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BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN
PARKER
1833 - 1916
BECAUSE I LIVE, YE SHALL
LIVE ALSO.
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MARGARET
GWIN
PARKER
PASSED AWAY JAN.29, 1924
"I AM THE RESURRECTION AND
THE LIFE"
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Taken from pp. 41 and 42 of
Volume IV of
A
Narrative History of The People of Iowa
WITH SPECIAL TREATMENT OF
THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN EDUCATION,
RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSYRY, BUSINESS,
ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the Historical, Memorial and
Art Department of Iowa
The American Historical
Society, Inc., Chicago and New York,
publishers, 1931
ROBERT S. MOTH,
physician and surgeon, has practiced at
Council Bluffs since 1910, coming to
Iowa after several years of successful
experience in his profession in Chicago,
where his father was long an honored
representative of the medical
profession.
Dr. Moth was borh in the Chicago
suburban community of Winnetka, December
26, 1881, son of Dr. Morris J. and Lora
(Shibley) Moth. His father was
born on a Wisconsin farm and his mother
in the City of Albany, New York.
Dr. Morris J. Moth was a graduate of
Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago and
for several years a member of its
faculty. He practiced his
profession in Chicago for
a
quarter
of
a century. He was a Republican in
politics, a member of the Masonic
fraternity and the Congregational
Church. There were three children:
Harriett, wife of Willis S.
Hilpert, a doctor of philosophy and a
chemical engineer
living
at
Winnetka, Illinois; Dr. Robert S.; and
Margery, wife of Dr.
James P. McCormick, a physician at
Edmonton, Canada.
Robert S. Moth attended school in
Chicago, for two years was a student in
the University of Chicago,
and in 1905 graduated M. D. from the
Hahnemann Medical
College. He was engaged in
practice in that city, and from 1906 to
1910 practiced at New
Orleans. In the latter year he came to
Council Bluffs, where he
has built up a fine reputation as a man
of ability in the field of general
practice. He is a member of the
Pottawattamie County, Iowa State and American
Medical Associations.
Dr. Moth married in 1912 Miss Myrtle A.
Moore, who was born in
Iowa and educated in the
State University. Her father, Harry G.
Moore is an Iowa banker.
Dr. and Mrs. Moth have one son, Robert S.
Moth, Jr., born in
1920. Mrs. Moth is
a member of the Episcopal Church, while
he belongs to the Congregational Church
and
is
a
York and Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner, both being members of
the
Eastern
Star.
He also belongs to Lodge No. 531, B. P.
O. Elks.
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| Name: |
Robert
Shibley
Moth [i.e., Jr.]
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| Birth Date: |
30 May 1920 |
| Birth Place: |
Council Bluffs,
Pottawattamie Iowa |
| Father's Name: |
Robert Shibley Moth |
| Mother's Name: |
Myrtle Alzora Moth |
| FHL Film Number: |
1479597 |
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MRS.
ROBERT MOTH
In simple church rites, Miss Hilary
Chappell, daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. P. H. Chappell of Stourbridge,
England, and Mr. Robert Moth, son of
Mrs. Moth and the late Dr. Robert Moth
of Council Bluffs, were married
December 26
[1946] in St. Paul's
Episcopal church, Council Bluffs.
The single
ring ceremony was conducted by the
Rev. Albert Baker, in the presence of
50 guests. Nuptial music was furnished
by Miss Gertrude Wieth, who played an
organ prelude, and Miss Marion Hansen
who sang "O Perfect Love."
Miss
Chappell was given in marriage by the
Rev. C. Carson Bransby, a former
fellow-countryman. Her suit of white
wine wool was accented with a shell-
pink chiffon ascot, and a toque of
pink and rose flowerets. She wore a
corsage of orchid and white heather
from England.
Her
matron of honor. Mrs. J. B. Petrus,
Jr., of Council Bluffs, wore a suit of
pastel mint green, with a dark green
hat trimmed in white roses. Her
corsage was pink carnations. Mr. Daryl
R. Mason of Omaha was best man.
Mrs.
Robert Moth, Sr., entertained the
guests at a reception at Hotel
Chieftan, following the ceremony. The
couple will make their home in North
Liberty.
Mrs.
Moth received an A. R- C. A. degree
from the Royal College of Art in
London. Mr. Moth, who is a
student in the State University of
Iowa, is affiliated with Sigma Nu
fraternity. He recently was discharged
from the service after three years,
spent mostly in England with the
Office of Strategic Service.
Mrs. Moth worked in the same office
for eight months, and also did
camouflage work for the British.
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RICHARD
W. BARGER
NOV. 11, 1848
FEB 11, 1927
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ISABEL M.
BARGER
AUG. 30, 1879
MAY 22, 1926
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Harry
G. Moore
Harry G. Moore,
founder and promoter of the Wellman
Savings Bank, and a prominent
representative of financial interests
in Washington County, has, in an
active and useful life fraught with
success, manifested much of the spirit
of the initiative. He has
quickly recognized opportunities and
moreover, has displayed ability in
coordinating forces whereby practical
results have been achieved and
business enterprise has been advanced.
Mr. Moore is
a native of Leavenworth, Kansas, born
October 28, 1860. His father, Ephraim Moore,
was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and was
of German descent. He [i.e.,
Ephraim] learned
and followed the carpenter's trade,
being thus identified with building
interests in Iowa in early
manhood. He[i.e., Ephraim]
had come to
this state in his childhhod days with
a brother, settling in Burlington, and
it was there that he acquainted
himself with carpentering. He
afterward spent ten years in the mines
of California and was quite successful
in his search for gold on the Pacific
coast.
Returning by way of New York, he
[i.e., Ephraim]
again made his
way westward to Burlington, where he
remained until 1858, when he went to
Kansas, where he [i.e., Ephraim]
met and married
Miss Margaret Gwin.
For a number of years he [i.e., Ephraim]
continued a
resident of the Sunflower State, but
in 1875 returned to Burlington, where
he spent his remaining days. He
was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church and an active worker
for its growth and upbuilding.
In his fraternal relations he was a
Mason and in his political views was
an earnest republican. He held
minor civil offices and was a member
of the border militia at Leavenworth
at the time of the Civil War.
His life was one of activity, and his
enterprise and determination were the
salient features in the success which
he enjoyed. He died in
Burlington in 1878 at the age of fifty
years.
His wife was born in Washington
County, Iowa, in April 1845, and is a
daughter of Richard
Gwin, *a
native of England, who came to the
United States when a young man and
first settled in Virginia.
Subsequently he became a resident
of Tennessee.
He married Miss
Nancy Watkins, of English
descent, who lived in Kentucky at the
time of her marriage. Mr. and
Mrs. Gwin, removing to Iowa in 1840,
settled in Washington County, their
home being in English River
Township. He entered a tract of
land there from the government and
although not a furrow had been turned
or an improvement made thereon at the
time, he transferred the wild land
into productive fields and resided
there for eighteen years. He
then went to Kansas, where he spent
his remaining days. He and his
wife were among the earliest settlers
of Washington County and of the state
were closey connected with the
substantial development of
southeastern Iowa. Their daughter
Margaret became the wife of Ephraim Moore,
and they traveled life's journey
together until
separated by his death in 1878.
There were two [JMG
Note--23
Jul 2020:
I concur with two. For the
longest time I thought there
were three kids, but see my note
above.] children
of that marriage: Harry G. and Isabel,
now the wife of R. W. Barger,
one of Chicago's prominent
attorneys. Since the death of
her first husband, Mrs. Moore has
become the wife of Dr. B. F. Parker,
to whom she gave her hand in
1892. They now reside in
Independence, Missouri.
In the public schools of Olathe,
Kansas, Harry G. Moore acquired his
early education and continued his
studies in the public schools and in
the business college in
Burlington. He afterward spent
two years in the State University and
for one year engaged in teaching
school. During the periods of
vacation he learned and followed the
upholsterer's trade in Burlington,
working in that line for some time in
Burlington and in Des Moines. In
1885, however, he entered into active
relations with the banking business,
becoming connected with the Merchants
National Bank of Des Moines in the
capacity of clerk. His close
application and the ability with which
he discharged his duties won him
promotion from time to time until he
became assistant of that
institution.
On the 1st of April, 1888, he
arrived in Wellman, where he
established a private bank, which was
designated as the Wellman Bank, and
which had a continuous existence until
September 1889. He has organized
a savings bank with a capital of ten
thousand dollars and is still engaged
in the banking business as cashier of
the Wellman Savings Bank He has
had almost a quarter of a century's
experience in this field of labor and
ranks with the leading financiers of
the county, having intimate and
comprehensive knowledge of the best
methods of carrying on the business
and supervising the interests of the
depositors, while at the same time he
wins success for the
stockholders. In addition to his
other business interests, he is
connected with the Wellman Telephone
Exchange, of which he is the
president, and he owns three hundred
acres of valuable land in Lime Creek
Township.
On November 20, 1888, Mr. Moore
was united in marriage to Miss Minnie B. Kerr,
who was born in English River
Township, Washington County, in
1864. She is a daughter of W. E. and Violet
(Bush) Kerr. Her
father, well known as Squire Kerr,
is one of Washington's most prominent
citizens. Unto Mr. and Mrs.
Moore has been born one child, Myrtle,
whose birth occurred in September
1890. She is a graduate of the
Wellman High School of the class of
1907, and afterward pursued a year's
course in St. Katherine's School for
Young Ladies at Davenport, while for
the past year she has been a student
in Oberlin College of Ohio. She
has decided talent for music, which
she is cultivating.
In his fraternal relation, Mr.
Moore is a Knight of Pythias, while
politically he is connected with the
Republican Party and religiously with
the Baptist Church, being one of the
trustees of the last named
organization. His interest in
community affairs has been
far-reaching and beneficial. For
about twenty years he has been
president of the school board, and the
cause of education has found in him a
stalwart champion. He was mayor
of Wellman for several terms, during
which period his championship of
various measures proved of decided
benefit to the city. He is a
strong advocate of reform and
progress, at all times exerting his
official prerogatives for the public
good, and he is now a member of the
town council. He has always
taken a deep interest in political
affairs and in everything relative to
the city's upbuilding and is now
chariman of the finance and water
commissions. He was chairman of
the county republican committee for
some years and in the connection
displayed excellent powers as a
manager. He is president of the
Wellman Commercial Club, and in social
relations, his position is an enviable
one. Energetic, prompt, and
notably reliable, he has placed his
dependence upon the substantial
qualities of unfaltering industry and
determination in the acquirement of
success and in control of public
affairs. Faultless in honor,
fearless in conduct, and stainless in
reputation, his record is one which
reflects credit upon the history of
his adopted county.
From A
History of Washington County,
Iowa, from the first white...,
Volume 2, p. 466-468
*The material above
in this yellow box, above, which
is underlined, in
italics, and in this purple color,
is refuted by
evidence and has been proven by
John M. Gwin to be not true.
Instead, we know that Richard was the
son of Rev. Isham Gwin and Mary Ann
Canterbury.
This couple met and married in Montgomery
Co., VA,
before moving to their
249-acre farm in what would
become Sevier Co., TN, where Richard
was born in 1804 and raised.
When
Isham and Mary moved to the free state
of Indiana, Richard
met
and married Nancy Watkins of Kentucky
before beginning his
westward
pioneering
ventures into Iowa and eastern Kansas.
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| From the 1856
Iowa State Census of English River,
Washington Co., IA |
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Res/Fam
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Name
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Age
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Race/Sex
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Marr.
Status
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Yrs.Res.
in state
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POB
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Occ.
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Other
Data
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John M.
Gwin Comments
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68/71
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R. W. Gwin
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52
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wm
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m
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20
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IL
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farmer
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This enumerator must
not have communicated very well, because
he reports that Richard and Nancy both
said they were born in Illinois. The truth
is that they had MOVED to Iowa FROM
Illinois, but he was born in Tennessee,
and she was born in Kentucky.
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Nancy Gwin |
49
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wf
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m
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20
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IL
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Margaret Gwin |
14 or
16 |
wf
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14
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IA
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This
is our Margaret Marshall Gwin Moore Dillon
Parker before any of her three marriages.
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Caroline Gwin |
12
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wf
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12
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IA
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Anna Gwin |
10
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wf
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10
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IA
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Richard Gwin |
8
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wm
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8
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IA
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Martin Gwin |
7
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wm
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7
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IA
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Silas W. Gwin |
6
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wm
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6
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IA
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66/69
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Gideon Bear
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45
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wm
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17
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PA
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farmer
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Mary Bear |
31
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wf
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19
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IL
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This is Richard's
and Nancy's firstborn, Mary, and her
husband Gideon and their family of seven
to date.
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William Bear |
13
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wm
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13
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IA
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Elizabeth Bear |
11
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wf
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11
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IA |
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Samuel
Bear |
8
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wm
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8
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IA |
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Margaret Bear |
7
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wf
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7
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IA |
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Richard Bear |
5
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wm
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5
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IA |
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Nancy Bear |
2
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wf
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2
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IA |
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Gideon Bear |
1
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wm
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1
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IA |
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RICHARD W. BARGER
