TY - SER
KW - ministers
KW - adoption
KW - Black Americans
KW - Protestants
AU - Margaret Deland
AB - Miss Lydia Sampson adopts a boy who stays loyal to her when his birth parents attempt to regain custody.
C1 - 1870s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Manchester
C4 - Literary; Christian; Women’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. Manchester is disguised as Old Chester.
N2 - Miss Lydia Sampson adopts a boy who stays loyal to her when his birth parents attempt to regain custody.
PB - Harper & Brothers
PP - New York
PY - 1924
RN - Margaret Deland (1857-1945) was born Margaretta Wade Campbell to Allegheny City, Allegheny County clothing merchants. Her mother died after childbirth and her father died shortly thereafter, so Deland's mother's sister raised her in Manchester, then a borough in Allegheny County. Deland attended boarding school in New York and studied art at Cooper Union. She married Lorin Fuller Deland, Harvard's football coach. Maggie, as she was called, had a deep interest in women's issues and over the years she opened her home to over 60 unwed mothers and their babies. She was a friend to Willa Cather. For magazines, especially <em>Harper's Weekly</em> and <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>, she published dozens of short stories, most based on her early years in Maple Grove and Manchester. She died in Boston.
EP - 271 p.
TI - New Friends in Old Chester
ER -