I don’t know how American Literature is taught today, nor how contemporary scholars evaluate the literary giants of 19th century New England. When I was
Mr. William Groff worked for the Hamilton Watch Company, a major manufacturer of watches in the historic city of Lancaster in southeast Pennsylvania. The successor
Mr. A. J. Ward lived in Mohawk, a village on the Mohawk River in Herkimer County of central New York State. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohawk,_Herkimer_County,_New_York It is near
Mrs. H. M. Edwards lived on a Rural Delivery Route outside the historic city of Lancaster in southeast Pennsylvania. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancaster,_Pennsylvania In April of 1915, Mrs.