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Our Prairie Mother, Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, Myrtle Dirks
Our Prairie Mother, Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds, Myrtle Dirks
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This creative biography about Lydia Gates Dirks was written by Dr. Jane Claire Dirks-Edmunds and her sister, Myrtle; Lydia, born in Nebraska in 1872, was their mother. Dr. Dirks-Edmunds graduated from Linfield College in 1937. She returned to teach in the Biology department at Linfield from 1941-1974; this biography was written in the later years of her life.