MOWER COUNTY GENEALOGY

 

 

Biographical Sketch of

Ida Celesta Ferris Waterman
1855 -- 1936

Birth: May, 1855
Death: Jan. 18, 1936

Ida Waterman
Ida was the wife of Frank Bainbridge Waterman. After the death of her husband, Ida was left to support their two little children about ages 8 and 9.

According to the 1900 Federal Census for Choteau, Teton County, Montana,
Frank and Ida Waterman
Ida and her children Dana and Dean were living with her brother Harry Ferris, her widowed sister, Emma J. Bacorn, and Emma's eight year old son Donald.

Ferris Furtney of Austin Minnesota stated that his grandmother, Ida was a Methodist minister and teacher of elocution and physical culture giving programs titled, Elocution, Oratory, Logic and Music for the public.
Ida Waterman Brochure
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