Harriet Luella FIELDS

  General Notes:

Photo: This is actually a small, original snapshot of Harriet (Fields) McBride, her husband, George McCutchen McBride, and two of their three children, unidentified here. Harriet and George had two boys and one girl, Lester, Emma and Merle, in that order. This snapshot of the McBride family was a gift to DeeAnna in 1965 from Bonnie Darr Fields, 1882-1967.




1872 BIRTH of Harriet Luella Fields ("Hattie") (California death records icorrectly report that Harriet was born in 1876)

1878 DEATH of grandmother, Mary Ann (Teagarden) Fields

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Iowa County, Hartford Township, Ladora (June 11) ("Hattie S.," age 7, is with her parents)

1885 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Jasper County, Colfax (no specific date) ("H. L. Field," age 10, is with her parents)

1886 DEATH of mother, S. Emma L. (Meacham) Fields

1893 MARRIAGE of father Alexander and stepmother Margaret

1895 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Washington Township, Colfax (no specific date) ("Harriet L.," age 22, born in Iowa County, Iowa) (a comment "Industrial School" appears with this census reference)

1900 CENSUS. Harriet would have been about 28 years old and was not with her father Alex and stepmother Margaret. I have not located her in the year 1900.

1905 CENSUS, Iowa State Census, Polk County, Beaver Township, Mitchellville (no specific date) ("Hariet L. Fields") (names only are in the 1905 Iowa State Census)

1907 MARRIAGE of Harriet Luella Fields and George McCutchen McBride on September 14 in Santiago, Chile

1910 CENSUS, not located (daughter Emma Louise was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1909)

1918 DRAFT Registration for George McCutchen McBride in Younkers, Westchester County, New York

1920 CENSUS, New York, Westchester County, Younkers (January 8) ("George," age 44, "Geographer, Society") (wife "Harriet," age 44, "Geographer, Society")

1930 CENSUS, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County (April 16) ("George," age 55, "Teacher, University") ("Harriett," age 57)

1960 DEATH, Harriet Luella (Fields) McBride at 87 years 7 months 11days

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1971 DEATH of husband, George McCutchen McBride at 94 years 11 months ? days (George's date of death is found as both Oct. 7 and Oct. 15)



OCCUPATION (Hattie): "My sister Hattie was a missionary for the Methodist Church in South America for 17 years."
--Bonnie Darr Fields (1882-1967)

OCCUPATION (George): Professor emeritus of geography at UCLA

George authored at least one book, CHILE: LAND AND SOCIETY by George McCutchen McBride, American Geographical Society, New York, 1936

From Internet:
Pioneer Photography in Bolivia:
Directory of Daguerreotypists & Photographers, 1840s-1930s
by Daniel Buck
Copyright © 1999

McBride, George McCutchen: McBride was an American geographer who worked in Bolivia. Eleven of his Bolivian photographs are in the American Geographical Society archives at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and two illustrate "The Agrarian Communities of Highland Bolivia," American Geographical Society Research Series No. 5 (1921).

LOCATIONS (Harriet): Iowa; Chile; Bolivia; California

CHURCH AFFILIATION: Methodist




FAMILY BIBLE RECORDS:

Births, marriages and deaths for the Fields-McBride families are from the Bible owned by Harriet: THE NEW TESTAMENT OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, translated out of The Original Greek and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, New York: American Bible Society, 1859. Inside, in Hattie's writing, is "Property of Harriet Fields McBride, My most valuable earthly possession, read by my mother and me when a child. H.F.M."




BOOK: GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM TEAGARDEN, From Arrival in America, Including European Background, by Helen Elizabeth Vogt, published 1967, page 340, regarding Harriet Luella (Fields) McBride and George McCutcheon McBride:

"Harriet graduated in Physical Education from Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa; attended Boston School of Oratory; graduated Methodist Training School, Chicago. As Missionary to Chili, opened first Gymnasium for women on West coast of South America; taught in Santiago College where she met George and they headed a Boys' School in LaPaz, Bolivia.

"George published for the Research Series of the American Geographical Society; the Foreword to his "Chili: Land and Society" published 1936 was written by the former President Carlos Davila: "In 'Chili...'Dr. McBride has surpassed his classic study of the land systems of Mexico...the penetrating analysis, scientific research,k personal erudition, and sympathetic and novel approach of the author." They returned to the U.S. and George took a professorship at UCLA. In 1947 he swerved on the Govt. Demarkation Comm. to help Peru and Equador settle their boundary dispute; during this period they lived in Lima and completed 17 years in South America. Retired to build a house in Pacific Palisades with a view of most of L. A. County. In 1958 George taught part-time at UCLA as the foremost authority in the U.S. on South America; in "Who's Who in Am. Scholars"; home filled with a fine collection of South American art works and textiles. Kind, wonderful people. Had 3 children."




NEWSPAPER:

EVENING OUTLOOK, Santa Monica, California, Wednesday, September 19, 1951 (original newspaper loaned to DeeAnna by Grace Brunson Tedrow):


DR. GEORGE McBRIDE HOME AGAIN IN PALISADES AFTER SOUTH AMERICA SCHOOL'S 400TH BIRTHDAY

PACIFIC PALISADES--That perennial traveler, Dr. George M. McBride, is home again from another exciting trip to South America, where he was one of six United States representatives to the San Marcos University's 400th birthday celebration.
Highlight of this last trip was a visit tothe Lima museum, where Doctor McBride saw fabrics that have been perfectly preserved in sand for thousands of years.

BIRTHDAY GATHERING

Professor emeritus of geography at UCLA, Doctor McBride was invited to Lima, Peru by San Marcos University to take part in an international gathering of scholars celebrating the university's 400th birthday. One of 168 foreign representatives at the celebration (six from the United States), Doctor McBride addressed the group on "The America that Columbus Did Not Discover," referring to the highlands of the Andes, Central America and Mexico.
The UCLA professor, who has long specialized in the human geography of Latin America with emphasis on Peru, reported that this country is again coming to the front among leading nations in South America.

BACK SEAT

For many years following conquest by Chile in 1883, Peru took a back seat to Chile, Colombia and Argentina. Now, Peru is building many new roads, Doctor McBride said, increasing its imports and exports, developing mining and petroleum resources, and pushing an active educational program. "The airport at Lima is the finest I have seen anywhere and it is still being developed," he said.
One of the outstanding events of the Primer Congresso Internacional de Peruanistas--the congress of Peruvian scholars--was a visit to the Lima museum. According to Doctor McBride, mummy wrappings are there on display which were discovered by Julio Tellio, leading Peruvian archeologist. Buried in dry sands for thousands of years, the textiles are preserved like new. "They are considered to be some of the finest textiles ever produced anywhere," he said.

HIGH POINT

But the high point of the journey for Doctor McBride appeared after formal meetings had ended. At that point the president of Peru offered two airplanes to take delegates to the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco--11,000 feet high in the Andes.
After a two-day look at the city's crumbling walls, the party boarded the planes to return to Lima. But Doctor McBride, with a Czechoslovakian tourist, decided to ignore the three-hour plane trip for the 700-mile highway.
For five days the pair toured the winding, narrow highway. Roads were barely wide enough for one vehicle, steep walls on one side and steeper, 100-foot drops on the other.
Over high mountains (13,000 to 14,000 feet) they traveled into rain and snowstorms, stopping at government-supported hotels along the way. At one point the road clung to steep walls about half-way up the Mantaro River Gorge, one of the tributaries of the Amazon, said to be nearly as large and deep as the Grand Canyon.

BETTER TRIP

To geographer McBride, it was much more satisfying to return to Lima this way than by plane.
Back on Southern California Doctor McBride reports the most interesting outcome of the meetings was the revelation of new figures for the existence of mankind in Peru. Radiocarbon tests push the history of man back to nearly 3,000 B.C. on the coast and in the Andes, he said.
"I cannot end the tale of our trip without giving due credit to the courtesy extended to us by the Peruvian government, San Marcos University and the people in general. We were feted nobly wherever we went," he concluded.




VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPH, gift to DeeAnna in 1965 from Bonnie Darr Fields (1882-1967):

George McCutchen McBride and Harriet "Hattie" Luella (Fields) McBride with two of their three children (measures 3 7/8" X 5 1/4")




HARRIET'S AUTOGRAPH BOOK:

1. "Colfax, Iowa, Dear Sister Hattie, Bind our love with a golden clasp and send the key to heaven, Your sister, Nellie Fields, Spring City, Iowa, Nov. 15th '87"
2. "Hattie Fields, Colfax, Iowa, Dear Cousin, Remember me as a true friend. B. C., Mit--Ia. Remember there is a hole in the bottom of the sea. Remember in the sweet bye and bye."
3. "Friend Hattie, May fortune attend you both early and late and providence aid you in shoosing (sic) a mate. (Signed) Hattie"
4. "Colfax, Jan 1, 1885, A rolling stone gathers no moss, Your cousin, Luna (?) Wheeler, Davenport, Iowa. Excuse writing."
5. "Colfax,Ia., Dear Hattie, Spring may come with flowers and birds, Summer with its fragrantz (sic), Autum (sic) with golden fruits aglow, Winter with its frost and snow, Through all these changes, Early and late, Please remember your old school mate, Your Friend, Della Marsh, March 23/86"
6. "Colfax, Jan 1st/85, Dear Hattie: "Know thyself," Your loving cousin, Carrie Cartwright, Davenport, Iowa"
7. "Colfax,Ia, Dear Hattie: May life to you be sweet, No sorrow dim your way; May angels 'round you keep, Their watch, both night and day. Yours lovingly, Clementine E. Barrette, Oskaloosa, Iowa, 10-10-1885"
8. "Hattie, May this ever be a token, While the stars in heaven shine, Of a friendship never broken, Of a friendship true and kind. Your friend, Laura R., Colfax, Oct. 18, 1885"
9. "Dear Hattie, Not like the rosemary our friendship wither, But like the evergreen, Live forever. Yours forever, Audienna, Stuart, Iowa, Aug. 4, 1887"
10. "Dear Hattie, I write not here for beauty, I write not here for fame, But I write to be remembered, And here engrave my name As your friend and school-mate, Julia Pope"
11."Dear Hattie, Go forthy thy little volume Like Noah's faithful dove And bring to darling Hattie An olive leaf of love, Ever your friend, Maud Clemens, Remembrance, Oct. 12, 1885"
12. "Colfax, Dear Hattie, May future with her kindest smiles Wreath laurels for thy brow, May loving angles (sic) guard and keep, Thee ever pure as thou art now, Yours as a sister, Stella R."
13. "Hattie, Accept my best wishes for your success in life, Your friend, T. A. Smith"
14. "Hattie, May your life be like the day more beautiful in the evening; like the summer aglow with promise; and like the autumn, rich with golden sheaves, where good works and deeds have ripened on the field. T. V. Baker, Colfax, Ia. 5-21-1885"
15. "Dear Hattie, In your chimney of friendship remember me as a brick. Lizzie Lerven (uncertain about surname--DeeAnna), March 23, 1886
16. "Compliments of Josie Mulock, Solon, Iowa 'Rich Rock Ice Cream' "
17. "Dear Hattie, Compliments of a friend, D. P., Colfax, Iowa, 10-15-1885, Remembrance"
18. "Remember your little friend, Kulbert Mulock, Solon, Iowa, Colfax Spring's"
19. "Dear Hattie, When distant hills divide us, And you no more I see, Remember that is Osie, Who often thinks of thee. Your friend, A. M. J., Forget me not"
20. "Dear Hattie, Ever remember your friend and school mate, Lotta R., Malcom, Ia., May 2nd, 1879"
21. "Hattie, I am last but not least, H. M. S."

Harriet married George Mc Cutchen McBRIDE, son of James Fleming McBRIDE and Emma L. McBRIDE, on September 14, 1907 in Santiago, Chile. (George Mc Cutchen McBRIDE was born on October 11, 1876 in Kansas and died in October 1971 in Los Angeles County, California.)