The Widow, A Leader in Women\u27s Education, Wife of the Song Writer, Author Of Darling Nelly Gray; Experiences of Her Remarkable Life of Ninety-Seven Years

The Widow by Brainerd Hanby. This self-published book contains Brainerd\u27s recollections of his mother, Mary Katherine Winter Hanby. She was one of the first two graduates of Otterbein University (1857), the wife (and shortly thereafter the widow) of Benjamin Russell Hanby (class of 1858), composer of Up on the Housetop and Darling Nelly Gray. The book deals primarily with Kate\u27s life after Ben\u27s death, and her struggles raising two children as a single woman in the late nineteenth century.https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/archives_hanby/1000/thumbnail.jp