1. Adelaide Crapsey was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Rochester, New York.
34 Facts About Adelaide Crapsey
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Adelaide Crapsey's parents were the businesswoman Adelaide T Crapsey and the Episcopal priest Algernon Sidney Crapsey, who moved from New York City to Rochester.
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Adelaide Crapsey's parents were Algernon Sidney Crapsey and Adelaide Crapsey.
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Adelaide Crapsey was their third child, after her brother, Philip, and her sister, Emily.
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Adelaide Crapsey was baptized on November 1,1878, at Trinity Church in New York City, where her father was an assistant minister.
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Adelaide Crapsey's family followed him to Rochester from New York City on the canal boat.
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Adelaide Crapsey was the editor of the school magazine and she played and refereed basketball.
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Adelaide Crapsey graduated in 1897 as the valedictorian for her class.
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Adelaide Crapsey matriculated in Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1897.
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Adelaide Crapsey had "a very active four years" in Vassar.
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Adelaide Crapsey was a member of the debating club and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
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Adelaide Crapsey played the role of Lucy the maid in the play The Rivals.
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Adelaide Crapsey roomed with Jean Webster who continued to be "her best friend and literary comrade" for the rest of her life.
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Two of Adelaide Crapsey's sisters died while she was in college.
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Emily, with whom Adelaide Crapsey was closest, died in 1901 of appendicitis at the age of twenty-four.
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Adelaide Crapsey planned a career in teaching after graduating from Vassar in 1901.
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Adelaide Crapsey supported herself by working occasionally as a lecturer.
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Adelaide Crapsey's mother was "too nervous and worn out from the months in the public eye," so Crapsey offered to serve the men tea.
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Adelaide Crapsey "spiked the tea with rum," which probably contributed to their good mood when they left.
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Adelaide Crapsey was given until the end of December 1906 to vacate the St Andrew's rectory.
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Therefore, when Adelaide Crapsey went home for Christmas in 1906, the family was moving out of the house in which had been her home for twenty-seven years and into a rented house.
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In 1907, Adelaide Crapsey's father was a delegate to the International Peace Conference at the Hague, and she accompanied him.
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Adelaide Crapsey used this time to recuperate and to ponder her future possibilities.
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Adelaide Crapsey lacked the energy for activities other than those required of her.
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Adelaide Crapsey was so weak that, after a week's teaching, she often spent her weekends in bed to recuperate.
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Adelaide Crapsey was interested in further research on her theory of metrics, but she was not interested in learning the theories of others.
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Adelaide Crapsey spent February and March 1908 in the Anglo-American hospital in Rome.
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Adelaide Crapsey's research was included in a book A Study in English Metrics published in 1918.
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In 1911, a combination of health problems and financial issues forced Adelaide Crapsey to seek employment back in the United States.
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In July 1913, Adelaide Crapsey collapsed and was admitted sent to a private nursing home in Saranac Lake, New York.
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Adelaide Crapsey died there on October 8,1914, at the age of thirty-six.
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Adelaide Crapsey's ashes were buried in the Adelaide Crapsey family plot in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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Adelaide Crapsey is known for a series of iconic camera designs for Eastman Kodak.
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Adelaide Crapsey's papers are in the University of Rochester Library archives.