Datebook 1919: Glenville Center

Very warm, bright day. 82 degrees in shade. Thundershowers in evening. To church and S.S. [Sunday School]. To Glenville Center to church in P.M. Read. To Epworth League. To bed 9:30. Thankful for health.

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In May of 1919, Stanford Closson was a student at Union College in Schenectady, NY.

The Epworth League was a Methodist youth association that still exists today. This Wikipedia article talks about it briefly: Epworth League. But you can also read about the organization on their website. Here is the link: Epworth League.

The Methodist Church congregation in Glenville Center, NY is still there, but no doubt in a different location. Here is a web page with a few details: Centre Glenville UMC.

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.

Sunday, May 4, 1919