Sydney Weedon Templeton (1894-1994) oral history

Description
Track 11, Transcript p. 28-30
Track 11, Transcript p. 28-30
Transcription
Creators
Templeton, Sydney Weedon, 1894-1994, Interviewee
Adler, Rhea Saul, 1906-1990
, Interviewer
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Description
Interview with Sydney Weedon Templeton by Rhea Adler in June, 1976.

ABSTRACT:
Locale of childhood from 1895 presently lives in Scarsdale, NY

Family lived in Wilmette Father commuted to Chicago from Llewelyn Park Station

House built for Weedon family by a local carpenter, surrounded by fields, unpaved streets

First motor cars on Hill St. (now Maple)

Wild flowers bloomed profusely then

Cows, abattoir on Isabella; Horse-drawn carts and carriages

Grocery orders taken in person - delivered later the same day

Laundry man injured by a run-away horse

Mother Weedon's school --Public school routes traveled, all wooded, wooden sidewalks, spring wild flowers grew under them, walked

High School at New Trier - rode trolley or bicycled

Typhoid fever, dress alterations, Anniversary, gardening, chickens, ducks, rabbits, root cellar, baking

Swimming in Lake Michigan

Reading Elbert Hubbard - bookbinding

Oil lamps - gas lights - mantles, electricity

Art, Hull House - Jane Addams --"The Cow" , framing, Van Gogh, Nova Scotia, Ginger Hill

Amy and husband, botanists; Dorothy and husband - trip to visit sisters

Winifred Weedon - Vivian Weedon

Carleton Washburne, Winnetka system - book publishing

Victoria's jubilee,Father's trip to England - his mother grew up at Court - Hardy
family

Place of Publication
Wilmette, Illinois
Date of Original
June, 1976
Subject(s)
Personal Name(s)
Templeton, Sydney Weedon
Local identifier
R977.31 TE
Language of Item
English
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1976
Copyright Holder
Wilmette Public Library
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