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Pargeter, Frederick V. (1864-1957)
Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1938 Mar 2 p. 6
Birth date: 1864 Mar 19
text of obituary:
Pioneers of Pretty Prairie Give To Bethel College Memorial Fund.
Pictured here are Mr. and Mr. [sic] Frederic [sic Frederick] V. Pargeter of Pretty Prairie, Kansas, who recently made a contribution to Bethel College Memorial fund. They are among the pioneers of central Kansas whom the college will remember by the erection of a $100,000 Memorial hall. A memorial biography (the fourth of a series) of these two friends of Bethel college is printed in this issue of the Review.
Frederick V. and Mary Pargeter.
A Kansas wheat farmer who has travelled widely in Europe, America, and Hawaii, collects antiques, and who first discovered he could paint pictures after he had reched the age of the three-score and eight years is the story in brief of Frederic [sic Frederick] V. Pargeter of Pretty Prairie, Kansas.
A descendant of a line of Englishmen who for generations lived as farmers at Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, Mr. Pargeter was born at Birnmingham, England, on march 19, 1864. His mother was born in the shadow of the famous English Salisbury cathedral at Salisbury.
Names after Frederic [sic Fredrick] the Great of Prussia, young Fred at the age of four crossed the Atlantic ocean in 1869 aboard the "Prussian," a ship of the Cunnard line, with his parents, brothers William and Harry, and sister Ethel.
