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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

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

Elizabeth Wherry papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0028
Abstract

Farm magazine writer.

Dates: 1904-1960

Iowa Authors Manuscripts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MsC0869
Abstract

Includes manuscripts, galley proofs, page proofs, dust jackets, and other miscellany associated with publications of many Iowa Authors.

Dates: 1888-1990

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.

Dates: 1872-1944

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

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.

Dates: 1951-1984

Marie Rumble papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0505
Abstract

A homesteader who lived in Wyoming, Colorado and Washington State.

Dates: 1890-2002

Olson/Clampitt memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0736
Abstract

Memoirs of life in rural Iowa.

Dates: 1933-1995

Reese Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0818
Abstract

Business documents, correspondence and travel ephemera of the Reese Family from Turin, Iowa.

Dates: 1800-2009

Robinson-Lacy Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: IWA0424
Abstract

Correspondence diaries, scrapbook, and genealogical information regarding this Dubuque-area family.

Dates: 1852-2001

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

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

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Names
Achttien, Jack, -1924 1
Beatty family 1
Beatty, Carrie Kelly, 1853-1925 1
Bissell, Bess G., 1908-1970 1
Bobbitt family 1
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Bobbitt, Benjamin Claiborne 1
Bobbitt, Laura Littlefield 1
Bobbitt, Randolph 1
Bowersox family 1
Bowersox, Dorothy LeVier 1
Bowersox, Edna 1
Bowersox, Elizabeth C. 1
Bowersox, Fred 1
Bowersox, Jan Erkert 1
Bowersox, Lizzie E. 1
Bowersox, Mary Margaret Shuey 1
Bowersox, Thomas L. 1
Brown, Lewis H. (Lewis Herold), 1894- 1
Bush, Bertha E. 1
Carlson, Esther Elizabeth 1
Cassill, R. V. (Ronald Verlin), 1919-2002 1
Clampitt, Frank T., 1860-1943 1
Clark, Glenn, 1882-1956 1
Colby, Anthony Owen 1
Crary, Margaret 1
Cripliver family 1
Denison, Ella Strong 1
Drake University 1
Dubuque Ladies' Literary Association (Dubuque, Iowa) 1
Eastman, Harold Lloyd 1
Elston, Hattie Phinnette, 1900- 1
Ettleman, Margaret Bobbitt, 1877-1984 1
Farthing, Carol 1
Fatherson, Editha Phillips 1
Gangestad, Rosa Knutson, 1867-1943 1
Hurless, Ruia Bowersox 1
Iowa Author's 1
Jamison, Esther, 1901-2001 1
Johns-Manville, Incorporated 1
Knutson family 1
Lacy family 1
Lacy, Benjamin 1
Lacy, Frank Robinson 1
Lacy, Mary Woodbury, 1824-1897 1
Lacy, May Robinson 1
Leff family 1
Leff, Nellie Josephine, 1884-1972 1
Martinson, Kate, 1858-1941 1
Mirich, Pearl Rumble 1
New York Medical College for Women and Hospital for Women and Children 1
Northeast Iowa Suffrage Association 1
Olson, Alice M., 1904- 1
Osborn family 1
Osborn, Inez Smyth 1
Osborn, Mary A. 1
Osborn, Thomas F. 1
Osborn, Wayland 1
Radio Corporation of America 1
Reese Family 1
Reese family 1
Reese, Donald, 1916-1998 1
Reese, Henrietta Nordyke 1
Reese, Howard, 1881-1979 1
Reese, Richard Thomas, 1831-1910 1
Robinson family 1
Robinson, Belle 1
Robinson, Laura Goddard 1
Rosheim, David L. 1
Rowan, Edward Beatty, 1898-1946 1
Rumble, Edna 1
Rumble, Marie, 1894-1974 1
Russell, Rebecca Elizabeth Fatherson 1
Saunders, William Irving 1
Shuey, Jacob 1
Simpson, Frank B. 1
Smith, Earle Sloan, 1890-1985 1
Smith, Grace Noll, 1878-1974 1
Smith, Laura Gibson, 1891-1973 1
Smith, Lewis Worthington, 1866-1947 1
State University of Iowa 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 1
Taylor, Edward Stewart 1
Taylor, Elizabeth Dewey 1
Taylor, Ruth Fatherson, 1912-2005 1
University of Iowa 1
Ver Duft, Lee, 1910- 1
Ward, Leo R. (Leo Richard), 1893- 1
Wherry family 1
Wherry, Don, -1948 1
Wherry, Elizabeth, 1893-1956 1
Wherry, John, 1919- 1
Wherry, Richard, 1925- 1
Willoughby, Grace Robinson 1
Woodbury family 1
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1
Yessler, Alta Bowersox 1
Zaffiras, George John, 1917- 1
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