Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameLeRoy Farnham KRUSI 4538
Birth14 Apr 1894, Alameda, Alameda, California191,2507,3638,4531
Death27 Jul 1983, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa, California191,2507,4533 Age: 89
EducationUniversity of California, 19174537
OccupationEngineer4537
FatherHermann KRUSI III (1858-1940)
MotherIda Matilda CLAWITER (1864-1939)
Individual Notes
• Signed guest book at wedding of Joy Folger Matteson and Eleanor Carlisle Eckart.6302

• Complete name based on 1 Jan 1998 letter from Philip Krusi, and name from Eckart genealogy index.8,169

• They lived in Alamo/Danville, CA and had a ranch (The Yellowjacket) up at Calistoga, CA. At the time they raised and showed Arabian horses.
Leroy was a very successful businessman (electrical contractor or manufacturer, I don’t recall) and I think his son, George, now has the business which is in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Leroy’s relationship to me was that he and my mother had the same great grandparent from Switzerland.169

• LeRoy was against the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and served as custodian of the property of some of these persons.
Awarded the French War Cross (Croix de guerre) for service in World War I.4533

• “I [Hermann Krüsi] remember one day with a similarly beautiful morning – possibly fourteen years ago – when our little family, increased by some boarders, one of whom was our trusty friend Dr. Farnham, walked for nearly a mile on the frozen, uneven ice, admiring the little ice-mounds and hills. I suppose little Gertie was too small to accompany us, but she welcomed her good friend Farnham on his return with her sweetest smile as, “Lily Roy” (Le Roy).4533

• I finally found out who “LeRoy Farnham” was – a friend of his grandfather’s (Hermann II) who was a boarder in his house and who, apparently, his children were fond of.4538
Census
• 1930 Census: Alameda, Alameda, California. Age 35, b CA. Engineer, civil. Father b MA; mother b CA. Living with parents.3638
Spouses
1Ellen Brooks HINDES4533
Birth18 Oct 1898, San Francisco, San Francisco, California4533,4580
Death31 Jan 1988, San Francisco, San Francisco, California4533,4580 Age: 89
FatherHINDES
MotherBARRETT
Marriage20 Jan 1919, San Francisco, San Francisco, California208,4533
Divorce4533
ChildrenLeRoy Hindes (1921-1979)
 George Stetson (1927-2016)
Birth23 Nov 1907, Piedmont, Alameda, California191,4534,6129
Death3 Apr 1997, Piedmont, Alameda, California181,191,4534 Age: 89
FlagsMayflower Descendant
FatherCharles Edwin HUME (1879-1941)
MotherEleanor Carlisle ECKART (1883-1950)
Individual Notes
• At 1921 Thanksgiving dinner, 3014 Clay Street, San Francisco.172

• Signed guest book at wedding of Joy Folger Matteson and Eleanor Carlisle Eckart.6302

• Miss Hume was graduated from Miss Ransom and Miss Bridges school in Piedmont and later attended Stanford University. She is a devotee of golf, playing in many of the larger tournaments in the north and south.7517

• Good friend of her 1st cousin, Harriet Louise Eckart Mills.
Source: personal knowledge of DWM.

• Lived through the 1989 San Francisco earthquake in her home in Piedmont, where the wall of her dining room suffered a minor crack.4534
Census
• 1910 Census: Piedmont, Alameda, California. Age 2 5/12ths, b CA. Parents b CA.1778
• 1920 Census: Piedmont, Alameda, California. Age 12, b CA. Parents b CA.1784
• 1930 Census: Piedmont, Alameda, California. Age 22, b CA. Living with parents. Parents b CA.7586
Marriage20 Nov 1931191,4533
ChildrenCarlisle Hume (1932-2019)
 Susan (1943-2004)
Last Modified 30 Dec 2020Created 6 May 2025 using Reunion 14 for Macintosh
Updated 6 May 2025
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