Gratia Countryman

Title: Obituary Notice
Type: Newspaper
Date: July 27, 1953
Source: Minneapolis Morning Tribune

Description: Obituary for Gratia Countryman printed in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune on July 27, 1953.
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1. What is the reason this article was written?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: It is an obituary notice, announcing Countryman's death and highlighting the important events of her life.
2. About what year was Gratia Countryman born?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: The article doesn't say when Countrymanwas born, but since she was 87 when she died in 1953, she must have been born in either 1865 or 1866, around the end of the Civil War.
3. What did Countryman mean when she made the comment about not being the century of Abraham Lincoln?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: She meant that, unlike the story about Lincoln, people were not willing to travel long distances to visit a library.
4. What in the article would be an example of how she brought the library to the people?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: The article says that twelve branch libraries were established whiles he was head of the library.