Rowland Frederick Philbrook

PHILBROOK, MCALISTER, TAYLOR

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Date: 4/10/2009 at 18:50:03

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

REV. ROWLAND FREDERICK PHILBROOK is a native of Iowa, a cultured and highly
educated clergyman of the Episcopal Church, and is now rector of Trinity
Episcopal Cathedral at Davenport.

Dean Philbrook was born at Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, November 6, 1891,
son of Barnabas Frederick and Ida Mary (McAlister) Philbrook. His mother was
born in Chicago. His father is active of the State of Maine and is now
living at Sioux City, Iowa, being a dentist by profession.

Rowland Frederick Philbrook was a small child when the family moved to
Denison, Crawford County, Iowa, where he grew up, graduating from the Denison High
School. After that he attended the University of Iowa and took his degree
Bachelor of Scared Theology from the Divinity School at Philadelphia in 1917.

He was ordained in Wyoming, in 1917, and had five years of interesting
experience in missionary work in the far western state. While there he was rector
of St. Thomas' Church at Rawlins, and was chaplain of the State
Penitentiary. Returning east, he was rector of St. Mark's Church in Chicago from 1922 to
1924, and from 1924 to 1928 served as rector of St. Luke's Church in
Lebanon, Pennsylvania.

Dean Philbrook came to the Trinity Cathedral at Davenport March 1, 1928,
being installed as rector on the Fourth of March, at which time the honorary
title of dean was conferred upon him. The impressive service was performed by
the Rt. Rev. Theodore Morrison, Episcopal Bishop of Iowa.

Rev. Mr. Philbrook married, in 1920, Miss Gwendolyn Taylor, a native of
Sioux City, Iowa. She is a graduate of Northwestern University of Evanston,
Illinois. They have two sons, James Frederick, born in 1924, and Robert Rowland,
born on Christmas Day, 1927.