By: Susan Price Miller
In 1919, the Art Institute of Chicago accessioned an appliquéd album quilt which had been donated by Emma Blanxius Hodge. Called the “Circuit Rider’s Quilt,” accompanying information described it as having been presented to G.C. Warvel as an iconic circuit rider of the frontier, and this romanticized story was repeated in print media throughout the twentieth century. Recent research, using a wide range of genealogical materials, local records and county histories,
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