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All Grown up
Della Thompson
Della became a teacher, writer, and magazine editor. She taught in
country schools near Jackson and later in Detroit public schools. She
married Louis Irving Lutes and had two sons. She wrote articles for
women's magazines about cooking and homemaking and served as editor of American
Motherhood, Today's Housewife, and Modern Priscilla.
She wrote an autobiographical book titled The Country Kitchen in
1936 and five works of fiction based on her life. She moved to
Cooperstown, New York, where she died in 1942.
Delevan A. Brotherton
Delevan's diary ended when he met Lizzie Buckley. He married Lizzie
in 1888. Delevan and Lizzie had nine children. A successful businessman
in Escanaba, he owned and managed a real estate business and several
small manufacturing firms including the Escanaba Potash Company and
Cates Finger Moistener Co. He also served as city engineer for Escanaba.
He died in 1947 at Escanaba. The Delta County Historical Society in
Escanaba owns his diary.
Alice Laura Stevenson
In 1912 Alice married Lewis Walker, a minister. They had one daughter,
Laura. Although they moved to the East Coast, they returned to Adrian
every summer. Alice died in 1961. Her reminiscence, "Yesteryears: A
History of the Archimedes Stevenson Family of Adrian," is an
unpublished manuscript in the possession of the Lenawee County
Historical Society in Adrian.
James Corrothers
James worked in lumber camps, in hotels, and on Great Lakes ships.
Yet his ambition was to be a writer and a minister. For 25 years, James
wrote poems and articles for many publications. He attracted attention
from reformers, including women's rights advocate Frances Willard, who
arranged for James to attend Northwestern University in the early 1890s.
He became a Methodist minister in 1894. James wrote his autobiography, In
Spite of the Handicap, in 1916. He married twice, first to Fannie
Clemens and, after her death, to Rosina Harvey. He had three sons. James
died in West Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1917.
Adeline Eliza Graham
After graduating from Berrien Springs High School, Adeline attended
Kalamazoo Female Seminary with the intention of becoming a physician.
She never achieved this goal, becoming instead a wife and mother. On
November 1, 1893, Adeline married Thomas Lee Wilkinson, a boy she had
mentioned with disgust in her diary. They settled in St. Joseph,
Michigan, and had four children. She died in 1934 in St. Joseph. The
Berrien County Historical Association owns her diary.
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