Frank B. Cresswell

CRESSWELL, BRIGGS, SCOTT, PETERS, LAWHEAD, STONE, BURKE

Posted By: Mary Lanigan (email)
Date: 6/2/2008 at 16:06:57

Biography from Wapello County Iowa 1914 page 214

Frank B. Cresswell is a well known figure in insurance circles in this part of the state; having since March 1886 occupied the position of general agent for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company of southeastern Iowa. He makes his home in Ottumwa and is numbered among the native sons of the state; his birth having occured in Bentonsport Van Buren County, on the 2oth of Oct., 1858. His father Robert Cresswell was native of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, born May 30, 1827.

For many years he followed merchandising in Bentonsport and ultimately removed to Ottumwa, taking up his obode here in 1884. He acted as money order clerk in the postoffice while captain Evans was Postmaster and became widely and favorably known in the county seat during the thirty-three years of his residence here.

He married Elizbeth Peters; a native of Virginia, and both passed away in 1907; the former dying on the 17th of March; while Mrs. Cresswell this life in the month of December.

They became the parents of eight children; Anna M., Mary E.; the wife of Dr. W.E. Lawhead of Burlington, Frank B., Carrie the wife of Arthur Stone of Birmingham, Alabama, Lorena; the wife of George Burke of Salt Lake City, Utah, Agnes J. the wife of Joseph Briggs of Birmingham, Alabama, and Charles P., and Robert J,; both of Ottumwa.

When a lad of six summers Frank B. Cresswell became a pupil in the public schools of his native town and there continued his education through successive grades. Eventually he became a salesman in a general store and on the 1st of May 1877, came to Ottumwa where he has since made his home. He is now widely and fovorably known in this city where he has lived for thirty-seven years.

He was first employed as a salesman in a store; Robinson Brothers and later employed by A.D. Moss and afterward by Isreal Brothers; spending six years in these various clerkships.

On the 21t of June 1883, occured the marriage of Mr. Cresswell and Miss Emma F. Scott, who was born in Philadelphia, PA.; the daughter of Mrs. Mary W. Scott a widow; now deceased. Mr. and Mrs Cresswell have became parents of a son Howell S. who is a graduate of Cornell University of Itaca, New York, and who for the past seven years has been in Europe.

Mr. Cresswell is a republican, stalwart in support of the party, yet not an office seeker. He has attained high rank in Masonry, belonging to Empire Lodge, NO. 269 A.F. and A.M.; Clinton Chapter, and Malta Commandery NO. 31 K.T. He has also crossed roads with the Mystic Shrine of Davenport.

Burial
Ottumwa Cemetery
Ottumwa
Wapello County
Iowa, USA
Plot: 221~12
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