Here is a long series of posts about Charles D. Mahaffie, Sr.’s time from receipt of news of his Rhodes Scholarship through his three years in Europe. These posts are on the private Mahaffie family site, which requires login access. Ask John if interested.
CDM Sr. 1: Mollie Mahaffie’s diary
April 15, 2022“About 5.15 p. m. Dr. Nelson, Mother Mahaffie, & Miss Giger officiated at the birth of my baby boy.” Mary...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 2: A covered wagon story
April 15, 2022I learned from my father, Charles D. Mahaffie, Jr., that his father talked of riding in a covered wagon during...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 3. Kingfisher Academy class photo 1896
April 15, 2022The group in this picture look for all the world like the denizens of an abusive orphanage. But they are...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 4: Kingfisher College football photo
April 15, 2022The idea of Charlie as an athlete, along with his brother Bart, tumbled out of the archives in the form...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 5: Letter from Charlie Mahaffie to his family, March 3, 1905
April 15, 2022Kingfisher 3/3/05 Dear Home Folks; I just got a telegram from Boyd that I passed in that exam alright. Prexy*...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 6: Pocket address book, 1911
April 15, 2022Thrifty Charlie carried this pocket address book, dated 1911, a giveaway from the Chickasha Abstract Co., to note down not...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 7. Democracy and the Suffrage
April 22, 2022Democracy and the Suffrage is a 4 by 5-inch booklet containing a long, scholarly essay by Charles D. Mahaffie, Sr....
Read MoreCDM Sr. 8. Whole packets of news clippings
April 22, 2022I knew when I read Democracy and the Suffrage [see previous post, here] that there was more to know about...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 9. Charlie in Washington, DC, September 1916
April 22, 2022This is a press photo taken in the Fall of 1916. Charles D. Mahaffie, Sr. is in downtown Washington, D.C....
Read MoreCDM Sr. 10. Briarcliff Manor, Hollywood Hills, California, 1919
April 22, 2022This photo counts as the strangest in my grandfather, Charles D. Mahaffie’s archive. It took some sleuthing to make sense...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 11: “Vertical section of transcontinental travelling-kit of bureaucrat”
May 4, 2022I remember this drawing my Grandmother, Isabel Cooper, made from my childhood. It was in one of the scrapbooks she...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 12: Urgent job offer telegrams
May 4, 2022Charles got, and saw fit to save, a number of job offers in the 1920s before, I think, it became...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 13: Notes from a White House meeting
May 4, 2022On February 10, 1932, Charles met at the White House with President Herbert Hoover. It was not his only meeting...
Read MoreCDM Sr. 14: “A basket of very fine merchandise”
May 4, 2022This thank you note, which politely rejects a gift from someone doing business with the Interstate Commerce Commission.((Harvey Couch, who...
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