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Frank B. Wegs, owner
and proprietor of the Moberly Cornice Works,
is one of the leading sheet
metal workers and tinners and probably the old-
est in the business in
Moberly, He is a native of Illinois and was born
in Brown County, Ill., May
16, 1872. His parents were John B. and
Catherine (Stark) Wegs,
both of whom are deceased. The mother died
at Quincy, ILL 1907, and
the father died in 1903, and their remains are
buried in St. Francis
cemetery, Quincy, Ill. They were the parents of
the following children:
Mrs. Louise Newman, deceased; Mrs. Gertrude
Rupp, Moberly, Mo.;
Frank B., the subject of this sketch; Henry, Quincy,
Ill., and William, Quincy,
Ill. The mother of these children was twice
married her first husband
being a Mr. Karsteincr and three children
were born to that union:
John and Barney, of Quincy, Ill., and Mrs. Liz-
zie Wegs, Mt. Sterling, Ill.
Frank B. Wegs was
educated in the parochial schools at Mt. Sterling,
Ill., and he also attended
the district schools. He has made his own
war in the world since he
was 12 years of age. At the age of 15, he
began working at the
tinner's trade at Quincy. Ill., and 18 months
later he went to Monroe
City, Mo., where he remained about a year.
In 1886 he came to
Moberly and worked at the sheet-metal and tinner's
trade for Ben Kanetnier for
eleven years, after which he was engaged
in farming for eight years
and in 1908 he bought Mr. Kanetnier's business
and since that time has
been engaged in business for himself at Moberly.
He does all kinds of sheet
metal and wai-m air heating work. He owns
his own building which is
located at 111 West Coates street and is
unusually well equipped to
handle his line of work. His building was
destroyed by fire Jan. 18,
1911, when the OKeef building burned. Mr.
Wegs immediately rebuilt
and on the 3rd of the following March, about
40 days from the date of
the fire, he had rebuilt and his building was
ready for occupancy.
Mr. Wegs was married
May 30 1894, to Miss Mary Stinkamp, a
daughter of Herman
Stinkamp of Moberly, He is now deceased and
his widow lives in
Moberly. To Mr. and Mrs. Wegs have been born eight
children as follows:
Loretta, married Frank Davit, Moberly Hulda, mar-
ried Earnest Wingfield
Moberly; Clarence, Mabel, Emil, Helen, Marie
and Regina, all residing at
home with their parents. They have two
grandchildren, William
Davit and James Wingfield.
Mr. Wegs is one of
Moberly's substantial business men. |