Index

1 C. H. (Clayton B.) OLNEY

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Birth:         14 Feb 1860, Thomson, Ill

Death:      10 Oct 1940, Clinton, Iowa

Occ:           North Western railway engineer

Father:       Levi Harris OLNEY (1823-1901)

Mother:     Eunice Camilla HOUSE (1826-)

Member of DeMolay consistory.  A.A.S.R.Masons, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; First Baptist Church.

Lived at 445 Eighth Ave, So. when he died.

In the 1900 & 1910 census the family is living on Olney Ave. in Clinton.  Eleanor has had 6 children with 5 surviving.  Clayton is an Engineer.  In 1920 the family is living on 8th Ave. between 4th &5th St.  Isabel and Esther are living with their parents and both are working as stenographers.  Clayton is working as a railroad engineer.  Retired by 1930 Clayton and Eleanor are still living on So. 8th Ave.  Also living in the household are their daughter Mae and husband George Boudman.  George is working as a plasterer.

Spouse:        Eleanor Elizabeth LAKE

Birth:             28 Nov 1860, Clinton, Iowa

Death:          27 Sep 1935, Clinton, Iowa

Burial:          1 Oct 1935, Springdale cemetery, Clinton Iowa

Father:        William LAKE Sr. (1826-1918)

Mother:        Elizabeth MEREDITH (1824-1897)

Member of Clinton chapter 65 OES and GIA to B of LE.

Marr:              12 Jun 1884, Clinton, Iowa

Children:      Alfred (Elford) L. (1887-1965)

Mae (1889-)

Ralph H. (1891-)

Esther Pearl (1895-1939)

Isabel Mildred (1897-1979)

1.1 Alfred (Elford) L. OLNEY

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Birth:            29 Jul 1887

Death:         25 Apr 1965

Found this couple living in Los Angeles on  South Normandy Ave in the 1930 census.  He was employed as a Real Estate Broker and she worked for the Public Health Dept.   In 1920 they were living in LA on W. 39th St.  He was a real estate salesman and she was a trained nurse working for the city Health Dept.

Spouse:        Lylia Beatrice CAMPBELL

Birth:            1892, Colorado

1.2 Mae OLNEY

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Birth:         Aug 1889

Was living in Clinton, in 1918 & 1935.

Spouse:        George Peter BOUDMAN

Birth:             28 Mar 1885, JORDAN Township, Lyc. PA

Death:          24 Aug 1945

Marr:              6 Aug 1918, Davenport, Iowa

1.3 Ralph H. OLNEY

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Birth:         May 1891

Salt Lake City, Utah in 1918.

Waterloo in 1935 per mother's obit.

In the 1910 census Ralph is living with his Aunt and Uncle Leander and Agnes Turner in Los Angeles.  He is working as a collector at a lumber yard.

I found R. H. Olney living in Salt Lake City, Utah in the 1920 census married to Vivian. Vivian is working as a stenographer and it looks like Ralph is a student.  In the 1930 census, it appears that Ralph is at a convention of salesmen at a hotel in Milwaukee and Vivian is living as a boarder in Chicago.

Spouse:      Vivian G. SMITH

Birth:            Jun 1892, Whiteside, Illinois

Father:        William B. SMITH (1848-1918)

Mother:       Susanah SYKES (1852-1923)

Children:    Susana (1921-)

1.4 Esther Pearl OLNEY

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Birth:         16 Jun 1895

Death:      15 May 1939, California

Was living in Clinton in 1918.

Was living in Los Angeles, 1935 per obit of mother.  Esther is living in Los Angeles, CA in the 1930 census as a boarder.  She is working as a stenographer in a department store.  Esther died in California but was buried in Sprindale Cemetery in Clinton, IA.

1.5 Isabel Mildred OLNEY

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Birth:         16 Aug 1897, Clinton, Iowa

Death:       29 Jul 1979, Los Angeles, CA

Occ:           Secretary, retired 8/16/1961

Was living in Washington, DC in 1918.  Was living in Chicago in 1935 per mother's obit.