Mary Isabel Cobb Payne diary
Overview
Mary Isabel Cobb Payne's diary for the year 1953, with some loose items removed to a separate folder. Payne wrote spottily, usually brief notations about comings and goings of family members, friends who called, family events (i.e. births, anniversaries, buying land, etc.), church or club events (i.e. P.E.O. meetings, church socials, etc.), some expenses paid, etc. March and June were the months most used in the diary. The volume also appears to contain a draft of Payne's speech accepting or declining the Kansas Mother of the Year award.
Dates
- Creation: 1953
Creator
- Payne, Mary Cobb, 1891-1976 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of Mary Isabel Cobb Payne (1891-1976)
Mary Isabel Cobb was born in Wagoner, Oklahoma on August 12, 1891. She married Loyal Frederick Payne (1889-1970, born in Tecumseh, Nebraska), he was Professor and Head of Department of Poultry Husbandry at Kansas State Agricultural College which became Kansas State University. They lived in Manhattan, Riley County, Kansas from 1921 until their deaths.
The Paynes had seven children: Kenyon Thomas, Loyal Cobb, Martha (Payne) Howe, William Vanzile, Nelle Ruth (Payne) Nutter, Ellen Isabel (Payne) Paullin, and Edith (Payne) Darling. In 1953, Mary Cobb Payne was nominated the Kansas Mother of the Year. In 1969 Mary Cobb Payne and Loyal Payne gave the Goodnow House to the State of Kansas as a State Historic Site.
[Information provided by family.]
Extent
1 volume (1 volume + 1 folder) : Volume front cover states Things to Remember 1953 Poultry Vaccines Drugs, Disinfectants, Consultation Vineland Poultry Laboratories Vineland, New Jersey ; Volume measures 20 cm tall.
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS C92
Physical Location
RH MS P970
- Title
- Guide to the Mary Isabel Cobb Payne Collection
- Subtitle
- Mary Isabel Cobb Payne diary
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by mwh. Finding aid encoded by mwh.
- Date
- 2020-02
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/3890785019
- Preferred citation
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Mary Isabel Cobb Payne diary, RH MS C92, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository