Shuttleworth Family papers, 9999

Collection context

Creator:
Shuttleworth Family
Extent:
0.48 linear feet (1 flip top box)
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

Documents and mansucripts re the Shuttleworth Family.

Biographical / historical:

W. D. Shuttleworth (Will) was born in Fenimore, Wisconsin, in 1869. His parents came as bride and groom from Yorkshire, England. His mother Nancy Kayley, was born in the Black Horse Inn in Hellefield. His father Craven Shuttleworth, was born on a farm named Wenneber.

As the story was told, young Will cut one of his boots while chopping wood and was punished severely by his father. Will left home the next day and took the train to Sibley, Iowa, which was as far as his money would take him. He walked across the street and got a job in the Shell Lumber Company.

Blanche Sokol was born in Monmouth, Iowa, October 12, 1869. Her father, Francis Sokol, was born in Opochno, Bohemia, in 1841, and came to eastern Iowa with his parents when he was twelve years old. Her mother Anna Bezdichek, was born in Bohemia, in 1850 or 1851, and also came to eastern Iowa as a child. They were married in Baldwin, Jackson County, Iowa, on January 3, 1869. Francis Sokol had gone to California to look for gold as a young man. Later he served as the first mayor of the town of Onslow and served two terms in the Iowa State Legislature.

Blanche attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, and graduated from the Iowa State Normal School in Cedar Falls in 1893, and went to Sibley to teach. She had to buy wood to heat her stove in the place where she lived. She bought her wood in very small quantities so she could go to the lumber yard often, because it was there that she met Will Shuttleworth.

Will moved to Ocheyedan some time later, but returned often to Sibley, where he visited his many friends, the newspaper reported. Blanche became known as "many friends". Blanche and Will were married on June 23, 1896, at her parents' home in Onslow, Iowa. They set up housekeeping in Ocheyedan, in the house Will built for his bride. This home still stands at the corner of 3rd and Poplar. Both of their children were born in this house, Frank on February 16, 1899, and Cravin on July 10, 1900. The boys both started school in Ocheyedan, and remembered sledding on the Mound as children.

Frank Shuttleworth was on the faculty at Yale University and later at the City College of New York. His daughter, Margaret Vernallis, lives in Los Angeles, California; daughter, Nancy Rust, in Seattle, Washington; and daughter, Carol Hake, in Los Altos Hills, California. There are twelve grandchildren of Frank and Beatrice Gates Shuttleworth and six great grandchildren.

Access and use

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Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Shuttleworth Family Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Location of this collection:
6th Floor East Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
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