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Actress Helen Hunt is going on a journey into her father's | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
family history. | 0:00:04 | 0:00:06 | |
They're zillionaires! Wow! | 0:00:06 | 0:00:08 | |
She finds tragedy... | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
She was killed by a drunk driver. | 0:00:10 | 0:00:12 | |
..and also great triumph. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
I'm going to strut around here now | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
when I walk down the streets of San Francisco. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
And she's humbled to learn that her paternal ancestors played | 0:00:20 | 0:00:24 | |
important roles in the growth of America. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
That's amazing. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
Accomplished actor, director and screenwriter, | 0:01:00 | 0:01:03 | |
Helen Hunt has worked on more than 80 films, | 0:01:03 | 0:01:07 | |
TV shows and Broadway plays in a career that began in childhood. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:11 | |
She rose to fame playing Jamie on the sitcom Mad About You - | 0:01:13 | 0:01:16 | |
a role that earned her four Emmys. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:19 | |
For her performance in the feature As Good As It Gets, | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
Helen won an Academy Award and the honour of being the second | 0:01:23 | 0:01:26 | |
woman ever to earn an Emmy, Oscar and Golden Globe in the same year. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:32 | |
Helen lives in Los Angeles with her partner Matthew Carnahan, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:37 | |
her stepson Emmett Carnahan and daughter Makena Lei. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
I was born here. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
I don't know that much about generations before, | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
but I have parents from here and grandparents who lived here. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:50 | |
I have heard more about my mother's parents, maybe because my mother, | 0:01:50 | 0:01:55 | |
like me, is a talker and a seeker of those things. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:59 | |
My mother is like me in that she's interested in photographs | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
and records. And on my father's side, I don't know if he's less that way. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:08 | |
I'm sure some of it has to do with the fact that his mother died when he was so young. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:13 | |
My dad's mother was killed by a drunk driver, I was told, when he was five, | 0:02:13 | 0:02:18 | |
which is hard to even talk about even though I didn't know her, | 0:02:18 | 0:02:22 | |
I was named after her and am | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
incredibly close to my father and his siblings. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
The thought of them going through that at such a young age, especially | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
as I started to raise my daughter and could imagine what that would mean. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
He didn't have a mother to say, "Here are the photographs | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
"and here's what happened and here's what my mother was like | 0:02:39 | 0:02:42 | |
"and my father and my grandmother." | 0:02:42 | 0:02:44 | |
So, I'm doing this for my daughter. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:46 | |
Time is speeding up as I get older, | 0:02:46 | 0:02:48 | |
so I want her to have something in her hand to know where she's from. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:53 | |
I'm scrapbooking for my life. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:55 | |
Since I already know a good deal about my mom's family, | 0:02:58 | 0:03:01 | |
I want to explore my dad's side of the family. | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
I've heard we have European Jewish roots | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
and ancestors from the East Coast. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
'I'd like to find out more about that. | 0:03:09 | 0:03:11 | |
'I'm meeting with my father, Gordon, here in Los Angeles, | 0:03:11 | 0:03:14 | |
'to see if he has any clues to start me off on my journey.' | 0:03:14 | 0:03:17 | |
-Now, here we are. -This, I've never seen. -I love that picture. | 0:03:19 | 0:03:24 | |
It's amazing. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:26 | |
There's my mother, Helen, and there's my grandmother, | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
the power behind the throne. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
Florence Roberts. | 0:03:33 | 0:03:35 | |
I remember hearing that name. And when did Rothenberg become Roberts? | 0:03:35 | 0:03:41 | |
I know it has to do with her Jewishness, | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
but was it when they came to New York? | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
I don't know the when of that. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:48 | |
-And her husband, you never knew? -No. | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
She and her husband were immigrants from, I think, Germany. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:59 | |
They emigrated to New York and then ended up living in Pasadena. | 0:03:59 | 0:04:05 | |
The building still stands. It's called the Green Hotel. | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
-And they lived in a hotel because they could? -That's exactly right. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:12 | |
-Because they could. -Where did the money come from? -I don't know. | 0:04:12 | 0:04:17 | |
I would like to find out someday. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
Helen is heading to Pasadena, California, where Florence's | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
old home, once called the Hotel Green, still stands. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
Helen's grandmother, Helen Roberts, | 0:04:33 | 0:04:34 | |
lived here with her great grandmother Florence Roberts. | 0:04:34 | 0:04:38 | |
Helen has arranged to meet Marc Dollinger, | 0:04:38 | 0:04:41 | |
a professor of Jewish American history. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
She has asked him to do some research to our ancestors who | 0:04:43 | 0:04:46 | |
her father thinks are from New York. | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
She also wants to find out how her grandmother had enough money | 0:04:49 | 0:04:53 | |
to be able to choose to live in a hotel. | 0:04:53 | 0:04:56 | |
I grew up knowing Florence's name and that she lived in this hotel. | 0:04:56 | 0:05:02 | |
There was a Roberts... Rothenberg to Roberts thing that | 0:05:02 | 0:05:05 | |
I always knew growing up and was interested in why that was. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:09 | |
I asked my dad about his grandfather and he didn't know much about him. | 0:05:09 | 0:05:13 | |
We're going to search for census records. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:15 | |
We're going to look for 1900. | 0:05:15 | 0:05:18 | |
Florence Rothenberg. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:21 | |
Let's search in New York. | 0:05:21 | 0:05:23 | |
-Is that it? -That's it. -OK, Gustav. | 0:05:26 | 0:05:29 | |
-That's my great-grandfather, right? -Yes. | 0:05:29 | 0:05:33 | |
Florence, Alfred, Edwin - not Edward - and Paul. | 0:05:33 | 0:05:37 | |
Helen, there she is. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
And if you look underneath Helen's name, Rose. | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
-Rose. -And after Rose's name? -I can't read it. -Servant. -Oh, goodness. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:51 | |
And then Ann, servant. Mary. | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
One rich child. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
-So, we can conclude that they were quite well off. -Right. | 0:05:58 | 0:06:03 | |
I have a document to show you. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:05 | |
Death record for Gustav Rothenberg. Intestinal and gastric haemorrhage. | 0:06:07 | 0:06:12 | |
-Yes, related to typhoid fever. -Typhoid fever. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:16 | |
1900, oh, my God. | 0:06:16 | 0:06:18 | |
-I wonder, is that when Florence moved to Pasadena? -Let's do another search. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:24 | |
OK. Florence Rothenberg. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
So, in 1910, they're in Pasadena. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
-Which means, after the death of her husband... -She goes 3,000 miles. | 0:06:31 | 0:06:36 | |
With four young kids. | 0:06:36 | 0:06:37 | |
Why don't you stay in New York, where your synagogue is, I wonder? | 0:06:37 | 0:06:40 | |
We don't know precisely why she chose Pasadena. | 0:06:40 | 0:06:43 | |
But we know a lot of other people made the same decision. | 0:06:43 | 0:06:47 | |
The Jewish population in Los Angeles between 1900 and 1915 | 0:06:47 | 0:06:53 | |
-increased eight times. -Wow. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
It was huge growth and Pasadena was also high society. | 0:06:55 | 0:06:59 | |
-Shall we see how she progressed? -Yes. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
Let's do a search for the 1920 census. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
No matches. I know what happened. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
I think. Should I put in Roberts? | 0:07:13 | 0:07:17 | |
You could try. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:19 | |
I see her. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:25 | |
I don't like that she had to get rid of Rothenberg. | 0:07:25 | 0:07:28 | |
I'm assuming that she was escaping some kind of subtle or overt | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
anti-Semitism. Is that a good assumption or a bad assumption? | 0:07:32 | 0:07:35 | |
It's a good assumption. | 0:07:35 | 0:07:36 | |
Probably, you don't change from Rothenberg to Roberts for any other reason. | 0:07:36 | 0:07:40 | |
Due to famine, war and persecution in the late 1800s, | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
Jewish refugees were fleeing Europe by the millions, | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
as part of a wave of more than 20 million newcomers to America, | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
over just four decades. | 0:07:52 | 0:07:54 | |
Many native-born Americans feared this group. | 0:07:54 | 0:07:57 | |
In 1921, Congress indirectly targeted Jews by passing | 0:07:57 | 0:08:01 | |
a law limiting the number of immigrants allowed to enter the US. | 0:08:01 | 0:08:05 | |
These events fuelled a spike in anti-Semitism | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
that also impacted Jews already in America, | 0:08:08 | 0:08:11 | |
who were suddenly facing discrimination themselves. | 0:08:11 | 0:08:15 | |
It would be a lot more challenging to go through life | 0:08:15 | 0:08:18 | |
as a Rothenberg than it would as a Roberts. | 0:08:18 | 0:08:21 | |
The word "restricted" suddenly... | 0:08:21 | 0:08:23 | |
..becomes a part of your life. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
We learned before that that Gustav died young. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:30 | |
What I have here for you is a certificate of death for Florence. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:35 | |
86 years old. She lived a long life. | 0:08:36 | 0:08:40 | |
This is a very important historical document for us. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
Most of all because it gives us information on her father. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
-William Scholle. -Your great-great-grandfather. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:51 | |
Scholle, I didn't even know that name until right now. At all. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:55 | |
Through some research, | 0:08:56 | 0:08:58 | |
we were, in fact, able to find | 0:08:58 | 0:09:01 | |
an 1845 passenger ship manifest... | 0:09:01 | 0:09:06 | |
-Oh, my gosh. -..from Bavaria... -Germany. -..to New York City. | 0:09:06 | 0:09:10 | |
Is he on there? | 0:09:10 | 0:09:12 | |
His name is a little different, as was often the case. | 0:09:12 | 0:09:15 | |
He went by the name Wolf Scholy | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
Wolf is a typical German-language name, | 0:09:20 | 0:09:22 | |
William certainly sounds much more American. | 0:09:22 | 0:09:25 | |
Helen now knows that her great-great-grandfather | 0:09:26 | 0:09:30 | |
Wolf Scholy, who became William, was the one who came over from Germany. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
But the question remains - | 0:09:34 | 0:09:36 | |
where did William's or Florence's money come from? | 0:09:36 | 0:09:39 | |
If you can see here, Wolf Scholy begins as a farmer. | 0:09:42 | 0:09:46 | |
Economic depression was hitting in this time period and, | 0:09:46 | 0:09:50 | |
as was typically the case, they would move into the cities, | 0:09:50 | 0:09:53 | |
looking for work or greater economic opportunity. | 0:09:53 | 0:09:56 | |
Do we know what William did when he got to America? | 0:09:56 | 0:10:00 | |
Well, in 1853, the City of New York provides us | 0:10:00 | 0:10:04 | |
with the business directory. There is William. | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
And does that say Abraham? There is an Abraham. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:10 | |
-Abraham is William's big brother. -Here we go. Abraham, clothing. | 0:10:10 | 0:10:13 | |
-That's right. -William, clothing. Scholle & Brother Clothing. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
They're on Bowery Street. I know Bowery Street! | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
Wait a minute. What happened? | 0:10:19 | 0:10:21 | |
William is in San Francisco. | 0:10:21 | 0:10:23 | |
Why? | 0:10:23 | 0:10:24 | |
Your great-great-grandfather, William, arrived | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
at an incredibly fortuitous time, | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
because within just a few years from 1848 to 1850, | 0:10:33 | 0:10:39 | |
when they are establishing themselves in New York, | 0:10:39 | 0:10:42 | |
gold is discovered in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:47 | |
Fantastic. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:48 | |
And your great-great-grandfather, William, | 0:10:48 | 0:10:51 | |
was very well positioned to join the gold rush. | 0:10:51 | 0:10:54 | |
Do we know what made him well positioned? | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
He acquired enough language skills and he had | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
enough of a business foundation to afford the journey to the West. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:04 | |
Wow. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:05 | |
No idea. I had absolutely no idea. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:08 | |
I know nothing about the gold rush. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
If that's actually where I'm headed, I will be learning a lot. | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
I love San Francisco, | 0:11:16 | 0:11:18 | |
but I didn't know that that was an important place in my family. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
It's a little tiny clue, but it means something. | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
I'm now hot on the trail of my great-great-grandfather, William, | 0:11:26 | 0:11:30 | |
who moved west at the time of the gold rush. | 0:11:30 | 0:11:32 | |
Helen is heading to Northern California to see what else | 0:11:32 | 0:11:35 | |
she can discover about him. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
I'm on the Bay Bridge, going into San Francisco. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:43 | |
Many times I've been, but as a child I remember seeing it | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
and thinking it was among the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:51 | |
I had no idea that anybody in my family had any particular | 0:11:51 | 0:11:56 | |
connection to it. | 0:11:56 | 0:11:58 | |
Helen is meeting with Professor Stephen Aron, | 0:11:58 | 0:12:01 | |
an expert in the American West. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
They are meeting at the San Francisco Public library. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
Hi, Stevie Aron. | 0:12:07 | 0:12:08 | |
Helen has asked Stephen to investigate William Scholle. | 0:12:08 | 0:12:11 | |
She wants to know if he made his fortune from the gold rush. | 0:12:11 | 0:12:15 | |
I was shown a list of merchants that showed William here | 0:12:16 | 0:12:20 | |
and there was talk of gold rush. That's everything I know. | 0:12:20 | 0:12:24 | |
And I know nothing about the gold rush. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:26 | |
We know that he does come to California in the early 1850s, | 0:12:26 | 0:12:31 | |
because if you look here, | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
you will see this is the first census of California in 1852. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:38 | |
The first census? | 0:12:38 | 0:12:40 | |
California becomes a state in 1850, right on the heels of the gold rush. | 0:12:40 | 0:12:43 | |
-Is that him? -That is him. | 0:12:43 | 0:12:46 | |
San Francisco had been a small village before gold happened. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
Quickly on the heels, thousands rush in. | 0:12:51 | 0:12:55 | |
Beginning in 1848, a promise of gold lured | 0:12:55 | 0:12:59 | |
thousands from around the world to San Francisco. | 0:12:59 | 0:13:03 | |
The population rocketed, turning this sleepy seaside | 0:13:03 | 0:13:06 | |
town into a thriving international seaport almost overnight. | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
Merchants sought to take advantage of new opportunities that | 0:13:12 | 0:13:15 | |
gold and the population boom presented. | 0:13:15 | 0:13:19 | |
While miners searched for gold, | 0:13:19 | 0:13:21 | |
astute businessmen like William Scholle sought their own | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
fortunes supplying, clothing and feeding them. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:29 | |
But success here was by no means a certainty. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:33 | |
Competition was fierce, | 0:13:33 | 0:13:35 | |
logistics difficult, | 0:13:35 | 0:13:37 | |
and widespread crime threatened the surging city. | 0:13:37 | 0:13:41 | |
Is there any way to know how struggling or well off he was? | 0:13:42 | 0:13:46 | |
Yes, if you look at this newspaper from 1855, | 0:13:46 | 0:13:50 | |
you can see here in this tabulation of the weekly shipment of treasures. | 0:13:50 | 0:13:55 | |
Scholle Bros? My Gosh. 10,100. | 0:13:56 | 0:14:00 | |
Roughly, in today's terms, | 0:14:00 | 0:14:03 | |
that's probably about a quarter of a million dollars. | 0:14:03 | 0:14:06 | |
That is a significant amount of cargo that he is engaged in. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
If you look then at the 1858 business directory | 0:14:10 | 0:14:14 | |
for San Francisco. | 0:14:14 | 0:14:15 | |
-Scholle, (Jacob) & Brother. -This is the common pattern, | 0:14:15 | 0:14:19 | |
to send the younger brothers out to work together. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
So, William's older brother Abraham stayed in New York | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
and his other brother, Jacob, came out to San Francisco. | 0:14:26 | 0:14:30 | |
William Scholle, manufacturers and importers of clothing. | 0:14:30 | 0:14:34 | |
They are now declaring themselves as not just importers of goods. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:37 | |
They have branched out and seem to be engaged in at least | 0:14:37 | 0:14:40 | |
some manufacturing enterprise. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
Obviously, from these, we know that they are doing well enough, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:45 | |
which is no easy feat. | 0:14:45 | 0:14:48 | |
Here's another census. | 0:14:48 | 0:14:51 | |
The 1870 census. | 0:14:51 | 0:14:54 | |
William Scholle. And Rosa. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
-I don't know who that is. -That is his wife. | 0:14:56 | 0:15:00 | |
Oh, Albert, Amy. Florence, who was my great-grandmother. | 0:15:00 | 0:15:06 | |
Clara, aged six, my God. That says Adolf. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:10 | |
Right, but in the same household here. | 0:15:10 | 0:15:12 | |
This is the same household, so you can see, also... | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
-And Sophia and what is this last name? Walsh? -Walsh. -Willis. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:20 | |
Oh, domestic servant, domestic servant. So they are doing OK. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:23 | |
They've got three domestic servants and, in fact, here they are. | 0:15:23 | 0:15:27 | |
Oh, my gosh. | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
-OK, there's William Scholle. -There's William. -Wow. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
And then Rosa. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:37 | |
-Here she is. -That's Florence. | 0:15:40 | 0:15:41 | |
Just incredible to see that. | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
We have one more document over here | 0:15:51 | 0:15:53 | |
that I think you'll find fascinating. | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
-If you can help me open this very big book... -Oh, my God. | 0:15:57 | 0:16:01 | |
OK. | 0:16:03 | 0:16:05 | |
You can see this is the San Francisco newspaper. | 0:16:05 | 0:16:09 | |
-September 28th, 1874. -This may come in handy. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
Take a look right here. | 0:16:14 | 0:16:16 | |
There we go. "The solid men. | 0:16:16 | 0:16:20 | |
"The following is a carefully prepared list of individuals | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
"and firms in San Francisco whose repeated wealth exceeds 1 million. | 0:16:25 | 0:16:30 | |
"The individual towers of strength | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
"are Michael Reese, DO Mills, | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
"A Hayward, Levi Strauss, Louis Strauss, Jacob Scholle! | 0:16:35 | 0:16:39 | |
"William Scholle!" Oh, my God. | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
They are zillionaires! | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
Wow. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:46 | |
Really, when you think about it, this is 1874, | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
so this is 20-plus years after he first got here. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:52 | |
What were they made of that they thought they could do it, | 0:16:52 | 0:16:55 | |
that they thought even maybe they could do it? It's quite incredible. | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
This was the dream that brought | 0:16:58 | 0:17:01 | |
so many hundreds of thousands of people here. They came for gold. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:04 | |
In some ways, William Scholle, he found the gold. | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
I guess, by any measure, it's utterly remarkable. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
It certainly seems like a literally rags-to-riches story in this case. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:16 | |
We knew there was money in Pasadena. | 0:17:17 | 0:17:19 | |
I guess the money and the California part of that makes more sense. | 0:17:19 | 0:17:24 | |
So, you feel like little parts of you are waking up. | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
Helen has arranged to meet with Frances Dinkelspiel, a writer | 0:17:28 | 0:17:32 | |
who has traced her own roots to 19th-century San Francisco. | 0:17:32 | 0:17:36 | |
Frances has been researching William Scholle's career | 0:17:37 | 0:17:41 | |
in order to find out just how successful he was. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:43 | |
They are meeting at the old San Francisco Mint. | 0:17:44 | 0:17:47 | |
I wanted to show you something. | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
This is a story from the New York Times, | 0:17:51 | 0:17:53 | |
Saturday, February 16th, 1890. | 0:17:53 | 0:17:56 | |
"The Nevada Bank to be sold. | 0:17:56 | 0:17:58 | |
"Negotiations have been going on recently between the present | 0:17:59 | 0:18:03 | |
"proprietors and a syndicate composed of the following wealthy capitalists. | 0:18:03 | 0:18:08 | |
"Levi Strauss, Scholle Brothers, Louis Schloss | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
"and the Hellmans bankers at Los Angeles." | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
So, there are two names in there. One, of course, | 0:18:15 | 0:18:17 | |
is a William Scholle, who was your great-great-grandfather. | 0:18:17 | 0:18:21 | |
And here's a picture of another man on that list, | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
-his name is Isaias Hellman. He is my great-great-grandfather. -No! | 0:18:28 | 0:18:33 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:18:33 | 0:18:35 | |
-So, our great-great-grandfathers were friends. -Rich friends! | 0:18:35 | 0:18:38 | |
-Rich friends. And they were business partners. -My goodness. | 0:18:38 | 0:18:42 | |
That's amazing. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:43 | |
So, when word got out, millionaires lined up from all over | 0:18:43 | 0:18:47 | |
the country trying to get shares of stock in the Nevada Bank. | 0:18:47 | 0:18:51 | |
Here is a list of some of the people who invested in the Nevada Bank. | 0:18:51 | 0:18:55 | |
-Does that say Lehman Brothers? -Mm-hm. | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
Scholle brothers! | 0:18:59 | 0:19:00 | |
-Helen, do you ever hear today about the Nevada Bank? -No. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:06 | |
Let me show you another article. | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
This is also from the New York Times. | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
Wells Fargo and Nevada Institutions will become | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
one at close of today's business. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:17 | |
-They became Wells Fargo. -Right. -My God. | 0:19:17 | 0:19:20 | |
I'm going to strut around here now | 0:19:20 | 0:19:22 | |
when I walk down the streets of San Francisco. It's incredible. | 0:19:22 | 0:19:26 | |
It's incredible. | 0:19:26 | 0:19:27 | |
This document shows that your family, the Scholle brothers, | 0:19:27 | 0:19:32 | |
were part creators of an institution that is now spread | 0:19:32 | 0:19:37 | |
across the country, that millions and millions of Americans bank at. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:42 | |
That's amazing. | 0:19:42 | 0:19:43 | |
So, something that's not well known in history, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:46 | |
how this group of Bavarian Jews came | 0:19:46 | 0:19:48 | |
and dug themselves in and said, "This is our country now, we're | 0:19:48 | 0:19:52 | |
"going to make it a success and dedicate everything to it." | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
Right. Well, thank you so much. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
My daughter loves a good story. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:03 | |
And so the idea that I can say, | 0:20:03 | 0:20:05 | |
"Your great-great-great-grandfather lived in Germany and came here | 0:20:05 | 0:20:09 | |
"when there was nothing," | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
it's hard to imagine, but I feel like she'll have a better | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
shot at understanding what it means | 0:20:13 | 0:20:17 | |
to be American, | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
because of that story. | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
On the trail of her paternal ancestors, | 0:20:23 | 0:20:26 | |
Helen now wants to turn her attention to her father's | 0:20:26 | 0:20:28 | |
father's side of the family, the Hunts, and to see what | 0:20:28 | 0:20:32 | |
she can learn about her | 0:20:32 | 0:20:34 | |
great-great-grandfather, George Hunt I. | 0:20:34 | 0:20:38 | |
Helen's father has told her that her great-great-grandfather was from | 0:20:38 | 0:20:41 | |
Portland, Maine, so she's heading there to begin her investigation. | 0:20:41 | 0:20:45 | |
I've only been in Portland, Maine one other time. I was | 0:20:52 | 0:20:54 | |
working in a small town about an hour and a half outside of Portland. | 0:20:54 | 0:20:59 | |
I was only seven weeks pregnant, not wanting anybody to know, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:02 | |
because I was so worried that something would happen. | 0:21:02 | 0:21:07 | |
And so I had a friend who knew a doctor and we heard her heartbeat, | 0:21:07 | 0:21:12 | |
my daughter's heartbeat, for the first time here, in Portland, Maine. | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
All I know about George Hunt is that he was a businessman | 0:21:19 | 0:21:22 | |
and traded goods. But what did he trade and who was his family? | 0:21:22 | 0:21:26 | |
Helen has asked local historian Herb Adams to look into George. | 0:21:27 | 0:21:31 | |
They are meeting at a pub in the same neighbourhood where Helen's | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
great-great-grandfather once worked. | 0:21:34 | 0:21:37 | |
-Nice to see you. -Pleased to meet you. | 0:21:37 | 0:21:40 | |
-You, too. -Welcome to Portland. -Thank you. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:45 | |
The little bit that I know, if I have it right, is that | 0:21:45 | 0:21:49 | |
my great-great-grandfather was from here | 0:21:49 | 0:21:54 | |
and something about trading. | 0:21:54 | 0:21:57 | |
Well, as it turns out, your great-great-grandfather, | 0:21:57 | 0:22:00 | |
who lived in this town, George S Hunt, was a major sugar | 0:22:00 | 0:22:03 | |
importer and exported a lot of wood in those days. | 0:22:03 | 0:22:08 | |
You can't grow sugar in Maine, I assure you. | 0:22:08 | 0:22:11 | |
But we had plenty of wood, and that made his fortune, that exchange. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:15 | |
This comes from a publication called | 0:22:15 | 0:22:17 | |
Representative Businessman of Portland, Maine, | 0:22:17 | 0:22:21 | |
and his biography and as much about the company as him is there. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:26 | |
"This company was incorporated in 1863, | 0:22:26 | 0:22:30 | |
"located on West Commercial Street", which is a block from here, right? | 0:22:30 | 0:22:34 | |
-Just about. -Right. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:36 | |
According to the biography, Helen's great-great-grandfather, | 0:22:36 | 0:22:39 | |
George Hunt, was an extremely successful businessman, | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
who traded timber for sugar with the Caribbean. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
"Our facilities for the manufacture of sugar should be so extensive | 0:22:47 | 0:22:51 | |
"and efficient as to be unequalled by those possessed by any other nation." | 0:22:51 | 0:22:55 | |
Cool. I had no idea sugar was a thing in my family. | 0:22:55 | 0:23:01 | |
It would interest you, I thought, to see this. | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
"George S Hunt, one of the most prominent | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
"and enterprising of the Portland citizens, | 0:23:07 | 0:23:09 | |
"died very suddenly in the office at four o'clock this afternoon. | 0:23:09 | 0:23:12 | |
"Mr Hunt leaves a widow, who was very well known in education circles, | 0:23:12 | 0:23:15 | |
"and two sons. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:17 | |
"On September 22, 1863, he married Augusta, youngest daughter of the | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
"late George S Barstow, a well-known and prominent resident of Portland." | 0:23:21 | 0:23:26 | |
-Wow. -Your great-great-grandmother, Augusta, the wife of the man | 0:23:26 | 0:23:30 | |
we have been speaking about, appears in this document, | 0:23:30 | 0:23:33 | |
which is sort of the women's equivalent of | 0:23:33 | 0:23:36 | |
the Representative Businessman publication. | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
"Augusta M Hunt is a graceful speaker and is identified with | 0:23:39 | 0:23:42 | |
"various educational and philanthropic institutions. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
"As president of the Home For Aged Women | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
"and the Women's Christian Temperance Union and of the Ladies History Club, | 0:23:47 | 0:23:51 | |
"she has proved herself a wise and efficient leader." | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
-I'm guessing she was anti-rum! -You made a good guess. | 0:23:54 | 0:23:58 | |
Right up until about 1850, Portland, Maine, | 0:23:58 | 0:24:02 | |
probably drank more rum than any other seaport in the United States. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:07 | |
The one great 19th-century reform that is a Maine reform, | 0:24:07 | 0:24:11 | |
-is the anti-alcohol crusade. -That started in Maine? -That started | 0:24:11 | 0:24:14 | |
-in this town, not far from where you're sitting. -Oh, my God. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:18 | |
In the 19th century, the rise of cheap sugar - | 0:24:19 | 0:24:23 | |
the same commodity being traded by George Hunt before his death - | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
also led to a surge in the availability of rum | 0:24:26 | 0:24:29 | |
and other spirits, especially in New England. | 0:24:29 | 0:24:32 | |
1830 marked the peak of US per capita alcohol consumption. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:38 | |
At one time, in a one-mile stretch of Portland, | 0:24:38 | 0:24:41 | |
some 300 establishments sold alcohol. | 0:24:41 | 0:24:44 | |
In an effort to curtail the widespread drinking, | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
the Maine Law of 1851 was enacted, | 0:24:47 | 0:24:49 | |
prohibiting the production and sale of alcohol. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:52 | |
This law made it unlikely that George Hunt's company | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
provided sugar to the rum makers. | 0:24:57 | 0:24:59 | |
This is a national organisation which still | 0:25:00 | 0:25:04 | |
-exists in Portland, Maine. -Wow. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:07 | |
I'm pretty sure the Christian Temperance Society was... | 0:25:08 | 0:25:12 | |
I don't know what it was. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:14 | |
It makes me want to go have something warm with rum in it. | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
Helen has discovered that her great-great-grandmother, | 0:25:18 | 0:25:22 | |
Augusta Hunt, was involved with a number of philanthropic | 0:25:22 | 0:25:24 | |
institutions in Portland, Maine. | 0:25:24 | 0:25:26 | |
To find out more about Augusta's work, | 0:25:28 | 0:25:31 | |
Helen is meeting with Professor Carol Mattingly. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
They're meeting at the headquarters of | 0:25:34 | 0:25:36 | |
the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Maine. | 0:25:36 | 0:25:38 | |
My great-great-grandfather traded sugar very successfully. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:46 | |
I learned that his wife was very active in | 0:25:46 | 0:25:49 | |
the Women's Christian Temperance Union. It does give me | 0:25:49 | 0:25:52 | |
a slight bit of anxiety to say all those words pushed together. | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
Why are you so nervous about this? | 0:25:57 | 0:25:59 | |
I don't know. | 0:25:59 | 0:26:02 | |
-Tell me more. -OK. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:04 | |
I'm going to tell you why I think you're nervous. | 0:26:04 | 0:26:08 | |
Because the WCTU is associated with | 0:26:08 | 0:26:13 | |
a prudish movement that failed. | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
The reason women joined the WCTU in such huge numbers is | 0:26:16 | 0:26:22 | |
because alcohol abuse was so rampant in the 19th century. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:27 | |
The primary result, women felt, was the physical | 0:26:27 | 0:26:33 | |
and sexual abuse of women and children. | 0:26:33 | 0:26:38 | |
And so they rallied around the temperance topic. | 0:26:38 | 0:26:41 | |
There was a dark side | 0:26:42 | 0:26:44 | |
to the 19th-century love affair with alcohol. | 0:26:44 | 0:26:47 | |
Alcoholism spiked, even in children, | 0:26:47 | 0:26:50 | |
and domestic violence took its toll on families and society as a whole. | 0:26:50 | 0:26:55 | |
Married women like Augusta had few legal rights at the time. | 0:26:55 | 0:26:59 | |
They couldn't vote or sign contracts | 0:26:59 | 0:27:02 | |
and divorcing was difficult at best. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
But women became a powerful force for social change when they | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
pulled together to fight against alcohol abuse and other social ills. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:12 | |
-They were all about getting a voice for women. -That's amazing. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:17 | |
Your great-great-grandmother did the welcoming address | 0:27:17 | 0:27:20 | |
at the 11th annual convention. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:24 | |
-If you would start reading... -Here? | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
"When we consider the well-known and sad fact that woman has always | 0:27:27 | 0:27:32 | |
"been the greatest sufferer from the misery caused by intemperance, | 0:27:32 | 0:27:37 | |
"does it not seem strange that nearly 90 years of such suffering | 0:27:37 | 0:27:41 | |
"were required to reveal to women their duty upon this question?" | 0:27:41 | 0:27:46 | |
That's an amazing thing to have done. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:49 | |
These are pictures of your great-great-grandmother, | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
Augusta Barstow-Hunt. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:54 | |
She was really active in the WCTU in the 1880s and 1890s, | 0:27:59 | 0:28:06 | |
which would have been their heyday. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:09 | |
The organisation was huge and very powerful | 0:28:09 | 0:28:12 | |
and influential by that time. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:13 | |
We've surmised that this might be your grandfather | 0:28:15 | 0:28:22 | |
because these are probably her grandchildren. | 0:28:22 | 0:28:26 | |
And then her grandson's wife is Helen, right? | 0:28:26 | 0:28:33 | |
-My grandmother. And she was killed by a drunk driver. -Is that true? | 0:28:33 | 0:28:37 | |
It's just interesting to watch your own snap judgements rise up | 0:28:40 | 0:28:45 | |
and crumble away. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:47 | |
I knew nothing about her | 0:28:47 | 0:28:48 | |
and I heard she had been in these organisations, I heard the word | 0:28:48 | 0:28:51 | |
"temperance" and I have an utterly uneducated idea about what that is. | 0:28:51 | 0:28:56 | |
And then to have it sort of blossom in this beautiful, | 0:28:56 | 0:28:59 | |
painful way, that she was involved in excruciating issues. | 0:28:59 | 0:29:07 | |
And then how my father's mother was killed | 0:29:07 | 0:29:09 | |
and that I have a real connection to because I have grown up with | 0:29:09 | 0:29:12 | |
my dad and wondered or imagined or glimpsed what the effect of that was. | 0:29:12 | 0:29:16 | |
Pretty amazing. | 0:29:17 | 0:29:19 | |
I don't know how long she lived, | 0:29:22 | 0:29:24 | |
so I don't know where in the span of her life this happened. | 0:29:24 | 0:29:26 | |
Was this last thing she did? Was this the beginning? | 0:29:26 | 0:29:30 | |
It impresses me that, even as a widow with children, | 0:29:30 | 0:29:33 | |
my great-great-grandmother, Augusta, | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
still made it a priority to be involved in social change. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:38 | |
Helen has come to the Maine Historical Society to meet | 0:29:40 | 0:29:43 | |
with Professor Shannon Risk and to find out what else Augusta was | 0:29:43 | 0:29:47 | |
able to accomplish for women's rights. | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
I just came from the WCTU... | 0:29:50 | 0:29:55 | |
..the name of which filled me with fear and dread | 0:29:56 | 0:29:59 | |
until I found out what they did and it humbled me | 0:29:59 | 0:30:02 | |
and moved me that what they were doing was about much more than | 0:30:02 | 0:30:06 | |
I ever bothered to learn about or imagine. | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
What else can you tell me about Augusta? | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
Not only was Augusta involved in the WCTU... | 0:30:14 | 0:30:17 | |
We have pulled out some things about your great-great-grandmother | 0:30:17 | 0:30:21 | |
and the first is a biography. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:23 | |
It starts here and goes on to the next page, | 0:30:23 | 0:30:25 | |
-so she was about 62 when they are writing about her. -Wow. | 0:30:25 | 0:30:30 | |
"Mrs Hunt remained president of the | 0:30:30 | 0:30:32 | |
"Portland Women's Christian Temperance Union for 15 years. | 0:30:32 | 0:30:36 | |
"Under her direction, the Coffee House and Friendly Inn, day nursery | 0:30:36 | 0:30:40 | |
"and free kindergartens were adopted | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
"as branches of the work of this organisation." | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
The biography reveals that Augusta was | 0:30:45 | 0:30:47 | |
instrumental in starting nursery schools, bringing female | 0:30:47 | 0:30:51 | |
guards to mixed prisons and getting women elected to school boards. | 0:30:51 | 0:30:56 | |
"Under her leadership, the council was instrumental | 0:30:57 | 0:30:59 | |
"in having a law passed which | 0:30:59 | 0:31:01 | |
"gives to a mother an equal right with the father in the care | 0:31:01 | 0:31:04 | |
"and guardianship of minor children." Wow. | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
This was a way for Augusta and her cohorts to be | 0:31:07 | 0:31:11 | |
political in a society that did not accept women in politics. | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
I know many women have had to choose between being present | 0:31:15 | 0:31:19 | |
with their children and getting something done in the world | 0:31:19 | 0:31:22 | |
that's going to affect generations and generations. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:25 | |
To the extent that she did both at once, I think that's a big deal. | 0:31:25 | 0:31:31 | |
It was so important to her. This work was so important. | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
Again, they have turned outwards into society. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
That's huge. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:40 | |
As the temperance movement gained strength, women shifted | 0:31:42 | 0:31:46 | |
their focus to larger issues and the Women's Rights Movement was born. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:50 | |
Some 40 years before Augusta got involved, | 0:31:53 | 0:31:56 | |
the American movement for women's rights burst onto the national stage | 0:31:56 | 0:32:00 | |
in 1848, with a two-day event called the Seneca Falls Convention. | 0:32:00 | 0:32:04 | |
Here, Elizabeth Cady Stanton made international | 0:32:06 | 0:32:09 | |
headlines by declaring that women deserved the right to vote - | 0:32:09 | 0:32:12 | |
a shocking and controversial idea at the time. | 0:32:12 | 0:32:16 | |
Soon after, Stanton joined forces with Susan B Anthony to focus | 0:32:17 | 0:32:21 | |
the women's movement on this key issue - voting rights for women. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:25 | |
And so, I want to show you this document that is | 0:32:29 | 0:32:33 | |
the proposal from 1917 to be signed into law, they hope, | 0:32:33 | 0:32:38 | |
giving women the right to vote. | 0:32:38 | 0:32:40 | |
-So, this is demanding that they put this up to vote. -Right. | 0:32:40 | 0:32:44 | |
And so Augusta and her colleagues gather | 0:32:44 | 0:32:47 | |
thousands of signatures on petitions | 0:32:47 | 0:32:50 | |
and the Maine State Legislator agrees, but now | 0:32:50 | 0:32:52 | |
they must turn it out into male voting society | 0:32:52 | 0:32:56 | |
to see what will happen. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:58 | |
It's thrilling and enraging all at once. | 0:32:58 | 0:33:00 | |
At this point, Augusta is in her mid-70s, | 0:33:00 | 0:33:04 | |
but we know that she remains active in the fight for the women's vote. | 0:33:04 | 0:33:08 | |
The referendum returns come back and, in most communities, | 0:33:08 | 0:33:13 | |
they vote the resolution down. The ratio is about 2:1. | 0:33:13 | 0:33:17 | |
I think about women having daughters | 0:33:19 | 0:33:21 | |
and having to explain that to your daughter. | 0:33:21 | 0:33:25 | |
My daughter, I'm not looking forward to having her even begin | 0:33:25 | 0:33:29 | |
to understand that there was a day when women were treated differently | 0:33:29 | 0:33:33 | |
than men were in such a... | 0:33:33 | 0:33:35 | |
huge and radical way. | 0:33:35 | 0:33:38 | |
Although suffrage did not pass in Maine, | 0:33:39 | 0:33:42 | |
women were making headway elsewhere in America. | 0:33:42 | 0:33:45 | |
By the start of World War I, full suffrage had passed in 12 states. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:50 | |
Women like Augusta famously mocked | 0:33:50 | 0:33:52 | |
an address made by President Woodrow Wilson | 0:33:52 | 0:33:54 | |
when he claimed that the Great War was a struggle for democracy. | 0:33:54 | 0:33:59 | |
Suffragists contended that the United States was not itself | 0:34:00 | 0:34:03 | |
a democracy, since women couldn't vote. | 0:34:03 | 0:34:06 | |
By 1918, President Wilson was swayed, | 0:34:06 | 0:34:09 | |
and began publicly supporting voting rights for women. | 0:34:09 | 0:34:14 | |
The tide was turning | 0:34:14 | 0:34:15 | |
and, in 1920, the 19th Amendment was ratified, | 0:34:15 | 0:34:19 | |
granting all American women the power to vote. | 0:34:19 | 0:34:23 | |
So, we don't know a tremendous amount about her later years, | 0:34:23 | 0:34:29 | |
but we do know that she witnessed the passing of the 19th Amendment | 0:34:29 | 0:34:35 | |
and we have a copy of that here. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
-And she was alive. -She was alive. She's about 77. | 0:34:38 | 0:34:43 | |
"Proposing an amendment to the Constitution extending | 0:34:43 | 0:34:46 | |
"the right of suffrage to women." | 0:34:46 | 0:34:48 | |
She had lived to see the day. | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
Thank God. | 0:34:53 | 0:34:55 | |
Did she live to vote? | 0:34:55 | 0:34:57 | |
-This is the voter registration book from 1920. -Oh, my God. | 0:34:58 | 0:35:02 | |
I thought perhaps we might look for Augusta's name. | 0:35:05 | 0:35:07 | |
Hopkins, Hutchins. | 0:35:10 | 0:35:12 | |
That's not a good sign. Am I looking in the right place? | 0:35:12 | 0:35:16 | |
-What we're looking for is District 6. -District 6. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:19 | |
She worked so hard for so long, | 0:35:21 | 0:35:23 | |
this is her first chance to register to vote. I hope she's in here. | 0:35:23 | 0:35:27 | |
Hopkins, Hoppin, Howes, Hume. | 0:35:29 | 0:35:33 | |
I don't see her. | 0:35:35 | 0:35:36 | |
Oh, wait. | 0:35:36 | 0:35:37 | |
Augusta M. | 0:35:39 | 0:35:40 | |
So, this means she registered to vote. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
After a lifetime of fighting for women's right to vote. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:50 | |
And these are almost all women. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:52 | |
Delia and Catherine and Mary and Helen. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:56 | |
And Augusta. | 0:35:56 | 0:35:57 | |
Incredible. So, she registered, but did she actually cast a ballot? | 0:35:59 | 0:36:05 | |
I have one last thing to show you. | 0:36:05 | 0:36:07 | |
It is an article featured in the Portland Sunday Telegram, | 0:36:07 | 0:36:11 | |
talking about Augusta. | 0:36:11 | 0:36:13 | |
"Mrs George S Hunt, identified through the years with | 0:36:14 | 0:36:17 | |
"the organisation and administration of many institutions for social | 0:36:17 | 0:36:20 | |
"service, including the WCTU, of which she is a charter member, | 0:36:20 | 0:36:25 | |
"will celebrate her 90th birthday Monday." My goodness. Longevity. | 0:36:25 | 0:36:30 | |
"And the story of Mrs Hunt's long and useful life is in great part | 0:36:30 | 0:36:35 | |
"a history of the development of the social agenda of the state. | 0:36:35 | 0:36:39 | |
"It was indeed fitting that she should be made the first woman | 0:36:39 | 0:36:42 | |
"member of the Lincoln Club and that when woman's suffrage was last | 0:36:42 | 0:36:46 | |
"granted, the first woman's ballot to be passed was that of Augusta." | 0:36:46 | 0:36:50 | |
That's amazing. | 0:36:56 | 0:36:57 | |
It turns out that Augusta passed away 10 days after this article | 0:37:02 | 0:37:06 | |
was published. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:08 | |
"Her name will live long and her work will live always." | 0:37:09 | 0:37:12 | |
That's incredible. | 0:37:14 | 0:37:15 | |
It's very moving to see your own name... | 0:37:20 | 0:37:23 | |
reflected back at you. | 0:37:23 | 0:37:25 | |
That alone is very moving. | 0:37:25 | 0:37:28 | |
It's not about being first, | 0:37:28 | 0:37:30 | |
but it took me a minute to really get that that's a forever thing. | 0:37:30 | 0:37:35 | |
She is forever the first one in this place to have stepped over that line. | 0:37:35 | 0:37:41 | |
That's amazing. | 0:37:41 | 0:37:43 | |
I say to my daughter all the time, "You're a strong woman" | 0:37:48 | 0:37:51 | |
and I mean it, because she already seems strong, | 0:37:51 | 0:37:54 | |
but she doesn't yet know, | 0:37:54 | 0:37:56 | |
but will now know that her great-great-great-grandmother was | 0:37:56 | 0:38:00 | |
part of this group of women that paved the way for everything. | 0:38:00 | 0:38:05 | |
Definitely, if I think about carrying this daughter's heartbeat in | 0:38:08 | 0:38:12 | |
this same place, that's a little... | 0:38:12 | 0:38:15 | |
A tiny little woman who will vote one day. | 0:38:15 | 0:38:17 | |
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