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This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
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e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: December 2003

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Biographical Note

Katherine Buxbaum was born June 27, 1885, in Gracehill, Washington County, Iowa. She was educated at the Washington Academy and took a B.A. at the State University of Iowa (later the University of Iowa) in 1908. In 1924 she received an MA at the University of Chicago. She pursued further graduate studies at the University of North Carolina, but she did not take a degree. She spent thirty-nine years as a teacher, first in high schools in Lamoni, Colfax, Washington, Fort Dodge, and Waterloo, Iowa and Mitchell, South Dakota. She served on the faculty of Rochester Junior College in Rochester, Minnesota. From 1924 -- 1948 she served as Instructor, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Iowa State Teachers College (later University of Northern Iowa). She also worked part-time at the Cedar Falls Public Library. She died at Grinnell on June 25, 1975.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of several chapters from her book Iowa Outpost.

Inventory

Several chapters of Iowa Outpost. TMs with holographic corrections and emendations. Chapters included are:

Diversity of Gifts

A Modest Prelate

The Unregenerate

Mr. Thaeler

Saint's Progress

Granny Saunders (later titled Early American). Incomplete

A Man of Learning

Darby and Joan

Ice Cream Supper

The Watch Ticks

Along Parnassus Way

Where Grace Abounded