Charles Edmund Pendleton papers, 1895-1976.

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Charles Edmund Pendleton papers, 1895-1976.

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This collection consists of four memoirs and a mystery novel which Pendleton began writing in the 1940s. The accounts cover his life from 1895 to 1945, with a few references to events between 1945 and 1976. The writings are interesting for their detailed descriptions and the insights they provide into small-town Iowa life, especially before 1920. The reminiscences include references to prohibition and the Ku Klux Klan in Iowa. Titles in the collection include: Autobiography of Charles Edmund Pendleton; Lawyer's Sign, or Justice is the Best Lawyer; Peoples' Pendleton, or Crime Cases; Wild Horse-Radish and Crocuses; Many War and Living Fronts, or, Confessions of a Lawyer; and Poison Draught, or, Attorney at Mystery (fiction).

2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

Pendleton, Charles Edmund, 1890-1983.

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Charles Edmund Pendleton was born in Ossian, Iowa in 1890. The family moved to Storm Lake where Charles graduated from Storm Lake High School. He attended Commercial College of Buena Vista and in 1917 he took a position as a clerk for the War Department in Washington, D.C. During his tenure in Washington he attended law school. In 1920 he returned to Iowa to begin his career as a lawyer in Sioux Rapids. He served for 2 years as the mayor of Sioux Rapids before being elected county attorney of Bu...