A GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) stone is on the lot, indicating a Civil War veteran soldier is buried there. Havillah’s parents are buried in the same lot as Maud and Havillah in Oakwood Cemetery, Traverse City. 22, 1865 he was mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee. Uriah then transferred to Company A, Eighth Cavalry on July 20, 1865. 9, 1863 at Kalamazoo for three years at the age of 15, then mustered on Nov. He enlisted in Company 1, Eleventh Cavalry on Nov. Uriah served in the Grand Army of the Republic as a Union soldier in the Civil War. Havillah’s parents were Uriah and Mary E. He was a clerk and manager-buyer for the home furnishings department of Hannah and Lay for 25 years. It was a small watercolor of a pine tree along Grand Traverse Bay.Īt the age of 18, she married Havillah Clive Hoffmaster on May 25, 1904. Henry Ford is said to have bought her first painting for one dollar. It was one of the largest manufacturing establishments in the city at that time, manufacturing “Climax” grape and peach baskets, bushel baskets, berry crates, and veneer. The factory, Wells-Higman, was located near where the family lived on East Eighth Street. She had been offered a lot of money for it–and did sell it once, but bought it back and never let it go again.įrom the 1900 census records, Maud was a laborer in a basket factory before she was married. (I am not sure about the fifth child) Many of Maud’s early experiences influenced her later paintings, especially “The Country Doctor,” a world-famous (and her best-known) painting.
There were five children: Maud A., Harry E., Mabel E.(Palmer), William J. Her mother had to maintain the home after her husband became ill and bedridden. In those days, her father may not have been a trained in medicine, but practiced as someone who could help injured or sick people. Maud’s father was a “doctor,” and her mother practiced nursing. Aside from that meager formal training, she was self-taught.
She was able to attend the Chicago Art School for six weeks after she was able to sell some of her paintings. Maud attended school on Old Mission Peninsula and in Traverse City. She first studied music and wanted to be a musician, but, in the end, was forced to express herself in a quieter way, sitting beside her family members, sketching or painting scenes around her home. This responsibility had a profound effect on her future. The eldest of five children, she took care of her brothers and sisters, her ill grandmother, and, later, her father. In Manistee, Michigan, on December 29 th, 1883, Maud was born to William H. Maud with a snowscape, from the “Chicago Sunday Tribune” article, North Woods Artist, by Norma Lee Browning, February 3, 1952. Maud Miller Hoffmaster’s epitaph reads, “She toiled for beauty.” Her personal motto was this: “Wherever you go in this world, may that place be more beautiful because you have been there.” The two statements summarize the life of a remarkable person. Kohn, Life-long friend of Maud’s and historian of Mesick, Michigan
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