Frank Moore Goddard

GODDARD, MOORE, FICKE

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A Narrative History
of
The People of Iowa
with
SPECIAL TREATMENT OF THEIR CHIEF ENTERPRISES IN
EDUCATION, RELIGION, VALOR, INDUSTRY,
BUSINESS, ETC.
by
EDGAR RUBEY HARLAN, LL. B., A. M.
Curator of the
Historical, Memorial and Art Department of Iowa
Volume IV
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc.
Chicago and New York
1931

FRANK MOORE GODDARD is one of the veterans in the service of the Bettendorf
Company, having been with that industrial organization for thirty-two years.
He is traffic manager and purchasing agent, and is one of the active members
of the Bettendorf Loyalty Club, made up of men who have been in the service
of the company for fifteen years or more.

Mr. Goddard represents some of the oldest families in this section of
Eastern Iowa. He was born January 22, 1873, on a farm in Clinton County, just
across the Scott County line, the postoffice of the family being Big Rock, Scott
County. His parents were James Monroe and Sarah E. (Moore) Goddard. His
father was born in the same neighborhood in Clinton County in 1849, a son of
George Goddard and grandson of Eli Goddard. Eli Goddard in 1836 drove a team of
oxen and brought his family from New York State westward, passing through
Chicago, which was unattractive as a town in the swamps, and crossed the
Mississippi River and took up a Government claim in Clinton County. This was only
four years after the Blackhawk Indian war, and the Goddards were among the
first families to venture out onto the frontier line beyond the Mississippi. Eli
Goddard became a conspicuous factor in the early territorial life of Iowa,
and represented Clinton County in the Territorial Legislature, making the trip
to the territorial capital at Iowa City on horseback, riding directly across
the country in the absence of improved roads or railroads. James Monroe
Goddard spent many years at the old home farm and was a breeder of blooded stock
and served for a long time as president of the school board. He is now a
resident of Davenport. His wife, Sarah Moore, was born in Indiana and was two
years of age when her father, Jacob Moore, came from Indiana in a covered
wagon and settled in Cedar County, Iowa, in 1844.

F. Moore Goddard attended country schools while a boy on the farm and
finished his education in the Duncan Business College. From school he entered the
Bettendorf Works at Bettendorf, at first as a stenographer, and has enjoyed a
steady upward climb in that big Iowa industry, which he is now serving as
purchasing agent, traffic manager and general superintendent of stores.

Mr. Goddard married, in 1900, Ella T. Ficke, who is a descendant of some of
the early families of Davenport. They have five children: Florence, a
graduate of Iowa State College of Ames, married Lester Clapp; Austin, a graduate of
the University of Iowa; Robert, taking the law course at the University of
Illinois; Dorothy and James, both in high school.

Mr. Goddard has many interesting social and civic connections. He is former
vice president of the Bettendorf Rotary Club, is a Knight Templar and a
thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and belongs to Zarephath Consistory,
Trinity Lodge No. 208, A. F. and A. M., Webb Council, R. A. M., Muscatine and
Saint Simon of Cyrene Commandery No. 9, Knights Templar, at Davenport, and Kaaba
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Union League of
Chicago, the Davenport Chamber of Commerce and member of its traffic committee, is a
director of the Tri-Cities Traffic Club, member of the Davenport Country
Club, Davenport Outing Club, Y. M. C. A., and the Presbyterian Church. He is
also a member of the Iowa State Historical Society, Iowa City, Iowa, and was a
member of the Home Guard during the World war.