{"id":14027,"date":"2021-10-07T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T20:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=14027"},"modified":"2021-10-07T15:56:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T20:56:03","slug":"becoming-iowa-upper-mississippi-a-wilderness-saga-by-walter-havighurst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2021\/10\/07\/becoming-iowa-upper-mississippi-a-wilderness-saga-by-walter-havighurst\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Iowa: Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga by Walter Havighurst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

2021 marks the 175th anniversary of Iowa\u2019s statehood. On December 28, 1846, Iowa became the 29th state admitted into the Union. Commemorative publications, programs, and other events are planned by the Iowa Department of Culture Affairs<\/a> and communities across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conjunction with the festivities, we will be blogging about different areas of Iowa history and culture through books and novels written about Iowa throughout the year. We will be exploring the book, Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga <\/em>by Walter Havighurst and illustrated by David and Lolita Granahan. It was published by Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated in New York. Originally published in 1937, the book was later reissued in 1944. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walter Edwin Havighurst was born in Appleton, Wisconsin on November 28, 1901, to Freeman Alfred Havighurst and Winifred Aurelia (Weter) Havighurst. According to the 1910 and 1920 United States Federal Census, his siblings are Robert, Alfred, James, and Miriam. He attained his education from multiple institutions including Ohio Wesleyan University, the University of Denver, Boston University, Kings College at the University of London, and Columbia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From an obituary published in the Cincinnati Enquirer on February 6, 1994, he married Marion Boyd in 1930. They were colleagues in the English Department of Miami University in 1928. They visited Europe in 1938. According to the Passenger List of a ship arriving in the port of New York from Oslo, Norway on September 1st, 1938. It states that Marion Margaret Boyd was born in Marietta, Ohio on January 6, 1894, to William Waddell Boyd. According to her obituary published in Xenia Daily Gazette on February 25, 1974, she was a noted author who wrote her first book in 1923. <\/p>\n\n\n\n