| Date Span: | 1919-1978 |
| Creator: | Ferguson, Gladys Miller (1881-1976) |
| Extent: | 6.00 items. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0316 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | Teacher and high school girls basketball coach from Mechanicsville, Iowa. |
Gladys Miller was raised in Mechanicsville, Iowa, where she graduated from high school in 1910. She graduated from Drake University in 1915 and taught school in Rockwell City and Spencer, Iowa. During this time, from 1917-1919, Miller coached the Rockwell City High School girls' basketball team. Miller married Everett Ferguson in 1920. They had four children and lived on a farm in Cedar County, Iowa. Ferguson ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for State Representative from Cedar County in 1942. She was actively involved with the Mechanicsville Public Library for more than twenty years.
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. 432) were donated by Barbara O. Wallick in 1997.
Preferred Citation: Gladys Miller Ferguson 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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