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