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In The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, we have a comprehensive listing of famous and influential Iowans, from Dudley Warren Adams to the Younker brothers. This accessibly written and thorough volume will be useful to anyone with an interest in the history of Iowa and the Midwest. --Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, professor and director of the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program, Iowa State University Comprehensive and concise, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa will save generations of reporters, students, teachers, historians, and reference librarians hours tracking down who's who in Iowa's past. In simple alphabetical order, hundreds of Iowa luminaries from chiropractic medicine, women's suffrage, environmentalism, politics, astronomy, the Nobel Prize, education, the military, and art of all stripes take a bow. Bravo. --Tom Morain, author, Prairie Grass Roots

In The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, we have a comprehensive listing of famous and influential Iowans, from Dudley Warren Adams to the Younker brothers. This accessibly written and thorough volume will be useful to anyone with an interest in the history of Iowa and the Midwest. --Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, professor and director of the Agricultural History and Rural Studies Program, Iowa State University Comprehensive and concise, The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa will save generations of reporters, students, teachers, historians, and reference librarians hours tracking down who's who in Iowa's past. In simple alphabetical order, hundreds of Iowa luminaries from chiropractic medicine, women's suffrage, environmentalism, politics, astronomy, the Nobel Prize, education, the military, and art of all stripes take a bow. Bravo. --Tom Morain, author, Prairie Grass Roots

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David Hudson recently retired as acquisitions librarian for the State Historical Society of Iowa. Marvin Bergman has edited the Annals of Iowa for the State Historical Society of Iowa since 1987. He is the coeditor of Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry (IOWA, 1997) and the editor of the Iowa History Reader (IOWA edition, 2008). Loren Horton retired as senior historian after twenty-four years of working for the State Historical Society of Iowa.

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