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University of Northern Iowa UNI ScholarWorks Electronic Teses and Dissertations Graduate College 2016 Dying to live forever Sophia Harris journal 1860 to 1861 Shirley Ilene Davis University of Northern Iowa Copyright © 2016 Shirley Ilene Davis Follow this and additional works at: htps://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd Part of the History Commons Let us know how access to this document benefts you Recommended Citation Davis, Shirley Ilene, "Dying to live forever Sophia Harris journal 1860 to 1861" (2016). Electronic Teses and Dissertations. 235. htps://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/235 Tis Open Access Tesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at UNI ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Teses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of UNI ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact 0 Copyright by SHIRLEY ILENE DAVIS 2016 All Rights Reserved 1 DYING TO LIVE FOREVER SOPHIA HARRIS JOURNAL 1860 TO 1861 An Abstract of a Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Shirley Ilene Davis University of Northern Iowa May 2016 2 ABSTRACT Sophia Harris’s journal is a window into one woman’s experiences in an area that transformed from a frontier outpost to a market-oriented and increasingly urbanized society. It also sheds light on how she made sense of the meaning of these changes in her personal life: specifically how her religious understandings of death shaped her understanding of the world she lived in. i DYING TO LIVE FOREVER SOPHIA HARRIS JOURNAL 1860 TO 1861 A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts Shirley Ilene Davis University of Northern Iowa May 2016 ii This Study by: Shirley Ilene Davis Entitled: DYING TO LIVE FOREVER SOPHIA HARRIS JOURNAL 1860 to 1861 has been approved as meeting the thesis requirement for the Degree of Masters of Arts ___________ ______________________________________________________ Date Dr. Barbara Cutter, Chair, Thesis Committee __________ ______________________________________________________ Date Dr. Emily Machen, Thesis Committee Member __________ ______________________________________________________ Date Dr. Brian Roberts, Thesis Committee Member ___________ ______________________________________________________ Date Dr. Kavita R. Dhanwada, Interim Dean, Graduate College iii DEDICATION I would like to dedicate this thesis to my family, especially my husband Tim, without whose support, I could not have completed this program. Also to my children Isaac and Isabel who were the inspiration for my determination to complete what I began. To my sister Shelley who was always there making sure I kept fighting to get well and my mom who listened to my stories about the journals for endless amounts of time. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my friend and good neighbor Eleana Joram for trusting me with her wonderful journals. I can only hope I did them justice. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my advisor Professor Barbara Cutter for her continuous support, patience, and her guidance helping me with researching and writing of this thesis. I also would like to thank both Professor Brian Roberts, who inspired me to keep asking questions, and Professor Emily Machen for her assistance and support. v TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ........................................................................................................... vi CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................1 Western Expansion of New York ............................................................................5 Epidemics ...............................................................................................................12 Second Great Awakening ......................................................................................17 Death and Dying ....................................................................................................21 CHAPTER 2 SOPHIA HARRIS JOURNAL 1860 TO 1861 ............................................30 BIBLIOGRAPHY ..............................................................................................................80 APPENDIX FIGURES ......................................................................................................85 vi LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE PAGE 1 Sophia Morton Williams .....................................................................................85 2 Sophia Williams Harris .......................................................................................86 3 William Chapin Harris ........................................................................................87 4 Richard William Harris .......................................................................................88 5 Sarah Sylvina Harris ...........................................................................................89 6 Mary Jane Harris Hubbard ..................................................................................90
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