When Mortals Play God by John Erickson

Author:John Erickson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2022-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. “Obama Praises Maryland Girl Who Inspired New Law,” Baltimore Sun, October 8, 2010.

2. Minnesota Legislature Office of the Revisor of Statutes, SF 1135, introduced 86th Legislature, 2009–2010.

3. Report to Minnesota State Board of Control, June 30, 1928.

4. Faribault School records, Minnesota Historical Society.

5. Molly Ladd-Taylor, Fixing the Poor: Eugenic Sterilization and Child Welfare in the Twentieth Century (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), 71.

6. Mildred Thomson, Prologue: A Minnesota Story of Mental Retardation Showing Changing Attitudes and Philosophies prior to September 1, 1959 (Minneapolis, MN: Gilbert Publishing Company, 1963), 50.

7. Board of Control report, June 30, 1928, Minnesota Historical Society.

8. See Ladd-Taylor, Fixing the Poor, 130–37.

9. Board of Control report, June 30, 1928.

10. For background on Hanna, see Ladd-Taylor, Fixing the Poor, 73–76.

11. Board of Control report.

12. Ladd-Taylor, Fixing the Poor, 70–72.

13. Gillette Hospital records, Minnesota Historical Society.

14. Works Progress Administration interview with Mary DeChaine (Lease), June 1938. Interview is on file at the Crow Wing County Historical Society.

15. Author interview with Millie Sivanich.

16. Faribault School records, Minnesota Historical Society.

17. See Ladd-Taylor, Fixing the Poor, 130–36.

18. Faribault School records.

19. 1930 U.S. Census available on numerous sites. I accessed the records through Ancestry.com.

20. Marriage records, Minnesota Department of Health.

21. From “A Servant to Servants,” Robert Frost.

22. St. James Catholic Orphanage records.

23. The information that Rose kept the existence of her daughter a secret from her husband came from my interview with Millie Sivanich. Millie went to live with her mother a short time later.

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