Bivans Corcoran Family
See family photographs
John
Webster Bivans, son of
Joseph Bivans and Sarah E
Gee
was born
December 25, 1882 in
Oberlin,
Decatur County, Kansas and
died
December 1969 in
Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado.
He married
Hanora Anna Corcoran on
May 4, 1908
in Decatur County, Kansas.
(see
license)
Other Events in the Life of
John Webster
Bivans
Occupations : Owned grocery store, farmer, banker and
butcher.
Religion: Catholic
Description:
Tall, slender with blue eyes and black hair.
Residences: He was born and raised in Decatur County,
Kansas where his father was a farmer. He was a butcher and
grocery store owner in Oberlin,
Kansas from about 1906 to July 1944. (See
newspaper article.) John Bivans owned the Oberlin meat
market in the Oberlin Mercantile from about 1906 to 1913.
He and Earl O'Toole purchased the H.J. Hitchcock store in 1915.
By the end of 1915 John Bivans was the sole proprieter of
central meat market and grocery. John and Anna sold the store in 1922
and John worked as a banker and officer in the Farmers National
Bank in Oberlin for four years. In 1927, they
bought the Hitchcock store and returned in business. John is fondly remembered by author
Ralph Moody in several citations in his book, Horse of Another
Color. See photograph of the home in which John and Anna
lived in Oberlin, Kansas below. This home and grounds
at 201 West Ash in Oberlin covered half of a city block and was built by John and Anna
Bivans in 1920. In 1948, John and Anna
retired to a home with acreage in Arvada, Colorado, where he
raised rabbits, chickens, fruits and
vegetables.
Bivans Home 401 N.
Rodehaver Avenue
Hanora Anna Corcoran, daughter of
Timothy Corcoran and
Sarah Elizabeth Slaven,
was born
September 30, 1886 in
California
and died on September 7, 1958 in Arvada, Jefferson County, Colorado.
Other events in the life of Honora Anna Corcoran
Occupation:
Housewife, teacher and book keeper and store keeper for the family
business.
Religion: Catholic
Children of John Bivans and Anna Corcoran
They did not give birth to any children but raised Anna's
sister's two girls (below) from 1932 onwards when their mother
died. At the time of their mother's death, all four
grandparents of the Corcoran children had passed away.
John and Anna Bivan created a trust fund to be used towards
the education of the children of Gladys, Eva and Cleo Corcoran.
 Gladys Elizabeth Corcoran
was born
in
January 11, 1929 in
Bassetville, Decatur County, Kansas and died on
August 17, 2006 in Antioch, California.
After the death of her mother, she and Eva were raised by her
aunt, Anna (Corcoran) and John Bivans. She married
Henry Joseph "Hank" Madden
on January 22, 1949.
 Eva
Marie Corcoran
was born
on
November 27, 1930 in Oberlin, Decatur County,
Kansas and died
February 23, 1973 in Denver, Colorado. She married
David James McGee on July 27, 1948 in Denver,
Colorado.
|