As a young woman, she attended Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, Iowa, first as a preparatory student in 1898–99, and then as a collegiate student from 1899 to 1902.22Archival records at Buena Vista University indicate that Nelle Peters (then Nelllie A. Nichols) only attended three years of the college program and did not graduate with a degree. Kristie Spotts (Director of Alumni Engagement, Buena Vista College), email to Mary McLeod, February 18, 2021. She had no interest in taking a busi...
