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Almira Ames Farnham papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0105
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.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1896
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Bowersox and Osborn Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0500
Abstract
The Bowersox family settled in Johnson County, Iowa in approximately 1855. The papers include a family account book, school exams and teaching certificates.
Dates:
1861-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Carrie Kelly Beatty papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0127
Abstract
Young woman who came to Hancock County, Iowa in 1868; her experiences were recorded in the book, A Prairie Rose, by Bertha E. Bush.
Dates:
1874-1999
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Elizabeth Wherry papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0028
Kate Martinson papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0084
Abstract
Journals chronicle the life of an Iowa farm woman including her marriage, childrearing, family farm management, divorce, and remarriage.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement Two folders, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1872-1944
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Laura Gibson Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0069
Abstract
Casey, Iowa native who taught country school before marrying and homesteading in Wyoming in 1913. She taught school in the Philippines in the 1910s and 1920s.
Dates:
1917-1983
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Madge Clark Girard papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0617
Abstract
Reflections on Girard's early life homesteading in South Dakota.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1972-1991
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Bobbitt Ettleman papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0711
Abstract
The 1951 memoir describes rural life in nineteenth century Iowa and Indiana.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1951-1984
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Margaret Strang Corothers papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0324
Abstract
Family History of the McDowall-Wilson, Strang-McDowall, and Corothers-Strang Families, 1934.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1934
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Marie Rumble papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract
A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.
Dates:
1890-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mary Jane Parsons papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0517
Abstract
Reflections on her pioneer life from Rochester, New York to Dakota City, Iowa.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1935
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Mildred Fox Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0606
Abstract
Iowa native who became a homesteader in South Dakota, and later returned to Iowa to raise her five children on a farm.
Dates:
1811-1972
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Olson/Clampitt memoirs
Collection
Identifier: IWA0736
Philip L. Gerber papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0615
Abstract
State University of New York College at Brockport professor who edited the homesteading letters of Elizabeth Corey.
Dates:
1988-1989
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Phoebe Kellum Mericle papers
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: IWA0302
Abstract
Early settler in Webster County, Iowa.
Arrangement One item, shelved in SCVF.
Arrangement One item, shelved in SCVF.
Dates:
1893
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Reese Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract
Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.
Dates:
1800-2009
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Robinson-Lacy Family papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0424
Abstract
Correspondence diaries, scrapbook, and genealogical information regarding this Dubuque-area family.
Dates:
1852-2001
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Rosa Knutson Gangestad papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0614
Abstract
The daughter of Norwegian immigrants who came to Humboldt County, Iowa in 1872. Reflections on pioneer life through handwritten stories and letters for her grandchildren.
Dates:
1867-1943
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Rosebelle Pierce Luick papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0828
Abstract
Corresponence about daily life in the late 19th century from friends and family to Luick, a resident of Belmond, Iowa.
Dates:
1854-1902; Other: Date acquired: 2011-06-28
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
Ruth Fatherson Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: IWA0489
Abstract
Reminiscences and essays by Taylor and the transcript of a 1915 memoir written by Editha Phillips Fatherson.
Dates:
1915-2002
Found in:
Iowa Women's Archives
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