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[Bookplate for Emily Ogden Wheeler]

Printed in brown ink on white or cream paper the bookplate consists of a border of four thin branches bearing leaves and buds. Wrapped around the top and bottom branches are banners bearing the quotation 'DREAMS BOOKS ARE EACH A WORLD AND BOOKS / WE KNOW ARE A SUB-STANTIAL WORLD.' In the center of the border appears the name of the owner.

Wheeler, Emily Ogden

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Owner may have been Emily Ogden Wheeler (1844-1918). Emily O. Wheeler was born on January 29, 1844, the third of seven children to Nelson Knox Wheeler (1807-1880) and Emily Butler Ogden (1815-1884). Wheeler was the designer of the 1885 Soldiers' Monument in Sharon, Connecticut, as well as the town's stone clock tower, which was dedicated to the memory of her mother and designed in collaboration with her sister, Laura. Although Wheeler appears to have lived for a time in New York City, she spent her later years in Sharon, where in 1895 she founded a summer residence, known as the Bobolink, for children being treated at the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled Children in New York. Wheeler's eldest brother, William Ogden Wheeler, compiled a family genealogy entitled The Ogden Family in America, Elizabethtown Branch, and Their English Ancestry, which was printed in 1907 for private circulation. Wheeler died in 1918 in Sharon, CT. The quotation that appears on the bookplate is from the poem 'Personal Talk' by William Wordsworth.
References:
1) A beautiful charity. (1899, August 7). Boston Evening Transcript, p. 5. Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=18990807&id=5fUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7yIIAAAAIBAJ&pg=1509,4011233<br>2) CT Monuments.net. (n.d.). Soldiers' Monument, Sharon. Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://ctmonuments.net/2009/06/soldiers%E2%80%99-monument-sharon/<br>3) Ferree, B. (1899). Year book of the art societies of New York, 1898-1899. New York: L. Scott Publication Co. Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433078284969<br>4) RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project. (2012). Wheelers of Delaware Co (NY) & Wayne Co (PA). Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&db=gwheeler39&id=I218<br>5) Sedgwick, C.F. (1898).General history of the town of Sharon, Litchfield, County Conn. from its first settlement (3d ed.). Amenia, NY: C. Walsh. Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t9b56qw92<br>6) TownGreens.com. (2001). Sharon Town Green. Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://www.towngreens.com/greenlink/index.cgi/view/131<br>7) Wheeler, W. O., Van Alstyne, L., & Ogden, C.B. (1907). The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry : John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. Retrieved April 4, 2012, from http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark%3A%2F13960%2Ft7fr0b624

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2026-02-19

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