Ottumwa Yesterday and Today
Author : Harry B. Munsell
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Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Author : Harry B. Munsell
Publisher :
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Author : Iowa Christian Endeavor Union
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 19,37 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Author : Gilbert McConnell
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2008-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0595473105
At this point in my life, I decided to put life's memories together for my family. In 1922, I was born on a farm in the southwest corner of Mahaska County, Iowa. I am now 85 years old and have lived the BEST life! With this book I hope I can pass along some of the highlights of these 85 years! In my mind, all of it has been fun! World War II entered my life in December of 1942. After 30 hours of pilot training I washed out and went to airplane mechanics school in Biloxi, Mississippi. Out of the War in February of '46, on a Friday. Bought a restaurant on Saturday and went to work on Monday-my life has centered around it ever since. I met my wife of 56 years in 1950. Dorene and I had 4 great children and she has a great business sense. Along the way I was in numerous sidelines (wholesale route, bottling works, grocery store, Joe's Short Order in the Chicago Loop). All the way from Bussey, Iowa to Indianola, it's been great. I hope my family and friends will enjoy this story of my life.
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
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Category : Ottumwa (Iowa)
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Author : Leigh Michaels
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
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Businesses, restaurants, hangouts, entertainment, stores, events and people -- memories of a bustling Iowa city in the 20th century. Memories which are now gone... but are never to be forgotten.
Author : Ottumwa Blank Book Company, Ottumwa, Ia
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 27,47 MB
Release : 1889
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Author : Phillip Applebaum
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 34,90 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Detroit (Mich.)
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Author : Bruce L. Mouser
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2011-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299249131
More than one hundred years before Barack Obama, George Edwin Taylor made presidential history. Born in the antebellum South to a slave and a freed woman, Taylor became the first African American ticketed as a political party’s nominee for president of the United States, running against Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. Orphaned as a child at the peak of the Civil War, Taylor spent several years homeless before boarding a Mississippi riverboat that dropped him in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Taken in by an African American farm family, Taylor attended a private school and eventually rose to prominence as the owner/editor of a labor newspaper and as a vocal leader in Wisconsin’s People’s Party. At a time when many African Americans felt allegiance to the Republican Party for its support of abolition, Taylor’s sympathy with the labor cause drew him first to the national Democratic Party and then to an African American party, the newly formed National Liberty Party, which in 1904 named him its presidential candidate. Bruce L. Mouser follows Taylor’s life and career in Arkansas, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Florida, giving life to a figure representing a generation of African American idealists whose initial post-slavery belief in political and social equality in America gave way to the despair of the Jim Crow decades that followed. Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for Professional Use, selected by the American Association for School Libraries Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association Second Place, Biography, Society of Midland Authors Honorable Mention, Benjamin F. Shambough Award, the State Historical Society of Iowa
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Page : 516 pages
File Size : 10,22 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Iowa
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