Ethel Pearl Storing Papers, 1877-1942
Collection Overview
Title: Ethel Pearl Storing Papers, 1877-1942
ID: OGLMC799
Primary Creator: Storing, Ethel (1877-1961)
Extent: 1.5 Linear Feet
Date Acquired: 05/26/1983. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Education, Renville County, North Dakota, Ward County, North Dakota, Women's History
Languages: English
Abstract
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The Ethel Pearl Storing Papers consist of six series:
1. Correspondence
2. Educational Documents
3. Family Documents
4. Financial Papers
5. Diaries
6. Photographs
Collection Historical Note
Ethel Pearl Storing was born in Kasson, Minnesota, in January 1877, the second child of Charles Edward and Mary Catharine (Keller) Storing. Storing had an older brother, Chester Charles Storing, born in October 1868.
Storing attended Central High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and graduated in 1896. She then attended the Winona State Normal School in Winona, Minnesota. She began her teaching career in Kasson in 1903. After 1904 she taught in Eden Valley, Sherwood and Glenburn in Ward County, North Dakota. In 1908 Storing returned to Minnesota and taught in Rochester. Her last year of teaching was spent in Mohall, Renville County, North Dakota, in 1914. That same year, she returned home to care for her aging parents.
After the deaths of her parents and brother, Storing had difficulty managing her finances. It was not long before she began receiving welfare aid. Late in 1944 she was found by the welfare authorities to be in poor physical condition and was taken to St. Vincent's Nursing Home in Bismarck, North Dakota. Storing died in February 1961 from injuries sustained in a bus accident.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections
Accruals: Additional materials were donated by Jean Nelson in March 1986 (86-1436) and Louise Jevne, Lansford, North Dakota, in June 1989 (89-1663).
Acquisition Source: Mrs. Harry (Louise) Jevne, Lansford, North Dakota
Acquisition Method: Donation
Preferred Citation: Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Educational Materials],
[Series 3: Family Materials],
[Series 4: Financial Records],
[Series 5: Diaries],
[Series 6: Photographs],
[All]
- Series 1: Correspondence
- The most prolific correspondent was Ethel Pearl Storing. Her incoming and outgoing letters appear first and are interfiled in chronological order. Storing Family Correspondence appears next and includes the letters of Storing's father, Charles Edward, her mother, Mary Catharine, her brother, Chester Charles and her sister-in-law, Ada. The letters are chronologically arranged within each folder.
- Box 1
- Folder 1: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1893 - 1899.
- Folder 2: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1898.
- Folder 3: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1901.
- Folder 4: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1902.
- Folder 5: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1903
- Folder 6: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1904
- Folder 7: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1905 - 1908.
- Folder 8: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1909 - 1911.
- Folder 9: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1912.
- Folder 10: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1913.
- Folder 11: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1914 - 1916.
- Folder 12: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1919 - 1930
- Folder 13: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1931 - 1933.
- Folder 14: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1934 - 1938.
- Folder 15: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1939 - 1942.
- Folder 16: Storing Family Correspondence, 1887 - 1896.
- Folder 17: Storing Family Correspondence, 1897 - 1899.
- Folder 18: Storing Family Correspondence, 1900 - 1903.
- Folder 19: Storing Family Correspondence, 1904.
- Folder 20: Storing Family Correspondence, 1905 - 1908.
- Folder 21: Storing Family Correspondence, 1910 - 1913.
- Folder 22: Storing Family Correspondence, 1914 - 1917.
- Folder 23: Storing Family Correspondence, 1919 - 1928.
- Folder 24: Storing Family Correspondence, 1931 - 1934.
- Folder 1: Correspondence of Ethel Pearl Storing, 1893 - 1899.
- Box 1
- Series 2: Educational Materials
- This series contains miscellaneous materials relating to Storing's teaching career. The items are arranged chronologically within each folder.
- Series 3: Family Materials
- A series of miscellaneous memorabilia arranged chronologically by family member.
- Box 1
- Box 2
- Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings - Sadie Pinkham's mothers death, June, 1894
- Folder 5: Newspaper Clippings - Syllabus prepared for The Chicago Institute of Education
- Folder 6: Newspaper Clippings - Poems, 1892 - 1894
- Folder 7: Newspaper Clippings - "Live and Let Live", 1895
- Folder 8: Newspaper Clippings - Sermon's preached, 1887-1894
- Folder 9: Newspaper Clippings - Political Cartoons
- Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings - Miscellaneous, 1891 - 1894
- Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings - Sadie Pinkham's mothers death, June, 1894
- Box 1
- Series 4: Financial Records
- This series contains land contracts, and mortgages, taxes, household finances and crop and farm maintenance records, arranged chronologically.
- Box 1
- Folder 32: Storing Finances,(Crops and Farm Maintenance)
- Folder 33: Storing Finances, (Household)
- Folder 34: Storing Finances, (Taxes)
- Folder 35: Storing Finances, (Land Contracts, Mortgages) 1899 - 1918
- Folder 36: Storing Finances, (Land Contracts, Mortgages) 1922 - 1927
- Folder 37: Storing Finances, (Land Contracts, Mortgages) 1930 - 1938
- Folder 32: Storing Finances,(Crops and Farm Maintenance)
- Box 1
- Series 5: Diaries
- A series of diaries kept by Ethel Storing from 1893 to 1943.
- Box 1
- Folder 38: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1893
- Folder 39: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) circa 1904
- Folder 40: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1906
- Folder 41: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1907 - 1908
- Folder 42: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1937 - 1941
- Folder 43: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1941 - 1943
- Folder 44: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1943
- Folder 45: Storing Family Diaries (Mary Catharine (Keller) Storing) circa 1919
- Folder 46: Storing Family Miscellaneous (Ethel Pearl Storing)
- Folder 47: Storing Family Miscellaneous (Charles Edward Storing)
- Folder 48: Storing Family Miscellaneous
- Folder 38: Storing Family Diaries, (Ethel Pearl Storing) 1893
- Box 2
- Box 1
- Series 6: Photographs
- These photographs were separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.
- Folder 1: Unidentified Daguerreotypes
- Folder 2: Unidentified Daguerreotypes
- Folder 3: Ethel Pearl Storing
- Folder 4: Ethel Pearl Storing
- Folder 5: Mary Catherine Keller Storing
- Folder 6: Charles Edward Storing
- Folder 7: Chester Charles Storing
- Folder 8: Various Relatives
- Folder 9: Storing Home
- Folder 10: Ethel Pearl Storing's High School Class, 1896
- Folder 11: Identified Photographs
- Folder 12: Identified - Spokane, WA (Pease family)
- Folder 13: Identified Places
- Folder 14: Unidentified - Kenrick, ID
- Folder 15: Unidentified - Iowa
- Folder 16: Unidentified - Kasson, MN
- Folder 17: Unidentified - Minneapolis, MN
- 799-127: Barbara Van Allen (sister of Mary Storing)
- Folder 18: Unidentified - Minneapolis, MN
- 799-133: Henry & Margaret Keller family (Henry was a brother to Mary Catherine Keller Storing), ca. 1880s
- Folder 19: Unidentified - Minneapolis, MN
- Folder 20: Unidentified - Sleepy Eye, MN
- Folder 21: Unidentified - Deadwood, SD
- Folder 22: Unidentified - Ritzville, WI
- Folder 23: Unidentified - Washington
- Folder 24: Unidentified - Wisconsin
- Folder 25: Unidentified - Illinois and New York
- Folder 26: Unidentified - South Dakota
- Folder 27: Unidentified
- Folder 28: Unidentified Places
- Folder 29: Unidentified Places
- 799-238: Wilson cemetery monument
- Folder 30: Unidentified Group Photographs
- 799-247: Matthew & Catharine Keller family photograph, possibly from their 50th wedding anniversary in 1882. Standing from left: unknown son, Barbara Anne Keller Van Allen, unknown son, Betsey Elizabeth Keller Wilson. Seated from left: unknown granddaughter, Matthew, Catharine, John B. Wilson. Unknown grandson kneeling in front.
- Folder 31: Unidentified Postcards
- Folder 32: Unidentified Mourning Photographs
- Folder 33: Miscellaneous Photographic Memorabilia
- Folder 34: Photograph Album A (Belonged to Mary Catherine Keller Storing)
- Folder 35: Photograph Album B
- Folder 1: Unidentified Daguerreotypes
Browse by Series:
[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Educational Materials],
[Series 3: Family Materials],
[Series 4: Financial Records],
[Series 5: Diaries],
[Series 6: Photographs],
[All]