Wapello County IA Archives Biographies.....Crips, Simon P. 1857 - 
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Author: S. J. Clarke, Publisher

SIMON P. CRIPS.

Simon P. Crips, manager of the freight department of the transfer business of
which he was so long one of the proprietors, is well known not only in Ottumwa
but throughout this section of the state. He was born in Wapello county, June 3,
1857, and is a brother of W. S. Crips, in connection with whose sketch on
another page of this work the family history is given. He continued at home
until twenty years of age and afterward spent one year in Kansas. Subsequently
he returned to Wapello county, where he entered the employ of his brother in the
transfer business, remaining in that connection until the fall of 1883, when he
went to Lucas county, Iowa, where he conducted a depot lunch counter, spending
two and a half years in that way. Later he returned again to Ottumwa and
purchased a third interest in the transfer business, thus becoming a partner of
his brother W. S. Crips. Through an extended period they conducted a successful
business, having a liberal patronage. They conducted both the bus and freight
lines and their interests were of an extensive character, but in June, 1913,
they sold out, although Simon P. Crips remained with the business as manager of
the freight department, thus insuring continued success in that connection.

It was on the 23d of February, 1886, that Mr. Crips was united in marriage to
Miss Anna V. Jeffries, daughter of B. W. and Mary Jeffries, and they have become
parents of two children. Lena Marie was graduated in music from the Ottumwa
Conservatory and is also a graduate of Mt. Pleasant College at Mount Pleasant,
Iowa. For some time she engaged in teaching. She is now the wife of C. A.
Palmquist, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Harold Jeffries is a graduate of the high school
of Ottumwa and is now associated with the Courier.

In politics Mr. Crips has always been a stalwart republican but the honors and
emoluments of office have had no attraction for him. He holds membership with
the Modern Woodmen of America and the Royal Arcanum, and his wife is a member of
the P. E. O. and of the Women's Club of Ottumwa. They both hold membership in
the Methodist Espicopal church, and Mr. Crips is serving on its official board.
In the work of the church they are actively and helpfully interested and make
generous contributions to its support. They own a fine residence on Chester
avenue, and the hospitality of the best homes of the city is cordially extended
them.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:
HISTORY OF WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
CHICAGO
THE S. J. CLARKE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1914


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