Rosemary Nusbaum

Background

Rosemary Nusbaum was born on September 23, 1907, in Marquette, Michigan, United States. She had two sisters.

Education

Rosemary Nusbaum studied nursing at the University Hospital School of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois. She also studied sculpture with Euganie Shonnard and ceramics with Warren Gilbertson.

Career

Rosemary Nusbaum served in the United States Army during World War II as a medical pathologist for the Eighth Corps. She began her career as a nurse in charge of the hospital at Mesa Verde National Park from 1929 to 1930. During the 1930s and 1940s, she was affiliated with both the Women’s Club and the Girl Scout Council.

Her first book was The City Different and the Palace: The Palace of the Governors, Its Role in Santa Fe History, including Jesse Nusbaum's Restoration Journals (1978), followed by Tierra Dulce: Reminiscences from the Jesse Nusbaum Papers. In 1930, she composed the lyrics for the song "Cabin in a Canyon - in the Night," and she was a regular contributor, under pen name "Rosemary Rife," to many song and poetry anthologies, as well as the author of numerous poems and short stories which appeared in such regional magazines and newspapers as the Santa Fean, the Denver Post, and the New Mexican.

She was an accomplished artist and had collected a number of her original wood and linoleum block prints, together with related verse.

Achievements

• Rosemary Nusbaum is best remembered for her efforts to transcribe and preserve the work and writings of her late husband, scientist and conservationist Jesse Logan Nusbaum. Her books received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Tierra Dulce

    (This book is for anyone who has a passion for New Mexico ...)

    1980
  • The City Different and the Palace: The Palace of the Governors: Its Role in Santa Fe History; Including Jesse Nusbaum's Restoration Journals

    (In this book, dedicated in memory of her husband, Rosemar...)

    1978

Connections

In 1928 Rosemary Nusbaum married Dwight William Rife. In 1947 he died. On December 11, 1947, she married Jesse L. Nusbaum. In 1975 Jesse died. She had a daughter, Rosemary Talley.

Sister:

J. Van Overloop

Sister:

Lavinia Rife

late spouse:

Dwight William Rife

late spouse:

Jesse L. Nusbaum

Daughter:

Rosemary Talley

References

• Contemporary Authors
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