| Date Span: | 1956-2000 |
| Creator: | Mowry, E. Virginia (1909-1989) |
| Extent: | 3.00 linear inches. |
| Collection Number: | IWA0345 |
| Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
| Summary: | Newton, Iowa teacher who later worked as an adminstrative assistant to James Cash Penney of J. C. Penney Company. |
E. Virginia Mowry was born in Newton, Iowa on November 9, 1909 to Ross R. and Mary Edith Mathews Mowry. She graduated from Newton High School in 1927 and the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) in 1931 before receiving a Master's degree from Columbia University.
Mowry taught at schools in Knoxville, Iowa and Newton, Iowa, as well as New York and Connecticut before joining Bell Telephone Company in 1946 as a personnel administrator. In 1967, she joined the J.C. Penney Company as an administrative assistant to James Cash Penney. While there, Mowry established the company's archives as well as the J.C. Penney Memorial Museum and Library in Hamilton, Missouri.
Alternate Extent Statement: Photographs in box 1.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.
Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 473) were donated by Gertrude Spaulding in 1997 and 2000.
Preferred Citation: E. Virginia Mowry 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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