Marie
Turner Harvey Papers:
The Work at Porter School, 1912-1930
Ms
Collection H6
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The childhood dream of Marie Louise Turner (1869-1952)
to be a teacher became a reality at age 15 when she
secured her first teaching position while visiting an
aunt in Kansas.
She taught at Pontiac, KS three years, 1884-87,
then attended the State Normal School at Emporia for a
year. In
1889 she became primary teacher at Old Orchard, a
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apart.
After years of discord, she and Clay separated
that fall and were divorced two years later in a bitter,
“scandalous”, and very public law suit.
Under the circumstances, the Normal Board felt
that neither party should remain on the faculty and both
were let go.
With the strong recommendation and support of Normal
President John R Kirk, Marie was immediately hired as
the teacher at
The documents, letters and articles Mrs Harvey donated
to Pickler Memorial Library have been supplemented with
items collected after her death, most of which were
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| H6/1 | Marie Turner Harvey | |
| 1:1 | Personal & Professional Records | |
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Autobiographical Notes (handwritten)
◙ Personal and Professional Record [curriculum
vitae],
Northeast Missouri State Teachers
College, 1930 ◙ Correspondence with
NMSTC President Eugene Fair ▪ Copy
of statement filed with Dean Eubank
◙ Letterheads, MTH listed as officer
▪ Missouri State Teacher’s
Association, Recording Secretary ▪
Missouri Home-Makers Conference,
Advisory Board ▪ Missouri Federation
of Women’s Clubs, Chairman
Department of Legislation & Civil
Service ▪ Reform ▪ Porter Rural
School ◙ Program for Cook County
[IL] Public Schools Annual Teachers’
Institute, 1914, MTH listed as
instructor |
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| 1:2 | Biographies | |
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◙ Marie Turner Harvey: Pioneer Rural Educator by
Bessie L. Ray and Ottie M. Greiner, 1948 ▪ condensed version
from Nemoscope 6:1 (Fall 1951) ◙ "Marie Turner Harvey
and the Rural Life Movement" by Ruth Warner Town in
Missouri Historical
Review 84:4 (July 1990) [photocopy] ◙ “The Dean Speaks
Up” by Adele Starbird,
St Louis Star-Times, Jan 15, 1947 |
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| 1:3 | Death Records | |
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◙ Marie’s
Death ▪ Letter to E.E. Swain,
Kirksville
Daily Express,
Apr 22, 1945, re her wishes about
her obituary ▪ Death Certificate
(certified copy) ▪ Funeral Memorial
folder ▪ Obituary ◙ Clay’s Death ▪
Death Certificate ▪ Obituary |
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| 1:4 | Articles & Addresses, 1908-30 | |
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◙ “School
Problems in Adair County”, Adair
County Teachers' Association, Oct
24, 1908,
Normal School
Bulletin
8:3 (Dec 1908) (1c w/ margin notes
in her handwriting) ◙ Two
addresses at the National Education
Association Convention, Columbus,
OH, 1930 ▪ “Problems Relating to
Rural Schools” ▪ “Is Progressive
Education Procedure Practicable in
the Small
Rural
Community?” ◙ “Transformación de una
Escuela Rural”.
Boletín
de la Unión
Panamericana (April 1927) ▪
Correspondence with editor ◙
“Woman’s Relation to the Farm
Problem”
Journal
of Education,
75 (June 20, 1912) ◙ Four-part
series on Missouri education printed
in
Hannibal
Courier Post,
Nov-Dec [year?] ▪ (1) “Mrs H Clay
Harvey Tells Need of
Conservation of the Youth”
[incomplete] ▪ (2) [missing] ▪ (3)
“Fifty Per Cent of Missouri’s Youth
Reach Only Fourth Grade” ▪ (4) “Mrs
H Clay Harvey Deplores the Poor
System of the Rural School” ◙ "The
Possibilities of a One-Room School"
summary of an address by Marie
Turner Harvey
published in the 1914
Annual Report
of the Missouri State Boardof
Agriculture
▪ Program,
Second Annual Missouri Country Life
Conference (at which the address was
given) |
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| 1:5 | White House Conference on Child Health & Protection, 1929 | |
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◙ Letter from
Anne S Davis, Chairman of the
Committee on Vocational Guidance and
Child Labor, Nov 21, 1929 ◙
Invitation from President Herbert
Hoover ▪ Thank you note from
President Hoover |
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| H6/2 | Work at Porter School | |
| 2:1 | Newspaper & Magazine Articles, 1913-23 | |
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"Transformation of a Country
School",
Fruit Grower
and Farmer Magazine, (Apr
1913) ◙
“One Man’s
Opinion: The Work of a Woman” by
John F Case,
Missouri
Ruralist
[clipped w/out
date]
◙ “One School
Rebuilds a Community” by Barry H
Akers,
The Farmer’s Wife
(Mar 1920)
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“Train Up a Child in the Way He
Should Go” by F B Nichols,
Missouri
Ruralist
13:13 (July 5, 1914) ◙ “I Wish Every
Parent Could See This Country
School” by Stanley Frost,
The
National
Weekly
71 (May 19, 1923) ◙
“What Women are Doing: Mrs. Harvey
Organizes
Model One-Room
Rural School”,
The New York
Evening Post
(Sept 19, 1912)
◙ “A Teacher
and A Big Idea
Put a Community on the Map” by Alice
Mary Kimball [clipped w/out
publication name or date] ◙ “A
One-Room School” by Helen Johnson
Keyes,
The Outlook
107 (May-Aug) 1914 ◙ “A Missouri
School” by Marie Turner Harvey,
The Grain Growers’ Guide
(Jan 5, 1916)
◙ “A
One-Room School” by Helen Johnson
Keyes,
The Outlook
107:4 (May 23, 1914) “The Porter
Rural School”,
Northeast
Missouri State Teachers College
[brochure, ca 1914] |
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| 2:2 | Correspondence, 1915-36 | |
| Typed copies or abstracts of letters from ◙ Heiji Oikawa, Japan ◙ Mme H Vanderpyl, Paris, France ◙ Rhoda Robbins, England ◙ E Wood, Honolulu ◙ T Nemoto, Japan ◙ I Aihara ◙ Rhoda Robbins ◙ Hollis Dann ◙ Frank Beach ◙ Elizabeth Alling | ||
| 2:3 | Miscellaneous | |
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◙ Reference List Showing General
Interest in the Experiment ... ◙ Porter
School Experiment (Some Reliable
References Available) ◙ States where
Mrs. Harvey lectured on rural
education ◙ Suggesting Porter’s Area
of Influence |
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| H6/3 | Porter School Records | |
| 3:1 | School Documents, 1914-21, 1967 | |
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◙ Notice published by the Board of Education restricting the number of visitors to Porter School, 1919 ◙ University of Missouri, College of Agriculture Short Courses, Porter School ▪ 1914 ▪ 1915 ▪ 1916 ◙ Band Concert programs ▪ Porter Community Band, Missouri State Fair, 1920 ▪ Junior Band, State Teachers Association Meeting, Nov 1919 ▪Thank you letters (2) for Teachers Association concert ◙ Commencement programs ▪ 1915 ▪ 1922 ▪ 1967 (final) ◙ Inter-class Exercises programs ▪ 1919 ▪ 1921 ◙ “Community Center Songs” by E J Ward, compliments of Farmers’ Club, Porter Community, 1916 ◙ Song sheet for Citizenship Meeting, Porter Community, 1921 |
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| 3:2 | Newspaper Articles, 1913-86 | |
| ◙ Untitled article re repair of school house & “bus”, Kirksville Journal, Jan 30, 1913 ◙ Junior Band’s Trip to St Louis, Nov 1919 ▪ “One Man’s Opinion” by John F Case, The Missouri Ruralist [Nov 1919] ▪ “Porter School Band . . .”, The St Louis Times, Nov 10, 1919 ▪ “Porter Junior Band Makes Hit” [clipped w/out paper name or date] ◙ “Has Old Clipping Telling of Transporting Students”, Kirksville Daily Express, May 9, 1948 ◙ “Graduation Ceremonies at Porter”, Kirksville Daily Express, May 19, 1967 ◙ “Porter School and Extension Club Held a Joint Anniversary Celebration”, Kirksville Daily Express, Oct 13, 1986 | ||
| 3:3 | Photographs, 1920-29 | |
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For purposes of
preservation and ease of access, the
photos donated by Mrs Harvey have
been combined with photos from other
sources in the Porter Community
file, Special Collections Photo
Archives. That file contains ◙
students in the garden & other
outdoor activities, 1928-29 ◙ the
school building and teacher’s
cottage ◙ the school bus ◙ the
morning flag pole ceremony ◙ Porter
Community Coalition Band, 1920 |
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