John Kendrick Bangs was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist.
Kathleen Kirkham Woodruff was an actress on stage and in silent films.
Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller was a Swedish painter whose notable works include Danaë receiving Jupiter in a Shower of Gold.
Ira Cook was an American surveyor, mayor, banker, tax collector, city council member, investor and entrepreneur from Des Moines, Iowa.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Des Moines, Iowa, USA.
Beulah Poynter was an American author, playwright and actor. Though her career touched on Broadway and Hollywood, Poynter was better known for her starring rôles with stock and touring companies and as a prolific author of mystery and romance stories. Poynter was probably best remembered by theatergoers for her title rôle in Lena Rivers, a drama she had reworked for the stage from the novel by Mary J. Holmes.
Jennie McNulty or Jenny McNulty was an American-born British actress. Beginning her career as a Gaiety Girl, she went on to act in featured roles on the London stage in musical theatre around the close of the 19th century, including comic operas and operettas, Victorian burlesques, farces and Edwardian musical comedies.
Woodland Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa, having been established in 1848, before Des Moines was the state capital. It is a municipal cemetery that is owned and operated by the Des Moines Parks and Recreation Department. It covers 69 acres (28 ha) at the corner of 20th Street and Woodland Ave and is the site of over 80,000 graves.
Adelia M. Hoyt was an American librarian, author, and advocate for blind people.
Helen Hughes was an American-Canadian actress who has worked in theatre, television, and film.
Albert Sidney Angeles was a theatre actor and director of silent films. Born in London, he worked in the USA as a writer and director for Vitagraph, later directing for Universal.
Douglas Duer was a painter and illustrator in the United States. He studied with William Merritt Chase and Howard Pyle. Duer worked for various newspapers, illustrated books, did Works Progress Administration assignments during the Great Depression, and created artwork for greeting cards.
Elizabeth Lincoln Gould was an American author of children's books and a playwright. She wrote a pair of plays based on the novels Little Women and Little Men by Louisa May Alcott.
Wuanita Smith was an American painter, printmaker, and illustrator of children's books. Her work is held in the National Portrait Gallery and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Henry Christeen Warnack was a film and theater critic as well as a writer in the United States. He worked for the Los Angeles Times as a drama critic and wrote stories for Fox Film Corporation movies. He was an early film critic. He also wrote for Out West and West Coast Magazine. He lauded the work of John Steven McGroarty.
Walter Archer Frost was an American writer of plays and stories. He served in the U.S. Army. He authored the story the film The Siren was based on. He also wrote the 1925 play Cape Smoke. He also wrote the play the 1929 film Black Magic was based on.
Dorothy Donnell Calhoun was a writer and a magazine editor.
Millicent Evison McEntee was a Shakespearean actress, screenwriter, and novelist.
Joseph Erskine Agnew was a musician, arranger, music store proprietor, and music publisher in Des Moines, Iowa and later Newton, Iowa briefly. He played the mandolin. He became a nationally prominent band music publisher. Sheet music published by his Agnew Music Publishing Company is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Rochester.
Grace Helen Bailey was a writer of stories and song lyrics in the United States. Several of her stories were adapted to film. In 1913 she wrote "Christmas at Ellis Island". She also wrote "The Jew, a tale of San Francisco", "Little Israel, a story of San Francisco", "Kingley's Ride", and "Davie", published in Overland magazine in 1905. She was also published in The Woman's Magazine.
