Edith Sprout memoir
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0682
The Edith Sprout memoir, "Memories," concerns her early in western Iowa. In it, she describes the farmhouse, her childhood activities, children's farm chores, games, "gypsies" who farmed adjacent land, and working as hired help during college.
Dates
- 1978
Creator
- Sprout, Edith, 1895-1979 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The memoir is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.
Extent
1.00 linear inch
Abstract
Farm woman raised in western Iowa and North Dakota who wrote about her childhood in her memoir.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Biographical / Historical
Farmwoman Edith J. Thomson Sprout was born near Kingsley, in northern Iowa, November 4, 1895. She, her parents and her three siblings lived on a farm there until 1910, when the ill-health of her father precipitated a move to South Dakota. There the family operated a succession of general stores before returning to farming. Edith Thomson graduated from high school in Salem, South Dakota, in 1913. She taught intermittently while attending a two-year teacher's training course at Dakota Wesleyan in Mitchell, South Dakota, where she graduated in 1916. She taught until her mother's death, after which she returned to keep house for her father. She then taught for one year before marrying LeRoy Sprout on December 25, 1919. After their marriage, they followed the Sprout family to Palo Alto County, Iowa. LeRoy and Edith Sprout farmed in five different locations in that county for twenty-six years before moving to Emmetsburg, Iowa, in 1945.
Method of Acquisition
The memoir (donor no. 547) was donated by Dorothy Place in 1998.
Creator
- Sprout, Edith, 1895-1979 (Person)
- Author
- Doris Malkmus, 1999.
- Language of description
- 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