Datebook 1919: Wednesday, August 13, 1919

Fair but overcast all day. Shovelled gravel. 6 teams 41 loads. Wilson & Francis Clough here to supper. Played tennis. Harry and Faith Davenport called in evening. Visited until 10:30 P.M. To bed 11:15 P.M.

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Stanford doesn't say why he was shoveling gravel, but I'm very curious to know.

Harry and Faith Davenport lived at 1039 Stanford Street in Schenectady in 1920, about 1.5 miles from the Clossons at Park Place. That address doesn't exist anymore, but the approximate location can be extrapolated from the nearby Streets of Brandywine and Plymouth (according to the census). Harry was a Math teacher. Harry and Faith were 30; they had a son, Lee, who was 4 years old in 1920.

Here is a picture of the corner of Plymouth and Stanford Streets:

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, August 13, 1919

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