{"id":6016,"date":"2015-03-11T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=6016"},"modified":"2019-02-22T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T21:18:08","slug":"anything-you-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2015\/03\/11\/anything-you-can-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Anything You Can Do&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Library is well aware of the importance of women to the history of Davenport&#8212;without them, <a title=\"The Importance of Women\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2008\/03\/03\/the-importance-of-women\/\">our library wouldn\u2019t exist<\/a>&#8212;so in honor of this year\u2019s National Women\u2019s History Month, we thought we\u2019d mention some of the Davenport women who were included in the city\u2019s <em>Who\u2019s Who <\/em>for 1929.<\/p>\n<p>Or, as the <em>Davenport Democrat <\/em>called them on March 10th of that year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c[I]ntrepid little slips of femininity \u201cinvading\u201da man-made business and professional world a few years ago.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.<\/p>\n<p>But before we take offense at the patronization of the past, the editors of the paper were all in favor of&nbsp; women doing any work for which they were suited.&nbsp; They reminded readers of the simple fact that <em>\u201ca woman\u2019s brain can absorb as much \u201chigher education\u201d as a man\u2019s.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear from the remainder of the article&#8212;not to mention our local histories&#8212;that the women of Davenport didn&#8217;t need reminding; they&#8217;d known <em>that<\/em> for <em>years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And most of the \u201cintrepid little slips of femininity\u201d hadn\u2019t waited for everyone else to catch up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>By the time the article was published, Lottie Bois Clapp had been a mortician for 17 years.<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. Inger Estes had been a Davenport policewoman for seven.<\/li>\n<li>Lura Parker had served as deputy clerk for the Federal Court for at least five.<\/li>\n<li>Ellanor Parker had been teaching classes in Parliamentary law throughout the country for several years.<\/li>\n<li>Hermione C. Schneckloth had been Scott County Superintendent of Schools for eight.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Blanche A. Jones, the city\u2019s only female dentist, had been practicing for thirteen years in her offices on the third floor of the Central building.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Nellie Campbell wasn\u2019t the first woman to practice medicine in Davenport, but at the time of the article, she\u2019d been the only licensed female physician doing so for several years.<\/li>\n<li>Mrs. E. H. Dierolf, the city\u2019s first female pharmacist, was one of the four women registered by the state at that time.<\/li>\n<li>Davenport also boasted several osteopathic physicians, including Dr. Augusta Tuckers, Dr. Mary Jane Porter, and Dr. Margaret Harrison&#8212;and Dr. Mabel H. Palmer was professor of anatomy and the secretary treasurer of the Palmer School of Chiropractic.<\/li>\n<li>Maud Streicher had already served her apprenticeship and was a full-fledged carpenter, working on roofs and framing residential expansions.<\/li>\n<li>Jacqueline Gasser had already become the first female licensed Real Estate Agent in the city.<\/li>\n<li>And Ella Stahmer Bauer had already retired from the CEO position of the F. J. Stahmer Shoe company, the largest manufacturer of wooden shoes in the country, by the time the <em>Democrat<\/em>\u2019s reporters came calling. The young woman told them that she\u2019d stepped down to the co-manager\u2019s position so she would have more time to start a family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We can\u2019t deny that the women of this country have come a long way since their \u201cslips of femininity\u201d days.<\/p>\n<p>But it makes us especially proud to know that the women of Davenport were already paving the road.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9848\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2015\/03\/11\/anything-you-can-do\/1929whoswho\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?fit=785%2C541&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"785,541\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1929WhosWho\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?fit=640%2C441&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?resize=640%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?w=785&amp;ssl=1 785w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1929WhosWho.jpg?resize=768%2C529&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources Used:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Davenport City Directories, 1915-1930.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dentist, druggist, parliamentarian, chief! Busy? Decidedly so! These Davenport jills select a diversification of all trades and professions.&#8221; <em>Davenport Democrat and Leader, <\/em>10March 1929, pp. 23 and 25.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"nsm-short-item nsm-e135\"><span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">Who<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">s<\/span> <span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">who<\/span> in Davenport 1929, including <span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">who<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">s<\/span> <span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">who<\/span> in Moline and <span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">who<\/span>&#8216;<span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">s<\/span> <span class=\"nsm-hit-text\">who<\/span> in Rock Island : biographical sketches of men and women of achievement. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"nsm-short-item nsm-e135\">(<span class=\"nsm-short-item nsm-e102\">Louisville, Ky. : Robert M. Baldwin Corp.),&nbsp; c. 1929<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library is well aware of the importance of women to the history of Davenport&#8212;without them, our library wouldn\u2019t exist&#8212;so in honor of this year\u2019s National Women\u2019s History Month, we thought we\u2019d mention some of the Davenport women who were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2015\/03\/11\/anything-you-can-do\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1313,1310,1315,1314,1311,1319,1307,1309,1318,1305,1308,1316,1317,1312,1306,1304,219],"class_list":["post-6016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-dr-augusta-tuckers","tag-dr-blanche-a-jones","tag-dr-margaret-harrison","tag-dr-mary-jane-porter","tag-dr-nellie-campbell","tag-ella-stahmer-bauer","tag-ellanor-parker","tag-hermione-c-schneckloth","tag-jacqueline-gasser","tag-lottie-bois-clapp","tag-lura-parker","tag-mabel-h-palmer","tag-maud-streicher","tag-mrs-e-h-dierolf","tag-mrs-inger-estes","tag-national-womens-history-month","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1z2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6016"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9849,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6016\/revisions\/9849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}