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58 volumes of diaries of Samuel W. Folsom, over 7,000 manuscript pages, dated 1867-1927, lacking years 1891, 1906, and 1921; 44 account books of Samuel W. Folsom, various paginations, 68,… Plus…

58 volumes of diaries of Samuel W. Folsom, over 7,000 manuscript pages, dated 1867-1927, lacking years 1891, 1906, and 1921; 44 account books of Samuel W. Folsom, various paginations, 68, 72, or 120 pages per book (earlier volumes have less pages), with the majority of the entries dated 1880-1927, lacking volumes for 1883, 1926; 6 volumes of memorandum books/diaries, approx. 1500 pages, kept by Arthur H. Folsom, dealing with his Folsom Galleries, dated 1908, 1911-1913, 1915, 1919-1920; plus 95 letters, 134 pp. for the Folsom Galleries and Samuel W. Folsom, dated 1908-1921, and over 900 pieces of paper ephemera related to Folsom Galleries, dated 1904-1921.Samuel W. Folsom (1844- 1929) Samuel W. Folsom for many years was a trusted official and worker in some of Cleveland's largest business concerns. Folsom was a member of a pioneer family of Cleveland. He was born at the corner of Vermont and Hanover streets in Cleveland on 16 December 1844. His father, Gillman Folsom, Jr., was born at Dorchester, New Hampshire, in 1798, and died March 10, 1870, was a pioneer in two of the largest cities in the Middle West. He grew up and was educated in his native town, and when a young man he rode horseback to Buffalo, New York, which was then hardly more than a village. He purchased about 300 acres of land in what is now the heart of the city. In 1836 Gillman Folsom removed to Ohio City, now part of Cleveland. In Cleveland he formed a partnership with a Mr. Tyler in a general merchandise business. Gillman Folsom & Tyler's store was at the corner of Detroit Avenue and Pearl Street. This partnership was subsequently dissolved, and Gillman Folsom continued a general store on Detroit Avenue for a number of years. Later he removed to Euclid, Ohio, and resumed farming, but in the 1860s returned to Cleveland and was superintendent of the West Side Market until his death in March, 1870. At one time he was a member of the council of Ohio City and was one of the group of thirteen men who purchased Whiskey Island and subdivided it. In 1836 Gillman Folsom built what was then the finest brick house in the City of Cleveland. Gillman Folsom, Jr., married first a Miss Marvin, and they had two children, Nathan M., who died January 1, 1894, in Jacksonville, Florida, and Charles, who died in Milwaukee Wisconsin March 3, 1887. Mr. Folsom married secondly Hadassa Ballard. They were married in Mayville at the head of Lake Chautauqua, New York. Her father, Gilbert Ballard, was an early day operator of stage coaches between Mayville and Jamestown, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Gillman Folsom had three children: G. B., who died January 15, 1903; Mrs. Hadassa B. Van Tine, who lived in Cleveland and died November 5, 1895 and our diary writer Samuel W. Folsom. Samuel W. Folsom grew up at Cleveland and until the age of seventeen attended the grammar schools and the West High School. On leaving school he became an accountant with the old Cleveland and Mahoning Railway Company, which became part of the Erie Railway system, while at a later time he served as paymaster of that road, and was later secretary to the president of that road at Meadville, Pennsylvania. For some years he was accountant and bookkeeper with the firm of Sheldon & Sons, lumber dealers at Cleveland, Ohio, but in 1876 became accountant and cashier of Rhodes & Company, coal and iron ore operators. In April, 1885, the name of this concern was changed to M. A. Hanna & Company. Mr. Folsom continued with this great Cleveland business for forty-one years (1876-1918), and for a large part of that time was at the head of the accounting department. Samuel was also a director and member of the executive committee of the Forest City Savings and Trust Company, a director in the West Cleveland Banking Company, and an official and director in many other large companies. He was a member of the Chamber of Industry, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Clifton Club. He was a republican voter and belonged to the Congregational Church. Mr. Folsom enlisted in the 100-days service in the One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Company B, Ohio National Guard, Colonel Hayard and Capt. William Nevins. Mark A. Hanna was a private in this guard company. On 2 October 1875, Mr. Folsom married Mary E. Hanna, a cousin of the late Senator Mark Hanna. Mary was born on 16 January 1846 and died July 21, 1916 at the age of 70 years old. She was the daughter of Benjamin Jones Hanna (1823-1881) and Catherine McCook (1822-1904). She was the oldest of the Hanna's four children. Mrs. Folsom's cousin was Marcus Alonzo "Mark" Hanna (1837-1904), an American businessman and Republican politician, who served as a United States Senator from Ohio. He was a friend and political ally of U.S. President William McKinley and used his wealth and business skills to successfully manage McKinley's presidential campaigns in 1896 and 1900. Mark Hanna married Charlotte Rhodes the daughter of Daniel Rhodes. Daniel Rhodes took Mark A. Hanna into his business with him and Hanna was soon a partner in the firm, which grew to have interests in many areas, especially coal and iron. The company came to be called "M. A. Hanna Co." and was one of Cleveland's major iron-ore houses. Hanna Mining evolved from Rhodes & Co., a firm established in the 1840s by Daniel Rhodes to mine coal in the Mahoning Valley area. It expanded into iron ore mining in the Lake Superior region in the mid-1860s, when Hanna married Rhodes's daughter and joined the firm. Hanna and his brothers took over the partnership in 1885 and renamed it M.A. Hanna & Co. Mark Hanna died in 1904. It was for this "M. A. Hanna & Company" that Samuel W. Folsom worked for forty-one years. Samuel W. Folsom died on 9 May 1929. Samuel & Mary Hanna Folsom had only one son, Arthur Hanna Folsom. Arthur H. Folsom (1877-1944) and Folsom Galleries Arthur Hanna Folsom was born 26 November 1877. He was the son of Samuel Winthrop Folsom (1844-1929) and Mary Emma Hanna (1846-1916). His parents married on 12 October 1875. Arthur graduated from the West High School of Cleveland, Adelbert College - Western Reserve University. In 1900, Arthur was living with his parents in Cleveland. He was 22 years old. By 1906 he had moved to New York City to become a Fifth Avenue art dealer. In June of 1906, the New York Times reported on an exhibition of the artist Guy Wiggins. The paper mentioned that Arthur H. Folsom had "taken over" the "Modern Gallery" on East 33rd Street where the Wiggins exhibit was taking place. An earlier article, written in April 1906 in the New York Times, reported that the Modern Gallery was a "new hall" at 11 East 33rd Street; thus presumably only recently opened. This appears to be Arthur H. Folsom's start in the New York art world. He would have been 29 years old. From at least 1907-1909, Folsom appears to have been in partnership with an Otto Hudson Bauer (1870-1963), decorator, operating the "Bauer-Folsom Galleries" at 396 5th Avenue in New York City. Bauer had previously been listed in New York City directories as an artist in partnership with decorator Anson Dudley Bramhall in Bramhall & Company at 1133 Broadway. Bramhall & Company filed for bankruptcy in 1902 after Bramhall disappeared. Bramhall & Co. was said to be a leading decorating firm that had "large dealings with the most prominent architects for the highest style in decorative work." They defaulted on over $30,000 in debt after Bramhall's disappearance and went out of business. By 1907 Bauer had become partners with Arthur H. Folsom. The cash account books of Samuel W. Folsom included in this archive show Samuel Folsom giving money to his son Arthur on several occasions in early 1907, to the A. H. Folsom Gallery. However in May of 1907, he gives $4000 to the Bauer-Folsom Galleries, which would appear to be the start-up money for Arthur to become partners in this gallery. In May 1909, the New York papers again announced that Folsom has taken over a gallery (Bauer-Folsom) and the gallery will now be known as "Folsom Galleries," but it was still located at the same address, "opposite Tiffany's." Samuel Folsom's account books show that he sent money to his son for "Folsom Galleries" in July 1909. Bauer appears to have stayed in New York City working as a decorator contractor. Folsom would be listed at first as the president, treasurer, and director of Folsom Galleries, with his home at 14 E. 28th Street. Arthur's father Samuel, who lived in Cleveland, was later listed as one of the directors along with his son of the gallery. At one point "Hy. S. Cook" was listed as secretary for the Folsom Galleries. The Folsom Galleries was considered an important gallery for American art in the early Twentieth Century, especially with American impressionist painters and the various other "schools" of art that were emerging in New York City. The gallery offered a place for artists to meet and discuss the nascent avant-garde scene. The gallery was in business at from at least 1909 to 1924 (listed in New York City papers and directories), possibly longer. Evidence in this collection shows it being open during this time period as well. In 1922 the gallery was listed at 104 W. 57th Street. Arthur H. Folsom was listed as an art dealer until at least to 1930, when he was listed as an art dealer on a passenger ship manifest. Folsom offered exhibitions of American impressionist painters from as early as 1910. The gallery loaned paintings of American impressionist Emil Carlsen (1853-1932) to the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy in that year. They conducted an exhibition of the works of American modernist painter Alfred H. Maurer (1868-1932) in January 1913; landscape painter Allen Tucker (1866-1939) in November 1913; painter Roswell Morse Shurtleff (1838-1915) in January 1914; portraitist Howard Logan Hildebrandt (1872-1958) in March of 1915; painter Nathaniel Cobb (1879-1932) in March of 1916; American impressionist painters William H. Singer (1868-1943) and Louis Ritman (1889-1963) in Feb - March 1918; Boston School painter William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941) in February 1919; American impressionist landscaper painter Daniel Garber (1880-1958) in March 1919; and then another exhibit of William H. Singer in March-April 1921. Singer is seen regularly in weekly business statements in this collection as receiving payments from Folsom Galleries, among other artists', but not as often as Singer. The gallery offered many other exhibits of painters, sculptors, as well as exhibits of ancient and medieval art, which they apparently also sold. The gallery in 1920 offered the first solo exhibition of modernist sculptor John Henry Bradley Storrs (1885-1956), who had studied with and befriended Auguste Rodin. The gallery also offered an exhibition of "cowboy artist" Charles M. Russell in April of 1911. There is a receipt in the ephemera collection made out to Mrs. C.M. Russell for casting a sculpture, as well as his name appearing receiving payments from the gallery in the weekly statements. In addition to the American impressionists, the Folsom Galleries was also instrumental in exhibiting various schools of art of New York City's art scene. They also offered the first and third exhibitions of "The Eclectics" in 1915 and 1918 respectfully. Organized by James Britton "The Eclectics," was an exhibiting group of painters and sculptors that at various times included Theresa Bernstein, Guy Pene du Bois, Walter Griffin, Philip L. Hale, Eugene Higgins, George Luks, Jane Peterson, Maurice Prendergast, Mahonri Young, and others. The first two exhibitions of "The Pastellists" were held at the Folsom Galleries. The Pastellists was an organization of artists that formed in New York at the end of 1910 for the purpose of exhibiting artwork produced in the medium of pastel. The group helped organize four exhibitions in New York between 1910 and 1914 before disbanding in 1915. Some Pastellist members are credited with the initial idea for the exhibition that later became the 1913 Armory Show, the first major exhibition of European modernism in America. Some of the artists in this group were: Robert Henri, Mary Cassatt, Leon Dabo, Jerome Myers, Everett Shinn, Arthur Bowen Davies, Walt Kuhn, Juliet Thompson, and others. Leon Dabo (1864-1960) was considered the leader of this group. The first two exhibitions met with good reviews and high attendance. The New York Times said the second show "surpasses in interest its predecessor, which certainly was sufficiently charming." A "striking and important" work was L'enfant a l'orange by Mary Cassatt; Big Wave Design by Arthur Bowen Davies had "vigor and free handling, with the addition of a feeling for great rhythms". In 1915, Folsom Galleries offered an exhibition of a group called "The American Salon of Humorists" organized by Louis Baury. The exhibition included the work of Robert Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, George Bellows, Arthur Young, Stuart Davis, and others, including a number of artists who were regular contributors to The Masses, a New York City graphically innovative magazine of socialist politics published from 1911 until 1917. Arthur Hanna Folsom was listed as retired when he filed his WWII draft registration in 1942. He died soon after on 30 October 1944 at New York City. His remains were taken back to Cleveland, Ohio to be buried at Riverside Cemetery. Description of Collection Diaries: The 58 volumes of diaries were written by Samuel W. Folsom, of Cleveland, Ohio. Incredibly, almost every entry space for every day has been written in, also a number of the cash account and memorandum sections at the rear were used. Some entries are short, others long. The diary manufacturers vary: Pocket Diaries, Centennial Diaries, and Excelsior Diaries. The diaries for 1867-1876, 1878-1887, 1892-1893, 1895-1905, 1907-1920, 1922-1927 are three days entries per page format. The diary for 1877 is two days per page format, the diary for 1888-1890 being four days per page format. The diary for 1894 is seven days per page format with facing cash account pages. The diaries are bound in limp leather (26) or limp cloth (32), and mostly measure 3 ¼" x 7 ¼", except for the diaries for 1920, 1922-1927, which measure 2" x 5". All of the diaries are written in ink, in a legible hand, and are in more or less in good condition. The diaries beside giving the day to day life of a prominent Cleveland businessman over the course of an amazing sixty years, also provide insight into the founding of Folsom Galleries, one of America's important galleries for introducing the world to American Impression and early modern art. For the diary of 1907 we see this: "Feb 26, 1907 ...wrote l, 0, Large Archive includes 2,191 letters, comprising 6,737 manuscript and typed pages, plus over 1,000 pieces of paper and printed ephemera. Of the 2,191 letters, 1,626 letters (4,793 pages, dated 1920-1983) are from the family of Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis and their children, with the remaining 565 letters (1,944 pages, dated 1896-1960) that of the family of Theodore Szarvas and his wife Vivian Florence Fraser and their children.Description of the Fagg family section of archive:1,626 letters, comprising 4,793 manuscript and typed pages broken down as follows:1920s: 1920: 1 letter, 7 pages; 1921: 169 letters, 444 pages; 1922: 154 letters, 508 pages;1923: 62 letters, 186 pages;1924: 153 letters, 465 pages;1925: 117 letters, 387 pages;1926: 135 letters, 370 pages;1927: 78 letters, 201 pages;1928: 8 letters, 17 pages. This part of the collection is mainly correspondence between Kenneth S. Fagg and Marion Rebuschatis both before and after they were married, while they were both attending college at the University of Wisconsin, and when Kenneth was attending art school in New York City, and beginning his career as an artist and illustrator.1930s-1980s: 155 letters, 448 pages. This section of the archive includes 52 letters written by Marion Fagg in 1938 to her Aunt Emma Noud, her mother's sister. At this time the Faggs were living at Sunnyside Gardens, L.I, and Aunt Emma at Washington, D.C. The correspondence seems to have been started with a hospital stay for a broken hip by Aunt Emma. Also included in this section of the correspondence collection are 43 letters written to Donald Fagg, the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg. Donald's brother Peter Fagg, the noted IBM computer engineer, wrote 24 of these letters between 1950-1952, with Donald's father writing 37 letters to him between 1947-1952, and his mother Marion (3 letters) and his sister-in-law, Janet Szarvas Fagg (1 letter) also writing to him. Additionally there are other letters to Donald Fagg from Harvard University, Boston University, Ohio Wesleyan University, the New York Psychiatric Institute, and the Selective Service System. Donald Fagg committed suicide in 1957 and these letters written to him were apparently retained by the family after his death. In this section are also 4 letters written by Donald Fagg, written to his two Aunts Margaret and Emma, when he was a child. Peter Fagg also writes a letter to his parents and receives a letter from the Chappaqua Historical Society concerning the possible donation of paintings. There are also letters written to Ken and Marion from friends or family dating from the1960s-1970s.Undated Letters: 594 letters, 1,760 pages. Most of these undated letters do not have their mailing envelopes attached to them. (There are over 500 envelopes in this collection that are not with their letters, undoubtedly, a good many of these letters belong to these envelopes). Kenneth S. Fagg never wrote the date on his letters until later in life, thus most of these undated letters (approximately 512) are written by Kenneth S. Fagg in the 1920s. The envelopes in this collection are important for helping to date the correspondence. Of course the type of stationary and the contents of the letters, also help to date the letters. About 18 undated letters are written by Marion, the rest of them by other correspondents.Summary: The bulk of the correspondence in this archive is mainly between Kenneth and Marion. The couple writes to each other, and with occasional letters by family, friends, or fellow students and or business associates. Of the letters in the archive, 1,169 letters were written by Kenneth S. Fagg, Marion wrote 262. The remaining letters were written by family, friends, or others. As might be expected, the correspondence was heavy during the years the couple was courting, engaged, and the year they married. After they married in 1927 most correspondence was written by Kenneth, while he was travelling, or working out of town, while Marion was still in either Washington, D.C., or away at university, occasionally there are letters between the parents and their children. Of the letters written by Kenneth S. Fagg, a number of them (38) are illustrated with drawings, sketches, portraits, cartoons, of considerable interest and demonstrate Fagg's skill and talents as a graphic artist and designer, etc. The letters give some interesting insight into the life of an artist and illustrator in New York City in the 1920s, attending many art exhibitions at galleries, theatrical performances, plays, or concerts, while he was an art student.Description of Szarvas section of Archive:The second section of this archival collection is comprised of the correspondence of the Szarvas family, Theodore "Theodore of the Ritz" Szarvas, his wife Vivian Florence Fraser, and their four children, Theodore, Jr., James H., Robert, and Janet. Janet Szarvas married Peter Fagg, the son of Kenneth and Marion Fagg mentioned above. It is from Janet and Peter Fagg's family that the two sections of the archive are connected and descended. This section of the archive consists of 565 letters (1,944 pages) dated 1896-1960.Theodore Szarvas, Sr.: 69 letters, 269 pages, dated 1907-1952, written mainly to his wife, with most being on the letterhead of the various hotels at which he was employed, including: the Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London, England (1909-1912, 1914); Grand Hotel Royal, Nagyszalloda, Budapest, Hungary (1913); Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York, NY (1916-1917, 1923, 1927. 1931), Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Atlantic City, New Jersey (1927); The Midnight Sun (Swedegran Restaurants, Inc.), New York, NY (1938); Hotel Pierre, New York, New York (undated). The letters are interesting as they show the movements and progress of Theodore as he builds his career and establishes himself in upper echelons of haute cuisine and fine dining. He worked at the Ritz in London and other places, then went to Budapest, returned to London, then on to New York City where he worked at the Ritz-Carlton and where his name became synonymous with fine dining. He writes love letters and poetry to his wife, discusses his work at various hotel restaurants, he describes the political situation in London at the beginning of WWI, when he was forced to leave his position at the Ritz due to his Hungarian nationality. During the early years of their marriage (1911-1913) when they lived in London, Vivian took trips back to New York while her husband Theodore remained abroad.Vivian Florence Fraser Szarvas: 72 letters, 329 pages, dated 1907-1957, includes correspondence from Vivian to Theodore Szarvas before they were married (32 letters dated 1907-1909), letters during their marriage (when they lived in London and she visited America twice), and after they moved to America permanently. The letters show the progress of their secret courtship while they lived in New York City and later when Theodore moved to London to work at the Ritz. A couple of the later letters are to her children, or a friend, however the bulk of the letters are written to her husband Theodore. (Sixteen of these letters are undated).Millie Hartman: mother of Vivian Florence Fraser Szarvas, 69 letters, 367 pages, dated 1901-1920, this part of the collection consists of letters written by Mrs. Hartman to her daughter Vivian when she took two extended trips without her daughter accompanying her. One trip was to Hot Springs, Virginia in 1901 and another, a trip to Europe (France, Germany, Switzerland) in 1902. Vivian appears to have stayed home with family. Vivian was then a child of 11 to 12 years old. Other letters (1910-1914) are written to Vivian by her mother when Vivian left home to join and marry Theodore Szarvas in London, still others written to Vivian by Millie when Vivian was in Budapest with her husband (1913) and still other letters are written Vivian when she returned to America from London. Millie signs the letters often simply with "Mother" or sometimes "Grandma & Mother." The letters to Vivian written when she went to London, show her mother's displeasure at her daughter's decision to go away and marry Theodore, a much older man.James and Florence Szarvas: 63 letters, 190 pages, dated 1927-1954, writing to his parents and siblings (Florence is James Szarvas' wife) while traveling abroad (1927 and 1931) as a child, and later while serving in the military in WWII (1943-1945), while at Camp Upton, NY, Quincy, MA, Fort Eustis, VA, with Battery A, 5th Battalion, and later at the Antiaircraft Artillery Training Center, Camp Stewart, Georgia, and still later at Camp Gordon, Georgia, and further correspondence after the war, when he returned to civilian life.Janet Szarvas Fagg: 124 letters, 349 pages, dated 1927-1960, of which most are written in the first half of the 1950s to her mother, Vivian Szarvas, signing her name and her husband Peter's name. Peter's correspondence to his parents and siblings is located within the Fagg section of this archive. Janet studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City, winning a couple of awards while a student. She illustrates a couple of her letters.Robert Szarvas: 13 letters, 37 pages, dated 1949-1954, written to his parents and siblings, while serving with the 601st A.C. & W. Sqd. of the Air Force at Rothwesten, Germany, and stateside at Moses Lake, Washington.Theodore Szarvas, Jr.: 56 letters, 183 pages, dated 1918-1953, written while studying at M.I.T (1928-1929), while serving in WWII (1943-1945), and after the war. Thirty-six of these letters are written while young Theodore is serving in the U.S. Army with the 99th Repair Squadron, 59th ADG, in Guam, Pearl Harbor (HI), Oklahoma and Texas. His letters are mainly addressed to his parents and siblings.Other letters in this collection are written to Theodore (18 letters, 27 pages) and to his wife Vivian (81 letters, 193 pages) written by friends, family, or business associates. There are also 6 "certificates," or letters of recommendation for Theodore, which document his rise in the restaurant world. Diaries6 diaries, 532 pages, dated 1916-1922, as follows:Diary of Marion Rebuschatis, 120 pages, dated 1916, pocket diary, 2 entries per page, bound in leather, written in ink, legible hand, minor wear, kept while in her junior year of high school in Washington, D.C.Diary of Cora Noud Rebuschatis, 187 pages, dated 1916, pocket diary, bound in limp leather, worn, written closely in ink, but legible, two days per page with a memorandum section at bottom of page, a couple of pages of cash accounts kept in rear. Cora is the sister of Marion Rebuschatis.Unidentified diary, likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters (likely Cora Noud Rebuschatis), 124 pages, dated 1917, pocket diary, bound in leather, worn.Unidentified diary, likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters (not Marion), 21 pages, dated 1918, kept while at Camp Merritt.Unidentified diary, likely one of the Rebuschatis sisters (not Marion), 92 pages, dated 1918-1919, stiff limp wrappers, written in ink, legible hand. This diary was kept while stationed at Camp Merritt during World War One. There is much description of camp life and of the soldiers arriving at Camp Merritt from the battlefront.Diary of Emma Noud, 81 pages, dated 1922, stiff limp wrappers, written in ink, legible hand, kept while on a tour of Europe, during which she visited Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, amongst other places and writes informative entries on the cities she visits. Emma Noud is either the sister or aunt of Marion Rebuschatis. Over 1000 Pieces of Miscellaneous Paper Ephemera for the Fagg and Szarvas Families as follows:524 Envelopes (separated from the undated letters in collection); 120 Miscellaneous Printed and Ms Paper (scraps, notes, etc); 35 Greeting Cards; 210 Post Cards, used; 41 Newspaper & Magazine clippings; 54 Family Related Paper Ephemera - U of Wisconsin related material, medical bills, utility bills, old check stubs, report cards, Will of Theodore Szarvas, cemetery plot papers, Red Cross ID cards, Foster Parent papers, Unemployment Insurance papers, Immigration Inspection Card for Theodore Szarvas, etc.; 46 Cards (wedding invitations, sympathy cards, calling and business cards); 12 Theater Programs; 7 Art Exhibit Catalogues; 33 Photographs; 4 Hand Drawn Illustrations by Kenneth S. Fagg. Biography of Kenneth Stanley Fagg and Marion RebuschatisKenneth Stanley Fagg was born May 29, 1901 at Chicago, Illinois and died 7 January 1980. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and afterwards studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League in New York City and became a prolific advertising and magazine illustrator, book artist, painter and art director.Fagg was the son of Peter Albert Fagg (1874-1968) and Eva Maude Ross (1869-1941) and the nephew of the Rev. John Gerardus Fagg (1860-1917), a missionary to China and a long time minister at Middle Collegiate Church in New York City. Kenneth's parents Peter and Eva married in Chicago on 20 Dec 1895. In 1910, Ken's father was a clerk at a bank, his mother a homemaker. Peter Fagg was originally born in Wisconsin, of Dutch immigrant parents, his wife in Canada, of Scottish immigrants. By the time the 1920 Census was taken Peter had moved his family to Los Angeles where he worked as a banker. However Kenneth moved back to Wisconsin for college.Fagg was artist and editor-in-chief during high school for the New Trier Echoes, a school publication. He was for a time a member of the National Guard's K Company 11th Infantry, as well as a Cadet Lieut. at the Naval Training Corps in Evanston, Illinois.In 1919, Kenneth began his four years at the University of Wisconsin, where he quickly established himself with the school magazine, turning out dozens (if not hundreds) of illustrations for the Wisconsin Octopus magazine and Daily Cardinal newspaper and The Commerce Magazine there. His college graduation year book picture of 1924 stated he lived at Alhambra, California. He had a very active college career at the University of Wisconsin where besides being on the varsity ski jumping team, he was also a member of Delta Upsilon, and served on the staff of the three different college publications as assistant art editor and as art editor for the Badger, the Octopus and the Commerce Magazine. He also was involved with the Arts and Crafts Club, the Display Publicity Chairman, the Edwin Booth club, and other activities. His senior thesis was on the novels of Honore de Balzac. It was also at college that he met his future wife, Marion Rebuschatis.Marion Rebuschatis was the daughter of Wilhelm Rebuschatis (1868-?) and Cora Ada Noud (1868-1918) of Washington, D.C. Her father was a German Russian immigrant who found work first as a printer, then as a proof reader for the Government Printing Office in D.C. Her mother was the daughter of a liquor dealer and Irish immigrant James, 0, London: William Heinemann, [1898]. First edition. Mild toning to edges of text block, corner tips a bit bruised, spine somewhat darkened, a very good copy with interesting associational material. (30690). Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-303 [304: blank], + 16-page publisher's catalogue dated "Autumn mdcccxcvii" inserted at rear, original gray cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black. This book was issued with and without an inserted publisher's catalogue, this copy has the earliest version. An interesting copy with a note in Wells hand affixed to front paste down "To Isidore Ostrer / The Experiment in Descriptive / Economics / (with special reference to / Chapter the Ninth)." Affixed to the front free end paper is a picture of H. G. Wells with Wells signature clipped from the note underneath. Isidore Ostrer is known for running the Gaumont British film company and Baird Television before WW2, he also wrote a book on economics. Affixed to the verso of the front free end paper and the half title page are newspaper clippings from the Daily Herald, dated November 1, 1938 concerning the radio broadcast by Orson Welles and the panic associated with it. Affixed to the verso of the title page, dedication page and verso of the dedication page are newspaper clippings from The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post dated November 1, 1938 with another report on the radio broadcast. The rear free end papers and paste down contain additional newspaper clippings. 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