Call Number:

MC.975.07.103

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.08 linear ft. (1 volume)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

"Transition from the Horse and Buggy Days to the Space Age"(HC.MC.975.07.103), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1963 (inclusive)

Creator:

Rogers, Ruth Abbott

Form:

manuscripts (documents) and autobiographies (documents)

Abstract:

The autobiography or memoir of Ruth Abbott Rogers is structured to act as a tour of the family home, called Quillity, outside of Philadelphia. In Rogers's words, "I will start at the top of the house under the slate roof and wander down room by room going over the accumulation of a family from colonial times in America." The manuscript therefore acts as both an autobiography of Roger's own life in the house, and as a family history.

Ruth Abbott Rogers (1895-1975) was born in New Jersey on April 13, 1895, the daughter of George Abbott and Elizabeth E. Abbott. She married Robinson W. Rogers and the couple had two sons: Abbott and Robinson Allen. Rogers died on January 30, 1975, in Orlando, Florida.

This collection is comprised of the single volume typed autobiography or memoir of Ruth Abbott Rogers. Rogers structured the manuscript to act as a tour of the family home, called Quillity, outside of Philadelphia. In Roger's words, "I will start at the top of the house under the slate roof and wander down room by room going over the accumulation of a family from colonial times in America." The manuscript therefore acts as both an autobiography of Roger's own life in the house, and as a family history.