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Collection Overview
Abstract
Poet, and plant manager at V'Soske Rug Company in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The collection includes: autobiography, genealogy, correspondence (including two letters from Robert Frost, 1922-1923), unpublished short stories, published and unpublished poems, translations of Frisian poems written by Elizabeth Eijbers, articles, novel manuscript, plus clippings and book reviews related to Marten M. ten Hoor, Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Alabama.
Biographical Note
Born at Franeker, Friesland, in the Netherlands in 1893 of Foppe and Elizabeth ten Hoor, Frederick came to Grand Rapids in 1895 when his father became pastor of the Oakdale Park Christian Reformed Church. He attended local Christian day-schools and Calvin College.
After serving in World War I and realizing he could never make a living writing poetry, which he had begun to do when he was 19 years old, he took employment with a shirt company, and later, in the City Engineer's office in Grand Rapids. In 1935 he became associated with a rug manufacturing company, where he remained until his retirement in 1973.
He spent his retirement years at his country residence overlooking Perch Lake. In 1980, he died of a heart attack, leaving his widow, Marie Louserse, 2 sons and a daughter.
Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1: Correspondence, Writings, and Poems, 1855-1973],
[Series 2: Publications Containing Poems and Articles by Frederick ten Hoor, Arranged Chronologically, 1919-1959],
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Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1859-1964],
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- Series 2: Publications Containing Poems and Articles by Frederick ten Hoor, Arranged Chronologically --- 1919-1959
- Box 3
- Item 1: Religion and Culture, (article) --- 1919
- Item 2: The Forge --- 1928-1929
- Item 3: The Midland --- 1928-1931
- Item 4: Poetry --- 1930-1936
- Item 5: Palms --- 1930-1937
- Item 6: The Lyric --- 1933
- Item 7: Better Verse --- 1933-1935
- Item 8: Adamant --- 1934
- Item 9: The Decimal --- 1934
- Item 10: Frontier and Midland --- 1934-1937
- Item 11: Poem of the Month --- 1935
- Item 12: New Michigan Verse --- 1940
- Item 13: Kaleidograph --- 1944
- Item 14: Scimitar and Song --- 1944
- Item 15: Voices --- 1945-1963
- Item 16: Journal of Parapsychology (articles) --- Sept. 1948, Sept. 1946
- Item 17: Frisian News Items --- 1959
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Series 1: Correspondence, Writings, and Poems, 1855-1973],
[Series 2: Publications Containing Poems and Articles by Frederick ten Hoor, Arranged Chronologically, 1919-1959],
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Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1859-1964],
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