The Blue Book of Iowa Women.
[Mexico, Missouri: Missouri Printing and Publishing Company,], 1914. First edition. A record of important Iowa women dating back to settlers in the early nineteenth century, including figures like Carrie Chapman Catt and pioneer and educator Alice Bird Babb. This is a comprehensive record of women physicians, religious officials, suffragists, journalists, authors, pioneers, educators, and more. Most of the women included in the present work are not well-known historical figures, so this is a valuable source of information on women whose histories might be otherwise undocumented. Printed in blue. Slight toning to spine and edges. Inscribed by the author to a Miss Younker, dated 1922. Pencil signature reading “Mrs. Samuel Younker, Page 171” to front free endpaper. A very good copy, inscribed by the author to a relative of one of the important Iowa women honored in the work. Original blue cloth titled in white. Octavo. 297, [3] pp. Item #17463
Winona Evans Reeves (1871 – 1955) was a journalist, an editor, and the vice resident of the National Federation of Press Women between 1939 and 1941. She was also a member of the American Association of University Women, Daughters of American Revolution, and served as the vice president of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association between 1940 and 1941. She also published the Blue Book of Nebraska Women (1916).
Mrs. Samuel Younker (1839 – 1909) is described on page 171 of the present work as the wife of the founder of the first synagogue in Iowa. She was born in Prussia and immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of fifteen. Her father, Falk Cohen, was a rabbi, college professor, author, and well-regarded linguist. Though Mrs. Yonker died before the present work was published, this copy probably belonged to one of her two daughters, Nettie or Gertrude, or a granddaughter.
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