Carrie Archer
Mr. Mahaffey
What It Means To Be an American
My name is Carrie Archer I was born on March 4, 1891 at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, New York. My father Clark Archer was a gynecologist and surgeon and my mother, Matilda Speldman, was a young woman of refinement.
I am the oldest of six children including Barbara, Katherine, and two boys, Rogers and Lyman. The youngest child, a girl named Matilda, died at one year old. We children were respected and deeply loved by our parents and were brought up to be loving and thoughtful. We were given excellent educations and sent to college, I graduated from the Packer Collegiate Institution in Brooklyn.
My interests are mostly artistic. After