Earl Ernest MINSKE

1896 - 1954  (58 years)

• Name	Earl Ernest MINSKE
  Birth	2 Apr 1896	Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota
  	This date according to his draft registration card and Minnesota Births and Christenings. The 1900 census says April, 1895.
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Oct 1954	Wisconsin
  	funeral notice in the 27 Oct 1954 Eau Claire Leader -Telegram
  Notes	Nothing in MHS death records for this name. Nor is there anything in SSDI. This Earl Minske registered for the draft on June 5, 1917. At that time he was still single. He lived at 3026 15th Avenue S. in Minneapolis and was a chauffeur. He was born in Minneapolis on 2 April 1896. He was described as short and stout with blue eyes and medium hair. In the 1918 Minneapolis city directory, he was a mechanic. He lived in Apartment 56 at 90 S 13th. At the time of the birth of his first daughter, he was an auto mechanic. He and Francis lived at 22 S 10th Street, Apt. #4. Earl E Minske married two other women in Hennepin County in the 1920s (the first of whom died the following year). In the 1930 census, he is the 31 year-old Earl Minski, an automobile mechanic working in a garage, living in a rooming house in Milwaukee. A brief mention in the Minneapolis Star’s 10 Oct 1933 edition (p. 17 in Vital Statistics) notes that he was granted a divorce from Hazel Maud. He had five children with Lillian Esther Forehand in the period between 1935 and 1941 although MOMS does not have a marriage record for Earl and Lillian. Lillian died in Wisconsin on 9 Aug 2001 as Lillian E. Branch. More on the family that Earl had with Lillian can be found at The Sprague Project. The newspaper article on his funeral noted that he was survived by his wife Lillian, five sons (Ernest, Ronald, Laird, Donald, and Robert) and one daughter, Mrs. Geraldine Phelps. There is no mention of Dorothy.
  Person ID	I4528	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	5 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Ernest W MINSKE,   b. Jul 1868, Minnesota d. 16 Feb 1951, Crow Wing County, Minnesota (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Martha BONIN,   b. Jun 1872, Minnesota d. 19 Feb 1923, Rice County, Minnesota (Age 50 years)
  Marriage	14 Dec 1892	Morristown, Rice County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F12551	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Frances Emily CARR,   b. 12 Jun 1895, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada d. 17 Sep 1981, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	14 Jul 1917	Hennepin County, Minnesota
  	as Earl Minske and Frances Augustine
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Dorothy Anetta MINSKE,   b. 22 Oct 1918, Hennepin County, Minnesota d. 20 Oct 1982, Windom, Cottonwood County, Minnesota (Age 63 years)
  Family ID	F3570	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2010