MARJORIE DRAPER CALDWELL SCHOEN:
An Inventory of Her Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Schoen, Marjorie (Marjorie Draper Caldwell), 1893-1991, creator. | |
| Title: | Marjorie Schoen papers. | |
| Dates: | approximately 1900-1991. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Biographical and genealogical materials, photographs, college and graduate school records, speeches, casework summaries, sermons, lecture and other notes, essays, book reviews, correspondence, clippings, certificates, and other papers of a woman who was at various times during her long life a high school English teacher, farm wife and mother, professional social worker, minister's assistant, church work and social service volunteer, and published author in Minnesota, Wyoming, and Indiana. | |
| Quantity: | 1.0 cubic feet (1 box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
| Date | Event |
| 1893 | Born December 12 in Wells, Faribault County, Minnesota, the second of four children of Calvin H. and Julie Hall Draper. |
| 1912 | Graduated from Wells High School. |
| 1916 | Graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. |
| 1916-1918 | Taught English at Park Rapids (Minnesota) High School. |
| 1918 | In May married Lacey M. Caldwell, former agriculture teacher and athletic coach at Park Rapids High School, and moved to Hayti, Hamlin County, South Dakota, where Lacey was employed as county agricultural agent. |
| 1919-1933 | Returned to Wells for Lacey to manage farms owned by First National Bank of Wells, whose president was Calvin Draper. Ca. 1920 rented one of the farms and engaged in farming. During these years four children were born (Cornelia, Donna, Bruce, and Nancy). |
| 1934-1936 | Lacey diagnosed with severe essential hypertension and eventually was no longer able to work. Family moved to Wells and received life insurance policy disability payments. |
| 1937 | Marjorie moved to St. Paul to attend University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Lacey and the children followed in 1938. |
| 1938-1939 | Worked full time for St. Paul Travelers Aid at the Saint Paul Union Depot while attending school. |
| 1939 | Granted Master of Arts in Social Work degree in December. |
| 1940-1945 | Worked as a caseworker, with additional administrative and educational responsibilities, for Family Service of Saint Paul. |
| 1941 | Lacey died on April 30 and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Wells. |
| 1945 | Married Laurence T. Schoen on December 25 and moved to his farm in Freeborn Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota. |
| 1950s-1962 | Involved in volunteer work at the local, district, state, and national levels of the Congregational Christian Churches and the United Church of Christ. |
| 1962 | Laurence died on May 16 and was buried in Freeborn Cemetery, Freeborn Township. |
| 1963-1965 | Returned to St. Paul and resumed social work career as a caseworker at Family Service of Saint Paul. |
| 1965-1967 | Employed as assistant to the minister of the First Congregational Church of Rock Springs, Wyoming, sharing all responsibilities of the pastorate with the minister. |
| 1967-1972 | Moved to Evansville, Indiana, where daughter Cornelia Henry lived. Returned to social work as marriage counselor and family life educator at Family and Children’s Service, Inc. of Evansville. Retired in 1972. |
| 1967-approximately 1978 | Resumed volunteer work, as administrator of ecumenical religious organizations, transactional analysis group leader, and family life educator. Took a creative writing class, read widely, and wrote book reviews. Joined Trinity United Methodist Church. |
| 1980 | Family chronicles : being the history of the Draper and Caldwell families during my lifetime / by Marjorie Schoen published by Unigraphic, Inc., Evansville. |
| 1991 | Died on June 22 in Evansville; her ashes were buried in Rosehill Cemetery, Wells. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Marjorie Schoen Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 15,769
Processing Information:
Processed by: Deborah Kahn, March 2005.
Catalog ID number: 990036170090104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| 142.F.3.4F | 1 | Family and friends: | |||||||||
| Draper, Caldwell, and Schoen family papers, 1945-1991. | |||||||||||
| Includes biographical information. | |||||||||||
| Draper, Caldwell, and Schoen family photographs, undated, 1970s. | |||||||||||
| Photograph album, approximately 1900s-approximately 1912. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Photograph album, approximately 1912-approximately 1918. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Education: | |||||||||||
| Carleton College and University of Minnesota School of Social Work, 1916, 1936-1944. | |||||||||||
| University of Minnesota School of Social Work, Plan B Paper: “An Evaluation of the case work services of the St. Paul Travelers Aid Society for the period January 1, 1929 to July 1, 1939,” December 1939. | |||||||||||
| Public speaking: | |||||||||||
| Marjorie Caldwell speeches, approximately 1920s-1930s. | |||||||||||
| “The Assets of the farm woman,” January 1933. | |||||||||||
| The speech, with related letters and clippings, October 1932 – May 1933. | |||||||||||
| Lacey Caldwell speech to the Wells PTA, approximately 1933. | |||||||||||
| Work: | |||||||||||
| State of Minnesota teaching certificate, August 1, 1917. | |||||||||||
| Social work – Minnesota, 1944-1945, 1965. | |||||||||||
| Church work – Wyoming: Sermons and talks, approximately 1965-1967. | |||||||||||
| Social work – Indiana, 1969-1970s. | |||||||||||
| Lecture notes for marriage class, approximately 1967-approximately 1972. | |||||||||||
| Lecture notes for parenting, casework, transactional analysis, and personality development classes, approximately 1967-approximately 1972. | |||||||||||
| Notes on transactional analysis and related topics, approximately 1967-approximately 1972. | |||||||||||
| Volunteering: | |||||||||||
| Church work – Minnesota, 1956-1963. | |||||||||||
| Church work – Indiana, 1967-1976. | |||||||||||
| Social work – Indiana: | |||||||||||
| Transactional analysis group, 1975. | |||||||||||
| Expectant parents class, 1975-1978. | |||||||||||
| Reading and writing: | |||||||||||
| Notebook, 1958-1961. | |||||||||||
| Schoen farm years. | |||||||||||
| Creative writing class, approximately 1970s. | |||||||||||
| Book reviews and reading notes, undated, 1971-approximately 1976. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous notes, undated, 1972-1973. | |||||||||||
| Letters received regarding Family chronicles, 1981. | |||||||||||
| Miscellaneous: | |||||||||||
| Evansville Protestant Home, Inc., 1976, 1978. | |||||||||||
| Health records, 1969-1983. | |||||||||||
| “Anything book,” 1982-1985. | |||||||||||
RELATED MATERIAL
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Lay ministry.
- Transactional analysis.
- Persons:
- Caldwell family.
- Caldwell, Lacey M.
- Draper family.
- Schoen family.
- Schoen, Laurence T.
- Organizations:
- Carleton College (Northfield, Minn.) -- Photographs.
- Family Service, Inc.
- Places:
- Park Rapids (Minn.) -- Photographs.
- Wells (Minn.) -- Photographs.
- Document Types:
- Essays.
- Lecture notes.
- Photographs.
- Sermons.
- Speeches.
- Occupations:
- Older volunteers -- Indiana.
- Older volunteers -- Minnesota.
- Women in church work -- Indiana -- Protestant churches.
- Women in church work -- Minnesota -- Protestant churches.
- Women social workers -- Indiana.
- Women social workers -- Minnesota.
- Women volunteers in social service -- Indiana.
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