Laurence Appelman Grotewohl was born at Elkader, Iowa on December 15, 1889, the son of Harrison James Grotewohl and Lydia Elizabeth Appelman Grotewohl. In the year, 1901, the family moved to Hartley where the home is still located.
Laurence attended the Hartley public school from which he was graduated with the class of 1907 as valedictorian. Having been keenly interested in electricity, he then attended the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago for two years. Returning to Hartley he helped install the first electric power plant and did the original electric wiring in many of the homes and buildings here. In 1913 he resumed his studies of electrical engineering, this time at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1915 Laurence and Edna Myrle Boyle of Chicago were married. After living for a year in Chicago they moved to Detroit, Michigan, where Laurence was employed as an industrial engineer by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Their son, Harrison, was born in 1920.
In the year, 1925, the Hudson Motor Co. sent Laurence and his family to Australia where he directed the construction of assembly plants for Hudson cars. Their daughter, Joan, was born in Sydney. In 1927 he was sent to Cuba by the same company.
During the following years, Laurence continued his engineering work with the Campbell Wyant and Cannon Foundry Co. at Muskegon, Michigan, The Centrifugal Fusing Company of Lansing, Michigan, and during the period of World War II he was associated with the War Production Board of the United States Government at its offices in Washington, D. C, Rockford, Illinois, and Chicago, Illinois.
At the close of the war Laurence came to Hartley to engage in the manufacture of oil burners but later returned to Muskegon where he was employed by the Military Division of the Continental Aviation Engineering Company until the time of his death on March 26.
He was a member of Beacon Lodge No. 495 A.F. & A.M.; The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Muskegon; and The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
His wife, Myrle, preceded him in death in 1942. He is survived by two children, Harrison and Joan; his father, H. J. Grotewohl; a sister, Helen; two brothers, Leland and Hewitt; and two grandchildren, David and Laurence Grotewohl. Christian Science funeral rites were held at the Foley Funeral home Tuesday afternoon and Masonic services at the cemetery. Pallbearers were Chester Butler, Clarence Pettijohn, E. U. Thomas, W. H. Hesse, L. W. Anderson and Louis Fick.
Hartley (Iowa) Sentinel, 3 Apr 1952, p9
Laurence attended the Hartley public school from which he was graduated with the class of 1907 as valedictorian. Having been keenly interested in electricity, he then attended the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago for two years. Returning to Hartley he helped install the first electric power plant and did the original electric wiring in many of the homes and buildings here. In 1913 he resumed his studies of electrical engineering, this time at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1915 Laurence and Edna Myrle Boyle of Chicago were married. After living for a year in Chicago they moved to Detroit, Michigan, where Laurence was employed as an industrial engineer by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Their son, Harrison, was born in 1920.
In the year, 1925, the Hudson Motor Co. sent Laurence and his family to Australia where he directed the construction of assembly plants for Hudson cars. Their daughter, Joan, was born in Sydney. In 1927 he was sent to Cuba by the same company.
During the following years, Laurence continued his engineering work with the Campbell Wyant and Cannon Foundry Co. at Muskegon, Michigan, The Centrifugal Fusing Company of Lansing, Michigan, and during the period of World War II he was associated with the War Production Board of the United States Government at its offices in Washington, D. C, Rockford, Illinois, and Chicago, Illinois.
At the close of the war Laurence came to Hartley to engage in the manufacture of oil burners but later returned to Muskegon where he was employed by the Military Division of the Continental Aviation Engineering Company until the time of his death on March 26.
He was a member of Beacon Lodge No. 495 A.F. & A.M.; The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Muskegon; and The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
His wife, Myrle, preceded him in death in 1942. He is survived by two children, Harrison and Joan; his father, H. J. Grotewohl; a sister, Helen; two brothers, Leland and Hewitt; and two grandchildren, David and Laurence Grotewohl. Christian Science funeral rites were held at the Foley Funeral home Tuesday afternoon and Masonic services at the cemetery. Pallbearers were Chester Butler, Clarence Pettijohn, E. U. Thomas, W. H. Hesse, L. W. Anderson and Louis Fick.
Hartley (Iowa) Sentinel, 3 Apr 1952, p9
Laurence Appelman Grotewohl was born at Elkader, Iowa on December 15, 1889, the son of Harrison James Grotewohl and Lydia Elizabeth Appelman Grotewohl. In the year, 1901, the family moved to Hartley where the home is still located.
Laurence attended the Hartley public school from which he was graduated with the class of 1907 as valedictorian. Having been keenly interested in electricity, he then attended the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago for two years. Returning to Hartley he helped install the first electric power plant and did the original electric wiring in many of the homes and buildings here. In 1913 he resumed his studies of electrical engineering, this time at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1915 Laurence and Edna Myrle Boyle of Chicago were married. After living for a year in Chicago they moved to Detroit, Michigan, where Laurence was employed as an industrial engineer by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Their son, Harrison, was born in 1920.
In the year, 1925, the Hudson Motor Co. sent Laurence and his family to Australia where he directed the construction of assembly plants for Hudson cars. Their daughter, Joan, was born in Sydney. In 1927 he was sent to Cuba by the same company.
During the following years, Laurence continued his engineering work with the Campbell Wyant and Cannon Foundry Co. at Muskegon, Michigan, The Centrifugal Fusing Company of Lansing, Michigan, and during the period of World War II he was associated with the War Production Board of the United States Government at its offices in Washington, D. C, Rockford, Illinois, and Chicago, Illinois.
At the close of the war Laurence came to Hartley to engage in the manufacture of oil burners but later returned to Muskegon where he was employed by the Military Division of the Continental Aviation Engineering Company until the time of his death on March 26.
He was a member of Beacon Lodge No. 495 A.F. & A.M.; The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Muskegon; and The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
His wife, Myrle, preceded him in death in 1942. He is survived by two children, Harrison and Joan; his father, H. J. Grotewohl; a sister, Helen; two brothers, Leland and Hewitt; and two grandchildren, David and Laurence Grotewohl. Christian Science funeral rites were held at the Foley Funeral home Tuesday afternoon and Masonic services at the cemetery. Pallbearers were Chester Butler, Clarence Pettijohn, E. U. Thomas, W. H. Hesse, L. W. Anderson and Louis Fick.
Hartley (Iowa) Sentinel, 3 Apr 1952, p9
Laurence attended the Hartley public school from which he was graduated with the class of 1907 as valedictorian. Having been keenly interested in electricity, he then attended the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago for two years. Returning to Hartley he helped install the first electric power plant and did the original electric wiring in many of the homes and buildings here. In 1913 he resumed his studies of electrical engineering, this time at the University of Wisconsin.
In 1915 Laurence and Edna Myrle Boyle of Chicago were married. After living for a year in Chicago they moved to Detroit, Michigan, where Laurence was employed as an industrial engineer by the Hudson Motor Car Company. Their son, Harrison, was born in 1920.
In the year, 1925, the Hudson Motor Co. sent Laurence and his family to Australia where he directed the construction of assembly plants for Hudson cars. Their daughter, Joan, was born in Sydney. In 1927 he was sent to Cuba by the same company.
During the following years, Laurence continued his engineering work with the Campbell Wyant and Cannon Foundry Co. at Muskegon, Michigan, The Centrifugal Fusing Company of Lansing, Michigan, and during the period of World War II he was associated with the War Production Board of the United States Government at its offices in Washington, D. C, Rockford, Illinois, and Chicago, Illinois.
At the close of the war Laurence came to Hartley to engage in the manufacture of oil burners but later returned to Muskegon where he was employed by the Military Division of the Continental Aviation Engineering Company until the time of his death on March 26.
He was a member of Beacon Lodge No. 495 A.F. & A.M.; The First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Muskegon; and The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.
His wife, Myrle, preceded him in death in 1942. He is survived by two children, Harrison and Joan; his father, H. J. Grotewohl; a sister, Helen; two brothers, Leland and Hewitt; and two grandchildren, David and Laurence Grotewohl. Christian Science funeral rites were held at the Foley Funeral home Tuesday afternoon and Masonic services at the cemetery. Pallbearers were Chester Butler, Clarence Pettijohn, E. U. Thomas, W. H. Hesse, L. W. Anderson and Louis Fick.
Hartley (Iowa) Sentinel, 3 Apr 1952, p9
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