Date Span: | 1986 |
Creator: | Van Haaften, Mabel Korver (1901-1989) |
Extent: | 1.00 linear inch. |
Collection Number: | IWA0409 |
Repository: | Iowa Women's Archives |
Summary: | Dutch-American farmwoman in early nineteenth century Iowa. |
Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.
Access: The papers are open for research.
Use: Copyright has been retained by the donor.
Acquisition: Thereminiscence (donor no. 586) was donatedby June Van Haaften, in 1999.
Preferred Citation: Mabel Korver Van Haaften memoir, 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 |
Mabel Korver was born to Dutch immigrant parents in 1901 and raised on a farm near Leighton, Iowa with her three sisters. Her parents rented farms until 1919, when they bought a farm that they then lived on for more than twenty years. Mabel Korver married Arie Van Haaften in 1928; they raised four children and farmed near Leighton, retiring to that town in 1964.
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