Barton Stathem Glaspell

GLASPELL, STATHEM, LYTER

Posted By: Carol Bawden (email)
Date: 3/6/2008 at 14:33:29

[Davenport newspaper 5 Feb 1888] News of the death of Barton Stathen Glaspell who was a resident of Davenport nearly fifty years, was received last evening. The sad intelligence was received by Mrs. Glaspell through a telegram from Bentonville, Benton County, Arkansas to which place he went from this city early last spring to engage in the grain and commission business, leaving his family here until he should become well-established there. His death was sudden--his wife had received no intimation of his illness before the awful tidings of his death came to her. It is believed that heart disease was the fatal ailment.

Mr. Glaspell was born [1832] in Covington, Ky., the son of James and Jane [Stathen] Glaspell, and was about 55 years of age. In 1839 the family came to Davenport, the father becoming one of the prominent and influential citizens of the locality. Both parents died years ago.
Barton was reared in Davenport and received his education here. In his young manhood he went into the grain business and was active in it either for himself or for others through the whole of his residence here excepting during a short period of residence in the western part of the state and during a few years of prosecution of the grocery business on Brady Street. In his early manhood he and Miss Martha Lyter, daughter of the late Samuel Lyter and sister of the Hon. John M. Lyter, were united in marriage. Two children survive, a son Harry, travelling agent for a whilesale grocery house in Chicago, and Miss Bertha whose home is with her mother but who is visiting in Chicago.
Mr. Glaspell was respected as a citizen, was active and industrious in business, upright and honorable, and generous-hearted. He was firm in his convictions and outspoken. Barton Glaspell had many friends and few enemies in this city in which he lived so long. The remains will be brought to Davenport for interment. [Oakdale Memorial Gardens, Sec 2 Lot 168, 2501 Eastern Ave, Davenport, IA 52803]