Margaret E. Haughawout

Margaret E. Haughawout
Haughawout, from a 1926 yearbook
Born(1874-09-21)September 21, 1874
Fairmont, Nebraska, U.S.
DiedDecember 28, 1964(1964-12-28) (aged 90)
Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.
OccupationsWriter, college professor

Margaret Elizabeth Haughawout (September 21, 1874 – December 28, 1964) was an American writer and college professor. She taught at Kansas State Teachers College in Pittsburg from 1923 to 1934, and had poetry published in The Crisis and Prairie Schooner. She was also dean of women at Alma College in Michigan, and was an elected county superintendent of schools in Nebraska from 1919 to 1923.

Early life and education

Haughawout was born in Fairmont, Nebraska, one of the six children of Joseph Henderson Haughawout and Emma Steininger Haughawout. Both of her parents were born in Pennsylvania.[1] She graduated from Hastings College in 1900, and earned a master's degree in English from the University of Nebraska in 1903.[2] Her master's thesis was titled "The Dream in Chaucer."[3]

Career

Haughawout taught English at Hastings Academy and Hastings College from 1902 to 1906.[4] From 1906 to 1911 she was a professor of English and dean of women at Alma College in Michigan. She taught at the Knox School for Girls in New York from 1911 to 1919.[5][6] From 1919 to 1923, she held elected office, as superintendent of schools for Fillmore County, Nebraska.[7] As superintendent, she was called upon to defend a redistricting map in detail.[8] She started a citizenship class in Geneva, Nebraska, to help immigrants prepare for naturalization.[9]

From 1923 to 1934 Haughawout was a professor of English at Kansas State Teachers College.[10] From 1934 to 1945, she supported herself with writing and gardening. She returned to the classroom from 1945 to 1951.[2] Mary Jugg Molek was one of her students.[11]

Haughawout also led writing groups in Pittsburg, Kansas, wrote songs, and edited college literary publications.[2] She served on the board of directors of the University of Nebraska's alumni association.[12]

Publications

  • "A Recent Development" (1925, article)[13]
  • Sheep's Clothing (1929, poetry collection)[10]
  • "Silk and Stones" (1929, poem, The Grub Street Book of Verse)[14]
  • "Unmasked" and "Portrait" (1930, poems, The Crisis)[15][16]
  • "Serf" and "Relict" (1930, poems, Prairie Schooner)[17][18]
  • "Hattie in Greenwich Village" (1931, poem, Prairie Schooner)[19]
  • "Household" (1931, poem, The Frontier)[20]
  • Pittsburg College Verse, 1924-1930 (1931, editor)[21]

Personal life and legacy

Haughawout was considered an unconventional woman, who assigned modern and controversial texts; her 1926 campus appearance in a menswear suit was still recounted in the local newspaper fifty years later.[22] For two months in 1944, she lived in New Jersey to care for her dying brother.[23] died in 1964, at the age of 90. Her papers are at Pittsburg State University in Kansas.[2] In 1969, a room at Porter Library on campus was named in her memory.[24] She was one of the authors profiled in Nebraska Public Media's Lost Writers of the Plains project in 2015.[25][26] Work by Haughawout was included in Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology, 1867–2017.[27]

References

  1. ^ "Obituary: Joseph H. Haughwout". The Fillmore Chronicle. 1926-10-28. p. 3. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c d Margaret Elizabeth Haughawout Papers 1901-1985, Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University.
  3. ^ Haughawout, Margaret Elizabeth. The Dream in Chaucer. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1903.
  4. ^ "Untitled brief social item". The Collegian. 1902-01-15. p. 13. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Fairmont Chronicle". Nebraska Signal. 1914-06-25. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "School Items and Personal Mention". The Nebraska Teacher: 282. February 1919.
  7. ^ "Election Statements". Nebraska Signal. 1922-07-27. p. 7. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "George A. Williams Has His Say about the Work of Redistricting Committee; Miss Haughawout's Views". Nebraska Signal. 1919-12-11. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "Citizenship Class Started at Geneva". The Lincoln Star. 1923-01-05. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b "Miss Haughawout's Verse Praised". Nebraska Signal. 1930-04-17. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ Milanič, Irena (1999-12-01). "Mary Jugg Molek and her first writings". Acta Neophilologica. 32: 51–67. doi:10.4312/an.32.1.51-67. ISSN 2350-417X.
  12. ^ "The Alumni Association of the University of Nebraska". The University Journal: 2. October 1922.
  13. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. (April 1925). "A Recent Development". The Techne. 8 (4): 3–5.
  14. ^ Harrison, Henry (1929). The Grub Street Book of Verse ... H. Harrison. pp. 29–30.
  15. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. "Unmasked" The Crisis 37(1)(January 1930): 20.
  16. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. (December 1930). "Portrait". The Crisis. 37 (12): 411.
  17. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. (1930). "Serf". Prairie Schooner. 4 (2): 88–88. ISSN 0032-6682.
  18. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. (Fall 1930). "Relict". The Prairie Schooner. 4 (4): 216.
  19. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. "Hattie in Greenwich Village" Prairie Schooner 5, no. 1 (1931): 46-46.
  20. ^ Haughawout, Margaret E. (May 1931). "Household". The Frontier. 11 (4): 356.
  21. ^ "Pittsburg College Verse Supplement". Kansas City Journal. 1931-02-15. p. 31. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. ^ "The Feminists: Margaret Haughawout (1874-1964)". The Parsons Sun. 1977-10-08. p. 13. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. ^ "Death of John F. Haughawout". Nebraska Signal. 1944-11-16. p. 5. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Porter Library Dedicates Room". The Parsons Sun. 1969-01-20. p. 4. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ Lost Writers of the Plains. Retrieved 2026-01-23 – via Nebraska Public Media.
  26. ^ Wood, Skip (2015-07-15). "Lost Writers of the Plains: Margaret Haughawout". Prairie Public. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  27. ^ Simon, Daniel A., ed. (2017). Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicenetennial Anthology 1867-2017. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-62288-145-1.
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