Hildegarde Frey: Request for Information
Hildegarde Frey Biographical Sketch
The Ohioana Library would like to hear from any readers with knowledge
about the life or career of Hildegarde Gertrude Frey (1891-1957), or
about anything published by or about her.
We know only that Frey apparently lived all her adult life on West 100th
Street in Cleveland; that she graduated from West High School in 1910; that she
wrote a series of ten Camp Fire Girls novels (now held by the Ohioana
Library) for teen girls published from 1916 to 1920; that she attended
and graduated in 1923 from the College for Women (later Flora Stone
Mather College) at Western Reserve University (today Case Western
Reserve University); and that she became a social worker for the City of
Cleveland.
Please contact us with any information
about this early twentieth-century children’s author at ohioana@ohioana.org
or by mail or phone at: Ohioana Library Association, 274 E. First Avenue, Suite 300,
Columbus, OH 43201, Phone: (614) 466-3831.
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