Sadly, Charlotte passed away in December, 2013, at age 100.
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ABOUT THE EDITOR, CHARLOTTE WHEATON WELLS
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| This book is the realization of a dream held for forty years by Charlotte Wheaton Wells, the chief editor. Her primary purpose was to transcribe the personal papers of Margaret Worthington, inherited by Margaret's great-grandson, Winston Mansfield Dudley, Mrs. Wells's husband. She later decided to publish some of Margaret's early papers which furnish a special perspective on the social life and culture of southern Ohio in the 1830s. They also reveal an intimate knowledge of the Worthington family in Chillicothe, Ohio and at Adena, the mansion built by Margaret's father, Thomas Worthington, a statesman acclaimed as "The Father of Ohio Statehood." | |
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Wells was born in Montclair, New Jersey, attended public
schools in New Jersey and New York State, and graduated
with honors from Wellesley College in 1935, with a major
in English Composition. She and Winston Dudley raised
three children and later moved to California where Winston
died in 1973. Following her remarriage in 1977 and the
death of her second husband in 1986, she moved east to be
near her children. Starting in 1991 she lived in a
retirement community in Walpole, Massachusetts. Here she
had the opportunity to work on her cherished files of
historical manuscripts concerning the Mansfield and
Worthington families and worked with a succession of able
research and editorial associates to produce Daughter
of Adena. Mrs. Wells was a member of the National
Coalition of Independent Scholars. Sadly, Charlotte passed away in December, 2013, at age 100. |
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