Dear Genie Editor's Note Questions From Linn County Heritage Society
Readers submit Iowa genealogy questions to Dear Genie asking for family links across Iowa counties. The note specifies 50 word limit, clear typing, and inclusion of names and addresses for responses. Addresses given for mailing queries include Cedar Rapids and Cedar Rapids area.
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Genie
Linn County Heritage Society
Iowa
P.O. Box
Cedar Rapids
Mary Ella Huggans
Jones County
Tama County
Onslow
John P. Huggans
Pamella Pancoast
Mary
John Richard Walston
Kenneth Yeager
Box
Conrad
Mont
Tennis Camp Set at Wapsie Y
Camp Wapsie Y to host a free tennis camp session August 7 to 13 for boys and girls aged 7 to 15. Instructor Rick Weaver, noted Cedar Rapids YMCA and University of Iowa recreation major, leads the program amid near-full occupancy in two sessions.
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Camp Wapsie-Y
Dwight Belknap
Belknap
Rick Weaver
Yellow Pine Drive
Weaver
Kennedy
Cedar Rapids Recreation Commission
YMCA
University of Iowa
Coe
Twain mining letters reveal Nevada camp life and hoarded cans
A cache of 13 letters between Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain and Robert M. Howland, written over two decades, details Nevada West life, Aurora town history, and Howland's role as town marshal and prison warden. The notes accompany Twain’s marriage reflections and humorous asides about Miss Lou and local ranch life.
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Berkeley
Calif
Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Robert M. Howland
Clemens
Howland
University of California
Aurora
Virginia City
Twain
Nevada Border
Nevada
California
Fred Anderson
Bancroft Library
Robert Gunn
San Francisco Bay
Sausalito
Gunn
Anderson
West
Bob H
Nevada Territorial
Carson City
Louise Meyer
Miss Lou
Miss Clapp
Mr. Meyer
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John W. Stokesberry
Keokuk County
Darrel Wilson
Wisconsin Street
Austin Rose
Rebecca Adams Rose
Washington Township
Rebecca
Austin
Mary Ball
Amelia Hamilton
Alphonso
Emma Beach
Simeon
Marilyn Rose Walsh
Sixth Street NW
Bloomfield Township
Davis County
William Lang Knox
Melinda Hicks
Jerry Phillips
John Knox
William
Martha Jane McClung
Harper County
Kan
GAR
Joe Matlock
Walnut
Harper
James Franklin Bell
Virginia
Barbary Walker
Kentucky
Eli David
Rachel
Campbell County
John
Hancock County
Illinois
George
Sarah
Henry
James
van Buren County
John Hubbard
Martha
Lee County
Biggs
McKitrick
Orewe Hubbard
Lakin
Wapsie-Y
Killian
Killians
Dynes
Elora
Sytes
By Diesse
Iowa City
Killian’s
Lindale Plaza
Monterey
Fee OL
Lindale
Mall Shopping Center
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