• Signed guest book at wedding of Joy Folger Matteson and Eleanor Carlisle Eckart.
6302, p 3• Complete name based on 1 Jan 1998 letter from Philip Krusi, and name from Eckart genealogy index.
8, Index,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, p 1• “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, p 2• 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.
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• 1930 Census: Alameda, Alameda, California. Age 35, b CA. Engineer, civil. Father b MA; mother b CA. Living with parents.
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Birth11 Nov 1891, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin8586
Death9 Aug 1974, Concord, Contra Costa, California8586 Age: 82
FatherStetson HINDES
MotherBARRETT
Individual Notes
• For Miss Ellen Hindes, whose marriage to LeRoy Krusi will take place before the first of the year, Miss Priscilla Krusi will give a luncheon on Saturday, November 15th, at the Herman Krusi home of Central avenue.
Miss Hindes is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stetson Hindes of San Francisco, and the date of the marriage will be definitely set with the return of LeRoy Krusi from Siskiyou county where he is engaged on a big engineering project.
The wedding will be one of the smart affairs of the winter and of interest to society on both sides of the bay, owing to the prominence of both families.
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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, p 3• 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.
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Census Data
• 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.
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