In 1919, Iowa-based writer Woodworth Clum was touring the state as director of the Greater…
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American novelist Edna Ferber, who was originally from Kalamazoo, Michigan, moved with her family to…
American astronaut Peggy Whitson was born in south central Iowa, in Ringgold County, and attended…
In 1938, George McGrew, a pianist and dance-band leader, was living in Hampton, Iowa, when…
Franc Johnson Newcomb (née Frances Johnson) was born in 1887 near Tomah, Wisconsin. Her father…
Iowa-born Wild West showman William Frederick Cody, famously known as Buffalo Bill, was fortunate not…
A few years ago, while lecturing in Sydney, Australia, I was not at all surprised…