Henry Alfred FORTIER

1853 - 1921  (67 years)

• Name	Henry Alfred FORTIER
  Birth	25 Sep 1853	Canada
  	according to his death certificate
  Gender	Male
  MN Death Cert Checked	Y
  Minnesota Death Certificate	1921-MN-017559
  Occupation	Stationary engineer
  Death	3 Apr 1921	Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
  Burial	5 Apr 1921	Hillside Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
  Notes	Both parents born in Canada. Shown as age 12 in the 1870 census. In the 1895 state census, he is called Alfred Fortier. He and his wife and his wife’s two youngest brothers live in Minneapolis. He is an engineer. In the 1900 census, Henry, Lila, and Lila’s brothers are living next to each other on, apparently, the corner of 24th Ave. N.E., and Central Ave. E. in Minneapolis. Walter and George Ripley are living with the Fortiers. Edward and his wife live next door. Henry Fortier is a stationary engineer. In the 1905 state census, Henry and family live at 2918 28th Avenue S. in Minneapolis. The household consists of Henry A., 49, Lila M., 36, Howard F., 2, and Anna Fortier, a 72 year-old widow who had been in Minneapolis for 6 months. Henry and his mother were born in Canada, as were their parents. Lila was born in Minnesota but her father was born in Maine and her mother in the West Indies. Henry is a steam fitter, Lila is a housekeeper. Henry has been in Minnesota for 40 years and his mother for 6 months. Henry and his family have lived at their current location for a year and a month. In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, he is Henry A Fortier, an engineer living at 506 East 18th Street. In the 1910 census, Henry, Lila M., and Howard F. were living in a rented apartment at 1715 Fifth (doesn’t say whether it’s Ave. or St.) in Minneapolis. Henry is reported to have emigrated in 1860. Living with the family as a boarder is a single woman, 18 year-old Marguerite Buss, a magazine stenographer. The Minnesota Deaths and Burials database as FamilySearch pilot gives the death of Henry “Forties” as 3 April 1921 in Minneapolis and his wife’s name as Lila Ripley. The MHS death index agrees. The 1921 death date would be inconsistent with the indication in the 1920 census that Lila was already a widow. His death certificate shows him as the husband of Lila Ripley and his address as 1114 14th Avenue S in Minneapolis. He was a stationary engineer and he died at Minneapolis General Hospital which was the informant for his death certificate. (The death certificate shows his place of death as “Hopewell Hospital.”) He died from bronchopneumonia following asthma and emphysema.
  Person ID	I283	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	12 Jul 2013

  
  

  Father	John FORTIER,   b. Abt 1827, Canada
  Mother	Ann SHERWOOD,   b. Abt 1835, Canada
  Family ID	F10958	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lila May RIPLEY,   b. Nov 1868, Minnesota d. 14 Jan 1928, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1889	Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
  	per Minnesota Marriages in FamilySearch pilot, not in MOMS
  Children	1. Minnie May FORTIER,   b. 1892, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota d. 20 Apr 1892, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 0 years)   2. Howard Francis FORTIER,   b. 10 Dec 1902, Minnesota d. 7 Apr 1960, St. Louis Park, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Aug 2010