Notes: Geneastory

You are currently anonymous

Notes

Matches 8,621 to 8,630 of 23,616

Notes

Linked to

8621

He registered for the draft in 1917. At that time he was single and lived in Forbes, Minnesota, where he was a locomotive fireman for the Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Co. He was tall and of medium build with brown eyes and dark hair.

Single and still at home in the 1920 census. He was a fireman on the railroad.

Of Two Harbors at the time of his mother’s death.

SAXHAUG, James Howard (I14167)

8622

He registered for the draft in Becker County, Minnesota, on September 12, 1918. He was a farm laborer on the Norby farm in Lake Park. He gave Martin P. Hanson of Lakeville as his nearest relative. He was described as of medium height and build with gray eyes and light hair. (Apparently, Martin was his father.)

In the 1930 census, he was a carpenter living with his family in New Market Twp.

In the 1940 census, he was still in New Market Twp. He and his family lived in the same house in which they had lived in 1935. Henry was still a farmer. The family was listed on the census form as the next entry after the Ole Ellingboe family. Henry had one year of high school education, Sophia only through sixth grade.

Henry died of a heart attack. His death certificate gave his occupation as block layer. The informant was his son John. John did not know the name of his paternal grandmother.

HANSON, Henry Engvald (I1014)

8623

He registered for the draft in Burke County, North Dakota. He lived in Coteau. He was single and was a farm laborer. He was described as slender and of medium height with brown hair and brown eyes. It was noted that he had “loss of right eye.”

He and his wife Kathryn lived in Burke County at the time of the 1925 North Dakota state census.

The couple lived in Lucy Twp, Burke County, North Dakota, at the time of the 1930 census. They had no children.

MITBO, Calmer (I17638)

8624

He registered for the draft in Cavalier in June of 1917. At that time he was married and had a child. He was a self-employed farmer in Nekoma.

GJEVRE, Edwin Bernhard (I33026)

8625

He registered for the draft in Colorado in June of 1917. At that time, he was married and was a section foreman for a railroad. He is shown as age 28, and born in Lenora, Kansas, on 21 Dec 1888. He was short and of medium build with brown eyes and brown hair.

In the 1940 census, he and his family lived in San Francisco. He was a news agent for the Southern Pacific.

DUFFY, Ralph (I17505)

8626

He registered for the draft in Dickey County, North Dakota, on June 5, 1917. He was an unmarried, unemployed farm laborer living in Silver Leaf, North Dakota. Although he was registered as Knutson, he seemed to have signed his name Knutsen.

According to his death certificate, his wife was Hannah Dunbar. He died of brain cancer at Colonial Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, but he normally lived in Fullerton, North Dakota. He was a grain elevator buyer for Baldwin Elevator Company of Appleton, Wisconsin.

KNUTSON, Edwin Ben (I11521)

8627

He registered for the draft in Fargo on June 5, 1917, as Joseph Leander Vachon. He was single and working as a cashier for the North Western Telephone Exchange Company in Fargo. He claimed that his being engaged in telephone work qualified him for exemption from the draft. He had four years of military experience already as as a 1st Sergeant in the North Dakota National Guard. He was tall and of medium build with grey eyes and dark brown hair.

In World War I: Army number 201299. Registered in Cass County, North Dakota. Canadian-American parents. Occupation cashier. Enlisted in the Reserve Corps at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 2 July 1917. Called into active duty on 1 Sept 1917. Served in Company E, 408th Telegraph Battalion, Signal Corps, until discharge. Overseas from 22 November 1917 to 9 May 1919. Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on 23 May 1919 as a Corporal. Previous military record: Company I, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, from March, 1914, to 1916; on Mexican border for 8 months.

In the 1930 census, he and Helen live in Fargo, North Dakota. He is an automobile salesman. They have no children.

In the 1940 census, he and Helen and Beverly, along with Helen’s mother and brother Norman, live in a rented residence in Vancouver, Washington. Five years earlier, Joseph, Helen, and Beverly lived in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Joseph is an insurance salesman, Helen is a part-time nurse in a hospital. Joseph, Helen, and Norman are all high-school graduates.

He registered for the World War II draft in 1942. At that time, he and Helen lived at 2023 N. Bethel in Olympia, Washington. He worked from his home but his employer was Frank A Goodrich of the Vance Building in Seattle.

VACHON, Joseph Leander (I15043)

8628

He registered for the draft in Flathead County, Montana, on June 5, 1917. He lived in Swan Lake, Montana, where he was a laborer for a lumber company. He was married. He was of medium height and build with dark blue eyes and dark brown hair.

In the 1920 census, he may be the Joe Zimkaski, age 27 or 37, living in Spokane with his wife Vergie and his step-son, 7 year-old Raymond Brown. Vergie is unable to read or write. Joe’s and Vergie’s places of birth, and the places of birth of their parents, are unknown. Joe is a logger in a logging camp.

He is probably the Joseph Zimkoski buried in Greenwood Memorial Terrace cemetery in Spokane, plot Lawn-18, Section 20, #49. That Joseph died in 1929. His record in Find A Grave shows he was born in 1839 but that is probably a transcribing error from 1893.

A Virginia Zimkoski, b. 2 Sep 1892, died May 1971 in Seattle.

ZIMKOSKI, Joseph (I16553)

8629

He registered for the draft in Fort Dodge on September 12, 1918, as Roman C Chock. His address was 503 South 17th Street in Fort Dodge and he gave as his nearest relative his mother, Francis Chock, also of that address. He was a draftsman with the Monarch Telephone Company. He was described as tall and slender with brown eyes and dark hair.

In the 1930 census, he and his brother Lambert are lodgers with a family in Chicago. Both men are single and both are engineers in telephone manufacturing.

In the 1940 census, he and Laura and Richard live in Chicago. Roman is a telephone engineer for an automatic telephone factory.

CHOCK, Roman Charles (I16989)

8630

He registered for the draft in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on September 12, 1918. He was unemployed at that time.

In the 1930 census, he and his brother Roman are lodgers with a family in Chicago. Both men are single and both are engineers in telephone manufacturing.

In the 1940 census, he and Alethea and Catherine live in Chicago. He is a telephone engineer for a maker of telephone equipment. Also living with the family was the 60 year-old Katherine O’Malley, “aunt-in-law”, a practical nurse.

CHOCK, Lambert Constantine (I16990)