The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-10-27
{. s. PLIhPTON
BURIED IN DENISON
One of the First of the Early Settlers,
Coming to Crawford County Be
fore Demson Was Laid Out
WAS THIRTY YEARS IN BUSINESS
Served the City Of Deilison for Twelve
Years as Treasurer, Eight Years
rs Township Trustee til

f. S. Plimpton. for many years. q
prominent citizen and business man Of
Denison, died at the home Of his
daughter. Mrs. p. 7. Fegtlsy, at lo4e
Tuesday. Oct 10, 1920, aged "a yoars
and 16 days. The remains were brought
to Denison and buried in Oakland ceni-
etery on Thursday OF last week. Sor.
vices We're held at the Baptist church,
and We're similar TO the services read
at the time Of Mrs. Plimpton's death g
number OF years ago. The pail hear
ers We're old friends of Mr.. PlimptOn
and We're: NJ. l.. Jones, Sears McHenrY,
H. A. Norman, Chas.. X. Meyers, II. r..
Morrow and Fl. Bealdsley. The chill
tllcn present at the funeral were Rcy.g
L. Il. Fegtley and wife and three chill
dren, of Des Moines; DR.. Vim. M.
Plimpton, wife and daughter. Of Glen
wood, and Dr.. 4. +. Plimpton and wife.
OF Denison Mrs. Plimpton. wife by
second marriage. was detained ut tho
home in Ware, Mass, owing to age and
infirmities.
Mr.. Plimpt0n was the last survivor
of the group of settlers who came tn
Crawford county before the city OF
Denison was laid out, he having arriv-
ed here May 10, 1857. He was especial
~ associated with j. w. DenlsOn. Nor
ris McHenry. Henry G. Lnub. Isaac
Goodrich, Joseph Brogden, John Purdy,
JOhn IL. baSSetl, alDeFts =, Esonu, JUS
eph u. Seagrave.
He was the eldest son Of Silas w.
Plimpton. Sr., and Lois Taft Seagrslyc,
and was born in Dudley. Mass, Oct. 4.
1885. When he was youth the fnmlty.
removed to Providence. r. l., Where hs,
took the high school course, and then
became a clerk in the Marine bank. He
was promoted to teller and served near,
~ four years He came to Iowa under
the auspices of j. w. Denison, agent
and promoter of the Providence West
ern Land Co.. corporation that had
located large tract of government
land in Crawford county.
Arriving here Mr.. PlimptOn was CTn-
ployed by Mr.. Denison at various kinds
of work that a pioneer must do, patN
ticularly in connection with Morris Me-
Henry in surveying and plating tho.
proposed town, which was TO be named
Denison after it's founder. The winter
of $3.50 he taught the only school then
in the county, at MasOn's grove, IN ~
log school house. .l.5
Mr.. Plimpton was married Oct. IL,
1859, to Miss sel Ina zsOas<l. Vlis:sl
the indian troubles came in 1852 :Afs
most all the settlers fed for their live9.
and the region became again almost
without inhabitants. Il. 81. sc
to Providence with his wife and dangh-
ter. and in July, 1868, went to New
York city and for seven years was jun
ior member of the firm of Edward Sea-
grave & Co. wool dealers.
In June. 1870. he returned to Denf-
son, and for thirty years carried on q
country store and grain business. His
store was the building that was after
wards owned and occupied as cloth
ing store BY NJ Goldheim. on Main
street. In 1900 Mr.. Plimpton disposed
of his interests in Denison and rem0v-
cd to Salda. Colo, and was II, business
there with his eldest son until the death
of his wife, March S. 1908.
He then returned east and on Oct.
20, 1910 was married to Miss Lucy a.
Tucker. of Ware. Mass. a cousin OF
his wife. and resided there until IN Au-
gust. 1920. being i'll failing health no
ret turned to iowa to spend his last days
in the home Of his daughter, Mrs. Car
rie FcgtlcS, of Des Moines. 81 Y
During all the time of his residences
in Denison he was very prominent IN
all church and civic affairs. He was
church clerk at the organization or the
Denison Baptist church in 1857, ana
was it's Sunday school superintendent
for more than twenty-five years RE
and responsibility, and was for tweive
years a member of the scheol boara;
twelve Years city treasurer, and eight
years township trustee.
His son, Dr. r. =. Plimpton. is the
only one of his seven children who yre-
mains in Denison, their home town.
DIR. w. NJ. Plimpton lives in Glenwood
and his eldest daughter. Carrie Mrs.
Il. r. Fegtlcy). in Des Moines; his sop-
Edward, deceased. lived lii Sallda,
Colo: another son George, died III m
fancy: his daughter Lillian Mrs. Il. 3.
Black lives in Tacoma, WASH, and
Eltie Mrs A. II. Fishei1. lives ~
Stockton, Calf. Two brothers and one
sister Survive him, Silas w. and AZ.
bert j. Plimpton and Mrs. Maria Pal0-
die. all of whom live in Gncinnati. -.
There were fourteen living krandchti.
dren; one. Robert Scarf. eldest son Of
Edward Plhnpton. Jr. was accidentally
killed while in the service of his coiin-
try at Galveston. Texas. during the re-
cent war.