Almira Ames Farnham memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0105
Scope and Contents
This four-page biographical sketch was found among Edith Miller's papers. It is undated but chronicles the period from 1800 to 1896. The biographical sketch describes the life of Almira Ames Farnham as related by her granddaughter, Leslie Dunn.
Dates
- 1896
Creator
- Farnham, Almira Ames, 1800-1896 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The memoir is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa.
Biographical / Historical
Almira Ames Farnham was born in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1800. She married John Farnham at the age of twenty-five but was widowed fourteen years later, leaving her with five children. Later the family moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, where several of the children worked in the mills while Farnham took in boarders. Two of these boarders, Tom Hall and Tom Dunn, eventually married into the family. In 1855, several members of the family, including Farnham, traveled to Minnesota to homestead. A financial panic in 1857 caused foreclosure on the land owned by Dunn and Hall. In response, most of the family members decided to move to Colorado. Upon hearing reports of Indian uprisings, however, the caravan stopped in Iowa, and the family decided to settle there. In later years, Farnham alternated living with her son Hiram Farnham's family, near Morley, Iowa, and her daughter Mary Dunn's family north of Anamosa. She died at Dunn's house on June 8, 1896.
Extent
1.00 item
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Essay describing the life of Almira Ames Farnham, a pioneer woman from New England who settled near Morley, Iowa in 1859.
Arrangement
One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Method of Acquisition
The biographical sketch (donor no. 166) was donated by Maureen Williams in 1993.
Creator
- Farnham, Almira Ames, 1800-1896 (Person)
- Author
- Marnie Schroer, 1995.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Iowa Women's Archives Repository
Contact:
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5068
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-women@uiowa.edu
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5068
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-women@uiowa.edu