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Guide to the Mildred Fox Everett papers

Collection Overview
Date Span:1905-1908
Creator:Everett, Mildred Fox
Extent:4.00 items.
Collection Number:IWA0606
Repository:Iowa Women's Archives
Summary:Iowa native who became a homesteader in South Dakota, and later returned to Iowa to raise her five children on a farm.

Mildred Fox was originally from Iowa. From 1905 to 1908, she was a homesteader in South Dakota. She lived in a small, eight by ten foot shack and taught at a public school for two years while she was there. After three years in South Dakota, Fox returned to Iowa, married into the Everett family, and lived on a farm where she raised her five children.

The Mildred Fox Everett papers date from 1905 to 1908 and consist of 4 items. Included are one letter from the Fort Pierre, South Dakota, school board offering Fox a teaching job; a copy of a lease; a typed interview between Fox and her daughter and son-in-law, Alice and Vyron Truog; and a map of Stanley County, South Dakota, where Fox lived. The lease by which Fox rented out her land when she left South Dakota in 1908 is a photocopy of the original. The interview (undated) details Fox's life as a homesteader and a teacher in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. Nothing here documents her life after she married.

Arrangement: One folder, shelved in SCVF.

Access: The papers are open for research.

Use:

Acquisition: The papers (donor no. 143) were donated by Esther Everett in 1993.

Preferred Citation: Mildred Fox Everett 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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Series 1: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

  • Series 1: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
  • General - 1905-1908