Emmons, Sara Hodgin papers, 1870-1974.

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Emmons, Sara Hodgin papers, 1870-1974.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48246039

Scrapbooks kept by an Iowa teacher with clippings on Whittier, Iowa and other Quaker communities including West Branch. Also contains obituaries for family members and local residents; biographical sketches of Sara and her sister Anna B. Hodgin. Includes diary of Sara's father Wilson Hodgin for the year 1878. There are also two folders of Hodgin family photographs, with an early ambrotype of Joel Bean at a Springdale buggy shop.

1 linear ft. (1 archives box and 3 v.)

Iowa State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7592113

Iowa State Historical Society

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Emmons, Sara Hodgin, 1889-1981.

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Sara Hodgin Emmons was a teacher in Whittier, Iowa who compiled a series of scrapbooks from 1930 to 1974. The scrapbooks document local history and events in the lives of people in Sara's community. Wilson Hodgin, Sara's father, kept a diary in 1878 that described his trip across Iowa to look at farm sites in Kansas. From the description of Emmons, Sara Hodgin papers, 1870-1974. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 48246039 ...

Bean, Joel, 1825-1914

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Joel Bean and his wife, Hannah Elliott Bean, were prominent Quaker ministers in Iowa Yearly Meeting. They moved to San Jose, California, in 1882, but were disowned by evangelical Friends in 1898. Born in Alton, New Hampshire, in 1825, the son of John and Elizabeth Hill Bean, Joel Bean was educated at Friends Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island. He migrated to Iowa in 1853, and taught school at West Branch, Iowa from 1850 to 1861. In 1859, he married Hannah Elliot...

Hodgin, Wilson, ca. 1840-1908

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