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Argow, Waldemar

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Multiple manuscripts for numerous Iowa authors are collected here. Abbe, George Aldrich, Bess Andreas, Osborn Argow, Waldemar Aurner, Nellie Baker, Laura Nelson Baker, Richard Terrill Bissell, Bess Brown, Charles Brown, Lewis H. Buxbaum, Katherine Calhoun, Mary Huiskamp Carlson, Esther Carver, Thomas Nixon Cassill, R. Verlin Clark, Glenn Colby, Anthony Crary, Margaret Darling, Frederick Donovan, Josephine Berry Duncan, Actea Carolyn Young Eastman, Harold Lloyd Elston, Hattie Phinnette Gard, Wayne Gavitt, Benjamin H. Gearhart, Susan Merriam Gingerich, Melvin Gould (Charles) Bruce Hale, Arlene Hall, Lynn Hoeltje, Hubert Hoffman, Mathias Martin Humphrey, James Hunn, L.E. "Jack" Jorgenson, George and Nora Kauffman, Ray Franklin Kemp, Charles F. Kramer, Dale Lafferty, R.A. LeSueur, Meridel Loeser, Katinka McClurg, William H. McHale, Tom McInerney, Carl Moeller, Dorothy Murphy, Thomas Dowler Nelson Evelyn and Violet O'Connor, Rose Agnes Olson, Eugene Olson, Harry Ferdinand Painter, Eleanor Paluka, Frank Perrin, Joyce Petersen, William John Peterson, Virgil W. Porter, Ella Williams Prange, Gordon W. Quick, Herbert Randolph, Colonel Charles D Reed, Warren A. Rosheim, David L Rowan, Edward Beatty Saunders, William Irving Schell, James Peery Schoonover, Lawrence Seagrave, Sadie Fuller Sheets, George March Sherman, Richard Shultz, Gladys Denny Simpson, Frank B. Smith, Grace Noll Smith, Lewis Worthington Stevenson, Neal Taylor, James C Trueblood, D. Elton Van Etten, Mrs. Winifred Ver Duft, Lee Wallace, Zella Wandrey, Ralph H. Ward, The Reverend Leo Richard Weir, Ruth Cromer Wilbur, Ray Lyman Williams, Maude Newell Winchell, Mary Edna Wormhoudt, Arthur Zaffiras, George

Dates

  • Creation: 1888-1990

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

Argow was born in Ohio in 1916, moved to Cedar Rapids in 1921, moved east in 1930 and returned to Cedar Rapids as a Unitarian minister in 1944. He was educated at Antioch and Harvard and prior to entering the ministry, he was a reporter on the Detroit Times and on the research staff of the Reader's Digest.

Extent

From the Collection: 16.00 Linear Feet (Photographs throughout.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Abstract

Unitarian minister in Cedar Rapids. Holdings consist of the printer's copy of his What Do Religious Liberals Believe?

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This manuscript was donated by Reverend Argow in the early 1950s.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository

Contact:
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Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
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