Lydian Bush
Lydian Ursula Bush was Winifred Weter’s aunt on her mother’s side. Her mother was Helen, also called Nellie Bush Weter. Lydian was a latin teacher and a classics scholar and had a significant influence on Winifred who earned her PhD in Classics, Latin and Greek.
Lydian Bush was born in 1888 in Sparta, Wisconsin on a large farm. She was the youngest of four sisters and one brother. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Lawrence College in Wisconsin in 1909. She taught Latin in a Wisconsin high school and then returned to school and got her master’s degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1912. We have several letters of recommendation from her professors praising her intellect and personality.
She took a trip to Europe with a group in the summer of 1914. She was 26 years old and had most recently been teaching Latin at a high school in Brookings, South Dakota. She kept a diary and we have most of it. It shows she had a wonderful sense of humor. She was deeply interested in all their travels, but the Italian ruins were of particular interest. As it happened, her trip was cut short because of the outbreak of World War I. She was just able to get back to England where she waited for some time to get a ship back to the United States. She wrote two articles for the Brookings Register after she returned home. Here are her two article:
1914.10_Article_Lydian_Bush_.pdfFirst half of trip published October 1914
1914.09_Article_Lydian_Bush_.pdfSecond half of trip published September 1914
Here are a number of pictures we have of Lydian Bush over her long and productive life.
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