Born Nov. 18, 1888, in Berkeley CA. His WWI draft card lists him as tall, medium build, blue eyes and light brown hair.
In 1910, at age 21, he was living in Oakland with his sister Leslie and her husband (as well as sister Olive and their mother), and working as an office clerk at an insurance company.
He married Marie B., who was born in California abt. 1894. They married some time before June 1917 (according to his draft card). According to family history she was Mexican, but according to the 1920 census her parents were born in California. (Her parents were presumably born after 1848, when the U.S. annexed California, but they probably meant that she was culturally Mexican.) Their marriage was a bit of a scandal in the family. My grandmother Elliot, who was her niece, liked her very much and wanted to name her own daughter after her, but felt obliged to name her after a different relative. Our family's pumpkin pie recipe was from aunt Marie (and according to Elliot's sister Ruth, it was originally a recipe for squash pie).
In 1920 they were living in Vallejo, he was working as a freight agent for a steamship company, and she was working as a dressmaker for private customers. They had no children at this time. In 1930 they lived in Antioch (Contra Costa county). He was working as a salesman and she was not employed. Still no children.
In 1942, according to his WWII draft card, he lived on Oil Canyon Road in Antioch, and worked for the California State Automobile Association in Martinez. He listed his sister Leslie as "person who will always know your address." Probably she was his only surviving sibling.
He died August 3, 1961, in Contra Costa County.
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