Nell Nelson Biography

[RJP43]

One important aspect of the Nell Nelson project is to restore the biographical information of the woman behind the pseudonym. Nell Nelson's real name was Helen Cusack (after marriage Helen Cusack-Carvalho). As members of the restoration project we need to pull our resources together to find source documents and really ANY information available on Cusack as well as her family.

What we know:

• Maiden name: Helen Cusack (sometimes misspelled Cusach)
• Husband: Solomon Solis Carvalho
• Two daughters: Sarah Virginia Creshore and Helen Steele
• Raised her family in New Jersey, but she was born in Missouri. Solomon and Helen met in New York while both working on the New York World newspaper.

What we want to be looking for:

• death records
• census records
• birth records
• personal correspondance
• other articles written by Cusack (likely under Nell Nelson)
• any documents regarding Nelson or Cusack

Where to look:

• If any of you have memberships to family tree sites (ie. geni or ancestry.com) search and pull information from documents available through there
• local Government archives
• historical societies

Please if you find any information upload to this GitHub in the ResearchDevelopment folder! and comment here with questions or to alert us of your findings. Happy hunting! :)

@spadafour
@rCarls
@KariWomack
@CodyKarch

[ghbondar]

Searching Google on the title of the table: "sanitary conditions of workshops and factories" I found this link from 1880:
http://cdm16795.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/redbk/id/2051

[RJP43]

@CodyKarch, as an alternative to finding TEI tags to replace our current structure tags, you could provide us with the information you are able to find through your ancestry.com account. Comment in this issue with information you find and push any retrievable files into the ResearchDevelopment folder.
If you encounter issues comment in this issue so the instructors can take note of your efforts in completing this task. Thanks.

[RJP43]

look into the times digital archive 1785-2011 to see the reaction to Nelson or the series in newspapers