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| ~Source: The Iowa Press
Association's Who's Who in Iowa, a Biographical Record of
Iowa's Leaders in Business, Professional and Public Life;
Pub. by Iowa Press Association, Des Moines, Iowa; 1940 ~transcribed by S. Ferrall for Clayton co. IAGenWeb |
| Sutter, Clara Melissa: Poultry Editor & Producer; born Allamakee Co, Iowa Dec 26, 1875; daughter of John Bunyon Sutter & Mary Plank; ed Nora Springs Seminary 1896; Iowa State Teachers College special primary 1910, home economics 1914; Iowa St. Coll 1916, home economics & poultry; charter mbr Epsilon Sigma Phi, S.D. branch of natl org; 1891-98 rural sch tchr, S.D.; 1908-09 prin, Janesville schs; 1910-14 primary tchr, Aberdeen S.D.; 1916-17 in extn dept, Ames; 1917-21 home demonstration agt, Black Hawk Co; 1921-25 state specialist in poultry, Brookings S.D., one of 2 women state specialists in U.S.; 1925-30 poultry editor for the Farmers Wife, St. Paul, Minn, interviewer & demonstrator for Webb Publishing Co, traveled in middle west, Canada & gulf states, attd World's Poultry Congress in Canada 1927, 1930 att World's Poultry Congress in Crystal Palace in London England, 3 months toured British Isles by bus, also Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland, Italy & France studying poultry farming, visited Oberammergau; 1930- poultry field editor for Farmer magazine, lecturer on travels & industries of women, demonstrator & broadcaster on poultry; owns & resides on farm, opr hatchery of large white leghorns, raises 1500 baby chicks yearly, keeps 100 hens, uses electric egg cleaner , prepares own feeds & does own blood testing & culling; 1926- on program U of Minn during Farm & Home Week; 1926- judge of 4-H Clubs Poultry Shows held in St. Paul Minn; 1st permanent home demonstraton agt in Iowa also 1st cold-pack canning demonstrator in Clayton Co; Poultry Science Assn; Amer Poultry Assn, life mbr; S.D. & Minn St Poultry Assns; Womans Club; Garden Club; Methodist Ch; hobbies: antiques, pottery, has collection of pottery from every country in Europe; father came to Iowa from Ind in covered wagon 1848, homesteaded in Allamakee Co, mother pioneer 1853, celebrated 50th anniversary of living on homestead; mother's father Meth minister, circuit rider, Wis, Ill & Iowa; father's father hauled freight on Mississippi to New Orleans for many years; off & res Monona. (pg 301) |
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