Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-09
Mother Finds
Babe She Gaze
Up Years Ago

Syracuse, N. ". April s.--Ending
a heartrending search OF twenty
| years. Mrs. Ncttie @. Card. OF this
city, has at last found the son whom
she has not seen since he was days
old. aud Is impaIiently waiting until
Saturday, when the son--Carl Fer
suson. now q prosperous young bust
ness man of omaha, Neb.-will ar
rive to clasp his mother in his arms.
Mrs. Cards life has been a series
of tragedies, She was left an orphan
by the death of her father. a civil
War veteran, and her mother. While
still in her teens she vas married TO
William Galloway, of Atlantic, Iowa.
Twenty three years ago the son,
Carl, was born ut Atlantic. The cou-
pie were in desperate straits at the
time. Her husband was seriously iii
and there was no money to support
the new baby.
Had to Give Up Baby.
In her anguish tho mother placed
the baby in the Iowa State Home for
Children at Dcs Moines when he was
6 days old. She has never seen him
since,
Mrs. Galloway and her husband
were divorced and later she married
Ward Card at Atlantic. Another son,
Archie, now young man won the
Distinguished Service Cross overseas
with the sixteenth Infantry, was in
valided homo with gas burns, and is
now stationed at the army recruiting
station here. The husband and ia
Their was killed in 1907 in a railway
accident. and nine years later Mrs.
Card moved here.
The wheel of fortune turned for
Mrs. Card after her second marriage,
and she began the long search for
her first baby. She went to the state
institution at Des Moines and found
that the child had been adopted. but
no record had been left of the family
which took him away.
Secret Seems Lost.
Thru the years Mrs. Card contin-
ued her efforts to find her son, but
disappointment after disappointment
met her attempts. When she was
ready to abandon hope she heard of
a woman at Atlantic who was said
to know the details OF tho child's
adoption. She hurried to Atlantic,
but thewoman was dead. Apparently
the secret of her sons adoption had
been buried with her.
Then came another turn Of fate's
wheel. The boy had been adopted
by w. w. Ferguson, an Omaha bust
ness man. When the boy became of
age his foster father told him who
his real parents were. Immediately
the young man began an investiga-
ton OF his own to find where they
were. He succeeded where his moth
er had failed.
Young Carl Ferguson. or Carl CAL
laway. to give him his real name.
went to Atlantic and took up the
search. His mothers inquiries. help
ed in his search for her. Combing the
records Of the county, Ferguson dis
covered a birth entry. 1t gave his
natal day as July s. 1897.
OF the parents, however, he could
find no taCe. He was told that they
were dead.
Gets Ciew BY Chance.
Then another queer turn of fate
gave Ferguson the clew he needed.
He went into q restaurant for lunch.
The cashier noted his striking resem-
blance to Archie Card. his half
brother, and remarked about it. Fer
guson was at once interested. The
cashier gave him the name of Mrs.
Jennie Jacobson, who is a daughter
Of Mrs. Cards second husband.
Ferguson, tense with excitement
and worry lest this clew also fail
him, went to the Jacobson home, and
there the tangle was quickly I'M
wound.
Ferguson definitely proved his
parentage thru the doctor who had
attended him at birth. and thru j.
F. Byers, a former sheriff, at whose
home he was born.
kilograms were exchanged be-
tween mother and son, and the two
will be united here with the arrival
ably Will return with her son to