| LC control no. | n 80070611 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Yoder, Don |
| Associated place | Philadelphia (Pa.) Chicago (Ill.) |
| Located | Devon (Pa.) |
| Birth date | 1921-08-27 |
| Death date | 2015-08-11 |
| Place of birth | Altoona (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Pennsylvania Dutch--Social life and customs--Research United States--Social life and customs--Study and teaching |
| Affiliation | University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | His Pennsylvania spirituals, 1961. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 8/27/21) Philly.com, via WWW, Aug. 19, 2015 (in obituary posted Aug. 18, 2015: Don Yoder; Univ. of Pa. prof. of folklife for 40 yrs.; died Aug. 11; he was less than three weeks from his 94th birthday, Aug. 27; lived in Devon; born in Altoona; devoted to the history of Pennsylvania, especially the folkways of the Pennsylvania Dutch; Ph.D in religious studies from the University of Chicago in 1947; joined the Penn faculty in 1956; father of the folklife movement in America; founded the first folklife studies program in the U.S.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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