• Thumbnail for What Cheer, Iowa
    What Cheer (/hwəˈtʃɪər, hwʌtˈtʃɪər, ˈhwɒtʃɪər, ˈhwættʃɪər/) is a city in Keokuk County, Iowa, United States. It is a former coal town, and from the 1870s...
    28 KB (3,298 words) - 23:32, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for B. J. Palmer
    B. J. Palmer (category People from What Cheer, Iowa)
    of Daniel David Palmer (or "D.D."), the founder of chiropractic, in What Cheer, Iowa, The Palmer family of six resided in the back of a grocery store that...
    10 KB (1,234 words) - 14:26, 5 October 2024
  • Edward Arthur Thomas (category High school football coaches in Iowa)
    Authrine and Roy Thomas in 1950. He was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa and raised in What Cheer, Iowa. He played football; his position was quarterback. Thomas...
    7 KB (713 words) - 01:02, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Betty De Boef
    Betty De Boef (category People from What Cheer, Iowa)
    February 19, 1951) is an American politician in the state of Iowa. A Republican, she served in the Iowa House of Representatives for the 96th district from 2001...
    4 KB (266 words) - 14:53, 12 October 2024
  • Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (category Novels set in Iowa)
    been based on real people. She also said that she had thought that What Cheer, Iowa was a fictional place. The following brief summaries refer to the "core"...
    14 KB (1,879 words) - 02:34, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Hayes (unionist)
    Frank Hayes (unionist) (category People from What Cheer, Iowa)
    Governor of Colorado in 1937–39. He was born in the coal mining town of What Cheer, Iowa, in 1882, but moved with his family as a boy to Illinois. At the age...
    19 KB (2,565 words) - 20:04, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chester Wilson Emmons
    everywhere. Chester Wilson Emmons was born on August 21, 1900, in What Cheer, Iowa, to Wilson Thomas and Amy Penrose Emmons, was the eldest of their five...
    16 KB (1,722 words) - 12:14, 28 May 2024
  • trade books: Between Gravity and What Cheer: Iowa Photographs and Driving a Table Down, both from the University of Iowa Press. In 2010, the band got back...
    6 KB (793 words) - 17:48, 25 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Spring Valley, Illinois
    director of the Chicago and North Western railroad, Mr. Taylor of What Cheer, Iowa, and William L. Scott of Erie, Pennsylvania. Scott was a United States...
    21 KB (2,073 words) - 20:44, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Masonic Opera House
    Masonic Opera House (category National Register of Historic Places in Keokuk County, Iowa)
    Masonic Opera House, also known as the What Cheer Opera House, is a historic building located in What Cheer, Iowa, United States. It is a Romanesque Revival...
    2 KB (155 words) - 14:17, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Keokuk County, Iowa
    unusual in that it has two county fairs. The Keokuk County Fair is held in What Cheer and immediately followed by the Keokuk County Expo which is held in Sigourney...
    18 KB (1,218 words) - 09:36, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whatcheeria
    Whatcheeria (category Natural history of Iowa)
    What Cheer, Iowa, the hometown of Pat McAdams, the geologist who discovered the first skeletons of the animal. The species is named after Delta, Iowa...
    14 KB (1,528 words) - 05:52, 11 May 2024
  • aforementioned CRI&P lines: Muscatine to Montezuma, Iowa Junction (near Riverside) to Iowa City, and Thornburg to What Cheer. It planned to convert from steam to gas-electric...
    5 KB (670 words) - 02:00, 8 March 2020
  • Thumbnail for Interstate 80 in Iowa
    continues east. In eastern Iowa, it provides access to the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Northwest of the Quad Cities in Walcott is Iowa 80, the world's largest...
    62 KB (5,575 words) - 20:05, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kalona, Iowa
    Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch from Iowa City to What Cheer via Kalona in 1879. Kalona was established by the railroad on August...
    13 KB (1,331 words) - 04:31, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iowa's 12th Senate district
    The 12th District of the Iowa Senate is located in southern Iowa, and is currently composed of Adair, Clarke, Decatur, Lucas, Madison, and Wayne counties...
    18 KB (158 words) - 07:34, 28 September 2024
  • Category:Masonic buildings in Indiana) (compare to 7 in Category:Masonic buildings in Iowa) (compare to 3 in Category:Masonic buildings in Kansas) (compare to 12 in...
    240 KB (4,094 words) - 17:16, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for December 1900
    school children had drowned the night before while ice skating near What Cheer, Iowa, though many emphasized that it was unconfirmed. By afternoon, the...
    35 KB (4,547 words) - 22:25, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iowa's 13th Senate district
    The 13th District of the Iowa Senate is located in southern Iowa, and is currently composed of Davis, Monroe and Wapello Counties, and portions of Appanoose...
    15 KB (167 words) - 05:37, 29 March 2024
  • (Calumet, Michigan) What Cheer Opera House (What Cheer, Iowa) Grand Opera House (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) Pella Opera House (Pella, Iowa) Pabst Theater (Milwaukee...
    16 KB (1,408 words) - 13:28, 11 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brock Purdy
    Brock Purdy (category Iowa State Cyclones football players)
    of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa State Cyclones and was selected by the 49ers with the final pick in the 2022...
    72 KB (6,216 words) - 22:57, 11 October 2024
  • rural public school district based in Thornburg, Iowa, and serves the towns of Thornburg, What Cheer, Keswick, and Gibson and surrounding areas in eastern...
    6 KB (504 words) - 22:27, 19 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iowa Highway 21
    intersecting Iowa 92. It proceeds through What Cheer before intersecting Iowa 22 west of Thornburg. It continues north to Deep River where it intersects Iowa 85...
    5 KB (285 words) - 03:37, 1 January 2023
  • Haerle began teaching in 1961 at Tri-County Community Schools in What Cheer, Iowa, where he was the Instrumental music director for elementary, junior...
    10 KB (1,135 words) - 08:53, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Iowa Highway 85
    Created in 1920 as a spur route connecting What Cheer to Primary Road No. 2, it is an original route in the Iowa primary highway system. In the early 1930s...
    6 KB (602 words) - 22:26, 14 March 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of cities in Iowa
    Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States. As of 2010, there are 943 incorporated cities in the U.S. state of Iowa. According to the 2020...
    228 KB (639 words) - 21:00, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thornburg, Iowa
    Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway built a 66-mile branch to What Cheer via Thornburg in 1879. The town was founded by the railroad and named...
    11 KB (1,052 words) - 23:24, 14 October 2024
  • Americans in the United States have resided in what is now Iowa for thousands of years. The written history of Iowa begins with the proto-historic accounts of...
    62 KB (8,531 words) - 23:32, 11 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Riverside, Iowa
    from Iowa City to What Cheer via Riverside in 1879. Riverside was just west of Iowa Junction, where the lines east to Muscatine and north to Iowa City...
    17 KB (1,768 words) - 06:16, 15 August 2024
  • Frank Luther Mott (category University of Iowa faculty)
    was born in Rose Hill, Iowa. His parents were Mary E. (Tipton) and David Charles Mott, publishers of the weekly What Cheer, Iowa Patriot. The Mott family...
    12 KB (1,501 words) - 00:20, 28 February 2024