Author: Gregory A. BoydPublisher:
ISBN: 9781420308990
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Family Maps of Jefferson County, Iowa, Deluxe Edition
Author: Gregory A. BoydPublisher:
ISBN: 9781420308990
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Family Maps of Jefferson County, Iowa, Deluxe Edition
Author: Gregory Alan BoydPublisher:
ISBN: 9781420309003
Category : Jefferson County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
February 2013 Catalog
Author: Publisher: Booktango
ISBN: 146892513X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
The Searcher
Author: Subject Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Ringgold County
Author: Sharon R. BeckerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738583747
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Ringgold County was named for Maj. Samuel Ringgold, a hero of the Mexican-American War, who died in battle on May 11, 1846. The first white settler, Charles Schooler, came to what would later be called Ringgold County in 1844. Other settlers followed, and the county was officially established on May 14, 1855. The towns of Caledonia, Ringgold City, and Mount Ayr, the county seat, were all established that same year. Beginning in 1879, the railroads came, and other towns grew up quickly along those lines. Only one railroad town does not survive today: Knowlton, which forfeited its incorporation in the mid-1920s. Road construction and the automobile spelled doom for rural post offices, schools, and general stores, but much of this history was captured in pictures.
Genealogist's Address Book. 6th Edition
Author: Elizabeth Petty BentleyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317960
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Library of Congress Catalogs
Author: Library of CongressThe Quack's Daughter
Author: Greta NettletonPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609382439
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at “the first great educational institution for womankind” turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar’s School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second only to Lydia Pinkham as America’s most successful self-made female patent medicine entrepreneur of the time. This lively, stereotype-shattering story might have been lost, had Cora’s great-granddaughter, Greta Nettleton, not decided to go through some old family trunks instead of discarding most of the contents unexamined. Inside she discovered a rich cache of Cora’s college memorabilia—essential complements to her 1885 diary, which Nettleton had already begun to read. The Quack’s Daughter details Cora’s youthful travails and adventures during a time of great social and economic transformation. From her working-class childhood to her gilded youth and her later married life, Cora experienced triumphs and disappointments as a gifted concert pianist that the reader will recognize as tied to the limited opportunities open to women at the turn of the twentieth century, as well as to the dangerous consequences for those who challenged social norms. Set in an era of surging wealth torn by political controversy over inequality and women’s rights and widespread panic about domestic terrorists, The Quack’s Daughter is illustrated with over a hundred original images and photographs that illuminate the life of a spirited and charming heroine who ultimately faced a stark life-and-death crisis that would force her to re-examine her doubts about her mother’s medical integrity.
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.