashman Untermann and Conger were "life-long friends" and that Helen was a >co-editor of the magazine. I am trying to verify the association between >Helen and Joesphine and to determine the context. I also would like to know >if copies of the magazine are extant and where. The Progressive Woman was >apparently published in Girard, Kansas in 1910. Girard seems to have been >something of a seedbed as it also was the hometown of Marcet Haldeman, niece >of Jane Addams and wife of Emanuel Julius who also had some connection with >the Untermann family. > >I am writing about Ernest Untermann and family. He seems to have been an >important theorist and writer for the Socialist Movement between 1900 and >1920, and I am trying to find out more about his connections to Debs, >London, Piet Vlag, and George Shoaf in particular. > >Ernest and Helen Untermann divorced, but I do not know when or where. Their >daughter Elsa Clara was apparently involved in some unsavory way with >Socialist party members, particularly Piet Vlag and George Shoaf. I am >trying to make sense of all of this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. >Thank you. > >Marie Nelson >nexia@easilink.com > ----------------------------------- Ruth Rosen Professor of History U.C. Davis Davis, California 95616 Phone and Fax: 510-841-7779 Internet: rerosen@ucdavis.edu "Ask not what feminist theory can do for history, but what history can do for feminist theory." ******************************** Hello: Mari Jo Buhle discusses Conger in her book WOMEN AND AMERICAN SOCIALISM, 1870-1920 (1983). Joyce Follett jfollett@mtholyoke.edu ************************************
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