IOWA WOMEN’S ARCHIVES
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES
IOWA CITY, IOWA
WALLING FAMILY
LETTERS, 1919-1935, 1991
1 volume
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ACQUISITION: |
The letters (donor no. 188) were
donated by Mary Hamilton in
1993. |
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ACCESS: |
The letters are open for research. |
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COPYRIGHT: |
»Copyright has not been transferred to the University of Iowa. |
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PROCESSED
BY: |
Your name, year»Kristen Rassbach, 1997, Margaret Richardson, 1998. |
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REVISED: |
Robert Jett, August 12, 1998. [WallingFamily.doc] |
Biography
Mary E. Knight, daughter of Immer Needham Knight and
Sarah James Knight, was born December 13, 1869. She married Charles S. Walling June 28, 1893 and lived in
Oskaloosa, Iowa where Charles Walling was manager and part owner of the Oskaloosa Daily Herald. The Wallings had two daughters, Ivyl, born
in 1894, and Mary, born in 1911. Mary
Knight Walling died July 15, 1935.
Scope and Content Note
The Walling Family Letters date from 1919 to 1935. The
collection consists of one volume of transcribed correspondence between Mary
Knight Walling and her daughter Ivyl Walling Welton. A small number of letters by other family members is
included. Ivyl Walling attended
Grinnell College, majoring in music.
She married Dale Welton June 25, 1918 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and established
a home in that community. Ivyl Welton
and her mother, Mary K. Walling, began writng these letters following Ivyl’s
move to Oklahoma.
The
letters were compiled by Mary E. Walling Hamilton, younger sister of Ivyl
Walling Welton. In an addendum Hamilton
gives biographical sketches of fifty people mentioned in the letters. This provides helpful context to the
collection.
SCVF Description
Folder
1 Walling Family