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 WILLIAM M. PLIMPTON, physician and surgeon, has been a valuable representative of his profession at Glenwood for over thirty years. Doctor Plimpton has been a very busy doctor, but has also manifested a keen interest in the affairs of his community and has filled several positions requiring his time and involving responsibilities outside of his routine professional duties. Doctor Plimpton was born at Brooklyn, New York, September 20, 1869, a son of Edward S. and Selina J. (Bind) Plimpton. His parents were natives of Massachusetts. His father came west and settled in Iowa in 1854, and for a number of years was a merchant at Denison. Later he and his wife moved to Salida, Colorado, and spent their last years in the home of their daughter at Des Moines. They were Baptists, and were prominent workers in their church at Denison. Edward S. Plimpton was a Republican, served as city treasurer at Dension and was president of the school board for a number of years. There were seven children in the family: Carrie M., the oldest, is the wife of E. T. Fegtly, a retired Methodist minister at Des Moines; Edward S., Jr., died at Salida, Colorado, at the age of fifty-four; Lillian M. married H. S. Black, a Baptist minister, who died at Tacoma, Washington, where she continues to make her home; Dr. William M., is the fourth in age; Robert P. is also a physician, located at Denison; George B. died at Denison when a child; and Elifleda M. is the wife of Albert H. Fisher, head of the Fisher Planing Mills at Stockton, California. Dr. William M. Plimpton completed his high school education at Denison and completed his literary training in Des Moines University, from which he holds two degrees, A. B. and A. M. In 1896 he was graduated M. D. from the Chicago Medical College, and in the spring of the same year located at Glenwood and has been away from his work and the duties of his home community only for short periods of time, including visits to schools and hospitals for post-graduate study and observation. He has one diploma for eye, ear, nose and throat work at Chicago. Doctor Plimpton has been a prominent specialist in o bstetrics. He married, October 1, 1896, Miss Laura Bartlett, of Wayne, Nebraska, where she finished her high school course and later attended Des Moines University. Doctor and Mrs. Plimpton have five children: Ruth J., the wife of Capt. E. L. Homdahl, and teaching at Fullerton, California, where she has charge of the commercial department; Edwin B., a practicing orthopedic surgeon at Los Angeles; Lorna M., wife of John M. Dodds, who is associated with the Pure Oil Company at Cincinnati, Ohio; Helen F., a teacher of commercial and junior business at the schools in Beaumont, California; and Leslie Merrill, a senior student in the University of Nebraska. Doctor Plimpton is a Baptist, is affiliated with the Masonic Lodge and Royal Arch Chapter, the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and is a Republican. For four years he served as mayor of Glenwood and for twelve years was on the school board, being president of the board the last year. He was one of the organizers and is a director of the Glenwood State Bank, and is a charter member of the board of directors and vice president of the Glenwood Building & Loan Association. He is a charter member of the Glenwood Rotary Club and served one year as it's president. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa History Project _http://iagenweb.org/history/_ (http://iagenweb.org/history/) Scott County, Iowa _http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm_ (http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/index.htm) **************Make your life easier with all your friends, email, and favorite sites in one place. Try it now. (http://www.aol.com/?optin=new-dp&icid=aolcom40vanity&ncid=emlcntaolcom00000010)