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(Identify the item and cite the series), Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Mariana Thompson (Folsom), born a Pennsylvania Quaker, was a graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. She and her husband, Allan Perez Folsom, were both Unitarian ministers, teachers, and lecturers. By 1879 Mariana was a state lecturer of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association, living in Marshalltown, Iowa. The family moved to Texas in 1881 following a lecture tour there; the Folsoms lived variously in San Antonio, Hallettsville, and Refugio County before settling in Austin by 1898. They had at least three children: a son Allison Thompson Folsom (born in Foxboro, Massachusetts, 1875; LL.B., the University of Texas; later Terrell County Attorney); a daughter Erminia Thompson Folsom (born in Oswego, New York, 1878); and another son Clarence Stroud Thompson Folsom (born in 1885; B.A., the University of Texas, 1907; licensed as an attorney, 1919). Mariana Folsom was a leader in the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the Texas Equal Rights Association, and a member of the Universal Peace Union and the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union. She died sometime before March 26, 1910.
Erminia Thompson Folsom was born in Oswego, New York, on November 6, 1878, the daughter of Allan Perez Folsom and Mariana Thompson Folsom. Her family came to Texas in 1881. After graduating from Austin public schools, Erminia entered the University of Texas by 1900, where she received a B.S. in 1907. She taught school in the Eanes School near Austin (ca. 1903) and also near Fort Stockton. In 1911 she ran one brother's law office for a summer, while both brothers were in California. Most of her career was spent lecturing and writing articles for various reform movements. She was an active member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (she marched in the first suffragette parade in Washington, D.C.), the Texas Equal Suffrage Association, and the Austin Woman Suffrage Association; she was also an official organizer for the Texas League of the College Equal Suffrage League. By 1919 she was on the executive committee (assistant secretary) of the Texas Prison Association, and was acting secretary of the Travis County Prison Association in 1921. In 1928,
she campaigned for Herbert Hoover. She was active in the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union, being a delegate to the state convention in Galveston in 1939 as well as attending many other Woman's Christian Temperance Union conventions, as late as 1957; in 1948, she was an authorized reporter for the
The Erminia Thompson Folsom papers contain correspondence, literary productions (including lectures), minutes, printed material, financial documents, and memorabilia dating 1856-1965. These papers relate to Mariana T. Folsom and Erminia T. Folsom, and to the reform movements in which they were so deeply involved: woman's suffrage, prison reform, peace, and temperance, as well as the Herbert Hoover presidential campaign of 1928, and Universalism. Although the personalities and careers of these two women can be elucidated to some extent by these papers, particularly through the correspondence and the lectures, fully five-sixths of the collection pertains to the movements themselves, especially suffrage and temperance. The papers illuminate the organization, membership, principles, and activities of these reform movements, not only in Texas but also nationally. The strongest bodies of materials are those dealing with woman's suffrage (1856-1919) and temperance (1909-1964). The material relating to prison reform (1917-1932) and the peace movement (1866-1960), although small, is rich. The minutes of various reform organizations are mostly undated. There is no unbroken run of annual reports and official publications.
The Erminia Thompson Folsom papers are organized into four groups and 16 series:
Tony Black, June 1985, October 1985
Laura K. Saegert, cataloging and additional description, May 1995
Accession number: 1985/119
No accession information for these papers was located. For purposes of control, an accession number was assigned on May 15, 1985.
This group consists of correspondence, speeches or lectures, clippings, broadsides, membership cards for suffrage organizations, and an address book. Records are dated 1869-1908. Most of the letters concern women's suffrage. The broadsides and speeches concern lectures re: suffrage. An address book and obituaries constitute the papers of Reverend Mary C. Billings.
These papers are organized into four series:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Mariana Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence of Mariana T. Folsom, dating 1869-1908, bulk 1882-1908, and some undated. Most of the letters concern women's suffrage. Correspondents include Alfred Love, Lucy Stone, Margaret V. Hamilton, Martha C. Callanan, Elizabet Ney, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Taylor Upton, Henry B. Blackwell, Kate M. Gordon, M. J. Coggeshall, and Reverend Mary C. Billings.
(Identify the item), Correspondence, Mariana Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Almost all the letters concern woman's suffrage. Correspondents include Alfred Love, Lucy Stone, Margaret V. Hamilton, Martha C. Callanan, Elisabet Ney, Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Taylor Upton, Henry B. Blackwell, Kate M. Gordon, M. J. Coggeshall, Reverend Mary C. Billings, and others.
Arranged chronologically.
This letter to H. B. Blackwell contains an essay or lecture entitled
Two signed holographic lectures or speeches, and a quote from another lecture, dated ca. 1895 and undated. These lectures discuss Mariana Folsoms's views re: suffrage and the peace movement.
(Identify the item), Lectures, Mariana Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Two membership cards for suffragette organizations, two undated broadsides advertising lectures, and two newspaper clippings concerning lectures. Dates covered are 1879-1895 and undated. These materials concern Mariana Folsom's interest in woman's suffrage, equal rights, and the peace movement.
(Identify the item), Printed material, Mariana Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
An address book of Reverend Mary C. Billings and several obituaries of her death in Hico, Texas in 1904. Mary Billings was a Universalist minister and friend of Mariana Folsom.
(Identify the item), Reverend Mary C. Billings, Mariana Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This group consists of correspondence, literary productions, delegate ribbons (state and national Women's Christian Temperance Union), a bible, and printed material, including class and school materials from the University of Texas, readings in literature, songsheets, and catalogues from the Boston School of Expression. Dates covered are 1903-1961 and undated. Topics covered include suffrage, prison reform, peace, temperance, and Universalism.
These materials are organized into five series:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Erminia Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence of Erminia T. Folsom, dating 1903 to 1961, bulk is 1909-1928, and some undated. Topics covered primarily are suffrage, prison reform, temperance, the peace movement, and Universalism. Correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna H. Shaw, Emma M. Gillett, C. B. Randell, Arabella Carter, Mrs. W. B. Wynne, Lilla Rector Terrell, Agnes E. Ryan, Colonel E. L. Dohoney, D. M. Reedy. Governor Allan Shivers, Annette Finnigan, Bertha Hubers, Eleanor Brackenridge, Alice Stone Blackwell, Dr. Mary L. Fulton, Mrs. E. M. Barrett, and Mrs. W. A. Poage. Many of the outgoing letters were written by Miss Folsom through her affiliation with the Austin Woman Suffrage Association. Some third-party correspondence is also present concerning the Val Verde Mining Company (A.T. Folsom, president) in 1918, and a military investigation concerning support of a divorced friend of Miss Folsom's, Grace Caldwell Pugsley, in 1947.
The correspondence is organized into three sub-series:
(Identify the item and cite the sub-series), Correspondence, Erminia Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Includes a few postcards and telegrams. Correspondents include Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna H. Shaw, Emma M. Gillett, C. B. Randell, Arabella Carter, Mrs. W. B. Wynne, Lilla Rector Terrell, Agnes E. Ryan, Colonel E. L. Dohoney, D. M. Reedy, Governor Allan Shivers, and others.
Arranged chronologically.
Mostly unsigned carbon copies and holographic rough drafts. Correspondents include Annette Finnigan, Bertha Hubers (for whom Erminia had a will drawn up), Eleanor Brackenridge, Alice Stone Blackwell, Dr. Mary L. Fulton, Colonel E. L. Dohoney, Mrs. E. M. Barrett, Mrs. W. A. Poage, and others.
Arranged chronologically. Eight undated, at end.
Concerning Val Verde Mining Company (A. T. Folsom, president), 1918; and a military investigation concerning support of a divorced friend of Miss Folsom's, Grace Caldwell Pugsley, 1947.
These materials consist of handwritten assignments produced while Miss Folsom was a student at the University of Texas (outlines of speeches, essays, etc.); notes on political, literary, and philosophical subjects; doggerel verse; songs; and Bible quotes. Dates covered are ca. 1900-1907 and undated.
Dated items placed first, the rest are unarranged.
(Identify the item), Literary productions, Erminia Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This miscellany includes annotated class handouts from the University of Texas School of Oratory, 1900-1902; an annotated measurement book from the Woman's Gymnasium, 1905; a University of Texas commencement program, 1907; University of Texas songsheets; two signed newspaper articles, 1910, undated; printed cards (College Equal Suffrage League); Woman's Christian Temperance Union credentials, 1961. Also Boston School of Expression catalogues and schedules, 1900-1902; printed readings on literature, penmanship, and German; songs; Bible verses; and an assortment of unclassifiable printed items.
(Identify the item), Printed material, Erminia Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
State and National Woman's Christian Temperance Union delegate ribbons dated 1939-1940 and undated.
(Identify the item), Delegate ribbons, Erminia Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
A Bible, with the flyleaf containing the membership pledge and junior Union promise to the Young People's Christian Union of the Universalist Church. This is dated 1902.
Bible, Erminia Thompson Folsom, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
This group consists of undated and unsigned lecture notes, mostly handwritten, with a few typescripts, often on odd scraps of paper. A number are missing the beginning and/or end pages. Although some are probably Mariana Folsom's and some Erminia Folsom's, any attempt to identify the author by handwriting seems risky. Subjects covered are suffrage, peace, and prison reform. Based on these subjects, most of the lectures were probably written before 1920. Some of them may be drafts of newspaper articles.
Arranged by topic.
(Identify the item), Lectures, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Some of this material, which represents the bulk of the collection, is organizational, especially the handwritten items: constitutions and by-laws, minutes, membership lists, accounts. Most of the material is propagandistic, taking the form of printed material: publications, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers and newspaper clippings, magazines, songsheets. The arrangement is by movements: woman's suffrage, prison reform, peace, and temperance; these four series are followed by three which are not usually classified as reforms, but which contain reform elements: politics, religion, and nutrition. Where applicable, the series contain subseries based on geographical extent of a movement (Texas, and national). Further subdivision is by exact organization.
This group is organized into seven series:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Materials present concerning the organizations in the
Texas suffrage movement include constitutions and
by-laws--of the Texas Equal Rights Association, 1895;
the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, [1903]; and the
Texas Equal Suffrage Association, 1916; minutes;
resolutions of respect; membership lists of various
Texas suffrage organizations, undated; questionnaires
on suffrage; annotated copies of a Senate bill; and
receipts and cancelled checks, 1905-1918. Propaganda
materials of the Texas suffrage movement include
publications, broadsides, programs, newspapers;
newspaper clippings from Texas newspapers, 1912-1919,
undated; and suffrage songs, handwritten and typescript.
Material documenting the national suffrage movement
include National American Woman's Suffrage Association
publications and pamphlets, 1856-1928; broadsides,
1872, 1876, 1912, undated; blank petitions, with cover
letter, 1913; a blank questionnaire; paper tokens;
woman's suffrage newspapers, various issues,
1892-1915; newspaper clippings, 1867-1916, undated; and
printer's die:
This material is organized into three sub-series:
(Identify the item and cite the sub-series), Woman's suffrage, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Constitutions and by-laws--handwritten, typescript, and printed--of the Texas Equal Rights Association, 1895; the Texas Woman Suffrage Association, [1903]; and the Texas Equal Suffrage Association, 1916. Minutes, handwritten on scraps of paper, undated. Resolutions of respect. Membership lists of various Texas suffrage organizations, undated, on assorted scraps of paper. Questionnaires on suffrage. Annotated copies of a Senate bill. Receipts and cancelled checks, 1905-1918.
Arranged by type of material.
Publications, broadsides, programs, newspapers; newspaper clippings from Texas newspapers, 1912-1919, undated; suffrage songs, handwritten and typescript.
Arranged by type of material.
National American Woman's Suffrage Association publications and pamphlets, 1856-1928, 31 items. Broadsides, 1872, 1876, 1912, undated, 15 items. Blank petitions, with cover letter, 1913. Blank questionnaire. Paper tokens. Woman's suffrage newspapers, various issues, 1892-1915. Newspaper clippings, 1867-1916, undated, 33 items. Printer's die:
Arranged by type, and therein chronologically.
Materials of the Texas Prison Association include handwritten and typescript drafts of the constitution and by-laws; handwritten minutes and membership lists (both loose sheets and a bound notebook); a resolution; a draft of a House bill; a typescript news release for 1919; several certificates of membership; and financial documents, mainly receipts of deposits for membership dues, 1919-1922. Materials from the Prison and Jail Dept. of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) include an annotated typescript, including two questionnaires; an annual report from Dallas; a plan of work; a petition text; and a news release, dating ca. 1930. General files re: Texas prison reform consist of Rules and Regulations and Laws Governing Prison System of Texas, 1917; Report of Texas Eleemosynary Commission, 1925; Annual Report of Texas Prison Board, 1932; and Report of State Chairman of Prison Reform, undated Materials documenting American prison reform include newsletters and reports of American Prison Association, 1922; two newspaper articles, 1923; a pamphlet from National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, [1957]; a flyer from the Wider Quaker Fellowship, 1959; and an undated broadside.
These materials are organized into four sub-series:
(Identify the item and cite the sub-series), Prison reform, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Handwritten and typescript drafts of the constitution and by-laws; handwritten minutes and membership lists (both loose sheets and a bound notebook); a resolution; a draft of a House bill; a typescript news release for 1919; several certificates of membership; and a letterhead. Also included are financial documents, mainly receipts of deposits for membership dues, 1919-1922.
Arranged by type of material.
Annotated typescript, including two questionnaires, an annual report from Dallas, a plan of work, a petition text, and a news release.
Four printed items, including Rules and Regulations and Laws Governing Prison System of Texas, 1917; Report of Texas Eleemosynary Commission, 1925; Annual Report of Texas Prison Board, 1932; and Report of State Chairman of Prison Reform, undated
Printed material, including newsletters and reports of American Prison Association, 1922; two newspaper articles, 1923; pamphlet from National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, [1957]; flyer from the Wider Quaker Fellowship, 1959; and undated broadside.
Printed material, mostly pacifist propaganda, with some organizational pieces scattered throughout. The organizations publishing the material include at least fifteen groups: The American Peace Society, Universal Peace Union, Pennsylvania Society, Society of Friends Peace Committee, National Council of Women Peace and Arbitration Department, Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Peacemaker Movement,
Arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), Peace movement, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Materials of the Texas Woman's Christian Temperance
Union (W.C.T.U.) include constitutions and by-laws, 1937, 1939,
and 1946; reports of five annual conventions,
1926-1955; programs of three annual conventions,
1946-1962; report of receipts, 1934-1935; various
newsletters, 1948-1962, undated; a blank petition;
letterhead; and receipt for dues, 1958. Four inches
of this material includes a broken run of
This series is organized into four sub-series:
(Identify the item and cite the sub-series), Temperance, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Printed material, including constitutions and by-laws, 1937, 1939, and 1946; reports of five annual conventions, 1926-1955; programs of three annual conventions, 1946-1962; report of receipts, 1934-1935; various newsletters, 1948-1962, undated; a blank petition; letterhead; and receipt for dues, 1958. Four inches of this material includes a broken run of
Printed material, including reports and programs from eight annual conventions, 1930-1959; plans of work, 1935, 1938, and 1956; pamphlets and tracts soliciting membership and promoting temperance; broadsides; newspaper clippings concerning W.C.T.U., 1953, undated; one issue of
Printed material, including publications by various W.C.T.U.s (Pennsylvania, Oregon, Madison [Wisconsin], Hawaii, Canada, British Columbia, and World W.C.T.U.); and by non-W.C.T.U. temperance groups: the American Temperance Society, Anti-Saloon League of America, Board of Temperance of the Methodist Church, National Temperance and Prohibition Council, National Education Association, Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance Company, Unitarian-Universalist Society for Alcohol Education, and Women's Moderation Union. Also assorted material of unidentified groups. Dates covered are 1909-1953 and undated.
Newspapers and newspaper clippings concerning temperance, 1914, 1931, and 1933, including parts 4-16 of the Wickersham Report of 1931. Also songbooks and songsheets, some including music as well as words, to temperance songs and hymns; some of these from the W.C.T.U.
Material from the Herbert Hoover campaign consist of typescript press releases, notes for a Hoover speech, newspaper clippings, a broadside, various Hoover pamphlets; and a 1954 newspaper clipping. General American political materials present include pamphlets, broadsides, newspaper clippings, and typescript reports concerning a variety of candidates and issues: Fergusonism, academic freedom, migrant labor, Texas tidelands, Governor Price Daniel's 1959 inauguration. Items relating to World politics consist of pamphlets, newspaper articles, newsletters concerning the work of Universalism in China, the Organization of American States, and the Organization of Arab Students. Materials date from 1901 to 1961 and undated.
This series is organized into three sub-series:
(Identify the item and cite the sub-series), Politics, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Includes typescript press releases, notes for a Hoover speech, newspaper clippings, a broadside, and various Hoover pamphlets, dating 1928; also, a 1954 newspaper clipping.
Includes pamphlets, broadsides, newspaper clippings, and typescript reports concerning a variety of candidates and issues: Fergusonism, academic freedom, migrant labor, Texas tidelands, Governor Price Daniel's 1959 inauguration. Dates covered are 1901-1961 and undated.
Pamphlets, newspaper articles, newsletters concerning the work of Universalism in China, the Organization of American States, and the Organization of Arab Students. Dates covered are 1945-1959.
Pamphlets and newsletters concerning Universalism, dating 1904-1965 and undated, bulk are 1946-1965. Pamphlets, newsletters, magazines, newsclippings, and directories of Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, Jews, and Muslims, dating 1925-1962 and undated.
These materials are organized into two sub-series:
(Identify the item), Religion, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Pamphlets and newsletters on Universalism dating 1904-1965 and undated (bulk 1946-1965).
Pamphlets, newsletters, magazines, newsclippings, and directories of Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, Jews, and Muslims, dating 1925-1962 and undated.
A variety of printed material concerning home economics, a balanced diet, and health-related topics. Materials are dated 1909, 1928, and undated.
(Identify the item), Nutrition, Reform movements, Erminia Thompson Folsom Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.