Disaster at Johnstown by Hildegarde Dolson

It appears lightly used for a library book and was owned by a small Catholic school library in Syracuse NY. This book is ex-library, but it includes a well preserved dusk jacket. Good Vintage Condition: Binding, Spine, Hinges in good solid condition. She was 72 years old, and had been living in Tyron, North Carolina.DISASTER AT JOHNSTOWN: THE GREAT FLOOD Vintage Hard Cover Book by: Hildegarde Dolson Landmark Book Series #109 High ly Illustrated / P hotographs - 174 pages Random House, NY Notes & Condition : This is a rare title in the Landmark Series. Luke's Hospital in Columbus, North Carolina. Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge died on January 15, 1981, at St. Lockridge would refer to Hildegarde as either Hildy, or The Lady. ĭespite the obstacles, within a few months of their first meeting Lockridge and Miss Dolson married in May 1965. He had two beloved Siamese cats, and she preferred dogs.

Dolson loved her Greenwich Village apartment, and Mr. In 1965, when she was 56, she met mystery writer Richard Lockridge, and Lockridge quickly decided he wanted to marry her. Marriage to Richard Lockridge ĭolson once wrote 'I'm a self-made spinster who crows too much about it, especially when I get paid by the word.' She had at least one article published on the subject of why she should never marry. After her first book was published in 1938, Dolson became a full-time freelance writer. She sold her first manuscript to The New Yorker, and was later published in other major magazines, including Harper's, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, and Reader's Digest. She would later joke: 'The day I arrived in New York, in October 1929, the stock market crashed with a bang.' Īfter holding down numerous jobs, Dolson found work as an advertising copywriter for Gimbels, Macy's, Franklin-Simon, and Bamberger stores. From 1926 to 1929 she attended Allegheny College, in Meadville, Pennsylvania, but left at the beginning of her senior year to live in New York City. Hildegarde was born and raised in Franklin, Pennsylvania, the oldest of four children born to Clifford and Katherine Dolson. Her work appeared in major magazines, plus she was the author of fifteen books-all published under her maiden name of Hildegarde Dolson.

Hildegarde Dolson Lockridge (1908–1981) was a prolific writer whose career spanned nearly fifty years. We Shook the Family Tree, The Great Oildorado

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Disaster at Johnstown by Hildegarde Dolson