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Some interesting ones that might take a little more effort

Walsh family—People’s Light Company

            Map in ephemera

            Photographs

E. P. Adler

            Newspaper

            Lee Enterprises

            Banking

 

Maria Purdy Peck (Mrs. Washington F. Peck)

            Husband Dr. Washington F. Peck is in

            Biographical History and Portrait Gallery of Scott Co, IA (SC977.769 Bio)

             From 1914 Woman’s Who’s Who of America

             Founder of St. Luke’s Hospital Training School for Nurses

             Author

             President Clionian Club

             Organizer and first president of Davenport Woman’s Club

             Favored woman’s suffrage

  

Florizel Reuter (aka Florizel von Reuter)

            Child prodigy violinist from Davenport-

            Hostetler photos

            Played all over Europe. Married a European woman and during the war led a sparse existence. Spiritualist. Ended career in Wisconsin.

            Newspaper clippings

 

Jennie McKowen (1845-1924)

1880 to Davenport-Scott County Medical Society

1886 Medical Examiner U of I

1887 founded Working Woman’s Lend-a-Hand Club in Davenport Connected to Davenport Academy of Science (now Putnam Museum)

1892 founded Woman’s Hospital of Davenport

            U of I Women’s Archives

            Our Lend-a-Hand accession

           

Mary Louise Duncan Putnam (1832-1903)

1867 development of Davenport Academy of Science (now Putnam Museum)-first woman member, later president

1876 responsible for publication of Proceedings of the Academy, worldwide circulation

Editor of publication in 1881

Inducted posthumously into Iowa Women’s Hall of Fame 1991

 

Benadoms - photos, court cases, divorces, newspapers

            Clinic

            Photos

            Court cases

            Divorces

            Newspapers