Elizabeth Mann of Richmond Hill, NY was born in 1893. She graduated Columbia with a B.S. in Household Arts in 1914, and an M.A. in 1916. 21 New Recipes for Frozen Dessert [reddit, posted by r/VintagePaperEyeCandy] could be her only authored cookbook. See pictures of the cooking booklet from above link.
She married David W. Clark in 1918, and the same year moved west beginning her life-long ministries with him to the Native American people. He had already assisted ministering to the Sisseton Reservation in South Dakota in 1909 before graduating Berkeley Divinity School. [I have mixed feelings about Native American ministries because of the histories of carrot-and-stick conversions, and historic abuse. But continuing on here]… Her husband became an Episcopal deacon in South Dakota and they served the Rapid City area for a year. From c. 1920 to 1942 they were missionaries at the Crow Creek Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In December 1922 The Spirit of Missions journal published her article Christmas Among the Indians. In 1942 he was, and can I assume they were, at Good Shepherd Mission, Fort Defiance, Arizona, and in 1953 they moved to Minneapolis to help assist Native Americans moving to the city. They continued to serve in missions and missionaries until 1968.
Elizabeth was teaching “Foods and Cookery” at Columbia University in 1926 and 1931, while her husband, supposedly, was still at Crow Creek. I found no story for it, just my imagination of a city woman perhaps having had enough of the open landscapes.
She wrote this rare booklet, left, in 1926 for Cook & Phillips Grocers, Copeland Sales Company. I wonder, was this the only cooking booklet she wrote?
In 1932 she co-authored Building a Christian Nation, and in 1933 In 1933 she gave a talk at the Woman’s Auxiliary of St John’s Episcopal Church, telling of her work among “our western Indians.” Tea was then served. Pinkies up?
Elizabeth died in 1978 in Tucson, Arizona and her husband in 1970, Denver, Colorado.
Their daughter, Elizabeth Rosenthal was an anthropologist and Native American advocate, and founded United Scholarship Service, Inc., to enroll Native Americans and Mexican-American students to study at New England colleges.
