Alberta Lucille Hart/Alan L. Hart: Timeline, October 4, 1890 - present
A chronology of the life, work, and comment on Alberta Lucille Hart/Allan Hart
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
See also:
J. Allen Gilbert: "Homosexuality and Its Treatment," October 1920
1890, October 4
Alberta Lucille Hart born in Hall’s Summit, Kansas, the only child of Albert and Edna Bamford Hart.[1]
1892
Albert Hart dies following a typhoid fever epidemic. Edna Hart and Alberta move to Linn County, Oregon, where Edna's family had lived since 1861. They first live on the farm of Edna's parents, the Bamfords.[2]
1895
Edna Bamford Hart marries Bill Barton and after a brief period the family moves back to live on the Bamford's farm.[3]
1896
Alberta is very close to her grandfather Bamford and late writes that "my grandfather, who was an ardent Single Taxer, read a loud to me from his books on economics and politics, and I began to take some interest in his subjects about about the age of six [1896]. He was an active worker of a farm and irregularly attended an ungraded school until age 12."<source?>[4]
1902
The family moves to Albany, Oregon, and Alberta enters the seventh grade.
1908
Alberta attends Albandy High School and is active in debating, student government, and writing for the school paper.[5]
1908-1910
Alberta attends Albany College (now Lewis & Clark College) and is active in debate, writing, tennis, photography, and other activiaties.
1911
The Takenah, the Albany College yearbook (Albany, Ore.: Albany College, 1911), includes three photographs and several written references to Lucille Hart. A brief description of Hart and two photos, one as a member of the junior class, the other a baby picture, are on p. 18-19 of the Takenah. A description of the junior class (p. 20) says that it had dwindled from seventeen "Freshmen" to three "Juniors," all women: "[Lucille] Hart, [Eva] Cushman, [Katherine] Stuart." These women include "the most graceful dancer, the most expert mandolinist, and the finest soprano soloist in the college." Hart is said to preside over all the class meetings. "They have also decided--as a part of their duty to the world and the rising generation--to discard all rats and artificial puffs, and to adopt the dress-reform style of clothing. They have not yet worn their new costumes in public, though they contemplate doing so soon." Page 51 presents a photograph of the "Editorial Staff" of The Takenah, including Lucille Hart and Eva Cushman. Dr. Gilbert's report mentions that "H" was active at Albany College as an oratorical debator, a manager of the "College Annual," and as a leader of the Women's Mandolin Club. Dr. Gilbert's report describes "H's" sexual-affectional liaison at Albany College with a young woman "classmate" whose initials are given as "E.C." This is no doubt the Eva Cushman whose pictures and description appear in The Takenah (pages, 18-19, 20, 51).
1911-1912
Hart transfers to Stanford University as a Junior. Eva Cushman, moves with her from Albany College. Hart receives high marks in pre-med coursework. Active on campus and maintains a guarded love affair with her roommate, Eva Cushman.[6]
Hart was in attendance at Stanford University during the first and second semesters of the academic year 1911-12. The Leland Stanford Junior University: Twenty-first Annual Register; 1911-12 ([Stanfold], Calif.: Published by the University, ?? , p. 26) lists Alberta Lucille Hart, from Albany, Ore., as registered for Physiology 66, and living at 2 Roble (a dormitory) .[7]
1912
Moves back to Albany, Oregon, and graduates from Albany College.
1913
Enters University of Oregon Medical College, then located in North West 23rd and Lovejoy Streets in Portland. Is the only woman in her class. During medical school Alberta lives in an apartment buildings at NW 21 Street
==1917-1918
"Summer School Students, 1916," Stanford University. Department of Medicine. Annual Announcements for 1917-18, p. 98 lists "Hart, A. Lucille, Actinography, Clinical Medicine, Portland, Ore."[8]
1918, August
Dr. Gilbert says of "H": "In August [1918] she [Hart] underwent a complete physical examination, with subsequent laparotomy in which the uterus was removed. After the operation she assumed male attire." The excision of the uterus is now generally referred to as a hysterectomy.[9]
1920, October
- For the original article see Gilbert, J. Allan. "Homo-Sexuality and Its Treatment." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 2:4 (Oct. 1920), 297-332.
- On Gilbert also see: Oregon Historical Society. "Guide to the J. Allen Gilbert Papers 1888-1990."
1962, July 4
Hart dies.
1975, December 3
A letter to Jonathan Ned Katz from the Stanford University registrar's office dated Dec. 3, 1975, verifies that Alberta Lucille Hart was born on Oct. 4, but not in 1892, the year given in Gilbert's article. She was in attendance at Stanford University during the first and second semesters of the academic year 1911-12.
1976, December 1
Thomas Y. Crowell Company publishes Jonathan [Ned] Katz's Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S. A., with a section discussing J. Allen Gilbert: "Homosexuality and Its Treatment," October 1920. Katz's research revealed that the subject of Gilbert's article, called "H", was Alberta Lucille Hart. Katz's interpretation of Hart's life tries to claim her as a "lesbian", an interpretation he lated rejected in favor of understanding Hart as Hart understood her/himself at different times in her/his life.[10]
1978, October
Avon Books republishes Katz's Gay American History in a mass market paperback edition.[11]
1983, July
Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983). Includes a section on Hart publishing books as Alan Hart.[12]
1993, September
Lauderdale, Thomas M. and Tom Cook. "The Incredible Life and Loves of the Legendary Lucille Hart." [Portland, Ore.] Alternative Connection 2:12 (Sep. 1993).
1995, January 1
Plume republishes Katz's Gay American History" in a revised (new introduction) paperback edition. [13]
1996, July 14
Bates, Tom. "Decades Ago, An Oregon Doctor Tried to Redefine Gender." Oregonian. July 14, 1996.
1999
Booth, Brian. "Introduction, Bibliography, and Chronology" copyright 1999 by Brian Booth, published in The Life and Career of Alberta Lucille/Dr. Alan L. Hart with Collected Early Writings. Portland, Ore.: Lewis & Clark College, February 2003. Online as a pdf[14]
2000
Brian Booth, text. "Alberta Lucille Hart / Dr. Alan L. Hart: An Oregon 'Pioneer'". Presentation by Brian Booth and Thomas Lauderdale. to the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, for its Discovering Oregon Originals '99 series.
2002
Exhibit on Hart at Lewis and Clark University (formerly Albany College). <add more detail and cite>
2003, February
Booth, Brian. "Introduction, Bibliography, and Chronology". Copyright 1999 by Brian Booth. Published in The Life and Career of Alberta Lucille/Dr. Alan L. Hart with Collected Early Writings. Portland, Ore.: Lewis & Clark College, February 2003. Online as a pdf[15]
2009-2012
2008, October 29
Petra H begins Wikipedia entry on Alan L. Hart. A note on Wikipedia says that this was "Re-written from the notes and essays on Hart collected by Petra H. over several years. Where now available on-line sources have been sought as references."
Notes
- ↑ Booth, "Introduction" (1999), page 9.
- ↑ Booth, "Introduction" (1999), page 9.
- ↑ Booth, "Introduction" (1999), page 9.
- ↑ Booth, "Introduction" (1999), page 9.
- ↑ Booth, "Introduction" (1999), page 9.
- ↑ Booth, "Introduction" (1999), page 9.
- ↑ Stanford University registrar's office to Jonathan Ned Katz, Dec. 3, 1975; Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976), page ?
- ↑ Stanford University registrar's office to Jonathan Ned Katz, Dec. 3, 1975; Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976), page ?
- ↑ Gilbert, "Homosexuality", page 317
- ↑ ISBN-10: 0690011644. ISBN-13: 978-0690011647
- ↑ ISBN-10: 0380405504. ISBN-13: 978-0380405503.
- ↑ ISBN-10: 0060909668. ISBN-13: 978-0060909666
- ↑ ISBN-10: 0452010926. ISBN-13: 978-0452010925
- ↑ Accessed April 21, 2012
- ↑ Accessed April 21, 2012