Mamie Gohring diary
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Scope and Contents
The Mamie Gohring diary dates from 1916 to 1917. Mamie Gohring, of Union, Iowa, kept this diary from September 29, 1916 to June 29, 1917. The diary includes brief accounts of Gohring’s day to day activities, including chores in her parents’ home, attendance at church and Sunday School, and outings with friends. Entries suggest that Gohring may have also worked outside the home, as she mentions hiring out her time. She was a skilled seamstress and often made clothing for herself and others. Gohring had an active social life and frequently visited with friends, sometimes attending the picture show or public lectures. She notes attending a lecture on “White Slavery” in the spring of 1917. She often traveled by train to visit relatives elsewhere in Iowa. The diary includes discussion of her love interests, including her future husband, Roy Ellsworth Pevehouse.
Dates
- Creation: 1916-1917
Conditions Governing Access
The papers/records are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
No information about copyright is available.
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Biographical / Historical
This diary of an Iowa woman was discovered in a Dutch antique shop in 2008 by Jan van Griethysen, who lives in The Hague, in the Netherlands. Griethysen became aware of the diary’s existence via a genealogy message board and subsequently purchased it from the antique shop. The proprietors of the shop, which specialized in French antiques, told him they had found the diary at a market in northern France. Seeking to return the diary to Iowa, Griethysen donated the original to the Hardin County Historical Society in Eldora, Iowa in 2008. When he learned of the Iowa Women’s Archives later that same year, he donated scans of the diary and its pages to the IWA. A bound reproduction of the diary was printed by the Preservation Department at the University of Iowa Libraries in 2009. No biographical information was included in the diary, but IWA identified and confirmed a record for Gohring on “Find a Grave,” under the name of Mamie Lucile Gohring Pevehouse. See: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13628224/mamie-lucile-pevehouse
Mamie Gohring was born to Clara E. (Reece) Gohring and Christian Reginald Gohring in New Providence, Iowa, in 1894. She had two siblings, Lester and Thelma; only Lester survived to adulthood. Gohring married Roy Ellsworth Pevehouse in 1917 in Webster City, Iowa and the couple had at least two children, Naomi Fern (Pevehouse) Holvek and Francis Edward Pevehouse. Little is known about Gohring beyond her diary, which recounts one year in her early 20s.
Extent
0.25 linear inches
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Young woman who lived in Union, Iowa in early twentieth century.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The diary (donor no. 1171) was donated by Jan van Griethysen in 2008.
- Author
- Heather Cooper, 2019
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Iowa Women's Archives Repository
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5068
319-335-5900 (Fax)
lib-women@uiowa.edu