"This is as great a tribute from a biographer to his subject as I have ever read." Amanda MeckeHenry (if I may), I first learned about you at Amherst College. Here you are with Emily at the 45th...
"I am so glad we have resurrected Emily’s reputation — and added proof to the life-long value of Higher Education for American women." Amanda MeckeEmily Jordan was born in Ironton, Ohio on May 15,...
"Thank you for sending this copy of your blog about the connection between the Folgers and Captain Robinson. I enjoyed reading it, and their interaction is a delightful one, clearly appreciated by...
One hundred and seven years ago, in 1914, Henry Folger received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Amherst College. The citation read: “Henry Clay Folger, a graduate of this college in 1879,...
We pick up from the series of picture postcards Henry Folger sent to his wife Emily in Brooklyn during his Standard Oil Company business trips to western states in 1910. The Truckee River flows...
Some of us more than others pay attention to punctuation: Folgers or Folger’s? However, we all recognize a rhyme when we hear it: The best part of waking upIs Folgers in your cup! My first major...
While on business trips out west in 1910, Standard Oil Co. executive Henry Folger sends postcards to his wife. The messages are hilarious!
In forty years of book collecting, Henry Clay Folger managed to collect eighty-two of the 800 or so First Folios containing thirty-six Shakespeare plays compiled by two of the Bard’s actor friends,...
Emily Folger née Jordan was a bluestocking: an educated, intellectual woman with a scholarly bent. In 1875, she followed her two sisters to Vassar College.
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