Re: Wilber Clements Obits
CLEMENTS
Posted By: Pat Sincox (email) In Response To: Wilber & Rebecca Clements Obits (Mike Webb)
Date: 11/13/2002 at 15:15:21
OTTUMWA COURIER WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1937 Wilbur Fiske Clements, 87,founder of the Agency Telephone exchange and for sixty years a resident of Agency died at his home there at noon. He had also been township assessor,an Agency city official, a member of the Agency School Board and of the Agency Methodist Episcopal church. He was born in Blooming Grove Ind. November 24, 1849 the son of Richard and Elizabeth Webb Clements. He came to Agency when he was still young attending Agency public schools, later seminary. For a number of years in his early manhood Mr. Clements was a carpenter. From 1878 to 1880 he was in Colorado, during the rush to the lead mining county. After his return to Wapello county he became interested in building. Leaving again in 1902, he spent two years in New Mexico as a mechanical engineer building municipal waterworks gold reduction mills. He had been builder of creamery plants in six different states. Following his return in Wapello county in 1904, Mr Clements became interested in telephone work, established the Agency Exchange which he owned outright. He was married to Rebecca Fair on October 8, 1871. Surviving are his wife Rebecca at home, two daughters Mrs. W H Perdew of Ripley Calif, a former Ottumwan, and Mrs. Lorne Parks of Afton. One son Melville Fiske Clements of St Paul Minn, eleven grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and one sister Miss Mary Clements of Glendora, Calif. The body was brought to the Daggett funeral chapel today pending completion of funeral arrangements.Photo of him in recent fishing trip adjoins obit
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