| Sources:
1. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).
Fred D Morck
Birth: 08 Dec 1885, Denmark; Death:
30 Sep 1938
Marriage: 28 Jan 1915, Plentywood, Sheridan, Montana
Spouse: Hildred Benson
Birth: 1892, Iowa; Death: 1928
Source: patron submission |
Fred D Morck
Birth: 08 Dec 1885, Denmark; Death:
30 Sep 1938
Marriage: 1929, Outlook, Sheridan, Montana
Spouse: Adeline Ordahl
Birth: About 1900, Saint
Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota
Source: patron submission |
2. 1910 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #1 of 24): 322 Battery St., City of Seattle (Ward 6), King
Co., WA, Roll T624_1660, p. 21A, SN 1A, SD 1, ED 116, enumerated 15 Apr
1910, official enumeration date 15 Apr 1910 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| 1910: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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Morch Fred O |
Lodger |
M |
W |
24 |
S |
Den-Danish |
Den-Danish |
Den-Danish |
1904 |
Na |
Eng |
Laborer |
Lumber Mill |
W |
N |
4 |
Y |
Y |
| *Battery St |
One of six unmarried males boarding with a merchant and his family.
Interestingly, one of the other boarders was a real estate agent.
Did he help Fred get his start in real estate?
3. 1920 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #5 of 9): Antelope (Ward 1), School Dist. No. 19, Sheridan
Co., MT, Roll T625_975, p. 200A, SN 4A, SD 2, ED 202, enumerated 12 Jan
1920, official enumeration date 1 Jan 1920 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| 1920: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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Morck Fred D |
Head |
O |
F |
M |
W |
34 |
M |
1904 |
Na |
1914 |
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Y |
Y |
Denmark |
Danish |
Denmark |
Danish |
Denmark |
Danish |
Y |
Resl Estate Loans |
OA |
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_____ Hildred |
Wife |
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27 |
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No Dak |
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Ontario Can |
English |
Ontario Can |
English |
Y |
None |
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_____ Gerald |
Son |
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M |
W |
2 3/12 |
S |
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Y |
Y |
Montana |
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Denmark |
Danish |
No Dak |
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None |
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Bell Roscoe |
Boarder |
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M |
W |
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Missouri |
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Missouri |
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Boarder |
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W |
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S |
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Y |
Y |
Missouri |
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Missouri |
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Missouri |
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Y |
None |
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4. 1930 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com,
Image #2 of 25): Plentywood City (Ward 1), Sheridan Co., MT, Roll
1261, p. 105B, SN 1B, ED 46-16, SD 4, enumerated 4/5 Apr 1930, official
enumeration date 1 Apr 1930 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
| 1930: for an explanation of the column
headings, please see What
the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained
no data). |
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Morck Fredrick D |
Head |
O |
3500 |
R |
N |
M |
W |
44 |
M |
29 |
N |
Y |
DK |
DK |
DK |
Danish |
1903 |
Na |
Y |
Real Estate Broker |
Real Estate |
Y |
N |
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_____ Adeline M |
Wife |
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W |
25 |
M |
24 |
N |
Y |
ND |
NO |
NO |
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None |
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_____ Gerald D |
Son |
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M |
W |
? |
S |
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Y |
Y |
MT |
DK |
ND |
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Y |
None |
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_____ Grant W |
Son |
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M |
W |
7 |
S |
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Y |
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MT |
DK |
ND |
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Can't read Gerald's age.
5. Montana State Death Registry Index (online at the Montana
State Genealogical Society web site [also online at Ancestry.com]):
| MORCK, FRED D M 53 20 Sep 1938 Sdn 1207 |
| MORCK, GERALD, D - 3/20/1981 - File #1561 - County #47 [Silver
Bow Co.] |
6. SSDI: Social Security Death Index (online at RootsWeb.com):
| Name |
Birth |
Death |
Last Residence |
SSN |
Issued |
| GERALD MORCK |
17 Oct 1917 |
Mar 1981 |
(not specified) |
516-16-5250 |
MT |
| G W MORCK |
30 Jun 1922 |
Jan 1993 |
48301 (Bloomfield Hills, Oakland, MI) |
517-20-1313 |
MT |
7. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration
Cards, 1917-18. Microfilm Series M1509 (4277 rolls), National
Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC (card images and index
online at Ancestry.com):
| Roll
| Serial No. | Order No: |
1711442 | 3994 | 2393 |
| Name: |
Frederick Dorph Morck |
| Permanent
Home Address: |
Antelope, Sheridan, Montana |
| Age
in Years | Date of Birth: |
33 | September 8th 1885 |
| Race: |
White |
| U.S.
Citizen: |
Naturalized |
| Present
Occupation: |
Real Estate Farm Loans ???, Farming |
| Employer's
Name: |
Self |
| Place
of Employment: |
Antelope, Sheridan, Mont. |
| Nearest
Relative: Name: |
Mrs. Hildred Morck |
| Nearest
Relative: Address: |
Antelope, Sheridan, Mont. |
| Signature: |
F. D. Morck |
| Height
(tall, medium, short): |
Medium |
| Build
(slender, medium, stout): |
Medium |
| Color
of Eyes | Color of Hair: |
Blue | Brown |
| Physically
Disabled: |
No |
| Date
of Registration: |
Sept. 12, 1918 |
| Draft
Board: |
Local Board, Plentywood, Sheridan Co., Mont. |
8. Anon. 1921. Montana, Its Story and Biography.
American Historical Society, Chicago (online at Ancestry.com):
| p. 1005 |
FRED D. MORCK. While his home and
office are in Antelope, the business service performed by Mr. Morck covers
a wide scope of country around the town. He has the leading farm
loan agency in this community and has been actively idenfified with Antelope
since 1911, coming here soon after the building of the railroad and when
the chief institutions of the town were the store of Grayson Brothers and
the Citizens State Bank.
Mr. Morck has had an unusually wide and profitable experience, and
by travel and residence is well informed on conditions both in the Northwestern
United States and abroad. He was born at Ossa, near Aalburg, Denmark,
December
8, 1885, and his early training was chiefly in scientific agriculture.
His father, William Morck, and his mother, Emma Jacobson,
were both born in that part of Denmark. His father entered the merchandise
business in 1863, and the following year left his store to join the Danish
army in the war against Germany, at which time the rich and populous Province
of Schleswig-Holstein was taken from Denmark and annexed to the German
Empire. In later years the youth of Denmark were always given frequent
reminders of that loss of territory and assured that some day the province
would be returned. That prophecy is now being realized and fulfilled
as a result of the new map of Europe following the World war. William
Morck after this war continued a successful merchant in Denmark and
died in 1910, at the age of seventy-five. In politics he always supported
"the party of the left" in the Danish parliament. He and his wife
were both Lutherans. His wife's father was Peter Jacobson,
one of the wealthy mill men of Denmark and at one time a winner of a capital
prize of $50,000 in a Government lottery. Mrs. Emma Morck
is still living in Denmark. She was the mother of thirteen children
and Fred D. is the only on in America. The others are:
Julius,
a minister; Emil, of Aasa; Carl, a traveling salesman; Valdemar,
of Odense; Gorm, a farmer near Odense;
William, a customs
officer at Copenhagen; Charles, a hardware dealer at Kolving; Matilda,
housekeeper for her brother Julius;
Carrie, wife of S. Husum
of Aalburg; Thyra, wife of
Alfred Jensen, of Odense; Mrs.
Dagmar Heilskov, whose husband is a large farmer and dairyman near
Gudumholm; and Mrs. Lillie Jensen, whose husbnad conducts a straw
goods factory at Copenhagen.
Fred D. Morck as a boy acquired a general education and later
was in a technical school for the study of scientific farming. For
one year he studied dentistry, but decieded that profession was not congenial
to him. About that time he left Denmark and came to the United States
for the purpose of spending a year and gaining knowledge and experience
that would be useful to him in the old country. He sailed from Copenhagen
aboard the steamer |
| p. 1006 |
United States for New York, and ended
his journey at Bemidji, Minnesota, where a cousin lived. He shortly
afterward went into the lumber woods, and was soon overcome by the life
and opportunities of the northwestern country. After a year or so
he became a contractor getting out timber. When he abandoned that
business he made his first trip to Montana. After that he returned
to his native country for a visit in 1907, and after an absence of eight
months returned to the United States for the purpose of making a permanent
home here. The following three years he spent on the Pacific Coast
at Seattle, connected with Lehlan Brothers, wholesale dealers in grain
and flour.
In (sic) was from Seattle that Mr. Morck came to Antelope
in 1911. Here he opened a business of collection, real estate, insurance
and farm loans. He began the farm loan business in earnest in 1912
as local representative of E.J. Lander and Company, and through the Morck
agency of this corporation a large amount of captial has been distributed
over the region around Antelope and has become directly productive in stocking
and equipping the farmes. The company has always shown a liberal
policy and in spite of adverse conditions has exhibited an endeviating
faith in the stable prospects of this part of Montana.
Through his business and also personally Mr. Morck has been actively
associated with farming and rural improvement around Antelope. The
springtime seeding of grain and flax has been a part of his annual program
and he is recognized as one of the stanch and loyal friends of the entire
region. He was one of the organizers of the Antelope Telephone Company
and became its vice president, and is also one of the founders and a director
and vice president of the Antelope Publishing Company. Mr. Morck
took out his citizenship papers at Plentywood in 1914 and as a voter has
acted with the democratic party. He is the present town treasurer
of Antelope.
At Plentywood January 28, 1915, Mr. Morck married Miss Hildred
Benson, who was born at Crystal, North Dakota, where her parents, James
and Isabel Cunningham Benson, were homesteaders after removing from
Walkerville, Ontario. Her parents are now farmers at Swift Current,
Saskatchewan. Mrs. Morck, one of a family of five sisters and three
brothers, was liberally educated, taking a commercial course and for a
few years prior to her marriage did office work at Swift Current.
Mr. and Mrs. Morck have one son, Gerald, born October 17, 1917. |
9. Email from descendant. |
