4/1/2002
The lighter side of family history.
Seeking a Senator
As a young girl, my mother, Imogene Marie Van Court, told me tales about our family, including Aunt Jenny. In the early 1920s, Aunt Jenny had traveled around the world two or three times, driven the first electric car to my mother's home in Hyde Park, Chicago, and wanted to send Mother to a prestigious girls finishing school in southwestern Illinois.