Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett
- ISBN-10
- 0809337940
- ISBN-13
- 9780809337941
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020
- Author
- Charles H. Cosgrove
Description
"Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett were a very influential couple in old Chicago. Augustus served two terms as mayor of Chicago. The story of his wife Eliza, the chronicle of a spiritual journey, reflects the struggles of sincere, pious women to come to terms with tragedy in an age when most people attributed every unhappy event as divinely determined"--
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