Henry T THORP

Notes:

In the 1880 census, he and his family lived in Manistee in Manistee County, Michigan. He was a painter.

Family/Spouse: Louisa A MELITZER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He lived at 808 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois, at the time of his father’s death in 1918. He lived at 810 Michigan Avenue in Evanston at the time of his death.

His obit described him as the former president and general manager of the Goodrich Transit Company and said that he was “prominent in Great Lakes shipping circles prior to his retirement in 1938.”

Family/Spouse: Grace DECKER. Grace was born in 1876 in Illinois; died on 5 May 1951 in Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Childless in the 1900 census.

In the 1905 state census, she is still childless. Both of her parents were born in England. Her occupation is “sells sewing machines.”

In the 1920 census, she is a 46 year-old widow living with her daughter, as “boarders”, at 109 West 3rd Street in Duluth. Lillian works as a clerk in a court house.

Birth:
3 Apr 1873 in Manistee, Michigan, according to Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths, which called her Lillian F. Thompson

Lillian married Walter Melangton THOMPSON on 6 Dec 1897 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. Walter (son of Peder Tomason ELLESTAD and Barbro Olsdatter NOBEN) was born on 18 Sep 1868 in Eureka Twp, Dakota County, Minnesota; died on 14 Apr 1914 in Black Mountain County, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1906-42670

Notes:

Shown as Barbro, her parents’ first child, on her birth certificate.

Her first name, then, was her father’s mother’s name and her middle name was her mother’s mother’s name.

In the 1920 census, she is Barbara, age 13 and living in Duluth with her widowed mother.

She was “Miss Barbro Louise Thompson,” a member of the Ziegfeld Follies at the time of the death of her mother, “Mrs. Lillian T. Thompson, age 53, of Duluth and New York.” She inherited all of her mother’s $10,500 estate. An Associated Press article (e.g., Racine’s Journal Times, 8 Jan 1927) said that, “The girl gets the interest on her money until she is 30 years old, when she comes into the principal.”

Family/Spouse: William ORVIN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]