Manuscripts

Journal No. 1. Strawberry Point, Iowa. (1859, Dec. 6 - 1860, Apr. 13) and Manchester, Iowa (1862, Apr. 4-7)

Description: Journal fills half of a notebook. Recorded topics include: life in Strawberry Point, Iowa: teaching district school; meetings at Methodist Church; Temperance lecture; Courting Melissa and troubles at school. (ff. 1-26); Camp at Manchester, Iowa; and a few miscellaneous accounting entries, 1874.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1859-1862, 1874
Call number: mssBakeroe
Creator: Baker, Obadiah Ethelbert (1838-1923)(Opens in new tab)
Additional description: Also discussed are family news, business and financial affairs; Baker's teaching experience and his brother's trip to California in 1876.
Provenance: Purchased at Argonaut Book Shop, July 1966.
Associated people: Baker, Melissa Dalton, (1844-1918.)
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