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Sources for the History of Agriculture & Rural Life http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/collections/agri/ag01.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...This is one of several sources listed in this collection. STROMBERG POULTRY FARM AND HATCHERY. Records, 1922, 1924-1941. 1.26 linear feet. MS-123. Ernst Sigfred Stromberg (1886-1969) was born in Greenview, Illinois. In 1893 his family moved to Otho, Iowa, and in 1913 Ernst Stromberg married Josephine Anderson. The couple made their home on a farm near Otho until 1925 when they moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and established the Stromberg Hatchery. Stromberg pioneered the chick hatchery concept in the United States; at one time the Stromberg Hatchery was the largest in the country, with branches in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota; and in Mason City, Marshalltown, Boone, Webster City, Manson, Rolfe, and Lakota, Iowa. Stromberg also ran the Purity Milling Company and developed its formulas for poultry feeds. Collection includes advertising, correspondence, feed tests, financial records, legal documents, and ledgers. It also contains a 1959 letter from Stromberg to his sister Bettie explaining how he went into the hatchery business....
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OAH Magazine of History - Fatherhood, Childhood, and War: 1945 http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/family/griswold.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...This is an article written by Robert Griswold, (O’Brien Presidential Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma) about a letter written to Bill Wisdom, by his wife Kathryn. The letter was written as if from their 1 year old daughter, Virginia. Bill was stationed in Okinawa at the time. Kathryn and Virginia went to live with Kathryn’s parents in Rolfe, Iowa, where her father published and edited the local newspaper....
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John Rolfe - Jamestown Rediscovery http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Information on our towns namesake -
John Rolfe stepped into history in May 1609, when he boarded the Sea Venture, bound for Virginia....
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Rolfe (Iowa) Community School - ISU Special Collections http://www.lib.iastate.edu/spcl/manuscripts/MS600.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The collection contains Series 1 - Color Slides and description of slide content (1956-1959). The collection consists of 432 color slides and descriptions of the slide contents documenting the 1956-1959 school years at the Rolfe, Iowa, Community School. Events documented include: the Junior Class Play, the Grand Operetta, the Senior Trip, Spring Band Concert, Senior Class Play, Senior Breakfast, sports, and Homecoming celebrations.
The history of the Rolfe, Iowa schools dates back to 1860 when Rolfe (at its former location three miles northeast of town) hired the first teacher in the county with classes held at the log house of William M. Hait.
The Independent School District of Rolfe was established at the current town location in 1884. Students met in a two-story building made of lumber from the courthouse at Old Rolfe - the original site of the Pocahontas County seat.
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Iowa DNR Meteorites in Iowa's History http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/meteor/meteorNew.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Iowa's largest meteorite impact occurred in southern Pocahontas County, just north of Manson, 74 million years before the state was inhabited....
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The papers of Guy G. Butler - UIowa Special Collections http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/MSC/ToMsc250/MsC233/MsC233.htm [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...A Kansas native, Guy G. Butler (1887 -- 1961) spent most of his life in Iowa. His parents moved to Pocahontas County when he was but a year old. He attended public schools and graduated from high school in Rolfe, Iowa. In 1913, he graduated from Northwestern University as a dentist. His first dental practice was in Chicago. In 1916, Butler sailed for Japan where he became the holder of the seventh license ever issued to practice dentistry in the Imperial Japanese Empire. The following year he left for Siam where he was the dentist by royal appointment to the royal household of King Rama VI. In 1921, Butler married Suma Grenova of Odessa, Russia in Swatow, China. An accident which left him with nerve damage forced him to retire from dentistry. He moved back to Rolfe, Iowa in 1923. There he began a new career as a farmer and banker. Butler was founder, stockholder, director, and president of the Rolfe State Bank. He was active in many fraternal organizations, the Farm Bureau, and the Iowa Bankers Association. A Republican, Butler served as chairman of the Pocahontas County Republican Central Committee. He was also a delegate to the 1952 Republican National Convention. His first elected office was as mayor of Rolfe. From there he went on to serve many terms as both a state representative and senator....
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Beatrice M. Bruner Dowd (1924-1998) - ISU Special Collections http://www.lib.iastate.edu/arch/rgrp/21-7-117.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...Beatrice M. Bruner Dowd was born on August 31, 1924 in Rolfe, Iowa. Dowd died in Los Altos, California on August 19, 1998. In 1941 Dowd earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Iowa State College. In 1943 Dowd enlisted in the United States Navy. She was sent to the University of California at Los Angles to attend Meteorological School and worked as a Naval Weather Forecaster until her discharge in 1947.
Dowd became employed by Sylvania Electrics Products as an electronics technician in 1958. When Sylvania Electrics Products changed to GTE Government Systems, Dowd became the Engineering Section Head. She was later appointed to the position of Engineering Department Manager. Dowd retired from GTE Government Systems in 1986. Dowd specialized in data processing, modeling, and simulation, and software development.
Dowd belonged to the Association of Old Crows (AOC) an organization related to the Electronic Warfare profession. Electronic Warfare (EW) is the art and science of using the electromagnetic spectrum (from direct current to light) for military advantage. Dowd received Certificates of Merit from the AOC in 1980 and 1983, and was awarded the AOC Special Medal in 1988....
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Iowa Women's Archives - Trimble Family Papers http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/findingaids/html/Trimble.html [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The Trimble Family papers date from 1879 to 1999 and measure one linear inch. The collection contains the reminiscences of Gladys Trimble Leith entitled, "Stories Told by Gladys, 1989" and "Memories of Mom," by Marie Jeffers. The sketches contain the sisters' recollections about their mother Mary Pyle Trimble as well as their own childhood experiences. They also recount intimate details of growing up female on a northwestern Iowa farm-farm chores, health and illness, marriage, childbirth and other humorous incidents. This collection also includes photocopies of letters from Mary Trimble to her grandson about his intention to become a jet pilot and photocopies of family photographs, a brief Pyle family history, and death certificates of various family members.
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Iowa Barn Foundation http://www.iowabarnfoundation.org/ [ Edit ] Site Reviews(0)
...The primary mission of the Iowa Barn Foundation is to educate the public about Iowa’s vanishing barns and to provide barn restoration matching grants to help property owners restore their barns. In addition, property owners who use their own funds to restore or rehabilitate barns that would otherwise qualify for a matching grant are eligible to receive an Iowa Barn Foundation Award of Distinction. Take a look at some of the restored barns that have been featured on the 2001 and 2002 All-State Barn Tour.
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