Clara Payne GROVE (b. 1879)
Residence: Moscow; Troy
Occupation(s): Editor; cook; nurse's aid; columnist; leader of Women's Christian Temperance Union
Family Origin: Born in Iowa, she lived in the Dakotas and Montana before coming in 1925
Interviews
Clara Payne Grove Interview #1, 2/20/1974
- Topics:
- Editing Troy Weekly News. Local life in the twenties. 2-20-74 1 hr Emily Moore
- Duration:
- 1:03:10
- Interviewer:
- Emily Moore
- Keywords:
- Prohibition University of Idaho WCTU automobiles boardinghouses businesses crops death doctors downtowns farming immigrants local histories log cabins newspapers police officers students suicide water women
- Locations:
- Moscow Troy
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Clara Payne Grove Interview #2, 11/7/1975
- Topics:
- WCTU work: jail visiting, charity, temperance conversions. Editing newspaper despite opposition to businesswomen. Boarding students. Feeding the hungry. A woman's struggle through college. Women's suffrage; early politics. 11-7-75 1.9 hr 38p
- Duration:
- 1:59:58
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- Native Americans WCTU boardinghouses businesses colleges and universities food gardens immigrants lore moving newspapers pioneers politics poor students winter women
- Locations:
- Moscow Troy
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Clara Payne Grove Interview #3, 11/21/1975
- Topics:
- WCTU crusade: protests in saloons, taking the pledge, Frances Willard. Family ties and self-reliance. Salvation Army selflessness. Caring for sick. Misuse of volunteer work in World War I. Childhood experiences. 11-21-75 1.9 hr 37p
- Duration:
- 1:54:12
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- Christians Prohibition WCTU alcohol divorce drinking families illness legislation lore politics poor presidents sewing voting women world wars
- Locations:
- Moscow Troy
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Clara Payne Grove Interview #4, 12/16/1975
- Topics:
- Life roles and responsibilities of rural women. Views on child rearing and divorce. Preachers, revivals, and the Sabbath. Teaching and homesteading in Dakotah and Montana. Attending university in her eighties. 12-16-75 2.6 hr 48p
- Duration:
- 2:43:02
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- women farming homemakers isolation children divorce poor marriage livestock drinking rural schools schools homesteads religion missionaries teachers rural communities pioneers bears winter WCTU speeches University of Idaho education
- Locations:
- Moscow Troy
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Clara Payne Grove Interview #5, 5/11/1976
- Topics:
- The management of marriage. Opposition to divorce. Fundamental values. Working as a woman. Overabundance of wealth in America. 5-11-76 2 hr 38p
- Duration:
- 1:53:54
- Interviewer:
- Sam Schrager
- Keywords:
- local histories politics Christians marriage families pregnancy University of Idaho schools students suicide churches divorce women morality homemakers businesses newspapers drinking
- Locations:
- Moscow Troy
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Clara Payne GROVE (b. 1879)", Latah County Oral History Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/lcoh/people/grove_clara.html
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