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Pages 850 - 851 ~ Iowa County PATRICK GRANT, at present (1900) the register of deeds of Iowa county, and a man held in high repute for both ability and integrity, was born in Ireland, but has made his home in southern Wisconsin since his boyhood, in fact for half a century.
The elder GRANT at once began work in the mines, but the tales of vast wealth, to be had with little labor, in California, allured him to the Pacific coast in 1852.
GRANT was a Democrat, but in that year cast his vote for James G. Blaine and the Republican ticket, and since then has affiliated with the Republican party.
www.geocities.com /scarletgen/iowacounty/grantpatrick.txt   (659 words)

  
  Grant, Iowa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Grant is a city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Montgomery County, Iowa) Montgomery County, Iowa.
Grant is located at 41°8'32" North, 94°59'7" West (41.142207, -94.985369).
Out of the total population, 0.0% of those under the age of 18 and 0.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/grant,_iowa.htm   (436 words)

  
 Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs' Iowa Community Cultural Grant
Grant funds are distributed to grantees subject to local matching fund provisions and contractual terms as set forth in a contractual agreement between the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs and the grantee.
The Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs reserves the right to request an audit of the expenditures of any ICCG funded project at the expense of the grant recipient and may also require the grantee to submit copies of expense documentation.
All grant recipients are required to submit a Final Report outlining the details of the project, including revenue and expenditures within 30 days of the end date of the funded project.
www.culturalaffairs.org /funding/iowa_community_cultural_grant/review_process.htm   (732 words)

  
 The Iowa Stater
The act called for the federal government to provide each state with a grant of land that could be sold to finance a college, hence the name "land-grant." Iowa was the first state to accept the provisions of the Morrill Act and good money managers parlayed 204,000 acres into an $800,000 endowment for a university.
Iowa farmers not only are sharing in the cost of the program, they are helping to decide which techniques should be tested.
Iowa State's commitment to community is perhaps most evident in the Extension Service that puts ISU staff in every county in the state.
www.iastate.edu /IaStater/1997/feb/landgrant.html   (1151 words)

  
 Introduction, Grant Wood
It was the return to his home state that prompted his painting to take a distinctive turn--towards regionalism, towards American subjects, towards the nineteenth century, towards an affectionate and yet ironic vision of his country and its history.
Grant Wood undeniably played to his American audience.
Wood had seen the world outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa and had chosen to return to his home, but he surely did not forget the inevitable impressions and comparisons that come with travel.
xroads.virginia.edu /~ma98/haven/wood/intro.html   (761 words)

  
 Midwest Today: Grant Wood
In this, Iowa's 150th year of statehood, there is perhaps no better artist than native Grant Wood to bring Iowa's history and Regionalism to fruition.
Grant Wood was born on February 13, 1891 on his parents' farm four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa, where he spent the first ten years of his life.
With "American Gothic," Grant Wood tells the story of Midwestern life and culture through the use of many traditional symbols: the rick-rack on the woman's apron, the gothic window, the pitchfork held in the tight fist of the somber farmer.
www.midtod.com /9603/grant_wood.phtml   (1725 words)

  
 Grant, Iowa Cocaine Addiction Treatment Rehab Centers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Grant, Iowa has many helpful resources to assist you in recovering from your cocaine addiction.
Across the country and even in Grant, Iowa there are treatment facilities that can help you overcome your problem.
If there are none in Grant, Iowa we will locate the best drug rehab program to meet your needs no matter where you live.
www.stopcocaineaddiction.com /drugrehabstate.htm?state=Iowa&city=Grant   (374 words)

  
 Grant Wood
Immortalized as a leader in American art and regionalism, Grant Wood was born on a small farm outside Anamosa, Iowa in 1891, the second of four children.
In 1917, Grant returned from Chicago to find that he had been exempted from the draft; he waived his exemption, was briefly stationed at Des Moines’ Camp Dodge, and was later assigned to designing Army artillery camouflage in Washington, D.C. With the 1918 Armistice, Wood returned to Iowa without having seen any formal military action.
Grant decorated and modified the house’s garage into an apartment and studio and would have Turner as his lifelong sponsor, benefactor, and friend.
www.mtmercy.edu /stone/wood.htm   (1144 words)

  
 Grants
Grants may be awarded as an outright award or conditionally--with requirements to be filled prior to final approval of award.
A key component of a Humanities Iowa grant is the active participation of humanities scholars who encourage dialogue, critical thinking, and analysis in a public setting.
A Humanities Iowa grant also may be used to retain the services of a humanities scholar for a short period of time to improve the quality of an organization's humanities offerings.
www.uiowa.edu /~humiowa/grants.html   (2712 words)

  
 grant wood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed VAGA, New York, NY Born and raised in Iowa, Grant Wood became one of America's best-known Regionalists,...
Grant Wood (1891-1942) was an American regionalist painter who had the questionable fortune of having his American Gothic become the most famous (and most...
Grant Wood was the quiet philosopher-artist of the Regionalist triumvirate,...
www.loans-grants-scolarships.com /directory/10/grant-wood.html   (530 words)

  
 Grant Wood Lithographs
Grant lived on his parent's farm until age ten when his mother was forced to sell it after her husband's untimely death.
However, Grant Wood also suggests that Regionalism is a fertile philosophy for artistic growth, as evidenced by the numerous references to Gothic Architecture: the farmhouse is the same Carpenter Gothic house from American Gothic, the barn's Gothic vault, and the corn leaves form arched tiers reminiscent of a Gothic church.
Grant Wood's last composition is perhaps his most closed and focused, showing a doctor's healing hands with the tools of his trade on a 3:00 AM house call.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/2aa/2aa551.htm   (2716 words)

  
 Iowa State University
Iowa State part of team recommended for supercomputer project
An architect and cultural expert on the Iowa State Fair.
Copyright © 1995-2007, Iowa State University of Science and Technology.
www.iastate.edu   (125 words)

  
 Grant Wood Studio - 5 Turner Alley What's New
Visitors to the Grant Wood Studio are now able to see a number of historically important objects related to the Studio thanks to loans from the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, a gift from Iowa City resident Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret, and a bequest of Marilyn Pickens.
Now display in the Grant Wood Studio and Visitor Center are Wood's easel, two steamer trunks he used while living there, examples of his collection of majolica ceramics, a number of pieces of wrought iron designed by Wood, and the original cupola lantern.
Grant Wood At 5 Turner Alley integrated the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art's extensive collection with other special loans from museums and private collections from across the country to reveal Wood's interpretation of the land and people of his roots.
www.grantwoodstudio.org /new.html   (1629 words)

  
 St. Ambrose University | Davenport, Iowa | Financial Aid
You may be eligible for a scholarship or grant on the basis of your strong academic performance in high school or at a previous college, your talent in the fine arts or athletics, or your demonstrated financial need as determined by the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
To apply for an Iowa Tuition Grant, you must be currently enrolled, or planning to enroll, for at least three hours in an undergraduate degree program at an eligible Iowa college or university.
The Iowa Grant Program is designed for exceptionally needy undergraduate Iowa students attending NCA accredited colleges and universities in the State of Iowa.
web.sau.edu /FinancialAid/scholargrants.htm   (490 words)

  
 Block Grant Work
Map of Iowa CMHC's and waivered agencies who received CMHS mental health block grant funds for FY08, and the counties those funds are supposed to serve.
All block-grant funded programs in Iowa that serve either adults with SMI or children with SED are expected to report a standard set of outcomes on a quarterly basis.
This provides information on the 2004 Iowa legislation that requires 70% of block grant funds to go to community mental health centers, and that all of these funds be used to support "evidence-based practices".
www.medicine.uiowa.edu /icmh/BlockGrantWork.htm   (449 words)

  
 Breast Augmentation in Grant, Iowa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Having a breast augmentation in Grant, Iowa is an important decision.
While there are a few things that are up to personal opinion and individual comfort level, there are certain things that you should always look for and insist upon when selecting a plastic surgeon in Grant, Iowa.
Contact a plastic surgeon for breast augmentation in Grant, Iowa or for liposuction or face lift surgery today using the form on the right.
www.thebestimplants.com /Surgeons/Iowa/Grant   (362 words)

  
 Grant Iowa Information
Regardless of where you are at, be sure to stop by our Auto Buying Guide to request free price quotes from a new car dealer in the Grant, Iowa area on the makes and models of cars that interest you the most.
Our Free Classifieds for the State of Iowa offer items such as used horse trailers, cars, trucks, motorcycles, outboard motors, books, horses, dogs, real estate listings including homes, businesses, and land, apartments for rent, boats and many other items that are for sale by owner.
Our History, Trivia and Facts Pages are populated with interesting, useless and random facts pertaining to Grant, Iowa history, American history, family history and the history of names.
htusa.webmaine.com /ia/Grant.html   (859 words)

  
 USDA Telecommunications Program
In 1994, the HLV School District was awarded an RUS Distance Learning grant of $230 thousand for the construction of two distance learning classrooms in Victor and one in the neighboring school district in Brooklyn.
The RUS grant will provide the local medical community with the means, through advanced telecommunications, to deliver more timely and cost effective health care to local residents.
Overall, in addition to the enhanced medical treatment facilities, the grant from RUS is expected to benefit 1,900 students in the three local K-12 schools; 90 vocational and junior college students; and 1,200 undergraduate and graduate students.
www.usda.gov /rus/telecom/dlt/dltsuccess/dltsuccess_ia.htm   (611 words)

  
 Iowa Expands Health Insurance to Low-Income Children
Iowa's Medicaid program was expanded to include children with household incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level, and pregnant mothers and children up to age one in households with income at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level.
With a grant (ID# 035737) under the RWJF national program, Covering Kids® (now called Covering Kids and Families®), the state is working on pilot programs to remove systemic barriers to enrolling children in health coverage programs.
Iowa DHS also is considering attempting to obtain a Medicaid waiver to allow families to choose between Medicaid and hawk-i, instituting electronic applications and allowing SCHIP funds to be used to purchase insurance from employers when parents have this option.
www.rwjf.org /reports/grr/033210.htm   (1532 words)

  
 The Harlan Tribune - Harlan awarded $200,000 Iowa West grant
HARLAN -- The City of Harlan has been awarded a $200,000 grant from the Iowa West Foundation, to be used for its College Park Plaza project in southwest Harlan.
The grant is part of a total $3.3 million in grants announced and awarded by the foundation last week, and given to 45 nonprofit and governmental groups across southwest Iowa.
DevelopSource, Iowa Western, Harlan Community Schools, the City of Harlan and the Harlan Industrial Foundation are partnering to develop the campus, with each expected to bring something to the table.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=17737834&BRD=901&PAG=461&dept_id=130069&rfi=6   (718 words)

  
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This is a grant provided by the Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service and administered by Iowa State University Extension, 4-H Youth Development.
Youth grant recipients from previous year can qualify for a grant this year, but only if it is a totally new or different project and previous grant report was submitted on time.
Grant money should not be used for refreshments, recognition material, or given as a cash donation for another fundraiser.
www.extension.iastate.edu /4H/Documents/IowasPromiseDescription.doc   (1066 words)

  
 Prevent Child Abuse Iowa Council Connection Newsletter
The revised budget must detail how the actual grant award will be spent for grant awards that are less than seventy percent (70%) of the request.
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa received notice on June 15 that it was approved for a $15,000 grant from Prevent Child Abuse America to implement a new prison-based, dads education program, using the Nurturing Fathers curriculum.
PCA Iowa is currently in the process of hiring a director to oversee the program.
www.pcaiowa.org /council_connection_newsletter.html   (990 words)

  
 Gladbrook, Iowa, Corn Dryer Will Benefit Co-Op - Science - RedOrbit
Local grants ranged from $6,930 to $26,896 to area farmers and $143,987 to Mid-Iowa.
The intent of the grant is to help reduce the country's energy consumption and improve net farm income.
Besides grain dryers, the energy efficiency grants could be used to replace livestock building fans, heaters or insulation upgrades.
www.redorbit.com /news/science/345067/gladbrook_iowa_corn_dryer_will_benefit_coop/index.html?source=r_science   (918 words)

  
 Northwestern College | Financial aid | Grants
The Federal Pell Grant is a program that makes funds available to eligible students who demonstrate financial need.
The Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant is available to a limited number of undergraduate students who demonstrate significant financial need and who also qualify for a Federal Pell Grant.
The Iowa Tuition Grant provides funds to Iowa residents who attend a private college in the state.
www.nwciowa.edu /financialaid/grants/default.aspx   (198 words)

  
 NPR : 'American Gothic', Present at the Creation
Traveling the Iowa landscape in the summer of 1930, Wood happened upon a house in Eldon that caught his fancy.
Grant Wood, right, and fellow artist John Steuart Curry in Stone City, Iowa, in the summer of 1933.
Bruce Thiher is the current tenant of the house in Eldon, Iowa, that served as the backdrop of American Gothic.
www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/americangothic   (1086 words)

  
 Iowa Women's Archives: Christine Grant papers
Grant’s involvement as an expert witness can be viewed in her briefs, notes and other material used during her testimony, depositions, and expert reports.
Grant’s resource files consist of articles, facts and figures that she used in speeches and publications, and a book about women’s athletics that is shelved with the printed works collection in the Iowa Women’s Archives: Silver Era Golden Moments: A Celebration of Ivy League Women’s Athletics (1999) by Lynn Page Whittaker and Daniel H. Rosenthal.
Grant’s involvement in a variety of professional organizations is documented in the Professional and Political Involvement series (1971-2002), which consists of constitutions, by-laws, handbooks, publications, studies, reports, position papers, and other material pertaining to the organizations.
sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /iwa/findingaids/html/GrantChristine.htm   (4317 words)

  
 Grant Iowa news and politics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
this section is devoted to providing general interest news about local politics as well as election information and candidate biographies and platforms for voters in the Grant IA area and other cities around the world..
Grant IA elections and historical campaign strategies and results might be too specific though..
ABSTRACT OF PAGE CONTENT -- provides an overview and quick entry points for websites and links regarding Iowa which may include grant ia, Iowa politics and campaign guides and resources, as well as information on finding people interested in political action in Iowa with specific area trageted to grant ia, Iowa.
www.california-recall.com /z-news.cgi?w=Grant+IA   (225 words)

  
 Grant, Iowa
Grant, Iowa, in Montgomery county, is 46 miles E of Council Bluffs, Iowa (center to center) and 50 miles E of Omaha, Nebraska.
Grant is one of those places you go to when you're already married, not to find someone.
Grant is noted for its large share of males.
www.citytowninfo.com /places/iowa/grant   (370 words)

  
 Grant Iowa Process Servers - ServeNow.com
The Grant Iowa process servers on ServeNow.com offer a number of services related to civil procedure and service of process aside from just legal document delivery in Grant.
Grant Process Servers make daily trips to County Courts, Iowa County Clerks, Grant Municipal Courts, Grant Criminal Courts, Iowa Supreme Courts and Iowa Courts of Appeals.
Service of process is the delivery of these Iowa legal documents such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, orders to show cause, writs and other court documents.
www.serve-now.com /process-server/Iowa/Grant   (360 words)

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