Cora Baggerly Older
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Cora Miranda Baggerly Older (1875 – September 26, 1968) was an American writer and historian known for her California-based writing and activism. She often collaborated on social issues with her husband, Fremont Older, and she is now best remembered as a writer and historian of Californian events and people.
Early life
Cora Miranda Baggerly was born in Clyde New York in 1875. She had a brother, Hilland Baggerly, who later worked in journalism as well.{{Cite news|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/11/15/los-gatos-history-photo-baggerly-connection/|title=Los Gatos History Photo: Baggerly Connection|last=Conaway|first=Peggy|date=15 November 2010|work=The Mercury News|access-date=5 August 2019}} She attended Syracuse University.
Writing career
Older's work covered a variety of mediums including novels, reviews, and magazine articles, often tackling social issues; she also wrote biographies of William Randolph Hearst and his father.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/older-cora-miranda-baggerly|title=Older, Cora (Miranda) Baggerly|website=Encyclopedia}} She published her last book in 1961, seven years before her death.{{Cite web|url=https://milpitashistoricalsociety.org/milpitas-history/notable-milpitas-residents/who-was-fremont-older|title=WHO WAS FREMONT OLDER?|website=Milpitas Historical Society|access-date=17 August 2019}} At one point, another writer described Older as "a woman whose womanly attributes commend a nobility of California's authors."{{Cite journal|last=Mills|first=W. H.|date=1922|editor-last=Lyons|editor-first=Louis S.|editor2-last=Wilson|editor2-first=Josephine|title=Noble Women Who Inspire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vi1NAQAAMAAJ&q=margaret+miriam+krsak&pg=PA198|journal=Who's Who Among the Women of California|pages=126|via=Google Books}} She wrote under her married title as "Mrs. Fremont Older."
Personal life
In 1893, she met newspaper editor Fremont Older while on summer vacation from Syracuse. She and her classmates had performed in a play in Sacramento, which Fremont Older happened to have attended. They quickly became engaged and married a month later on August 22.{{Cite web|url=https://www.losaltoshillshistory.org/Resources/FremontOlder/Fremont-Older-presentation.html|title=Fremont and Cora Older House, Saratoga|last=Ralston|first=John|date=10 April 2011|website=Los Altos Hills Historical Society|access-date=5 August 2019}}{{Cite journal|date=1915|title=O's|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R-YIY3-EZaUC&q=cora+miranda+baggerly+syracuse+university&pg=PA1757|journal=Who's Who in America|volume=8|pages=1757|via=Google Books|last1=Leonard|first1=John William|last2=Marquis|first2=Albert Nelson}} In 1912, the couple purchased some land and then two years built later Woodhills,{{Cite web|url=http://www.trailstompers.com/fremont-older-open-space-preserve-trail-runs.html|title=Fremont Older Open Space Preserve (and lower Stevens Creek County Park)|website=Trailstompers Guide to SF Bay Area Trail Running|access-date=5 August 2019}} a house of hybrid architectural features that Cora Older mostly directed.Reed, Candace (November 8, 1977). "[https://npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/78000773_text National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Woodhills]". National Park Service. Retrieved August 5, 2019. The property today is now a regional park known as the Fremont Older Open Space Preserve, and it has a "Cora Older Trail" available to the public.{{Cite web|url=https://www.openspace.org/preserves/fremont-older|title=Trails|website=Open Space|access-date=5 August 2019}} Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, she was associated with fellow activist and writer Stella Wynne Herron.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34387422/the_san_francisco_examiner/|title=Terpsichorean Boost for La Follette|date=14 October 1924|work=The San Francisco Examiner|access-date=17 August 2019}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34397889/the_san_francisco_examiner/|title=Stella Herron, Noted Writer|date=4 March 1966|work=The San Francisco Examiner|access-date=17 August 2019}}
References
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Further reading
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=KOgUAAAAYAAJ&dq=cora+miranda+baggerly+syracuse+university&pg=PA1261 Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries], 1910, p. 1261. Google Books.
External links
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- [http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist8/corabib.html Bibliography of Cora Miranda Baggerly Older (1875-1968) from the Holdings of the California State Library System]. Museum of the City of San Francisco.
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Category:Syracuse University alumni
Category:Activists from California
Category:Historians from California
Category:American women historians
Category:Activists from New York (state)
Category:Historians from New York (state)
Category:Historians of California