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Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago - A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett (Hardcover)
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Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago - A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett (Hardcover)
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This well-crafted and engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and
his wife, Eliza Clark Garrett, tells two equally compelling
stories: an ambitious man's struggle to succeed and the remarkable
spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy. By
contextualising the couple's lives within the rich social,
political, business, and religious milieu of Chicago's early
urbanisation, author Charles H. Cosgrove fills a gap in the history
of the city in the mid-nineteenth century. After the Garretts moved
from the Hudson River Valley to Chicago, Augustus made his fortune
in the land boom as an auctioneer and speculator. A mayor during
the city's formative period, Augustus was at the center of the
first mayoral election scandal in Chicago. To save his honor, he
resigned dramatically and found vindication in his reelection the
following year. His story reveals much about the inner workings of
Chicago politics and business in the antebellum era. The couple had
lost three young children to disease, and Eliza arrived in Chicago
with deep emotional scars. Her journey exemplifies the struggles of
sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when
most people attributed unhappy events to divine discipline.
Following Augustus's premature death, Eliza developed plans to
devote her estate to founding a women's college and a school for
ministerial training, and in 1853 she endowed a Methodist
theological school, the Garrett Biblical Institute (now the
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary), thereby becoming the
first woman in North America to found an institution of higher
learning. In addition to illuminating our understanding of Chicago
from the 1830s to the 1850s, Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago
explores American religious history, particularly Presbyterianism
and Methodism, and its gendered approach shows how men and women
experienced the same era in vastly different ways. The result is a
rare, fascinating glimpse into old Chicago through the eyes of two
of its important early residents.
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