{"id":2867,"date":"2020-01-06T22:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snapartists.com\/snapline\/the-body-in-the-library\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T21:33:11","slug":"the-body-in-the-library","status":"publish","type":"snapline","link":"https:\/\/snapartists.com\/snapline\/the-body-in-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"The Body in the Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
written by Luke Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n On December 28th, 1936, Ism\u00e9 Aldyth Hoggan, professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin, agent of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and librarian of a remarkably complete collection of virus literature, died five days after falling from a window at the Bradley Memorial Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin. Reports differ on whether her stay in the hospital was the result of a brief illness, or whether her unnamed sickness had lasted nearly a year. It had been an uncharacteristically warm and foggy Christmas Eve the night of Hoggan\u2019s fall; other sources suggest it occurred on the 22nd. She was 36 years old (though misreported as 38). Hoggan was buried in lot 210, section 11 of Forest Hill Cemetery just after 2pm on the 30th, the snow beginning that night or Tuesday, with little change in temperature.<\/p>\n