Sarah A. Mowrer Rhoad , Ellen's sister, wrote from her home in Rippey, Iowa, 1869-1905. Domesticity, farming, the church, her children, and the loneliness of solitude dominated her letters. Referring to the new telephone she wrote, "We have a phone...
Ellen's father, Peter Mowrer, wrote from Pennsylvania to her older brothers, Peter and William Mowrer, who were already living in Iowa. The senior Peter Mowrer was in the midst of selling his home in preparation to move the rest of the family to...
Truce or Consequences: The people in Northern Ireland have decided they want peace, and a remarkable Iowa graduate is helping them achieve it. Mo Mowlam, who went face-to-face with killers from both sides of the conflict to broker the Good Friday...
Correspondence details the 1864 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Correspondence details the 1866 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.