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

The Ethel Pearl Storing Papers consist of six series:

1. Correspondence

2. Educational Documents

3. Family Documents

4. Financial Papers

5. Diaries

6. Photographs

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.

Education
Renville County, North Dakota
Ward County, North Dakota
Women's History

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.