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.

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Diaries kept by Gertrude Black La Due describing her childhood, her work as a rural school teacher and minister, her courtship and marriage to Samuel La Due, her first pregnancy, and the birth of daughter Mildred; and letters written by Mildred in the year following her elopement with Sidney Mead, describing the couple's adventures after hitchhiking to California.

0.8 cu. ft. (2 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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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 ...

La Due, Gertrude.

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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...

Mead, Mildred La Due.

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Black family.

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La Due family.

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