Davis, Lizzie

DAVIS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/14/2013 at 08:19:47

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

DAVIS, Miss LIZZIE—Grinnell Twp—pg 894. Teacher in the graded school of Grinnell. Was born in Sweetland Center, Muscatine county, Iowa, on the 8th day of March, 1858, and when six years of age her parents removed to the city of Muscatine, where they remained for one year, and removed to this county and settled in the city of Grinnell, where she has been brought up and educated, graduating from the high school in the year 1877, after which time she took a course of normal training in the State Normal School at Cedar Falls, Iowa, since which time she has been a teacher in the graded schools of this city, and as an evidence of her success we only need mention that she is teaching her third year in a city where school teaching is an exact science.