Interview with Mrs. Francis Huckins : January 22, 1980 / interviewer: Elizabeth Pessek.

Transcript of interview of Frances Huckins. In this transcript, she describes her early life, but most of the transcript is about her life during WWI in New York at Camp Mills as a hostess. She details her daily life at the camp. Of particular interest are her recollections of her experience with th...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
Vincent Voice Library (current owner.)
Other Authors: Huckins, Frances, 1896-1981 (Interviewee)
Pessek, Elizabeth (Interviewer)
Language:English
Subjects:
Huckins, Frances, > 1896-1981 > Interviews.
World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American.
World War, 1914-1918 > Participation, Female.
Camp Albert L. Mills (N.Y.) > History.
Military training camps > New York (State) > Long Island.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 > New York (State) > Long Island.
Schofield Barracks (Hawaii) > History.
Military training camps > Hawaii > Schofield Barracks.
Women's Overseas Service League > History.
Oral histories.
Interviews.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives, American.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
View online resource -- all users (Digital Repository @ Michigan State University)
Physical Description:1 online resource (23 pages) : digital, PDF file
Variant Title:
Interview with Mrs. Frances Huckins
Format: Electronic eBook
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Summary:
Transcript of interview of Frances Huckins. In this transcript, she describes her early life, but most of the transcript is about her life during WWI in New York at Camp Mills as a hostess. She details her daily life at the camp. Of particular interest are her recollections of her experience with the 1918 flu epidemic and watching the men practice bayonet drills. She also details her travels around the world, including her six month job as a hostess at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii after World War I. After Hawaii, Mrs. Huckins returned to the U.S. and was hired at a tuberculosis hospital in Oteen, North Carolina. The interview concludes with her explaining her affiliation with the Women Overseas Service League.
Note:Part of the Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project.
Name misspelled in transcript. The interviewee's first name is Frances.
Biographical Sketch:
Frances Winifred (Castello) Huckins was born June 19, 1896 in Brooklyn, New York. Her father's name was William J. Castello. She attended Columbia University from 1914-1918. She then entered military, service at Camp Mills, New York serving as a hostess. She died in December of 1981 in Kansas City, Missouri.