IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
MARGARET STRANG COROTHERS
(1871-1934?)
FAMILY HISTORY OF THE
MCDOWALL-WILSON, STRANG-McDOWALL, AND COROTHERS-STRANG FAMILIES, 1934
0.4 linear inches
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ACQUISITION: |
The family history (donor no. 444) was
donated by Lois E. James in
1997. |
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ACCESS: |
The family history is open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PROCESSED BY: |
George Mullally. |
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REVISED: |
Robert Jett , July 27, 1998, version WORD97. |
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Biography
Margaret Strang Corothers was born
in 1871 to John Strang and Jean McDowall Strang and grew up on the Strang farm
near Norway, Benton County, Iowa. After
her marriage to Mallie Corothers she lived on a farm first near Dell rapids in
Minnehaha County, South Dakota, and later on a farm on the outskirts of Clear
lake in Deuel County, South Dakota.
Scope and
Content Note
The
family history was written by Margaret Strang Corothers in 1934 and retyped by
the author's grand niece, Lois E. James, of Iowa City, Iowa, in 1996. It measures 0.4 liner inches. In it the author describes the pioneer and
later farm life of the McDowall and Wilson families in Tama County, Iowa, near
the town of Norway, and the Corother's family in Minnehaha County, South
Dakota, near the town of Dell Rapids.
Of particular interest is the author's description of her father, John
Strang's participation in the Civil War in Company K of the 11th
Regiment of the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and subsequent reunions in Iowa of Crocker's
Iowa Brigade.
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