Insane Sisters : Or, the Price Paid for Challenging a Company Town /

Her efforts ultimately resulted in her court-ordered confinement in 1927 to Missouri's State Hospital Number One for the Insane, where she remained until her death at age sixty-eight."--Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Andrews, Gregg
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Koller, Euphemia B.
Heinbach, Mary Alice.
Real property.
Insanity (Law)
Women.
Mental Disorders > legislation & jurisprudence.
Insanity (Law) > Missouri > Ilasco > History > 20th century.
Real property > Missouri > Ilasco > History > 20th century.
Missouri > Ilasco.
Ilasco (Mo.) > Biography.
Ilasco (Mo.) > History > 20th century.
Biographies.
History.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pennsylvania Yankees in "Old Man Atlas's" courts
  • Designing women: the lady and the hypnotist
  • Marrying "down" for money: Mollie and Samuel Heinbach
  • Samuel Heinbach's white horse
  • Feemy's bloodcurdling threats? Or attorney Charles Rendlen's "mental hobgoblins"?
  • A combined and confederated conspiracy: Mollie's sanity bargained away
  • Probate judges and "old nuts": the politics of Euphemia B. Koller's insanity
  • An unmarked grave and a buried community: insanity's outcomes and legacies.

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