Linda Adams

Gene married Living [Group Sheet]

Notes:

DOB, DOD & POD from Soc. Sec. Index

Census:
1920 King Co WA Seattle Soundex: ED 24 Sh 1 w/mother (POB
= OH)

Oliver married Faye Todd 1926. Faye was born 10 May 1894; died Jun 1973, Kitsap County, Washington U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Had two children by Oliver A. Kern Devin

DOB, DOD & POD from Soc. Sec. Index: #537-24-0895

Notes:

!Questions: Birthdate October 8 1864 or May 8 1864

!Education: Graduated from High School at age 16
Graduated from University of Missouri
Studied education, science and civil
engineering
Took a course in Landscape Management from
Prof. Maximillian G. Kern (father of his
wife)

!Occupations: Taught for several years and took charge of
schools
in Shelbyville and Clarence Missouri
U S River Commission St Louis and Toledo
Missouri

!Miscellaneous: At the death of his parents, Olie went to
live with the
Solomon Smith a farmer. The Smiths gave
him a loving
home and Olie spent the next four year
going to high school
and helping on the farm. Solomon was a
conservative man
of the soil and had no use for higher
education. He felt
it frivolous waste of time that was an
excuse to keep one
from getting on with the realities of life.
Thus, when Olie
finished high school he got no
encouragement and certainly
no assistance toward further education.
DOB from Ancestral File; DOB poss. 8 May 1864

Census:
1900 Linn Co MO ED 83 Sh 7 L 16
1910
1920 Benton Co WA Soundex: ED 24 Sh 2 (w/2nd wife?)
DOB maybe 8 May 1864 (1).
Graduated from High School at age 16
Graduated from University of Missouri
Studied education, science & civil engineering
Took a course in Landscape Management from Prof.
Maximillian G. Kern,
father-in-law.

Taught for several years & took charge of schools in
Shelbyville & Clarence, MO
US River Commission, St Louis & Toledo, MO

At the death of his parents, Olie went to live with Solomon
Smith, a farmer.
The Smiths gave him a loving home & Olie spent the next
four years going to
high school & helping on the farm. Solomon was a
conservative man of the soil
& had no use for higher education. He felt it a frivolous
waste of time
that was an excuse to keep one from getting on with the
realities of life.
Thus, when Olie finished high school he got no
encouragement & certainly no
assistance toward further education.

Oliver married Mina Marie Kern 13 Sep 1888, St. Louis, Missouri. Mina (daughter of Maximillian G. Kern) was born 1864, Ohio U.S.A.; died 23 May 1943, Seattle, King, Washington U.S.A.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Census:
1920 King Co WA Seattle Soundex: ED 24 Sh 1 (husband not
shown)

Possibly divorced from Oliver Peyton Devin; he living in
Benton Co WA w/wife,
Ida.

Her father was was Prof. Maximillian G. Kern at the Univ.
of MO. He
frequently invited young men to his home for dinner or the
weekend who he felt
were worthy of his four lovely daughters' attention.
Oliver Peyton Devin was a
student in his Landscape Management class & was one of
these young men.
Lived in St. Louis.

DEATH: WA State Deaths; LAPL microfilm