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The Blue Book of Iowa Women A History of Contemporary WomenCompiled by Winona Evans Reeves, 1914. |
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MRS. MATILDA A. VON SCHMIDT ARPMatilda Anna von Schmidt is the daughter of John and
Anna Elizabeth Lenz von Schmidt, both of whom were born in Germany and
met for the first time on board the ship which brought them to America.
She attended school until sixteen years of age when her father died,
leaving her mother with eight children. She began to help her
mother in the support of the family by conducting a millinery store, and
the brave spirit of the girl was manifested in the success of the
undertaking. On Oct. 31, 1884, she was married to Mr. Arp in
Denison. Two children have been born to them, Myrtle Wilhelmina,
the wife of Dr. H. T. Kennedy, of Pierre, S. D. She is a graduate
of the Chicago Musical College and took post-graduate work in
Boston. Esther Anna, the second daughter, is a student at the
State University of South Dakota. Mrs. Arp has always been an
active worker in the church and Sunday school, and is a warm advocate of
study classes and clubs for women. When she moved to Sioux City in
1910 she found no Woman's Club. She advocated its organization for
several months and then invited a few women to a parlor meeting at her
home from which the Sioux City Women's Club was organized on Nov. 25,
1911, having in its membership some of the brightest women in that
city. Mrs. Arp is a member of the Equal Suffrage Club and an
earnest advocate of its principles. Her life has been saddened by
the tragic death of her brother, the Rev. Lewis J. Schmidt, a man of
great ability and usefulness in the world. She has two brothers,
Charles and John Schmidt, living in Manning, Iowa, and a sister, Mrs.
Minnie Behrens, living in South Dakota. |
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