Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Marie Schufman Cavanagh

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Marie Schufman Cavanagh (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Marie Schufman Cavanagh was born in 1921 in Minnesota. She married in 1939 and had two children. Her husband was drafted in 1944. With reduced income, she took in a boarder, another serviceman's wife and her child. Her boarder worked full time while Cavanagh took care of the children. After her husband's return, two more children were added to the family. She died in 2003. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Unexpected occurrence of the war and the draft; raising two children as a single mother; living with a boarder and her child; family economic conditions during the war without her husband; her husband's return from the war and adjusting to family life after his return; opinion on President Roosevelt's death and the use of atomic bombs.

Dates

• 11/04/2002 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Cavanagh, Marie Schufman
• interviewer: Saylor, Thomas

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 112
• Accession Number: AV2006.1.8

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I' <OH 112>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 37 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 75 minutes length

Subjects

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