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Stuelke and Morley

 Family

Biography

Celia Stuelke was born about 1876 in Nashua, Iowa, the daughter of Fred Stuelke and Augusta Berman. She graduated in 1892 from high school. Harold J. Morely was born August 3 1867 in Dyersville, Iowa, the son of English immigrants John Morley and Mary Plaister. The two were married on August 4, 1897 in Chickasaw County, Iowa. The bride was twenty-two years old at the time of her marriage and Harry was thirty. It was the first marriage for her, the second for him. At the time of their marriage Harry was working as a telegraph operator.

After their marriage they moved to Denver, Colorado, where Harry worked for the Denver and Rio Grand Railroad Company. At some point he went into business for himself, selling bottled spring water.

The couple had three children: Frederick Burton, Dorothy, and Robert B., all three born in Colorado.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Celia Stuelke Morley and Harold J. Morley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MsC1124
Scope and Contents Letters, mainly between Harry J. Morley and his wife, Celia Stuelke Morley, but including a few letters from their son, Burton, from training camp for World War I. It also contains such ephemera as calling cards, telegrams, greeting cards, and invitations. Morley played baseball, probably for the railroad for which he worked, and there are some letters here about this. (Mainly about the injuried he suffered from playing ball.) In 1927, the Nashua Reporter published an article stating that Celia Stuelke Morley had played a part in a movie filmed in Nevada, The Winnng of Barbara Worth, a 1926 silent film, a western starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Banky, and Gary Cooper in his first starring role. The film is notable for its climatic scene, which depicts the 1905 man-made flood that inundated the modern Salton Sea. Celia had a small part in the film. (This clipping does not appear in these papers.)This...
Dates: 1899 - 1941