Collection context
Summary
- Abstract:
- The Hapgood, M.D., mss., 1912-1975, consists of the correspondence and writings of Socialist leaders Mary Donovan Hapgood, 1886-1973, and Powers Hapgood, 1899-1949.
- Extent:
- 2 Boxes (2 standard)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Hapgood, M.D. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Mary Donovan Hapgood, 1886-1973, was born in North Brookfield, Massachusetts, on 21 February 1886. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1912. After teaching school for a year in Massachusetts, she became one of the representatives of the employees to the Corset Wage Board in Boston. In the 1920s, she made a trip to Ireland, her father's homeland, to investigate labor conditions. By 1927, she was the representative of the Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Accountants, and Office Employees Union, A.F. of L., affiliated with the Boston Central Labor Union. At this time she also served as recording secretary for the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Fund and was arrested at the bier of the two men.
On 28 December 1927, Mary Donovan married labor leader Powers Hapgood, 1899-1949, and both continued their activities in organizing labor unions, principally in the coal fields. Both were arrested in March 1928 for labor agitation while attempting to raise defense funds for union officials held on murder charges. In June 1928, Mary Donovan was nominated for the office of governor of Massachusetts by the Socialist Party. In 1935, her application to be appointed as Senior Industrial Economist was rejected by the United States Civil Service Commission. Throughout this time and later she wrote several short stories, collected material regarding the Molly Maguires, and prepared an autobiographical account. In the 1930s, the Hapgoods and their children, Barta and Donovan, moved to Riverbrook Farm near Indianapolis, Indiana. After Powers Hapgood's death in 1949, Mary Donovan continued to manage the family farm. In 1959, she attended the posthumous pardon of Sacco and Vanzetti wearing a death mask. She died in Indianapolis on 24 June 1973.
Powers Hapgood, 1899-1949, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 28 December 1899. In the fall of 1920, he traveled across the western United States, working in iron mine and coal mines, on the Northern Pacific Railroad, and in a sugar beet factory, and he graduated from Harvard University in 1921. He spent much of his career working in and trying to improve conditions in coal mines in the United States, Europe, and the U.S.S.R. He worked as a union organizer for a number of different industries, including coal mining, sharecropping, and textile work, and he was assigned to various C.I.O. unions, including United Automobile Workers, United Rubber Workers, United Steelworkers, United Shoe Workers of America, International Union of Marine & Shipbuilding Workers, and Farm Equipment Workers. He was the author of a number of pamphlets and periodical articles relating to labor conditions. Hapgood also practiced his beliefs in the political sphere; he joined the Socialist Party in 1926, served on the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee in 1927, campaigned for his wife for governor of Massachusetts and for Norman Thomas for President in 1928, and ran for governor of Indiana in 1932. Hapgood died in Indiana on 4 February 1949.
- Scope and Content:
The Hapgood, M.D., mss., 1912-1975, consists of the correspondence and writings of Socialist leaders Mary Donovan Hapgood, 1890-1973, and Powers Hapgood, 1899-1949.
Materials in collection include: Autograph book with inscriptions to Powers Hapgood, March 1, 1948; correspondence and papers, 1912-1975; Membership cards of Mary Donovan, 1917-1949; Membership cards of Powers Hapgood, 1926-1950; Memorandum books of Powers and Mary Donovan Hapgood, 1928-1939, and 1937; Photographs: tintype of unidentified couple and photograph of unidentified man; University notebooks of Mary Donovan while attending the University of Michigan, 1906-1912 (12 vols.).
Writings of Mary Donovan: "As far back as I can recall, an important teaching of my religion was..." [first line], A.D., 6pp., enclosed with Hapgood to Joe, Dec. 14, 1950; "Big Tim's Daughter," n.d., T.D. (carbon), 9pp.; "The Finals," n.d., T.D., 2pp.; "Grandma Thomas," T.D. (carbon), 3pp.; I must write as I remember [Retrospective notes, 1948, Feb. 21-1954, Oct.], A.D., 36pp.; "I Remember - I Remember," n.d., T.D.S., 5pp.; "Jerry the Mind Mule," n.d., T.D. (carbon), 6pp.; [Molly Maguires: Collected Notes], 1939-1968, A.T.,& Printed D., ca. 200pp.; "Mother's Day," n.d., T.D., 12pp.; No Tears for My Youth: Autobiography [including chapters on the Sacco-Vanzetti story], n.d., A.& T.D., ca. 300pp.; "Orpha," n.d., T.Ds., two drafts, 26pp.; "Ragged Hill," n.d., T.D.S., 8pp; "Red Jacket," n.d., A.D., [16]pp.; "Review: Jim Larkin, Irish Labor Leader by R.M. Fox," n.d., T.D. (carbon), 3pp.; Seventeen papers concerning labor, 1924, Feb. 17-1925, Feb. 22, A.&T.Ds.S., 29pp., including Minutes of the Executive Committee for Feb. 17, 1925; "Shawn O'Hopeen," n.d., T.D., (carbon), 7pp.; "The Tableau," n.d., T.D.S., 5pp.; "The Vanishing Virtue," n.d., T.D.S., 6pp.; "Why Do Intelligent Women Marry," n.d., A.&T.D., 5pp.
Writings of Powers Hapgood: Diary, 1920, Sept. 28-1921, Jan., T.D. (carbon), 141pp.; "Men and Coal [Or: Coal and Men]: Outline," 2 drafts, n.d., A.Ds., 1 & 4pp.; "Prologue," n.d., T.D., 25pp.; The Black Diamond, n.d., A.D., 69pp.; The Carbide Lamp, n.d., A.D., 55pp.; No Agitators Wanted, n.d., A.D., 35pp.
The correspondents are: Dean Gooderham Acheson, Saul David Alinsky, Allan Angoff, Charles Angoff, Samuel E. Angoff, Roger Nash Baldwin, James Barnett, Whilhelm Bartels, Otto Bauerle, Simon Michael Bessie, Ellitt Blackiston, Bruce Ormsby Bliven, John Brophy, Cecil Kash Byrd, Blanche J. Hudec Campbell, Richard Edward Cauger, Jacques Chambrun, McAlister Coleman, Frank Allyn Edwards, George Edwards, Aldino Felicani, Barthod Fles, William Trowbridge Forbes, Mabel Gillespie, Warren Franklin Goodell, Charles Hutchins Hapgood, Donovan Hapgood, Elizabeth Kempley (Reynolds) Hapgood, Mary (Donovan) Hapgood, Powers Hapgood, William Powers Hapgood, Allan Shaw Haywood, Amy Hewes, John Haynes Holmes, Rose Hudec, William C. Hull, Catharine Huntington, Andrew Jacobs, George Louis Joughin, Thomas Stilwell Lamont, Virginia (Pierce) Lansner, Leo Leopold, Isador Lubin, Edward Francis McGrady, James Higginson Manning, James Hudson Maurer, Morris Milgram, Emil Mazey, Taulman Allaire Miller, James Myers, Ernest Carl Oberholtzer, George J. Papcun, Edith Patterson, Rose Pesotta, George Palmer Putnam, George Reid, Victor George Reuther, Walter Philip Reuther, Eugene Francis Saxton, Ben Barush Seligman, Mary (Nolan) Tobin, Miriam (Hapgood) Trivanovitch, Willard Edwin Uphaus, William S. Warford, Colston Estey Warne, Edward Converse Wilson, Alice L. (Dodge) Wolfson, Royal J. Wright.
Printed materials include news clippings and/or brochures regarding Mary (Donovan) Hapgood, Powers Hapgood, William Powers Hapgood, Rose Hudec, the Sacco-Vanzetti case and miscellaneous items; maps of Rainy Lake Islands in Minnesota.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift: 1978
- Arrangement:
This collection is arranged following original order.
- Physical location:
- Lilly - Stacks
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], Hapgood, M.D. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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1200 East Seventh StreetBloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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(812) 855-2452liblilly@indiana.edu