creator:

Shambaugh, Jessie Field

title:

Papers

dates:

1901-1998, n.d.

extent:

0.84 linear ft.  (2 document boxes)

collection number:

RS 16/3/60

repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

access:

Open for research

publication rights

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Jessie Field Shambaugh Papers, RS 16/3/60, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

 
Celestia Josephine "Jessie" Field was born in Shenandoah, Iowa on June 26, 1881. She died in 1971 after suffering a hip fracture and developing pneumonia. She is buried in Clarinda, Iowa. She graduated from Shenandoah High School in 1899 and attended Western Normal College in Shenandoah until the Spring of 1901, when she accepted a teaching position at Goldenrod School in Page County Iowa. As a teacher she developed a curriculum that related to the children's environment and future occupations. She developed a Girls Home Club and Boys Corn Club the forerunner of 4-H Clubs. The Clubs met on alternating days with the boys studying agriculture with a scientific emphasis and the girls studying gardening, cooking, sewing, and other homemaking arts. She is known as the Mother of 4-H.

Collection description

 
The Shambaugh Papers consist mainly of information written about Jessie Field Shambaugh and her pioneering efforts to create the 4-H movement. There is a cassette tape of a slide presentation entitled, "Jessie Field, Mother of 4-H,", two additional cassette tapes of a speech and interview with Shambaugh, photographs of Shambaugh as well as photographs of a watch given to her in 1911, and scrapbooks.