Spitale Leonard C. Spitale

Victorine du Pont (eBook, PDF)

The Force behind the Family

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Produktbeschreibung

Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest-and most enduring-influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers' community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644532799
• Artikelnr.: 72335622

Autorenporträt

Lennie Spitale lives in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania, with his wife Gwen. Since 2009, he has been a volunteer at the Hagley Museum and Library in Greenville, Delaware, the site of the original DuPont powder works established in 1802. Lennie's primary work has been to the incarcerated, with whom he has served as a prison minister since 1977, in approximately 150 correctional facilities in several states and Canada. As an educator, he has provided professional training for numerous chaplains and volunteers, and is the author of six publications in that field.                

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Genealogies
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours Family Portraits
Foreword
Dr. David Cole
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
1 France, 1792-1795
2 America's Turn
3 Wilmington, Delaware
4 Emergence
5 Post-Rivardi Years
6 Ferdinand
7 Mourning on the Brandywine
8 Departures and Arrivals
9 Life and Spirit on the Brandywine
10 The Brandywine Manufacturer's Sunday School
11 A New Superintendent
12 Second Mother
13 A Growing Family, a Thriving Community
14 National Recognition
15 Legacies and Conflicts
16 Loss and Restoration
17 A Time to Build
18 Bells
19 Feeling an Interest
20 Nearing Home
21 Pathway's End
22 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index