Barbara Claassen Smucker was born on the first of September of 1915. She was a New Order Mennonite. Her parents were Cornelius W. and Addie C. and she had three younger brothers, Lander , Walter and Morris . If she still lived today, she’ll be more than a hundred years old! Sadly, she died on July the 29, 2003 at the Mennonite Memorial Home at 87. However, the many books she had written are still studied and applauded by many of her readers and fans across the world.
Fun fact: One of her best books, Underground to Canada, was widely complained against by parents, feeling that it took slavery far too lightly, a bad image of black people and that it might contribute to racism in the classroom due to its use of the word nigger.…show more content… She received a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism. Her jobs as a high school teacher and The Evening Kansan-Republican led to her being an author. In 1939, when she was 24, she married a man named Donovan Smucker, a Mennonite pastor. He passed away in 2001. He is an author of many books also, such as The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics, Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites, and Amish, Sociology of Mennonites, Hutterites and Amish: A Bibliography with Annotations, Volume II 1977-1990, Jerome M. Smucker: Pioneer Ohio Mennonite Entrepreneur and Rockefeller Chapel Sermons of Recent
