Datebook 1919: Wednesday, July 2, 1919

Beautiful bright hot day. Started for Columbus at 7:51. In Buffalo 5:10 P.M. Went to see Niagara Falls. Walked around Buffalo etc. Fine trip. Took 12 o'clock train for Cleveland O. Thankful for health, friends and opportunities. To bed on train.

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Stanford was heading for Columbus for the Columbus Methodist Centenary (more on that in subsequent posts). Since there's no mention of other people, it's possible he went alone. In 1919, there were plenty of railroad lines to take a person anywhere he wanted to go. Below is a 1918 map depicting the route (highlighted) Stanford took to get to Columbus from Schenectady on the New York Central Railroad. I've highlighted in pink the major cities mentioned by Stanford (Schenectady is near Albany, but the letters are too small and faint to be read).

About this blog . . .

I've created this blog to make a record of the hand-written journals of Stanford Stillman Closson (1900-1982), who was in his life a Methodist Minister, grandfather, father, brother, husband and son. I'm starting with the first one, written in 1919, but I plan to record subsequent years (they continue into the 1970s). I'm matching the days--May 5, 1919 to May 5, 2013, for instance--with one entry per day. So it will take a year to get through the first diary.

The daily entries are pretty short, though, so in addition to recording the diaries, I'm also annotating them, giving additional information about the people, places and events mentioned by Stanford. By doing this, I hope to convey a sense of 1919 Schenectady, New York and the people Stanford interacted with. Of course, I'm also hoping to give Stanford's descendants a fuller picture of who he was as a young man.

Datebook 1919

Wednesday, July 2, 1919

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