Greetings!

My name is Deiah Haddock and I am currently in my senior year at Western Carolina 
University in Cullowhee, NC. I am finishing a duel degree in English and Hospitality & 
Tourism, with plans of attending graduate school for museum studies.

I have always loved looking and exploring old things, researching and what not - and the 
other day I was at my parents house looking through an old box, when to my surprise I 
found a very old photo album. 

In the front of the album someone has written:
"The Hawthorn Club"
"The first ladies club of VW" (I have determined that VW is for Van Wert, Ohio, as all but 
a couple of the pictures were taken by a photographer in Van Wert)

What follows are some wonderful portraits of these "first ladies", many of them 
appearing to be in their 60's or older. According to the back of one of the photos (that I 
carefully removed from the cracking brown paper) it was taken in 1898. 

I am looking for information on these ladies and the club they were members of - so far I 
have not found much. I would love to find out who these women were, and possibly 
where this photo album came from (it looks very official, for being over 100 years old 
that is.).

The following is a list of the names I was able to get from the paper below each photo:
Georgia Glenn
Lucetta McConahay
Mrs. Conant
Charlotte Baker
Ann Webb Clark
Fidelia Purviort (not sure about this spelling)
Mrs. Bonner
Mrs. David Johns
Maieha  McGovern (again with the spelling of the first name, wasn't very clear)
Mrs. Marsh
Mrs. Stripe

Please pass this along to anyone who would have some information or at least an interest 
in this old album! Thanks so much! 

Deiah Haddock

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