HOME BUREAU SONG
Music by: Edith Beecher
Dedicated to: Eliza Keates Young
Words by: Gladys Wigsten
Highest ideals of home life, Engender by women kind
Let us give thanks for our women, giving themselves and their all
Onward and ever upward, Fulfillment of life to find
Let our resolves be strengthened, answering the Home Bureau call.
*Chorus*
Heart and hand e're blending, the stronger helping the weak,
all receiving and giving, self never seeming to seek.
May each year broaden our vision of life, each year help our inspiration to grow.
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Gladys was the third of 11 children born to a Blairsvlle, PA farm couple. After high school graduation, she spent two year at Indiana PS normal School, graduating in 1915. She then spent three years teaching in a six-room schoolhouse in Josephine PA.
In June 1918 she married Paul Barkley, who had been the principal at Josephine PA before the on-going war prompted him to enter government work in Washington DC. On August 12, 1918 She joined the US Navy's Yoemanette Corps.
Paul was soon drafted and while at Fort Dix, NJ he fatally contacted the pandemic flu.
Gladys received Navy leave to go to Ft. Dix and after his death accompanied his body to Blairsville for burial before returning to Washington.
The Navy Yeomanette work was clerical, and she was assigned to the office of Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After the demobilization of the US armed forces Gladys remained as a civil service employe until 1920. The at 24 she entered Cornell University, receiving her BS degree in 1923.
In the spring of her senior year Martha Van Rensselar recruited Gladys to work in the Rochester City Home Bureau Program.
A year later she married William Wigsten.
The Wigsten farmhouse and dairy were built in 1921 by Catherine and Frank Wigsten. Their son William and his wife, Gladys, continued the dairy business.
Information from the National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY.
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Music by: Edith Beecher
Dedicated to: Eliza Keates Young
Words by: Gladys Wigsten
Highest ideals of home life, Engender by women kind
Let us give thanks for our women, giving themselves and their all
Onward and ever upward, Fulfillment of life to find
Let our resolves be strengthened, answering the Home Bureau call.
*Chorus*
Heart and hand e're blending, the stronger helping the weak,
all receiving and giving, self never seeming to seek.
May each year broaden our vision of life, each year help our inspiration to grow.
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Gladys was the third of 11 children born to a Blairsvlle, PA farm couple. After high school graduation, she spent two year at Indiana PS normal School, graduating in 1915. She then spent three years teaching in a six-room schoolhouse in Josephine PA.
In June 1918 she married Paul Barkley, who had been the principal at Josephine PA before the on-going war prompted him to enter government work in Washington DC. On August 12, 1918 She joined the US Navy's Yoemanette Corps.
Paul was soon drafted and while at Fort Dix, NJ he fatally contacted the pandemic flu.
Gladys received Navy leave to go to Ft. Dix and after his death accompanied his body to Blairsville for burial before returning to Washington.
The Navy Yeomanette work was clerical, and she was assigned to the office of Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After the demobilization of the US armed forces Gladys remained as a civil service employe until 1920. The at 24 she entered Cornell University, receiving her BS degree in 1923.
In the spring of her senior year Martha Van Rensselar recruited Gladys to work in the Rochester City Home Bureau Program.
A year later she married William Wigsten.
The Wigsten farmhouse and dairy were built in 1921 by Catherine and Frank Wigsten. Their son William and his wife, Gladys, continued the dairy business.
Information from the National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY.
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HOME BUREAU SONG
Music by: Edith Beecher
Dedicated to: Eliza Keates Young
Words by: Gladys Wigsten
Highest ideals of home life, Engender by women kind
Let us give thanks for our women, giving themselves and their all
Onward and ever upward, Fulfillment of life to find
Let our resolves be strengthened, answering the Home Bureau call.
*Chorus*
Heart and hand e're blending, the stronger helping the weak,
all receiving and giving, self never seeming to seek.
May each year broaden our vision of life, each year help our inspiration to grow.
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Gladys was the third of 11 children born to a Blairsvlle, PA farm couple. After high school graduation, she spent two year at Indiana PS normal School, graduating in 1915. She then spent three years teaching in a six-room schoolhouse in Josephine PA.
In June 1918 she married Paul Barkley, who had been the principal at Josephine PA before the on-going war prompted him to enter government work in Washington DC. On August 12, 1918 She joined the US Navy's Yoemanette Corps.
Paul was soon drafted and while at Fort Dix, NJ he fatally contacted the pandemic flu.
Gladys received Navy leave to go to Ft. Dix and after his death accompanied his body to Blairsville for burial before returning to Washington.
The Navy Yeomanette work was clerical, and she was assigned to the office of Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After the demobilization of the US armed forces Gladys remained as a civil service employe until 1920. The at 24 she entered Cornell University, receiving her BS degree in 1923.
In the spring of her senior year Martha Van Rensselar recruited Gladys to work in the Rochester City Home Bureau Program.
A year later she married William Wigsten.
The Wigsten farmhouse and dairy were built in 1921 by Catherine and Frank Wigsten. Their son William and his wife, Gladys, continued the dairy business.
Information from the National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY.
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Music by: Edith Beecher
Dedicated to: Eliza Keates Young
Words by: Gladys Wigsten
Highest ideals of home life, Engender by women kind
Let us give thanks for our women, giving themselves and their all
Onward and ever upward, Fulfillment of life to find
Let our resolves be strengthened, answering the Home Bureau call.
*Chorus*
Heart and hand e're blending, the stronger helping the weak,
all receiving and giving, self never seeming to seek.
May each year broaden our vision of life, each year help our inspiration to grow.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gladys was the third of 11 children born to a Blairsvlle, PA farm couple. After high school graduation, she spent two year at Indiana PS normal School, graduating in 1915. She then spent three years teaching in a six-room schoolhouse in Josephine PA.
In June 1918 she married Paul Barkley, who had been the principal at Josephine PA before the on-going war prompted him to enter government work in Washington DC. On August 12, 1918 She joined the US Navy's Yoemanette Corps.
Paul was soon drafted and while at Fort Dix, NJ he fatally contacted the pandemic flu.
Gladys received Navy leave to go to Ft. Dix and after his death accompanied his body to Blairsville for burial before returning to Washington.
The Navy Yeomanette work was clerical, and she was assigned to the office of Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt. After the demobilization of the US armed forces Gladys remained as a civil service employe until 1920. The at 24 she entered Cornell University, receiving her BS degree in 1923.
In the spring of her senior year Martha Van Rensselar recruited Gladys to work in the Rochester City Home Bureau Program.
A year later she married William Wigsten.
The Wigsten farmhouse and dairy were built in 1921 by Catherine and Frank Wigsten. Their son William and his wife, Gladys, continued the dairy business.
Information from the National Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, NY.
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