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| | UIowa - Papers of Jay Sigmund |
 | | Jay G. Sigmund, author, poet, naturalist, wood carver, taxidermist, and insurance company executive, was born in Waubeek, Iowa, on the eleventh of December, 1885. |
 | | Sigmund recognized the essential kinship between nature and man, the cycle of birth, growth, death, and decay that is common both to the earth and its inhabitants. |
 | | Sigmund had a deep and abiding interest in the Catholic faith especially, and was a frequent visitor of New Melleray Abbey, near Dubuque, and the Sinsinawa Dominicans in southwestern Wisconsin. |
| www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/MSC/ToMsC700/MsC697/sigmund.html (1575 words) |
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