IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES

IOWA CITY, IOWA

 

 

CARRIE V. TALCOTT (1890-1981)

 

NORTHNPAPERS, 1913-1981

1.25 linear feet

 

 

 

ACQUISITION:

The» papers (donor nos. 387 and 570) were donated» by Gladys Rife in 1996 and Margaret Talcott Boedeker in 1999.

ACCESS:

The papers are open for research.

COPYRIGHT:

»Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa.

PHOTOGRAPHS:

Box 3.

PROCESSED BY:

Jessie Miller, 1998 and Doris Malkmus, 2000. [TalcottCV.doc]

 

 

»Biography

Carrie Talcott, farmer, writer, and clubwoman, was born Carrie Violet Johnson on February 22, 1890, to Elwood and Laura Hinshaw Johnson in Jefferson County, Iowa.  Her family moved to Poweshiek and later to Fayette County during her childhood.  She graduated from Maynard High School in Fayette County in 1908 and took the teacher training program at Upper Iowa University in Fayette that summer.  She taught rural school briefly in the northern Minnesota town of Aiken, returning to Fayette County to marry Myron Talcott on March 10, 1909.  They lived and worked at the Talcott farm, Tall Oaks, and raised five children, Leonard, Charles, Gladys, Margaret, and Wesley.

Carrie Talcott was involved in many community activities.  She served six years in the American Home Department of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs, including two years as chairman of its Home Making Division.  Talcott was a member of the Methodist church, joining in Grinnell in 1899.  She retired to West Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge in 1962 and became an active member of the First United Methodist Church and its Women's Society of Christian Service (now United Methodist Women).   At Ft. Dodge, she served as an officer of the Friendship Haven Home Service Society Committee and was an active member of its writing class.  In May 1981, Talcott moved to Tompkins Memorial Center.  She died on July 15, 1981.

 

 

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Scope and Content Note

 

            The Carrie Talcott papers date from 1913 to 1981 and measure 1.25 linear feet.  The papers are arranged in seven series:  Biographical; Correspondence; Diaries; Personal Planners; Friendship Haven Home for the Retired (Ft. Dodge, IA); Religious Activities; Travel; Writings; and Photographs.  The Diaries series constitutes the bulk of the collection and consists of daily diary entries covering intermittent years from 1913 to 1975 (see box list).  The diaries detail daily tasks and social events of a farmer and clubwoman.  The Writings series includes her original poems, plays, and letters to the editor.  The Friendship Haven Home for the Retired (Ft. Dodge, IA) series consists of committee records, scrapbooks, and writing class publications that document the social and creative activities of its residents.

 

 

 

Related Collections

 

Gladys Talcott Rife papers

            Rife was the eldest daughter of Carrie Talcott.

 

Margaret Boedecker papers

Boedeker was the second daughter of Carrie Talcott.

 

 

Box no.             Description

 

Box 1                     

                                Biographical

Memorial service program, 1981

Randalia, Iowa 100th Anniversary, 1874-1974,

Fayette Co., [1974]

 

                                Correspondence

Personal, 1934, 1948, 1974, and undated

Political

Letters from Harold Hughes (former governor of Iowa and United States senator), 1968-1976

Miscellaneous, 1970-1978

 

Diaries

1913, 1941, 1954, 1959, 1962,

1961, 1966

1967, 1969

 

Box 2

                                         1970-1971, 1973-1974

                                         1975

Farm homemaking notebook, undated

Personal planners

       Correspondence record, 1971

       Address book, 1979

 

         Friendship Haven, Home for the Retired (Fort Dodge, Iowa)

Friendship Haven Reporter, 1962-1972

Writing class

       Newspaper clipping, 1977

       Leaves of Gold, undated

Home Service Society Committee, 1973-1974

News and Do’s scrapbook, 1973-1975

Scrapbook, undated

 

Box 3

                                 Religious Activities

North Iowa Annual Conference of the Methodist Church

1952

1963

Randalia Methodist Church

25th annual homecoming, 1946

35th annual homecoming, 1956

Annual homecoming, 1977

Women's Society of Christian Service

Annual conference memos, 1947

Life member award, 1960

 

                                    Travel

Diaries, 1954, 1958, and undated

Ephemera, 1954-1972 and undated

 

Writings

Bible study, 1970 and undated

General Federated Women’s Club Poetry Recognition Tea, 1936

Heritage (one act play), undated

Letters to the editor

Newspaper clippings, 1970, 1972, and undated

Rough drafts, undated

Oak Tree Stands Straight and Tall: The Poems of Carrie V. Talcott, undated

Miscellaneous, 1952-1961 and undated

 

Photographs

     1934-1969 and undated

     Scrapbook, 1968-197