My grandfather was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He attended the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
He served in the French Ambulance Corp in WW1. His father died while he was in France so he remained there after the war and did court stenography so he could sent money back to his widowed mother who still had a young child at home.While there he acted in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. He also cherished a book of Robert Service's poems.
On his return to the States he worked for the food industries traveling as a salesman. He loved to talk to people and to observe them. He met my grandmother while she was working for a lawyer in Massachusetts after her divorce from her first husband. They married and had two children and returned to the Philadelphia area during the depression, where he knew he could find housing and a job.
He was given 6 months to live when he was fifty. In his characteristic manner he said "What do they know", stopped smoking and drank only on occasion. He walked every where he went. He worked managing restaurants in Philadelphia and for years would tell the tales of the "kitchen" , the help tap dancing for him and singing. The rough clientele and owners of the restaurants made life colorful and exciting. He could dance the soft shoe also and sing a ditty or two.He knew many a limerick or naughty poem to tell his grandchildren and keep them in stitches.
Upon his retirement he moved with his wife and their second son born in 1943 to the Cape. My grandmother felt she had "served her time" in Philly and wanted to return to New England. My grandfather rebelled at first then relented and joined the family on Cape Cod. He cursed the sun and the moon most of the time while here- it was such a cultural shock to him to have no sidewalks no readily available public transportation and no city life. His favorite saying was- "You come over the bridge and leave civilization behind".
He was a true character and extremely devoted to his immediate family.
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He is the father of Ruth Estelle,Charles Robert and Edward Roger .
Charles Livermore- his friend he buried in France
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Birth certificate has place of birth as : 722 Union Street
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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He attended the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
He served in the French Ambulance Corp in WW1. His father died while he was in France so he remained there after the war and did court stenography so he could sent money back to his widowed mother who still had a young child at home.While there he acted in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. He also cherished a book of Robert Service's poems.
On his return to the States he worked for the food industries traveling as a salesman. He loved to talk to people and to observe them. He met my grandmother while she was working for a lawyer in Massachusetts after her divorce from her first husband. They married and had two children and returned to the Philadelphia area during the depression, where he knew he could find housing and a job.
He was given 6 months to live when he was fifty. In his characteristic manner he said "What do they know", stopped smoking and drank only on occasion. He walked every where he went. He worked managing restaurants in Philadelphia and for years would tell the tales of the "kitchen" , the help tap dancing for him and singing. The rough clientele and owners of the restaurants made life colorful and exciting. He could dance the soft shoe also and sing a ditty or two.He knew many a limerick or naughty poem to tell his grandchildren and keep them in stitches.
Upon his retirement he moved with his wife and their second son born in 1943 to the Cape. My grandmother felt she had "served her time" in Philly and wanted to return to New England. My grandfather rebelled at first then relented and joined the family on Cape Cod. He cursed the sun and the moon most of the time while here- it was such a cultural shock to him to have no sidewalks no readily available public transportation and no city life. His favorite saying was- "You come over the bridge and leave civilization behind".
He was a true character and extremely devoted to his immediate family.
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He is the father of Ruth Estelle,Charles Robert and Edward Roger .
Charles Livermore- his friend he buried in France
**
Birth certificate has place of birth as : 722 Union Street
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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My grandfather was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He attended the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
He served in the French Ambulance Corp in WW1. His father died while he was in France so he remained there after the war and did court stenography so he could sent money back to his widowed mother who still had a young child at home.While there he acted in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. He also cherished a book of Robert Service's poems.
On his return to the States he worked for the food industries traveling as a salesman. He loved to talk to people and to observe them. He met my grandmother while she was working for a lawyer in Massachusetts after her divorce from her first husband. They married and had two children and returned to the Philadelphia area during the depression, where he knew he could find housing and a job.
He was given 6 months to live when he was fifty. In his characteristic manner he said "What do they know", stopped smoking and drank only on occasion. He walked every where he went. He worked managing restaurants in Philadelphia and for years would tell the tales of the "kitchen" , the help tap dancing for him and singing. The rough clientele and owners of the restaurants made life colorful and exciting. He could dance the soft shoe also and sing a ditty or two.He knew many a limerick or naughty poem to tell his grandchildren and keep them in stitches.
Upon his retirement he moved with his wife and their second son born in 1943 to the Cape. My grandmother felt she had "served her time" in Philly and wanted to return to New England. My grandfather rebelled at first then relented and joined the family on Cape Cod. He cursed the sun and the moon most of the time while here- it was such a cultural shock to him to have no sidewalks no readily available public transportation and no city life. His favorite saying was- "You come over the bridge and leave civilization behind".
He was a true character and extremely devoted to his immediate family.
**
He is the father of Ruth Estelle,Charles Robert and Edward Roger .
Charles Livermore- his friend he buried in France
**
Birth certificate has place of birth as : 722 Union Street
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
*
He attended the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania.
He served in the French Ambulance Corp in WW1. His father died while he was in France so he remained there after the war and did court stenography so he could sent money back to his widowed mother who still had a young child at home.While there he acted in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. He also cherished a book of Robert Service's poems.
On his return to the States he worked for the food industries traveling as a salesman. He loved to talk to people and to observe them. He met my grandmother while she was working for a lawyer in Massachusetts after her divorce from her first husband. They married and had two children and returned to the Philadelphia area during the depression, where he knew he could find housing and a job.
He was given 6 months to live when he was fifty. In his characteristic manner he said "What do they know", stopped smoking and drank only on occasion. He walked every where he went. He worked managing restaurants in Philadelphia and for years would tell the tales of the "kitchen" , the help tap dancing for him and singing. The rough clientele and owners of the restaurants made life colorful and exciting. He could dance the soft shoe also and sing a ditty or two.He knew many a limerick or naughty poem to tell his grandchildren and keep them in stitches.
Upon his retirement he moved with his wife and their second son born in 1943 to the Cape. My grandmother felt she had "served her time" in Philly and wanted to return to New England. My grandfather rebelled at first then relented and joined the family on Cape Cod. He cursed the sun and the moon most of the time while here- it was such a cultural shock to him to have no sidewalks no readily available public transportation and no city life. His favorite saying was- "You come over the bridge and leave civilization behind".
He was a true character and extremely devoted to his immediate family.
**
He is the father of Ruth Estelle,Charles Robert and Edward Roger .
Charles Livermore- his friend he buried in France
**
Birth certificate has place of birth as : 722 Union Street
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
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