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US US-IaGG Pamphlet/020-16-20pP22g
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Parker, L. F. "Grinnell's Incipient Mob."
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- 1903 (Creation)
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(1825-1911)
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Leonard Fletcher Parker was a professor of Greek and Latin at Grinnell College from 1860-70 and of History from 1888-98. In the interim he taught at the University of Iowa. Parker was involved with the public schools, with the Underground Railroad, and with many aspects of life in the Grinnell area. He died in 1911 after the publication of his last book, History of Poweshiek County.
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Account of near mob action to keep fugitive slaves from Missouri who were in Grinnell from attending the public school in 1858. Eleven handwritten pages. Transcription available.
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- English
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This incident is referred to by Joanna Harris Haines in Recollections of seventy years in Iowa, p.14 (folder 20pH12r).
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- Parker, Leonard F. (Subject)