http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/browse/2?collection=42&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle&output=atom <![CDATA[Iowa Heritage Digital Collections]]> 2024-03-28T12:59:05+00:00 Omeka http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49689 <![CDATA[1868-1871, John C. Merrill]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1868-1871, John C. Merrill

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John C. Merrill was born around 1850 in Pennsylvania. His father, Samuel Merrill, became Governor of Iowa in 1868 and John C. was appointed State Librarian the same year. He proved to be an energetic and efficient Librarian, introducing the system of card cataloguing, while renumbering, rearranging, and classifying the whole Library. During this period the Library was kept open during all business days. Previously it was only open during sessions of the Legislature and Supreme Court as well as Wednesday and Saturday afternoons. John C. Merrill died Sept. 8th, 1871 in Des Moines, Iowa from typhoid fever. He was buried in Woodland cemetery. Illness of the State Librarian. Daily Iowa State Register newspaper. Sept. 6, 1871. p.4. The Funeral of the State Librarian. Daily Iowa State Register newspaper. Sept. 12, 1871. p.4. 1870 US. Federal Census, Des Moines 6th Ward, Polk County, Iowa, p.265, line 26, John C. Merrel living in household of James Bird, (Online: Heritage Quest, 2008) Miller, Mrs. Mary H., Librarian. Historical Sketch of the Iowa State Library. Des Moines, IA. 1893.

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49699 <![CDATA[1872-1877, Ada North]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1872-1877, Ada North

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Ada E. Miles was born in New York in 1841, the daughter of Rev. Milo N. and Mary Miles. In 1865 she married Major George J. North, Governor Stone’s Military Secretary. In 1870 George died, leaving his widow with two small children, Howard and Georgia, to support. North began as a clerk in the Iowa legislature that same year towards the close of the session. A vacancy occurred in the office of State Librarian when John C. Merrill died in Sept. of 1871. Governor Samuel Merrill appointed Mrs. North to that position. She was the first woman to become head of the State Library and “many eyes anxiously watched her administration to see whether a woman would prove competent for the position.” North set about to change the image of the librarian by offering sessions on the use of the catalogs, reference works, and other library aids. With her efforts a bill was passed creating a Library Board of Trustees consisting of the Governor, Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and Judges of the Supreme Court. After serving as the State Librarian she was appointed Librarian of the State University in Iowa City where she helped organize the Iowa Library Society (now the Iowa Library Association). She died in Des Moines, Iowa on January 9, 1899. United States Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Iowa Volume, Chicago: American Biographical Publishing, 1878, (Online: http://iagenweb.org.civilwar/biographies/biographies_n.htm) “A Study of the Public Library Movement in Iowa.” The Iowa Journal of History and Politics. Jan 1937: 64. Brigham, Johnson. “Mrs. Ada E. North.” Annals of Iowa. Jan 1905: 624-626. 1860 US Federal Census, Town of Geneseo, Henry County, Illinois, p.596, line 18, Milo N. Miles household, (Online: Heritage Quest, 2008)

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49692 <![CDATA[1878-1888, Sara B. Maxwell]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1878-1888, Sara B. Maxwell

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Sara “Sadie” B. Bushong was born in Columbian County, Ohio, February 12, 1837, the daughter of Jacob and Hannah Bushong. She attended the academies at Bryan and West Unity, Ohio, then taught from 1853 to 1858. Sara married William Maxwell in 1858, and in 1863 they moved to Panora, Iowa. William and Sara had three children: Emmet G., Jessie, and Blanche. In 1876 Sadie wrote a book on the Centennial History of Guthrie County, Iowa; containing a short history of Iowa, history and description of Guthrie County, early settlement, incidents, etc. The very next year, on March 24, 1877, William and Emmett were murdered on a business trip in New Mexico. Sara moved to Des Moines and in 1878 Governor Gear appointed her State Librarian to succeed Mrs. Ada North. She served until 1888 and during her administration inaugurated the work of collecting and preserving the files of Iowa newspapers, books by Iowa authors, and material relating to state history. Mrs. Maxwell had charge of the Iowa Columbian Exposition at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. In 1897 Sara was elected Librarian of the Meadville, Pennsylvania Unitarian and Theological School, and held that position until her death. Sara B. Maxwell died October 12, 1904 at the home of her daughter in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania where she was living. It was said that “Many in Iowa recall with affection, this modest unassuming woman who went about among us, doing good.” “Sara B. Maxwell.” Quarterly of the Iowa Library Commission, Oct 1904. 64. 1850 US. Federal Census, Williams County, Ohio, p.20-21, Jacob Bushong household, (Online: Access Genealogy; a free genealogical resource) 1870 US. Federal Census, Cass Township, Guthrie County, Iowa, p.166, line 1, Wm. Maxwell household, (Online: Heritage Quest, 2008) Iowa Register of Marriages Polk County, Iowa. LDS microfilm project, p.289 (marriage of Martin L. Weaver to Jessie Maxwell, Sara’s daughter, April 29, 1886). Deaths of William and Emmett Maxwell. Guthrie Vedette newspaper, Panora, IA Thursday, March 29,1877 front page and Thursday, April 6, 1877 front page.

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49701 <![CDATA[1888-1894, Mary H. Miller]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1888-1894, Mary H. Miller

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Mary H. MacGinnitie was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania on July 24, 1842, the daughter of John P. and Marilla B. MacGinnitie. She came with her parents to Eddyville, Iowa in 1862 and taught in the public schools in Eddyville and Ottumwa. In 1867 she was married to Lieutenant Samuel Newell Miller, of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, who died March 27, 1872 leaving her to raise her three-year-old son, Frank . After the death of her husband she taught in the Des Moines public schools until May 1888, when she was appointed by Governor Larrabee to succeed Sara B. Maxwell as State Librarian. It was said that as State Librarian Mrs. Miller was “uniformly courteous and willing to do all in her power to make the use of its facilities as wide and general as possible.” Miller was elected the first President of the Iowa Library Association in 1891, holding the office for two terms. She was “kindly helpful to all who needed aid, and she had the true spirit of selflessness.” Her son, Frank, died May 25, 1896 and she died in Des Moines on March 28, 1904. “Well Known Woman Dies; Mary M. Miller, Former State Librarian, Passes Away at Age of 63,” The Register and Leader newspaper, Des Moines, IA, Tuesday, March 29, 1904, p.2. “Death of a Former Citizen, Mary H. Miller Passes Away at the Age of Sixty-Three,” Eddyville Tribune newspaper, Eddyville, IA, Friday, April 1, 1904, p.8 Hall, Willis L. Biographical Sketches of the Twenty-fifth General Assembly of Iowa, the State Officers and Iowa Members of Congress, Des Moines, Rowen Brothers: 1894:18-19. “Mary M. Miller.” Quarterly of the Iowa Library Commission, Oct. 1904: 63. Mary Miller photograph from Records of the Iowa Library Association, University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49686 <![CDATA[1894-1896, Laura C. Creighton]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1894-1896, Laura C. Creighton

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Laura C. Hudson was born August 1, 1850 in Hazelwood, Missouri, the daughter of Alexander McFarland Hudson and Sarah J. Young. Her father was a lawyer who helped the Union causes in Missouri and was assassinated during the Civil War in 1863. Laura became the first Postmistress at Lebanon, Missouri. In 1868 she married James H. Creighton who was also an attorney and Mayor of Springfield, Missouri. James and Laura had five children: Carl H., Abilena, Harold S., Hugh M., and Edwin J.. The family moved to Indianola, Iowa where Mr. Creighton had a law firm Creighton & Creighton. In 1891 they moved to Des Moines. Mrs. Creighton had been involved with the Woman’s Relief Corps and had been a delegate to their national conventions, member of their state executive council, and their department treasurer. She became the State Librarian from 1894 to 1896. During this time, their daughter, Abilena, married Shirley Christy in Des Moines and left for Phoenix, Arizona where Mr. Christy’s family were bankers. Laura and James followed and lived with the Christy family from 1900 on. James died in 1912. Laura Creighton moved to Los Angeles, California in 1930 and died at the home of her son, Hugh, on January 28, 1932 at age 81. Hall, Willis L. The Iowa Legislature of 1896; containing biographical sketches of the members of the twenty-sixth general assembly of Iowa, the state officers and members of congress, Des Moines. 1895: 24-25. The History of Warren County, Iowa, containing a history of the county, its cities, towns…Des Moines: Union Historical Company: 1879. 589-590. 1860 US. Federal Census, Town of Lebanon, Laclede County, MO, p.220, line 38, Alexander McF. Hudson household, (Online: Heritage Quest, 2008) . 1900 US Federal Census, Phoenix 1st Ward, Maricopa County, AZ, p.222, James Creighton household, (Online: Heritage Quest, 2008) “Creighton Rites Arranged Here.” The Arizona Republic newspaper. Feb 1, 1932: sec.2, p.6

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49687 <![CDATA[1896-1898, Lana Hixson Cope]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1896-1898, Lana Hixson Cope

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Sallania “Lana” H. Hixson was born on April 21, 1849 in Greene County, Ohio, one of eight children born to Dr. Oliver F. Hixson and Elizabeth Dawson. The family moved to Marshall County, Iowa by 1856 where her father was a doctor. Sallania married Samuel J. Cope on Feb. 9, 1868. They had two daughters: Jessie Elizabeth and Grace Elgie. Lana was active in temperance work, belonged to the Suffrage Society, Woman’s Relief Corps, and Daughters of the American Revolution. Lana Cope served as State Librarian from 1896 to 1898. The Traveling Library was established while she was Librarian. With her executive abilities, the library was managed with a “high standard of excellence.” Before 1900, Lana moved to Chicago, Illinois, then to Los Angeles, California by 1930 where she died on Jan. 14, 1943. Ferguson, Anne K. The Iowa Legislature of 1898; containing biographical sketches and portraits and members of the twenty-seventh general assembly of Iowa, and the state officers, including the judges of the Supreme Court, Des Moines: Conaway & Shaw. 1897. 22-23. 1850 US. Federal Census, Sugar Creek Township, Greene County, OH, p.106, line 4, Oliver F. Hickson household, (Online: AncestryLib.com) 1856 Iowa Census, Town of Marietta, Marshall County, Marietta p.36, Oliver F. Hixon household, (Online: AncestryLib.com) Marshall County Iowa Early Marriage Records, July 27, 1850 – July 1, 1880, Marshalltown, IA: Iowa Genealogical Society, p.145 1900 US. Federal Census, Chicago 3rd ward, IL, ED 66, sheet 5, Lena H. Cope household, (Online: Heritage Quest, 2008) Death of Lana Hixson Cope. California Death Index, 1940-1997. (Online: AncestryLibrary.com)

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49685 <![CDATA[1898-1936, Johnson Brigham]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1898-1936, Johnson Brigham

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Johnson Brigham was born on March 11, 1846 in Cherry Valley, New York, the son of Phineas Brigham and Eliza Johnson. In 1875 he married Antoinette Gano and they had one daughter, Anna. He began work as a newspaper editor and publisher in New York and later at the Cedar Rapids Republican, Cedar Rapids, Iowa from 1881-1893. He was a noted Iowa author and historian, and founder and editor of the Midwest Monthly Literary Magazine. Johnson Brigham was the first recipient of the Iowa Library Association award for the most outstanding piece of literature written during the past year by an Iowa author. This award was later named the Johnson Brigham Plaque as a memorial to his life and service. Brigham served as State Librarian for 38 years. It was he who wrote a “Pioneer History of the Territorial and State Library of Iowa” in the Oct. 1912 issue of Annals of Iowa, one of few sources on this subject. He served as the Iowa Library Association President in 1903 and 1927. Johnson Brigham died while serving as State Librarian at the age of 90 on Oct. 9, 1936. The structure of the State Library during his tenure included the Law, Historical, and Miscellaneous Department (changed to the General Library in 1910). Other departments added under his administration were the Legislative Reference Bureau (later called the Economics & Sociology Department) and the Medical Department. The Library Commission included the board of Library Extension, the Bureau of Library Information for the libraries of the state, and the Traveling Library. Highlights of his career included the following: 1898 – Initiated cataloging of the Miscellaneous collection using the Dewey Decimal System. 1900- Library Commission was formed as a separate agency. It took responsibility for the Traveling Library (which began in 1896). Its “object” [or mission statement] was “To aid in the establishment and development of free and other public libraries in the state of Iowa”. Mr. Brigham, as State Librarian, also served as the Chair of the Commission. 1900- The Consolidation Act of 1900 added the Historical Department to the State Library in anticipation of relocation of the Miscellaneous Department to the newly built Historical Building (then just the west wing). 1907 – The Legislative Reference Bureau was added to the Law Department. This evolved over the years into the Economics & Sciology Department in 1924 and moved into the General Library. 1908- The Miscellaneous Department and Library Commission moved into the newly completed east wing of the Historical Building. In Mr. Brigham’s own words, “The removal [from the Capitol Building] and shelving of about fifty thousand books was accomplished within a single week, and without confusion. In fact there was no time during the process when an assistant [a librarian] was unable to hand out any book called for.” [Report of the State Librarian 1908, p. 1] Mr. Brigham took as his office the room on the first floor, now names the Johnson Brigham Conference Room. 1910 – Progress had been made, but there were still no elevators installed in the shafts provided. “A very large proportion of the visitors fell mentally unwilling or physically unable to visit the basement or the third floor….Many even stop short of the portrait gallery and the library on the second floor, because of the hard climb.” 1910 – An average of 1,000 people per month consulted the State Library over the last 2 years. “The daily stream of visitors and sight-seers passing through the library has not been included” in that count. 1914 – Progress toward Mr. Brigham’s long-desired dream of creating a Medical Department began to take form. While working with the Iowa Medical Society and the Polk County Medical Society toward this new departmet, Drake University’s Medical School, as a result of its closing, turned over to the State Library a collection numbering about 1,400 works. Those, along with those already in the library, made a strong nucleus for the proposed department. Mr. Brihham proposed the legislative creation of a formal Medical Department within the State library, headed by “a medical librarian who should have an education in medicine and surgery”, as well as “more or less familiar with library science.” This idea of Mr. Brigham’s was funique among state libraries, with a keen interest by other states in “the Iowa idea”. 1916 - “In anticipation of the creation of a Medical Department, the Library Board set apart as the nucleus of the proposed medical library a room on the second floor of the Historical building opening into the General Library.” Steel bookstack were installed in that room. Mr. Brigham felt “What the Surgeon-General’s Library and the John Crerar Library are able, within reasonable limitations, to do for the practitioners of the country, the State Library of Iowa should be able to do for the physicians and surgeons of Iowa.” 1918 – The first of many peas were made to oincrease the salaries of State Library Staff – all librarians – to an acceptable level. Salaries being received were compared to those of custodial staff. 1919 – The library, in anticipation of the creation of the Medical Department, acquired a photstat – “This machine conveniently arranged for photographing book pages, is now at my disposal.” A medical librarian was hired October 1, 1920 – Miss Margaret Brinton, Medical Librarian of Yale University library to begin “responding to calls for assistance in the way of information mfrom members and students of the medical profession.” 1920 – The State Library began providing materials on interlibrary loan to patrons across the state. It was “the aim of the librarian [Mr. Brigham] to make the General Library useful to the citizens of Iowa regardless of the distance from the library center.” 1921 – The 38th General Assembly passed legislation officially creating the Medical Department of the State Library. “Instead of sheving thousands of books as receptacles for the dust of future years, it is becoming more and more a working library to which the profession of the state can come…Its shelves are open also to students of medicine and surgery.” 1926 – The State Library continued to grow, thrive, and evolve to the point where space was becoming a problem. Mr. Brigham states, “The necessity of more room in all four departments of the State Library becomes more pressing with every installment of new books. In the Law and Legislative Reference Department, many permanently valuable books are of necessity, piled upon the upper floors. In the General Library every available space is filled. The growth of the Medical Library long since overflowed the shelf-room in the room assigned to the department, and medical works are crowding more and more the space on the second floor of the Historical Building, compelling the removal of books of the General Library from shelves to tables and the floor.” From that point until his death, Mr. Brigham lobbied for, and counted on, the constructions of the Temple of Justice, “the first floor of which provides space for a reassembling of the several departments of the State Library in the same building, and upon a single floor.” The Temple of Justice was never building. Neither was the Hall of Archives added to the Historical Building as originally planned. Wetteland, Annette, Brochure entitled “Johnson Brigham,” State Library of Iowa, 2007 “Johnson Brigham” Palimpsest, Aug

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49688 <![CDATA[1937-1938, John D. Denison]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1937-1938, John D. Denison

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John D. Denison was born at Clarion, Iowa, September 29, 1872, the son of John D. Denison and Triphena Gorton. John was raised on a farm. He graduated from Clarion High School in 1889, and Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, in 1893. John was principal of a high school in Kansas for three years and then entered the law department of the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1898. He returned to Clarion to practice law. In 1905 Mr. Denison moved to Dubuque becoming Assistant County Attorney from 1907-1910, then moved to Des Moines, Iowa in 1915 to continue practicing law. Mr. Denison married Maude Lulu Clark in 1900 and had one son, John D. Jr.. Lulu died in Nov. 1916 and John remarried in 1918 to Nannie “Nancy” (McDaniel) Dewey, who had one son, Gordon Dewey. John Denison began his duties as State Librarian on February 15, 1937 serving through 1938. Drennen, Lester W., ed. “Biographies Elective State Officials.” State of Iowa Official Register 1937-1938, Des Moines: State of Iowa, 1938.131-132. Harlan, Edgar R. A Narrative History of the People of Iowa, with special treatment of their chief enterprises in education, religion, valor… Chicago, American Historical Society, 1931: 53-54

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49696 <![CDATA[1939-1956, Blanche A. Smith]]> 2014-11-25T07:58:22+00:00

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1939-1956, Blanche A. Smith

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Blanche Annette Smith was born in Monroe, Iowa, on Aug. 26, 1887, the daughter of Otis E. Smith and Annie Slusser. She attended schools in Des Moines, Shenandoah, and Indianola, Iowa, graduating from Simpson College in 1908. Blanche taught at the Indianola High School, was teacher-librarian at Loveland, Colorado high school from 1914 to 1917 and an Assistant in the Fort Des Moines Hospital Library from 1914-1918. She was a Library Assistant at the Omaha Public Library in Nebraska from 1918-1920. Blanche was also an assistant at the Des Moines Public Library, head of the Extension Division in a Washington, DC Public Library, Assistant Librarian at Cleveland College, and Assistant Professor at Wisconsin Library School. She was appointed Executive Secretary of the Iowa Library Commission in 1938 and became the State Librarian in 1939. Blanche A. Smith died in December 1979 in Des Moines, Iowa. Brown, David K. ed. “State Traveling Library.” State of Iowa Official Register 1939-1940. Des Moines: State of Iowa. 1940.126-127. “Smith, Blanche A(nnette),” Who’s Who in the Midwest. Chicago: A.N. Marquis Company. 1949: 1153. Social Security Administration, “Social Security Death Index,” (Online: Rootsweb.com, 2008) &lt;http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi&gt; for reference to Blanche A. Smith. “Blanche Smith Dies at Wesley Acres,” Indianola Record Herald newspaper, Monday, Dec. 10, 1979, p.4

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http://www.iowaheritage.org/items/show/49704 <![CDATA[1957-1970, Ernestine Grafton]]> 2023-10-23T20:28:45+00:00

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1957-1970, Ernestine Grafton

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Ernestine Grafton was born in Hubbard City, Texas on Jan. 17, 1913, the daughter of Louis D. Grafton and Connie Newton. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity University, Waxahachie, Texas in 1933, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Library Science from the University of Oklahoma in 1934, and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1940. Ernestine was School Librarian in Port Arthur, Texas from 1934-35, Reference Assistant in the Cincinnati Public Library, Ohio from 1936-1941, Tri-County Librarian in North Carolina from 1941-1944, and State Extension Librarian at the Virginia State Library from 1945-1957. Miss Grafton became the first director appointed by the new State Traveling Library Board in July 1957. Ernestine died on August 2, 2000 in New York City. Needham, Sherman W. ed. “Iowa State Traveling Library.” Iowa Official Register 1957-58, Des Moines: State of Iowa, 1958.173. “Grafton, C(onnie) Ernestine.” Who’s Who in the Midwest 1963-1964, 8th ed. Chicago: Marquis Publications Co., 1964: 341. Social Security Administration, “Social Security Death Index,” (Online: Rootsweb.com, 2008) &lt;http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi&gt; for reference to Ernestine Grafton.

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