| Date Span: | 1937-1996 |
| Creator: | Ford, Cassie Thompson (1889-1966) |
| Extent: | 8.00 items. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0245 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | Homemaker who farmed with her husband near Central City, Iowa. |
Cassandra R. Thompson Ford, known as Cassie, was born on September 8, 1889 in Wisconsin. She went west to teach school after completing the Normal School Training Course at the Richland Center (Wisconsin) High School. She met her future husband, Charles "Manly" Ford, in Wyoming, and they were married in 1914 in Stanton, Iowa. They lived on a farm just northeast of Central City, Iowa.
Ford and her husband lived on this small farm for 44 years raising cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, and chickens. Ford gardened, canned, cooked, and sewed for her family in addition to teaching Sunday School and working with the Ladies' Aid.
Alternate Extent Statement: Photographs in folder 1.
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright has been transferred to the University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 342) were donated by Pauline Ritter in 1996.
Preferred Citation: Cassie Thompson Ford papers, Iowa Women's Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City.
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Address: | 100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
| Phone: | 319-335-5068 |
| Curator: | Kären Mason |
| Email: | lib-women@uiowa.edu |
| Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa |
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