Oral history interview with Auguste Katherine Heiden , 1978 July 3.

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Oral history interview with Auguste Katherine Heiden , 1978 July 3.

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Auguste Heiden reminisces about her life as a translator, book-keeper, secretary and farm wife. She describes family members and relationships, her fondness for raising chickens and making cheese, the acquisition of the farm, the Lutheran Church, the responsibilities associated with land ownership, her immigration from England in 1915, and her preparation of a will. Holograph transcript is incomplete. Also included is a typed transcription of records from a Heiden family bible and a photocopy of part of the original deed to the Heiden farm.

Transcript: 26 p.Sound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

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"Folklife in Rural Iowa" was an oral history project conducted in the summer of 1978 and funded by Earthwatch, a national organization encouraging public participation in field research. Interviewers worked in 2 teams under the direction of field director Rebecca Conard and assistant field director Michael Mendelson. Peter Harstad, director of the State Historical Society of Iowa, served as the project's principal investigator. From the description of Oral history interviews of the E...

Heiden family.

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Conard, Rebecca

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Heiden, Auguste Katherine, b. 1897,

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