So Big Beginnings in Dirk DeJong’s Early Years
The excerpt traces Selina DeJong’s youth in Chicago area society during 1888 as she becomes a schoolteacher and marries Pervus DeJong. It outlines her fraught personal life, social gossip, and early family struggles including Dirk’s birth and Selina’s efforts to sustain a farm and household amid hardship and community scrutiny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apter
Dirk DeJong
Selina DeJong
Imeéon Peake
F Fortune
Womanood
Chicago
Ia Julie Hempel
Pesce Hempel
Simeon
Selina
Paarlenberg
Pervus DeJorg
Pedong
DeJong
Dirk
Vermont Sateck
Maartin' Pool
Klaas
Oelf
France
Nighttime Haymarket ride for Selina and Dirk
Selina DeJong drives into Chicago with her son Dirk in a rickety wagon to find shelter and work at the Haymarket. She fights off ogling suspicions from a rival driver and asserts she will sell vegetables to feed them. They sleep in the hay outside Spanknoebel’s restaurant as night quiets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ooms
Jakob Boomsma
Mis’ DeJong
Boomsma
Selina
Chicago
Soblg
Haymarket
Water Street
Chris Spunknocbel
Chris
Knowao Pervas
Reed
Dirk
Pom
Pervus
Chris Spanknoebel
Maymarket
Seling
Peyfel
Pam
Selina Peake
Louisa Ascott
Three a.m. grind on Selina DeJong sells little
Selina DeJong and her sick boy Dirk endure a brutal morning selling garden wares at Elaymarket. A single dealer, William Talcott, offers cautious help moving a portion of the stock, giving her a glimmer of hope as she pushes toward Talcott’s network and a possible big sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selina
South Water Street
Pervus
Talcott
Dirk
William Talcott
DeJong
Pergus
H’m
Italy
Carline
Legal Document Services in Lititz at 18 Lincoln Ave
Conveyancers scriveners real estate and insurance agents handle deeds wills mortgages and all legal papers promptly and carefully drawn. Notary public services available for deeds mortgages wills and related documents with clerking of sales and settlement of decedents estates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Ave
Lititz, PA
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edna Ferber
High Prairie School
Klaas Paul
Roelf
Uke Hergeli
Roelt
Elina
Pervue DeJong
Tyre
Mrs. Vander Sijtle
Cornelia
Tyleday, Page
Sobig
Twenty-second Street
Klaas Pook
Birk
Randolph
Taisted
High Prairie
Miss de Jong
Jan
Chris Spanknocbel
Elaymarket
Hershey & Gibbel
Ind
Tel
Geo. L. Keith
E. B. Beck
S. Broad St
Lititz Bell
Robert H. Yerger
Lane
Wingert & Haas
John A. Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
Harold Murr Lititz
M. Ada Schnerer
S. Spruce St. Ind
N.S. Myers
Fegley
Optometrist
Optician
E. Orange St
T. L and C. G. Brubaker
North Broad Street
Suits
L. F. van Zelm
Weatera Nownaper Unter
LE van Zeon
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