Gertrude Black La Due and family papers. 1900-1911, 1929-1930.

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Gertrude Black La Due and family papers. 1900-1911, 1929-1930.

Diaries of a rural Minnesota teacher, Methodist preacher, and wife and correspondence from her daughter, Mildred La Due Mead.

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Black family.

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La Due family.

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La Due, Gertrude.

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Gertrude May Black was born January 17th, 1882 near Sioux Falls, South Dakota. As a child she moved with her parents, Caroline and John Wesley Black to Minnesota, eventually settling near the southeastern Marshall County town of Grygla, where they farmed. Gertrude became a schoolteacher and taught at a number of rural schools around northwestern Minnesota. Gertrude was a religious person all her life. She experienced conversion as a child and soon became active in the Fr...

Mead, Sidney Earl, 1904-

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Professor of history and religion at the University of Iowa. From the description of Oral history interview with Sidney E. Mead, 1976 Aug. 20. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233107259 ...

Mead, Mildred La Due.

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Free Methodist Church of North America

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The Free Methodist denomination was founded in 1860. Congregations that were expelled from the Methodist Episcopal Church in western New York state and Illinois comprised its first adherents. Early leaders include B.T. Roberts, Loren Stiles, Walter Sellew, John Wesley Redfield and Wilson T. Hogue. Theologically, the denomination is part of the Wesleyan tradition and was an early player in the Holiness Movement that swept through the United States in the later part of the 19th centur...