I remember getting my shot in kindergarten. We all lined up along the hallway and went into the first grade room, one by one. I went in, got my shot and came back out, walking past my classmates. Someone asked me, "How was it"? I stopped to say it was no problem at all.....and then promptly fainted dead away! BTW, I read an article a while back that might explain why 3 of my 62 classmates were hospitalized in the mid-50's for polio-like symptoms and why 3 others now have MS. The article said that when the vaccine was sent out, they were 225,000 doses (or some such number) short of having enough. So they sent placebo or lower-dose doses to the schools in rural areas of SD, NE, IA and ND, thinking that those children never went anywhere much and probably would never come into contact with the virus. Hmmmm!

My cousin-in-law (now 60) was fired from teaching (Catholic school) once it became apparent she was pregnant at the time of her wedding. I'm not a teacher, but I remember wearing (in 1969) white gloves while interviewing for office work - knowing that if my diamond were seen I wouldn't get hired. I got the job, got married, but a year later, they suspected I was pregnant (they did this to all the women) so they put me filing 8 hours a day in hopes I would quit. It worked. Ellen -----Original Message----- From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sharon Becker Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 4:51 PM To: iowa@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. Karen, in all the transcriptions I've done, male teachers did marry, have a family, and still taught school after they married. Reading between the lines and making assumptions, it was believed that a teacher should be totally dedicated and direct his/her entire focus to the profession. Evidently (remember the mindset of society at this time), it was believed that women could not divide her dedication and focus between a career AND a family. Guess our ancestors didn't recognize a woman's multi-tasking skills? To carry this thought one step further, remember the old saying? "Man's work is from sun to sun. Woman's work is never done." Which was totally true during this era. At the same time [1880's-1890's), some women were recognized as spiritual leaders with some of the little country churches. Some of tour ancestors were descendants of Quakers who have historically recognized women within their congregations. In some of Ringgold County's obituaries, which I've been transcribing, Sister Zike worked tirelessly in rivial meetings. She also officiated at many funerals. "Sister ZIKES (sic) lending a helping hand in singing and prayer." "The funeral services were conducted by Mr. THARP and Sister ZIKE at the M. E. church at Benton. . ." As far as I can tell, Sister Zike was a spinster. Many a Ringgold County resident credited Sister Zike's role in their conversion to Christianity. Sister Zike's name has been mentioned with not only the Methodist Episcopal churches in the county, but with the Baptist Churches, too. Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator srbecker@iowatelecom.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Conroy" <karen.conroy@virgin.net> To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; "Linda Ziemann" <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> Cc: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > Did the contracts say men couldn't marry as well? Karen _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Jeanne, It was not only in Iowa but it also was true in Nebraska. My sister-in-law was a teacher in Fremont, Nebraska and they were not allowed to marry or would lose their jobs. The male teachers could get married as long as the wife was not a teacher. The reasoning was that the male teachers were the bread winners and if a woman teacher got married she was taking away a job from a male teacher. Some teachers did get married but could not live together as man and wife. Just dated but no marriage or so the school board thought. They better not get pregnant or that would bring dismissal, as well. That meant they had to go out of Nebraska to get married. Not sure where they went but it was not close where the School Board might get wind of it. This was well into the 1930s as I started going with her sister in 1933 and it was a rule then. Tom Powell In a message dated 3/6/2009 2:55:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, iowa-request@rootsweb.com writes: Does anyone know the reasoning behind preventing teachers from marrying? Was it just women? What about male teachers? Could they be married? This explains why my mother left her much loved teaching job when she married my dad in 1916. She taught briefly at a school called (I think) "Tom Benton School" which was probably in or near Mahaska County. It was a small (typical for the time) country school that she remembered and talked about all her life. She felt that teaching was her true calling in life, but was never able to return to it. I remember asking her why she quit teaching and she said, "I got married!" as if that explained it completely. I just assumed she chose to stay home and be a housewife. Jeanne **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

My mother had many memories of her teaching days at the Tom Benton school. She fondly remembered the students and the joy of teaching. But her other memories were mostly of how cold it was. Cold in the home where she boarded, the outhouses outside the school, but most of all in the school itself. There was the usual pot bellied stove that she had to get started in the mornings and tend throughout the day. The seats in the school were arranged (and nailed to the floor)in rows that went from front to back. Students near the back were freezing while those in front were too warm. She decided it would make more sense and keep all the students more comfortable if the seats were arranged in a semi-circle around the stove. So she enlisted the help of the larger boys and moved the seats into a semi-circle. When she got back to school the following Monday morning, to her dismay, the seats had been torn up again and nailed back into the original rows. A member of the "school board" to! ld her that the seats were never to be moved again. I don't know why they objected -- perhaps it wasn't "traditional." Or maybe it was because she hadn't asked for permission. In any case, my dad proposed to her about that time so her teaching career would have ended anyway. Jeanne

Does the not marry just apply to one room schools ,or to any size Iowa School? My grandma rode a horse to school. to a one room school? , **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)

I started school in 1939 at Hansell, (Franklin County) Iowa. Our school was one of the early "Consolidated Districts", combining several one-room rural schools in Ingham and West Fork townships into one school with K - 6 Elementary, 7 - 8 Junior High and 9 - 12 High School. My Dad was born in 1901, and had attended the country school at the corner about three-quarters of a mile east of their farm. When the new school opened in Hansell just after the end of WW I, he was allowed to enroll in the high school, graduating with the class of 1921 at the age of 20. My Kindergarten teacher's name was Mrs. Mildred Young, and she had a daughter who was several years older than I, so the "Rule" apparently did not apply in our district. Single ladies (including teachers) rented rooms from Mrs. Jones. Ella kept an eye on her "girls", with plenty of eager assistance from the neighbor ladies. I don't recall that this had any particular effect on their behavior. Don Woodley RAOGK for Bremer, Butler, Floyd and Franklin Counties in Iowa. Researching Woodley, Butler, Ayers, Trindle, Cornford, Relf, Lingenfelter and others as time permits.

Karen, in all the transcriptions I've done, male teachers did marry, have a family, and still taught school after they married. Reading between the lines and making assumptions, it was believed that a teacher should be totally dedicated and direct his/her entire focus to the profession. Evidently (remember the mindset of society at this time), it was believed that women could not divide her dedication and focus between a career AND a family. Guess our ancestors didn't recognize a woman's multi-tasking skills? To carry this thought one step further, remember the old saying? "Man's work is from sun to sun. Woman's work is never done." Which was totally true during this era. At the same time [1880's-1890's), some women were recognized as spiritual leaders with some of the little country churches. Some of tour ancestors were descendants of Quakers who have historically recognized women within their congregations. In some of Ringgold County's obituaries, which I've been transcribing, Sister Zike worked tirelessly in rivial meetings. She also officiated at many funerals. "Sister ZIKES (sic) lending a helping hand in singing and prayer." "The funeral services were conducted by Mr. THARP and Sister ZIKE at the M. E. church at Benton. . ." As far as I can tell, Sister Zike was a spinster. Many a Ringgold County resident credited Sister Zike's role in their conversion to Christianity. Sister Zike's name has been mentioned with not only the Methodist Episcopal churches in the county, but with the Baptist Churches, too. Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator srbecker@iowatelecom.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Conroy" <karen.conroy@virgin.net> To: "donkelly" <ocollaugh@comcast.net>; "Linda Ziemann" <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> Cc: <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > Did the contracts say men couldn't marry as well? Karen

Hi Everyone, I wish you were all in Iowa. Just last night Iowa Public Television ran a program on Iowa's old one room school houses. Among other things they discussed the fact that female teachers were not allowed to marry - while that rule did not apply to male teachers. They showed interviews with former students of one room school houses and even a few former teachers. One of the former teachers mentions that she had a friend (another female teacher) who kept her marriage a secret for 3 years! I'm not going to cite dates here, but basically the schools were owned and run by the counties - and even by individual farm families who may have joined together to build a school. The state did not have "jurisdiction" over the curriculum, the attendance requirements, or the employment of teachers. These were mostly all K-8 schools, but in order to graduate the eight grade the students had to take a "State of Iowa" examination. (BTW: I wonder if many of us could pass that same exam? I doubt I could.) The one room school houses were still being used in many counties into the early 1960's - when the state declared that all schools must form districts and fall under state oversights,etc. Also, Jeanne, I am almost certain that one of the schools they showed on the program was the "Tom Benton School.' I noted that because the building had the name prominently above the door, and I didn't recall seeing other buildings with names, maybe just numbers. Anyway, here is a link to the IPTV site with the program on the One Room Schools Houses", it also has videos, but for some reason I can't get them to run on my computer. http://www.iptv.org/series.cfm/20103/iowas_oneroom_schoolhouses Blessings, Kate ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeanne Surber" <surberj@earthlink.net> To: "Iowa" <IOWA@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:22 PM Subject: [IOWA] Why couldn't teachers marry? > > Does anyone know the reasoning behind preventing teachers from marrying? > Was it just women? What about male teachers? Could they be married? > > This explains why my mother left her much loved teaching job when she > married my dad in 1916. She taught briefly at a school called (I think) > "Tom Benton School" which was probably in or near Mahaska County. It was a > small (typical for the time) country school that she remembered and talked > about all her life. She felt that teaching was her true calling in life, > but was never able to return to it. I remember asking her why she quit > teaching and she said, "I got married!" as if that explained it > completely. I just assumed she chose to stay home and be a housewife. > > Jeanne > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.0.237 / Virus Database: 270.11.8/1987 - Release Date: 03/06/09 07:20:00

In light of the recent discussion about teachers, here's a list of rules for teachers in 1872 which I have post on Ringgold County's IAGenWeb site: http://iagenweb.net/ringgold/schools/sch-1872rules.html Note Rule #6: Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed. IPTV aired their program "One-Room School Houses" last night during their Festival week. It is out on dvd but I'm not sure if it is available for sale to the general public yet. It is an endearing program and well worth your time to watch it. It may repeat this weekend during "Festival Favorites" particularly since it is an Iowa production. Another program IPTV aired this week is "Picture Perfect - Iowa in the 1940's" and is a wonder trip down memory lane. The teacher for Foland School in Decatur County "roomed" with my grandparents. My grandfather was in charge of the school and they lived just up the road from the school. In my grandmother's photo albums are photographs of my grandfather taking a litter of puppies down to the school to play with the students. I have posted 1895's final exam for high school seniors on Ringgold County's website. Could you pass this exam? http://iagenweb.net/ringgold/schools/sch-1895hsfinals.html My grandmother and great-aunt taught in country schools. They were required to attend 2 years at Normal school [Des Moines] to obtain their certifications. They were very much "in to" penmanship and we kids spent hours doing exercises they shared with us. However, rages of arthritis have destroyed my penmanship :~( My grandmother was very interested in geography and passed this along to us, her grandkids. Both of my great-great-grandfathers founded a county school where I grew up. With the closing of these schools, one was moved to Grand River and used as the band/chorus "room" and the other to Kellerton for the same purpose. So, as a kid, I spent time in both school houses as a member of the school band and chorus. With the closing of Grand Valley Community School (Decatur & Ringgold County), the Foland School (which became the band "room" in Kellerton) was moved from the school grounds and is now the town's museum. The Brick school was moved across the street and is now in the town's park, used as Grand River's town museum. As far as I know, these are the only 2 country schools in Decatur and Ringgold county that are still in public "use." Decatur County is undergoing a project to erect signs (with a picture of the school if one can be found) at the sites of where her county schools once stood. Clarke County has been involved in the same project for her schools. Sharon R. Becker Ringgold County IAGenWeb Coordinator srbecker@iowatelecom.net

My great grand aunt was a schoolteacher - one of her first schools was in a coal mining town that had run out several teachers before her term - she had 70 pupils of all ages. In 1890 she married before her local school term was finished, so each lived with their own parents. When she made out the final report cards, she signed them "Mrs. Frank McCalister". In that era, if a woman married, she wouldn't/couldn't be a teacher any longer.

Does anyone know the reasoning behind preventing teachers from marrying? Was it just women? What about male teachers? Could they be married? This explains why my mother left her much loved teaching job when she married my dad in 1916. She taught briefly at a school called (I think) "Tom Benton School" which was probably in or near Mahaska County. It was a small (typical for the time) country school that she remembered and talked about all her life. She felt that teaching was her true calling in life, but was never able to return to it. I remember asking her why she quit teaching and she said, "I got married!" as if that explained it completely. I just assumed she chose to stay home and be a housewife. Jeanne

I remembered something else that was an exception to this rule. There were schools for the Deaf and the Blind - they had an exception to this rule, they were allowed to marry each other because it was harder to recruit the teachers for these schools even all the way back to 1830s. If you look at the census in 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, there were many of them. David Samuelsen W. David Samuelsen wrote: > The women were subjected to such restrictions while the men were not > back in those days. Around 1890s the change began. > > David Samuelsen > > donkelly wrote: >> So the teaching contracts were intended that School Marms would remein School Marms? >> >> Yes, I agree that losing a teaching job to get married was a huge loss of education resources. >> >> I am glad their teaching contracts moved into the 20th century. >> >> donkelly >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Linda Ziemann <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> >> To: Scottsfamilytree@aol.com, IOWA@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:01:53 +0000 (UTC) >> Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. >> >> Great conversations we have going on the IOWA list.... >> >> I was told that early teachers could NOT marry anyone and keep their >> teaching job in IA. This policy did change sometime after 1930, thankfully. >> Many folks I know had mothers who taught....and once these ladies married >> they had to quit teaching. What a waste for that time, right? I have >> actually seen early contracts that were worded that the "contract would >> terminate" if the teacher married. >> >> My best to you all........ >> >> Linda Ziemann >> >> 718 Santa Cruz Dr. >> >> Keller, TX 76248 >> >> IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator >> >> http://iagenweb.org/ >> >> Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator >> >> http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html >> >> "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" >> >> N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home county) >> >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/ >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf >> Of Scottsfamilytree@aol.com >> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:43 AM >> To: IOWA@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. >> >> In 1910, my mothers parents were school teachers in Henry county. But there >> >> was a law that school teachers could not marry in Iowa. So they got married >> >> in Monmouth, Illinois. Scott >> **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy >> steps! >> (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=htt >> p:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID >> %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >> the subject and the body of the message >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

By wife's "Aunt Blythe" was a great-granddaughter of Jacob Alfrey, the first white child born in Van Buren County Iowa. She was a teacher in the Farmington, IA school system for fifty years at the time of her retirement. Born in 1902, her first marriage was kept secret because of the rule female teachers could not be married. Her husband died in 1935 in a coal mine explosion and she later married my wife's uncle Arlet Lamborn in 1944. When exactly her marriage became public, I don't know. Perhaps not until her second marriage in 1944. My own mother took normal training after high school graduation and taught in the country school system but didn't teach after she was married but I never knew if this had anything to do with any restriction by then. I suspect this rule had been lifted before she married in 1938. Rich Lowe *Iowa Gravestone Ph*oto Project http://iowagravestones.org On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Linda Ziemann <lin.ziemann@verizon.net>wrote: > Great conversations we have going on the IOWA list.... > > I was told that early teachers could NOT marry anyone and keep their > teaching job in IA. This policy did change sometime after 1930, > thankfully. > Many folks I know had mothers who taught....and once these ladies married > they had to quit teaching. What a waste for that time, right? I have > actually seen early contracts that were worded that the "contract would > terminate" if the teacher married. > > My best to you all........ > > Linda Ziemann > > 718 Santa Cruz Dr. > > Keller, TX 76248 > > IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator > > http://iagenweb.org/ > > Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator > > http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html > > "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" > > N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home county) > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Endmercer/> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf > Of Scottsfamilytree@aol.com > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:43 AM > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > > In 1910, my mothers parents were school teachers in Henry county. But there > > was a law that school teachers could not marry in Iowa. So they got married > > in Monmouth, Illinois. Scott > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps! > ( > http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=htt > p:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com > %2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID > %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Erichard/ialist/> > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/<http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Erichard/ialist/> > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Interesting discussion! I have some old teacher contracts (1875-1890) on the Allamakee co. website. The teacher's contracts start about 1/2 way down the page. The contracts for both male & female teachers don't mention marriage, but I suspect that for the females the clause: "..according to law and the rules legally established for the government there of" might have contained a no marriage statement. On a couple of the contracts is the phrase: "It is further agreed that in case there should be no money in the treasury at the end of the School month the teachers must wait until there is money to pay without interest." Yikes! http://www.sharylscabin.com/Allamakee/school/earlyNArecords.htm -Sharyl Ferrall, Chickaloon, Alaska

Great conversations we have going on the IOWA list.... I was told that early teachers could NOT marry anyone and keep their teaching job in IA. This policy did change sometime after 1930, thankfully. Many folks I know had mothers who taught....and once these ladies married they had to quit teaching. What a waste for that time, right? I have actually seen early contracts that were worded that the "contract would terminate" if the teacher married. My best to you all........ Linda Ziemann 718 Santa Cruz Dr. Keller, TX 76248 IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator http://iagenweb.org/ Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home county) http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/ -----Original Message----- From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Scottsfamilytree@aol.com Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:43 AM To: IOWA@rootsweb.com Subject: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. In 1910, my mothers parents were school teachers in Henry county. But there was a law that school teachers could not marry in Iowa. So they got married in Monmouth, Illinois. Scott **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=htt p:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The women were subjected to such restrictions while the men were not back in those days. Around 1890s the change began. David Samuelsen donkelly wrote: > So the teaching contracts were intended that School Marms would remein School Marms? > > Yes, I agree that losing a teaching job to get married was a huge loss of education resources. > > I am glad their teaching contracts moved into the 20th century. > > donkelly > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Linda Ziemann <lin.ziemann@verizon.net> > To: Scottsfamilytree@aol.com, IOWA@rootsweb.com > Sent: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 19:01:53 +0000 (UTC) > Subject: Re: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > > Great conversations we have going on the IOWA list.... > > I was told that early teachers could NOT marry anyone and keep their > teaching job in IA. This policy did change sometime after 1930, thankfully. > Many folks I know had mothers who taught....and once these ladies married > they had to quit teaching. What a waste for that time, right? I have > actually seen early contracts that were worded that the "contract would > terminate" if the teacher married. > > My best to you all........ > > Linda Ziemann > > 718 Santa Cruz Dr. > > Keller, TX 76248 > > IA GenWeb Plymouth, Monona, Sioux County Coordinator > > http://iagenweb.org/ > > Iowa Old Press IAGenWeb Special Project Co-Coordinator > > http://www.iowaoldpress.com/index.html > > "A Look Back at the Lives and Times of Our Ancestors" > > N.D. GenWeb, Mercer Co. Coordinator (My hubby's home county) > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndmercer/ > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:iowa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf > Of Scottsfamilytree@aol.com > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 8:43 AM > To: IOWA@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IOWA] School teachers can not marry each other. > > In 1910, my mothers parents were school teachers in Henry county. But there > > was a law that school teachers could not marry in Iowa. So they got married > > in Monmouth, Illinois. Scott > **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy > steps! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=htt > p:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID > %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62) > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

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I have a 1940 Who's Who in Iowa book with thousands of family and individual names if anyone wants a look up. It has a nice index and is sorted by County. Typically gives name, where born, occupation, who they married, parents' names, children, description of community activities. I have contributed the county indexes to many of the Rootsweb Iowa pages; did that a couple of years ago when the county coordinators asked me. Not all counties asked for it. Regards, Mona

I have several old, historical atlases that I bought years ago from farm auctions. The one for Pottawattamie County is fabulous with drawings of many farm homes. I also have a similar one for Harrison County. They're such a great tool to see where our ancestors lived. Mona ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Perera" <jperera_1999@yahoo.com> To: <iowa@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:53 AM Subject: [IOWA] Iowa Land Records The maps at U of I are wonderful. I particularly liked the digitized maps so I could find my ancestors farms. The Hixson Plat Book, 1930 http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_hixson.php?CISOROOT=/hixson has some very clear maps with very legible handwriting. I also found the Iowa Historic Atlases from the late 1800's to early 1900's http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_maps.php?CISOROOT=/maps very useful. Jean Perera _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IOWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

A Narrative History of The People of Iowa with SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY, BUSINESS, ETC. by EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M. Curator of the Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa Volume IV THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. Chicago and New York 1931 RT. REV. HENRY P. ROHLMAN, bishop of the Davenport Diocese, was brought to Iowa when two years of age, and in some measure, at least, the value of his services has been due to his long and intimate knowledge of the people of the Mississippi River Valley. Bishop Rohlman was born in Germany, March 17, 1876, and was but two years of age when his parents came to America and settled in Carroll County, Iowa. He was educated in the high school department of St. Lawrence College, at Mount Calvary, Wisconsin, attended Columbia College at Dubuque, graduating in 1898, and pursued his theological course in the Grand Seminary at Montreal, Canada. He was ordained to the priesthood December 21, 1901, at Montreal, and at once returned to Iowa and became assistant to St. Mary's Church in Dubuque. His labors in Dubuque made him one of the best loved priests of that community. After four years he was sent to the Catholic University of America at Washington, pursuing special sociological studies with a view to entering the missionary field. Then followed the years of his work in the Apostolate, an organization fostered by the Most Rev. James J. Keane, archbishop of Dubuque, for conducting missions in the churches of his diocese. Father Rohlman in 1911 was appointed pastor of St. Mary's Church at Waterloo, remaining there six years. In 1917 he was selected by Archbishop Keane as chairman of the Columbia College endowment drive and was head of the committee which raised more than a million dollars for that Iowa educational institution. He continued for some time as business manager of the college and in 1923 was chosen to organize a new parish in the City of Dubuque. As a result of his great zeal and energy the parish of the Church of Nativity came to be one of the most important in that city within three years after its organization. Then came still greater honors when, on July 25, 1927, he was consecrated the fourth bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport. He was consecrated on the forty-sixth anniversary of the consecration of Bishop John McMullen, who was the first bishop of Davenport. The consecrator in the impressive service was Archbishop Keane, of Dubuque, and there were many churchmen and laymen from Dubuque who joined in the tributes to the former priest who had labored so long and unselfishly in that Iowa city. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1219957551x1201325337/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fwww.freecreditreport.com%2Fpm%2Fdefault.aspx%3Fsc%3D668072%26hmpgID %3D62%26bcd%3DfebemailfooterNO62)