Cecilia Hennel Hendricks

Cecilia Hennel Hendricks (March 2, 1883-July 15, 1969) was a faculty member at Indiana University Bloomington, Wyoming homesteader, and ran for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wyoming in 1926.[1]

Personal Life

On December 30, 1913, Cecilia married bee farmer John Hendricks and moved to Powell, Wyoming.[2] Their courtship began as an epistolary relationship and their wedding was only the fourth time they had ever seen each other in person.[3] Her detailed letters to her family were published in a 1986 collection entitled Letters from Honeyhill.[4]

Politics

In 1926, Hendricks ran as the democratic candidate for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wyoming. The same year, she campaigned for the re-election of Nellie Tayloe Ross, the first woman to be sworn in as governor of a U.S. state in 1924. Both Hendricks and Ross lost the elections and Hendricks returned to Indiana in 1931.[2]

Academia

Cecilia Hennel Hendricks received her BA and MA in English from Indiana University in 1907 and 1908, respectively. She then served as a faculty member in the English department from 1908 to 1913, and later from 1930 to 1953. Her research interests included writing instruction, public education reform, and homesteading.[1] She subsequently held the position of John Hay Whitney Professor at Coe College, and received career awards from IU and from the journalism association then known as Theta Sigma Phi.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Cecilia Hennel Hendricks family papers, 1843-1971, bulk 1896-1970". Archives Online at Indiana University. Indiana University Libraries. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  2. 1 2 Barbour, Andrea. "Cecilia Hennel Hendricks and the First Woman Governor". Indiana University Archives blog. Indiana University. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
  3. ↑ Wahl, Cecelia Hendricks (1986). Letters from Honeyhill: A Woman's View of Homesteading, 1914-1922. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Company. pp. 1–11.
  4. ↑ Joyce G. Williams, Letters from Honeyhill: A Woman's View of Homesteading, 1914–1931 (review), Indiana Magazine of History, Vol. 84, No. 3, September 1988.
  5. ↑ Hendricks, Cecilia Hennel, 1883-1969, Social Networks and Archival Context Project, University of Virginia (accessed 2016-10-21).


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