Minnie Augusta HERRMEYER

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1962-MN-017301

Notes:

Or Augusta Minnie.

In the 1900 census, she is Minnie Herrmier, a chambermaid in the hotel on 3rd Avenue in Hibbing that is owned by Joseph Stuart and Lester Sicard. Her husband-to-be was a boarder at the hotel at that time.

Minnie was the bookkeeper for her husband’s business. The family story is that she wasn’t reluctant to change her husband’s bids if she thought that they were too low.

According to her death certificate, for which Gladys Graham Dietz of Longboat Key, Florida, was the informant, Minnie had been in Hibbing for 65 years. Her usual residence was 1203 East 18th Street. She died of congestive heart failure.

Birth:
Her death certificate said that she was born in St. Paul. The Minnesota Births and Christenings database says that she was born in Stillwater, which is in Washington County.

Died:
at Hibbing General Hospital

Minnie married David GRAHAM on 14 Aug 1900 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. David (son of George GRAHAM and Margaret BAXTER) was born on 12 Jan 1875 in England; died on 28 Sep 1963 in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1901-22025
• Social Security Number: 336-07-3925 issued in Illinois before 1951.

Notes:

Middle name as spelled in MHS index of birth certificates.

Graduated from Hibbing High School in 1920.

In the 1930 census, George W. Graham, 28, was living in an apartment at 209 Washington Boulevard in Oak Park, Illinois with his sister Grenith, 25, a school teacher, Fred W. Little, 28, his cousin, and George Browning, 30, a boarder. They are renting the apartment, at a rent of $90/month, and their household has a radio. All four are single. George W., Grenith, and Fred were all born in Minnesota although their fathers were born in English Canada. George W.’s and Grenith’s mother was born in Minnesota; Fred’s mother was also born in English Canada. George Browning was born in Utah, as was his father. His mother was born in England. George W. is a mechanical engineer in the “automatic stoker” industry, Grenith is a school teacher in the public schools, Fred is a civil engineer in the paint and lead industry. George Browning is a chemical engineer in the lead industry. All four are employed. None of them are veterans.

In the 1940 census, he was G.W. Graham (indexed as “Greham”), 38, living with his family in Park Ridge at 1033 Hamlin. This was not the same house that the family had lived in in 1935. He was the proprietor of a stoker company. He owned his house and it was worth $18000. George and Lillian both had four years of college. Living with the family was a servant, 26 year-old Milda Mueller from Wisconsin. She worked 60 hours per week and had earned $416 in 1939.



May have worked as the engineer for the Garland Building in Chicago in the late 1920s.

Eddy Stoker Corp. was incorporated in 1931. In 1941, he purchased the stoker business of the Whiting Corporation.

In 1944, Eddy Stoker Corporation, 4711-21 W. North Avenue, Chicago 39.

Died:
he died in a hospital in Sarasota during his winter stay in Florida

George married Lillian Mildred EVERSON on 2 Aug 1932 in Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois. Lillian (daughter of Anders (Andrew) EVERSON and Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE) was born on 2 Dec 1904 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 10 May 1988 in Park Ridge, Cook County, Illinois; was buried on 13 May 1988 in Town of Maine Cemetery, Park Ridge, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1903-24319

Notes:

Graduated from Hibbing High School in 1921.

Her birth certificate was amended on November 25, 1940.

Her SS# had been issued in Illinois.

Died:
As Gladys Dietz. Her last residence was Sarasota, Florida.

Gladys married George Washington KILBURN on 21 Jun 1924 in Hibbing, St. Louis County, Minnesota. George (son of Hiram Beveridge KILBURN and Mary Ellis DAYTON) was born on 22 Feb 1896 in Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine; died on 7 Mar 1956 in Elgin, Kane County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gladys married Paul Charles DIETZ in Jun 1960 in Sarasota County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1904-24532
• Occupation: Teacher

Notes:

Shown as child #3 on her birth certificate. Her birth certificate was amended on May 2, 1947, to add her first and middle names.

She was a school teacher living with her brother George in Chicago in the 1930 census, recorded a month before she married.

The SSDI lists a Grenith V. Oldham, born on this date, who died on 13 March 1988, and whose last residence was in Ridgefield, Clark County, Washington. She isn’t listed in the Washington death index. Washington’s property records show that Grenith V Oldham was involved with, or was the subject of, several deed transactions in Kitsap and Thurston Counties in 1987, 1988, and 1991.

Died:
Find A Grave says March 3rd

Grenith married George Clair OLDHAM on 15 May 1930 in Cook County, Illinois. George was born on 27 Apr 1906 in Michigan; died in Mar 1982 in Ridgefield, Clark County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1925-28350

Notes:

His last benefit was issued in Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois, and his Social Security Number was issued in Illinois.