Biography

C. (Caroline) Elizabeth Doderer Daum was born in Iowa in 1878 to Frederick and Anna Katherine Naas Doderer. Doderer attended high school in Mason City and graduated from Iowa State Normal School (now the University of Northern Iowa) with training as a teacher. From the late 1890s to the time of her marriage in 1908, Doderer taught at several schools in Iowa and South Dakota, including one located on a Sioux reservation. Doderer met and married John G. Daum in Buffalo Center, Iowa and the couple had two children: Frederick Arnold Daum and Mildred Elizabeth Daum (Raymond). Elizabeth Doderer Daum lived in Buffalo Center until the late 1940s and was active in the local women’s club. In her final years, Doderer Daum relocated to Kansas City, Missouri to be near her daughter. She passed away in 1953.

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