Jeanne Wier
United States historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jeanne Elizabeth Wier was a teacher, historian, and founder of the Nevada Historical Society. Early life Jeanne Wier was born in Grinnell, Iowa on April 8, 1870 to parents Adolphus William Wier and Elizabeth Greenside Rood Wier. She graduated as class valedictorian from Clear Lake High School, in Clear Lake, Iowa in 1886. She entered the didactics program at the Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1893. In the 1890s, Wier’s family left Iowa and moved to Heppner, Oregon, where she was an assistant principal of the high school from 1893 to 1895. In that year Wier began her studies at Stanford University, where she majored in history, studying under Professor George Elliott Howard. In 1897 she began field work for her thesis in northern Nevada studying the Washoe Indians.
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