{"id":334,"date":"2012-03-12T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T12:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forms.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/a-pictorial-history-the-university-of-iowa-libraries-20\/"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T01:17:53","slug":"wells","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/heads\/wells\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pictorial History: The University of Iowa Libraries &#8211; D. Franklin Wells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"imgborderleft alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" alt=\"Franklin Wells\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/files\/wells-franklin-1870s.jpg\" width=\"112\" height=\"147\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>D. FRANKLIN WELLS<\/strong><br \/>\nLibrarian<\/p>\n<p class=\"style2\" style=\"margin-top: 0;\">1858 \u2013 January 1859<\/p>\n<p>Born in New York in 1830, Wells graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1852, and then in 1853 came to Muscatine, Iowa, to become principal of one of the city schools.\u00a0 In 1856 Wells was placed in charge of the Normal Department of the State University and spent 10 years there. He later served as State Superintendent of Public Instruction.\u00a0 He died in 1869.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D. FRANKLIN WELLS Librarian 1858 \u2013 January 1859 Born in New York in 1830, Wells graduated from the State Normal School at Albany in 1852, and then in 1853 came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":147,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"pagetpl-default.php","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/334\/revisions\/1127"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.uiowa.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}