Davis, Edna

DAVIS

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/14/2013 at 08:20:29

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

DAVIS, Miss EDNA—Grinnell Twp—pg 894. School teacher, Grinnell, Iowa. Was born in Sweetland Center, Muscatine county, Iowa, on the 23d of April, 1850. While she was yet very young her parents removed to Muscatine, where they remained only one year, and removed to this county and settled in the city of Grinnell, where she has been principally raised and educated in the excellent schools of this city, graduating from the high school in the year 1877. After graduating she took a normal course at the State Normal School at Cedar Falls, Iowa, since which time she has been engaged in teaching, having taught four terms in this county. She also taught one term in Cass county, this State. She intends to enter Iowa College this winter term, and continue her studies. Miss Davis is a fine teacher and deserves to succeed in the profession which she has labored so hard to prepare for.