IOWA WOMEN'S ARCHIVES - Mildred Fox Everett Papers

IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES

IOWA CITY, IOWA

TITLE:»MILDRED FOX EVERETT

SUBTITLE:»

»PAPERS, DATES:»1905-1908

»QUANTITY:»4 items »

ACQUISITION:

The »papers (donor no. 143) were donated by »Esther Everett in 1993.

ACCESS:

The »papers are open for research.

PROCESSED BY:

Your name, year»Lea Keohane, 1994. [EverettMildred.doc]

»Biography

Begin text here:»Mildred Fox was originally from Iowa. From 1905 to 1908, she was a homesteader in South Dakota. She lived in a small, eight by ten foot shack and taught at a public school for two years while she was there. After three years in South Dakota, Fox returned to Iowa, married into the Everett family, and lived on a farm where she raised her five children.

Scope and Content Note

Begin text here:The »Mildred Fox Everett papers date from »1905 to 1908 and consist of 4 items. Included are one letter from the Fort Pierre, South Dakota, school board offering Fox a teaching job; a copy of a lease; a typed interview between Fox and her daughter and son-in-law, Alice and Vyron Truog; and a map of Stanley County, South Dakota, where Fox lived. The lease by which Fox rented out her land when she left South Dakota in 1908 is a photocopy of the original. The interview (undated) details Fox's life as a homesteader and a teacher in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Nothing here documents her life after she married.

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Folder no. Description

Folder 1

»Letter from the Fort Pierre, South Dakota, Board of Education to Fox, 1905

Photocopied lease for the land Fox homesteaded, 1908

Eighteen-page interview between Mildred Fox Everett and Alice and Vyron Truog, undated

Map of Stanley County, South Dakota voting precincts, undated