S. Izetta (Isettia) Davis - Revision history

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 A collection of letters details Izetta<nowiki>’</nowiki>s career from the 1880s to the 1910s.
-: The Charitable Organization Society is founded.
+In the period from 1888 to 1892, Izetta began her service as Secretary of the COS. Since the Charitable Organization Society was founded in 1887, since one of the letters refers to her 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary, and since a 1909 letter from Judge Lindsey to a third party shows that service to be ongoing, she did not served the COS from its inception, but could have been Secretary as early as 1888. (If her 1913 activity in Massachusetts means she was no longer with COS, then she was Secretary at the latest by 1892.) Some sources describe Frances Wisebart Jacobs as secretary of the COS until her death in 1892. If this is true, then Izetta succeeded her in 1892.
 c. 1889: If the picture we believe to be of Charlotte George and labeled "Mama at Two" is accurately identified, then Charlotte must have been in St. Louis Missouri in this year, presumably with her parents.

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 == The Charitable Organization Society ==
-: In that year, Denver<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Charitable Organization Society was founded. Much external information is available on this organization, including short studies of the people active in it, many of whom would have worked with or been familiar to Izetta. See for example the career of Frances Wisebart Jacobs, president of the Hebrew Benevolent Ladies Aid Society in Denver and active in the establishment of Denver<nowiki>’</nowiki>s National Jewish Hospital in 1899. Her particular interest in this regard was in tuberculosis, a repeating theme in Izetta<nowiki>’</nowiki>s life as well.
+Denver<nowiki>’</nowiki>s Charitable Organization Society was founded in 1887 by "Father William O'Brien, Reverend Myron Reed, Dean H. Martin Hart and another Catholic priest" and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Wisebart_Jacobs Frances Wisebart Jacobs]. Much external information is available on this organization, including short studies of the people active in it, many of whom would have worked with or been familiar to Izetta. The career of Frances Wisebart Jacobs is particularly instructive. She had been the president of the Hebrew Benevolent Ladies Aid Society in Denver and was active in the establishment of Denver<nowiki>’</nowiki>s National Jewish Hospital in 1899. Her particular interest in this regard was in tuberculosis, a repeating theme in Izetta<nowiki>’</nowiki>s life as well. She served as the secretary of the Charitable Organization Society, the same position Izetta would later hold.
 See also the 1892 annual meeting report for the Social Welfare Forum and all the other associated organizations.  Beginning on page 90 is a report by Rev. Samuel A. Eliot, who I think was one of its founders. He reports on consumptives, men with TB: thousands of them came to Colorado from the East, sent there by people who thought the climate would help them. In fact by the time they arrived they were weakened and they could not find "light work," as the frontier requires strong men. Because they could find no employment, they ended up in poor boarding houses and were too weak and poor to go home to die with their loved ones.  He writes about being summoned as a minister to the "undertaker<nowiki>’</nowiki>s shop," to say prayers. He and the undertakers are the only ones there, except "perhaps the keeper of the boarding-house where the lad died or an officer of the Charitable Organization Society." (This officer could have been someone like Izetta.)

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 A collection of letters details Izetta<nowiki>’</nowiki>s career from the 1880s to the 1910s.
 -1892: Izetta began her service as Secretary of the COS. Since the Charitable Organization Society was founded in 1887, since one of the letters refers to her 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary, and since a 1909 letter from Judge Lindsey to a third party shows that service to be ongoing, she did not served the COS from its inception, but could have been Secretary as early as 1888. (If her 1913 activity in Massachusetts means she was no longer with COS, then she was Secretary at the latest by 1892.) Some sources describe Frances Wisebart Jacobs as secretary of the COS until her death in 1892. If this is true, then Izetta succeeded her in 1892.
 c. 1889: If the picture we believe to be of Charlotte George and labeled "Mama at Two" is accurately identified, then Charlotte must have been in St. Louis Missouri in this year, presumably with her parents.

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 : The Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, ed. Isabel C. Barrows, Boston, transcribes remarks made at the 29th Annual Session held in Detroit from May 28 to June 3, 1902. Mrs. Izetta George<nowiki>’</nowiki>s remarks appear therein on pages 518-520.
-: In the article "Philanthropy, Charity and Social Problems," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 20. (Sep., 1902), pp. 150-161, Mrs. S. Izetta George is listed as one of the assistant secretaries due to attend the "next session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction... <nowiki>[</nowiki>to<nowiki>]</nowiki> be held in Atlanta, Ga., in the spring of 1903." She is also listed in the 20th Annual Report of the  Charity Organization Society of the City of New York as the Corresponding Officer of the Denver chapter of the COS, listed here as founded in 1889. Her address is given as 1420 Champa Street.
+: In the article "Philanthropy, Charity and Social Problems," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 20. (Sep., 1902), pp. 150-161, Mrs. S. Izetta George is listed as one of the assistant secretaries due to attend the "next session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction... <nowiki>[</nowiki>to<nowiki>]</nowiki> be held in Atlanta, Ga., in the spring of 1903." She is also listed in the 20th Annual Report of the  Charity Organization Society of the City of New York as the Corresponding Officer of the Denver chapter of the COS, listed here (but I believe erroneously) as founded in 1889. Her address is given as 1420 Champa Street.
 : August 1; she addresses a handwritten letter to Judge Lindsey hoping that he will find her friend Mrs. Sales capable of managing her own affairs and of being guardian of her own children.  The letter is on COS stationery, on which she appears as secretary, and of which the address is Room 35, Court House, Denver. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

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 A collection of letters details Izetta<nowiki>’</nowiki>s career from the 1880s to the 1910s.
--1892: Izetta began her service as Secretary of the COS. Since the Charitable Organization Society was founded in 1887, since one of the letters refers to her 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary, and since a 1909 letter from Judge Lindsey to a third party shows that service to be ongoing, she did not served the COS from its inception, but could have been Secretary as early as 1888. (If her 1913 activity in Massachusetts means she was no longer with COS, then she was Secretary at the latest by 1892.)
+-1892: Izetta began her service as Secretary of the COS. Since the Charitable Organization Society was founded in 1887, since one of the letters refers to her 21 years of service as assistant secretary and secretary, and since a 1909 letter from Judge Lindsey to a third party shows that service to be ongoing, she did not served the COS from its inception, but could have been Secretary as early as 1888. (If her 1913 activity in Massachusetts means she was no longer with COS, then she was Secretary at the latest by 1892.) Some sources describe Frances Wisebart Jacobs as secretary of the COS until her death in 1892. If this is true, then Izetta succeeded her in 1892.
 : This is the year given in a later source (see below s.n. 1902) for the founding of the COS Denver chapter.

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	1902: August 1; she addresses a handwritten letter to Judge Lindsey hoping that he will find her friend Mrs. Sales capable of managing her own affairs and of being guardian of her own children. The letter is on COS stationery, on which she appears as secretary, and of which the address is Room 35, Court House, Denver. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.		1902: August 1; she addresses a handwritten letter to Judge Lindsey hoping that he will find her friend Mrs. Sales capable of managing her own affairs and of being guardian of her own children. The letter is on COS stationery, on which she appears as secretary, and of which the address is Room 35, Court House, Denver. The original letter can be found in the Benjamin Lindsey Collection, Box 1, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
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		+	1903: The Denver city directory lists Izetta living at 1420 Champa (the same address as her son Colbert). She is listed as Mrs S Izetta George.

	1903: Albert Shaw<nowiki>’</nowiki>s "The American Review of Reviews" in its annual collection of the publication (Radcliffe Library, 1903: 701) quotes a Francis S. Kinder as follows: "The Secretary of the Denver Charity Organization Society, Mrs. Izetta George, who during many years<nowiki>’</nowiki> work has had unusual opportunities for becoming acquainted with the actual conditions, has held the belief that a sanatorium or system of sanatoria, planned on a scale which only the national government could undertake, is required to adequately meet the needs of the time. This idea has also been indorsed (sic) by most of the physicians with whom I have discussed it." The article is entitled "The Consumptives<nowiki>’</nowiki> Chances in Colorado", and is part of a larger collection of pieces on tuberculosis.		1903: Albert Shaw<nowiki>’</nowiki>s "The American Review of Reviews" in its annual collection of the publication (Radcliffe Library, 1903: 701) quotes a Francis S. Kinder as follows: "The Secretary of the Denver Charity Organization Society, Mrs. Izetta George, who during many years<nowiki>’</nowiki> work has had unusual opportunities for becoming acquainted with the actual conditions, has held the belief that a sanatorium or system of sanatoria, planned on a scale which only the national government could undertake, is required to adequately meet the needs of the time. This idea has also been indorsed (sic) by most of the physicians with whom I have discussed it." The article is entitled "The Consumptives<nowiki>’</nowiki> Chances in Colorado", and is part of a larger collection of pieces on tuberculosis.

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 : Secretary: Charity Organization of Denver: Denver, Colorado. The Denver City Directory, 1895, lists her as Secretary of the COS.
-: Dangerous Illness, 2 Feb 1895, Denver, Colorado. <nowiki><</nowiki>sources.htm<nowiki>></nowiki> The Rocky Mountain News reported her as dangerously ill on this day.
+: Dangerous Illness, 2 Feb 1895, Denver, Colorado. The Rocky Mountain News reported her as dangerously ill on this day.
 : Nat<nowiki>’</nowiki>l Convention of Charities, 21 May 1895, New Haven, Connecticut. The Rocky Mountain News reported her attendance of this event.

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 Death Certificate: The Washington State CHS reports finding no death certificate for her during the years 1914-1924.
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 : Izetta George is thanked in passing by Judge Lindsey on page 138 of his _The Problem of Children and how the State of Colorado Cares for Them_, a report of the juvenile court of Denver, wherein Lindsey describes her as the secretary of the Associated Charity organization (sic).
-: San Francisco Earthquake: Sent to provide assistance to affected Denver natives, 1906, San Francisco, CA. We have a letter <nowiki><</nowiki>../pictures/letter1906.jpg<nowiki>></nowiki> in our possession mentioning this trip. Recognition: Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade thanks Izetta George., 19 Sep 1906, Denver, Colorado. The letter thanks Izetta George for accepting, in her capacity as Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Denver, the appointment as personal representative of the Chamber of Commerce to San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. Is she in San Francisco when her father dies?
+: San Francisco Earthquake: Sent to provide assistance to affected Denver natives, 1906, San Francisco, CA. We have a letter in our possession mentioning this trip. Recognition: Denver Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade thanks Izetta George., 19 Sep 1906, Denver, Colorado. The letter thanks Izetta George for accepting, in her capacity as Secretary of the Charity Organization Society of Denver, the appointment as personal representative of the Chamber of Commerce to San Francisco after the earthquake and fire. Is she in San Francisco when her father dies?
 : Izetta George appears in the American Monthly Review of Reviews, page 701, by Albert Shaw. The full text is not online; consult the original.

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 In 1910, she appears as a single entry under Izetta George in the federal census in Malden, Massachusetts, where her occupation is given as "secretary" of "Ass. Charities", her birth place as Missouri, and those of her parents as Missouri and Iowa. This census entry also indicates her as widowed.
-: Philip P. Jacobs, _A Tuberculosis Directory_, published this year in New York, lists Mrs. S. Izetta George as the secretary of the Malden Massachusetts Committee on Tuberculosis of the Associated Charities. She does not appear in the 1916 edition of the same book.
+: Philip P. Jacobs, ''A Tuberculosis Directory'', published this year in New York, lists Mrs. S. Izetta George as the secretary of the Malden Massachusetts Committee on Tuberculosis of the Associated Charities. She does not appear in the 1916 edition of the same book.
 : General Secretary: General Secretary of the Associated Charities, Malden Mass., May 1913, Malden, Massachusetts. We have a letter <nowiki><</nowiki>../pictures/letter1913.jpg<nowiki>></nowiki> thanking her for her work in Malden in this capacity, and implying that she is moving on.