Nana Biography

Nancy, your mom was, you say a little society, minded, what was your background?

She came from a marvelous family that was well known in Wilkesbury Pennsylvania.  Her father had been well to do and he was in politics there, and he also built the first trolley Carline, and he was prominent in the area.

And well to do?

Yes, and there were seven children in the family. Five boys and two girls, and they all turned out badly, except my mother. I hate to say that, but her sister married some ne’er-do-well, and the brothers went to the best colleges, they had every advantage in the world, one of them was voted the most likely to succeeded at Princeton, they went to Eastern colleges, Yale, and all of them graduated. They were voted the best dressed, and this and that. None of them really did anything. 

One of them married one of my mother‘s best friends, and the best friend committed suicide. A couple of them served in the army, but they just… The father, I think it was, my mother always said it was because her father gave them all the money, and set them up in businesses, and they didn’t know what they were doing, and she really was a bright woman, and she made her way very well. She was independent, I respect her more and more as time goes on when I think about her life. and I don’t think there was much communication with her brothers after they all grew up. Well, she was a young girl, she preferred them to her beaus, and they were older than she was.

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