Katherine Tingley honors the Rough Riders and other heroes of the Spanish-American War
Michele Bryant chronicles the ultimately doomed efforts of Katherine Augusta Wescott Tingley to transform the San Juan and Kettle Hill battlefields in Cuba into the Latin American headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Bryant notes that Tingley managed to buy the battlefield land and to erect two memorials, one an archway and the other a pillar, to Americans and Cubans who had died in the Spanish-American War. Bryant chronicles Tingley’s involvement with the Theosophical Society and her related charitable works, including establishing three schools in Cuba in the wake of the war, and she relates that Tingley’s planned development of the San Juan Heights property never was realized.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
2013