Joan and Jean are twins.
No grandchildren, in 1992. Lives at 104 Birch Way, San Rafael, CA 94903 (in 1992), phone 415-472-2981.
Roland "refused to be poor", so he went to work after graduating from grade school. He went to work at Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank at Lawrence and Broadway at age 15. His job was to carry a .32 and a .38 - two pistols - with over $50,000 to the Loop. His parents encouraged him to quit school so they could get room and board from him to help support the three sisters. Roland went to the Methodist Church because it was close. Dad was a printer's devil one summer, age 13-14 at a Methodist Book Concern. Howard and Una Mae went to church only when they had to. Howard worked 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days a week and had so little time at home. He did not want to go to church.
His sister Virginia tells this story: when Roland was a teenager, he had a nice red racing car; he took Virginia for a ride, and while the car was in motion he removed the steering wheel and handed it to her, scaring her! Another story: he had a metal basin filled with water connected by hidden wires to a source of electricity, with a nickel lying at the bottom; he offered Virginia the nickel if she could get it, but she got a nasty shock! Another: once he built a big steamer ship, with three decks and smokestacks out of Erector Sets, which there is a picture of somewhere. When he got married he left 60 chickens (in the back yard) to Virginia to take care of.
Here are his early addresses, first in Chicago, and then in Maywood. When less than 5 years old: rented the house at 4819 Irving Ave. Lived with Grandparents Wahlgren at 4826 N. Bell, which cost $2900 new. Lived at 4824 Bell Avenue with his parents when he was 16. At 1325 Newport in 1934 with Stella and Jake Mandelbaum. In 1922 the Mandelbaum hardware store was at 3430 Lincoln Avenue. The house next to the hardware store was 3426 Lincoln. Roland's own first store in 1926 was at 3425 Lincoln. His second store, in 1930 or 31, was at 3515 Lincoln. They lived at 3724 Nora Avenue in 1929, lost it in the Depression, and lived at 224 Argyle in 1933. In 1935 they lived at 2001 S. 6th Avenue, Maywood. In 1939 they moved to 1922 S. 3rd Avenue, Maywood; the house cost $5500. In 1942 they moved to 1317 S. 5th Avenue, Maywood. In 1948 or 49 they moved to 1407 S. 3rd Avenue; this was the third house they owned. In the 60's they were at 1114 S. 6th Avenue.
Eventually they sold the store building on 5th Avenue and the house and moved permanently into the cottage on Lake Griswold in McHenry. Then they moved to St. Charles to be near Dick and June, and lived at 124 S. 13th St.
Certificate of Baptism of Roland Howard Grayson,
Marriage License of Roland Grayson and Sylvia Mandelbaum,
Birth Certificate of Richard Grayson,
and S.A.R. papers of Richard Grayson
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Jacob Daniel Mandelbaum, son of Aaron and Lena Mandelbaum, was born September 15, 1877 according to the records of the Grand Secretary of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Illinois. Their files show that he was raised in Prudence Lodge No. 958 on August 30, 1918 and died a member of good standing of that lodge on February 13 1955.
Jacob (Jake) was the 5th and youngest living child of Aaron and Lena, the 6th, a daughter, died in infancy and the mother Lena, died in confinement, March 13th, 1884 when Jake was but 6 years of age. Jake's other sisters at the time of his mother's death were Emma, age 15; Hanna, age 13; Rosa, age 11, and Irene, age 9. Their father, Aaron was 44 and never remarried. Jake and all his sisters were born in Illinois according to the 1860 census of Dyer, Indiana. Inas- much as there is no record of them having lived outside of Chicago before going to Dyer, it is assumed that all were born in the city of Chicago.
According to Sylvia, his daughter, Jake left school to support himself and to run away to his uncle Solomon Mandelbaum's in Nebraska by "hitch Hiking" on a train. Bernice stated that Jacob quit school after the 4th grade and went to Nebraska, He loved it there and would tell his children later how he rode a horse bareback on a farm. Solomon Mandelbaum's son, also a Jacob Mandelbaum, was tall and known as Big Jake from the country. Big Jake visited the Mandelbaum family in Chicago many times at the home above the hardware store on Lincoln Avenue. Big Jake, the 1st cousin of our Jacob D. Mandelbaum, was born to Solomon and Adaline (nee Weinberg) Mandelbaum about 1871 in Illinois (no doubt Chicago) according to the 1885 census of Webster county, Nebraska. Therefore, Big Jake was about six years old when little Jake was born in 1877. Solomon and Adaline had only one other child, Carrie, born about 1870, who married Sam Grabschied of Pipestone, Minn. Adaline, age 62, wife of Solomon, died September 28, 1912, at her home, 4827 Harrison Street, Kansas City, Solomon Mandelbaum died at age 81 at the same home address in Kansas City on March 1st, 1924. According to the death certificate, his son Jacob was still living at the same home address.
It is probable that Jacob D. Mandelbaum returned to Chicago by 1888 at the age of 10, althought It is not known whether he went to Nebraska before or after the age of 10. The clue to this is the 1888 Chicago city Directory which lists Jacob Mandelbaum as a student at the Bryant & Stratton Chicago Business College. Perhaps that is too advanced a school for our Jacob and the listing refers to his uncle, Jacob Mandelbaum, the brother of Aaron.The uncle Jacob would have been about 36 years old in 1888; perhaps he went to school to learn the real estate business. At any rate, Jake did go to night school and studied mechanical drawing. By the time he was 13 he lived in a boarding house, had a good job, and was completely self supporting, according to Bernice. At the age of 16, in 1893, he was listed as a "machinist", living ("boards") at 48 Hastings street, Chicago, the same address as his father Aaron Mandelbaum, who was listed as a salesman.
Early in the year 1899 Jacob D. Mandelbaum, age 21, married Estella Hambujer (Hamburg, Hamburger), daughter of Ephraim and Annie, who had moved from Detroit to Chicago in 1890. Note the financial panic and the Chicago World's Fair of 1890. Stella was born in Detroit December 19, 1881, the youngest of 11 children. She was 17 years old when she married. Apparently Jake had started his first store before he married. According to a news clipping from October 1939, he started a "lock shop" which later became a bicycle shop at the space where Wiebolt's store was at Lincoln and Belmont Avenues. "When Jacob Mandelbaum, the hardware merchant, came to Lincoln Avenue in 1897 in that place, he paid only $8.00 a month rent." Stella had lived at 3250 Lincoln Avenue in a four-room flat over a candy store, as a young girl, according to another news clipping. "Her parents were offered the house and lot for $2,500 and they paid only $6.00 a month rent." This address is where the Bond Clothing store was at the time of the news article.
The hardware store on the corner of Lincoln and Newport that the children and grandchildren all remember so well was at 3430 Lincoln Avenue and the phone number was L.V. 5551, accord- ing to a 1939 newspaper advertisement. (Jake advertised: "Serving this Community for 41 years. Mandelbaum's Hardware. J.D. Mandel- baum, prop. Everything in Hardware Tools and Paints.")
"Aunt" Nora Coughlin was the housekeeper of this family for 53 years, according to Anna Leah, and she was so loved that she was regarded as a member of the family. She was a strict Catholic and it "never bothered Nora when Gram observed any Jewish holidays... Gram would buy her fish on Fridays and during Lent." Nora lived to an advanced age with Stella in California.The Lincoln-Belmont-Ashland Business Association, still a going concern, was formed in 1902 by three men, according to an old newspaper clipping. They were Jacob D. Mandelbaum, Charles Siegler, and Dr. Christian Keller, an optometrist. Dr. Keller had his office above the store of Roland Grayson on Lincoln Avenue and Jake's hardware store was across the street. Dr. Keller's son, by coincidence, now an old man, was an optometrist in St. Charles, Ill., the home of the author of this biography (1975).
In January of 1945 the Lincoln-Belmont Booster newspaper announced that Mr, and Mrs. Jacob Mandelbaum, "owners of the Mandelbaum hardware store, 3430 North Lincoln, have sold the business to Bill Schmieg and will go in for fishing, loafing, and general leisurely living." The sale of the business occurred on Jan. 6th, 1945, after 46 years in the hardware business and 46 years of marriage. "Cheery Mr. Mandelbaum, who doesn't look his 68 years, says, 'We're both In good health so we're going to quit and enjoy life. My wife has helped me with the business all these years and, by gosh, she deserves a rest and some fun." They then "took It easy at their home address 1325 Newport."Ten years later, Feb.13,1955, Jake died. Cousin Betty Lans Kahn saw him a few days before he died In the hospital. He told her what his favorite poem was and asked her if she would like to hear it. She said yes, and he recited it completely. The poem is beautiful. It is Abou Ben Adhem, by James Henry Leigh
Jake was 77 years old. He died leaving 4 children, 9 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren, according to his obituary in the Feb. 15, 1955 Chicago Tribune. He was given a Masonic burial by his nephew Daniel Maerker, and was interred initially at Ridgelawn cemetery, Chicago, then permanently at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif. Stella lived another 13 years. She died aged 86 on Feb. 7, 1968, in Los Angeles, Calif., where she had been living with Bernice Beck, her daughter, and is buried at the side of Jacob in the Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery.
Jacob Daniel Mandelbaum, son of Aaron and Lena Mandelbaum, was born September 15, 1877 according to the records of the Grand Secretary of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of the state of Illinois. Their files show that he was raised in Prudence Lodge No. 958 on August 30, 1918 and died a member of good standing of that lodge on February 13 1955.
Jacob (Jake) was the 5th and youngest living child of Aaron and Lena, the 6th, a daughter, died in infancy and the mother Lena, died in confinement, March 13th, 1884 when Jake was but 6 years of age. Jake's other sisters at the time of his mother's death were Emma, age 15; Hanna, age 13; Rosa, age 11, and Irene, age 9. Their father, Aaron was 44 and never remarried. Jake and all his sisters were born in Illinois according to the 1860 census of Dyer, Indiana. Inas- much as there is no record of them having lived outside of Chicago before going to Dyer, it is assumed that all were born in the city of Chicago.
According to Sylvia, his daughter, Jake left school to support himself and to run away to his uncle Solomon Mandelbaum's in Nebraska by "hitch Hiking" on a train. Bernice stated that Jacob quit school after the 4th grade and went to Nebraska, He loved it there and would tell his children later how he rode a horse bareback on a farm. Solomon Mandelbaum's son, also a Jacob Mandelbaum, was tall and known as Big Jake from the country. Big Jake visited the Mandelbaum family in Chicago many times at the home above the hardware store on Lincoln Avenue. Big Jake, the 1st cousin of our Jacob D. Mandelbaum, was born to Solomon and Adaline (nee Weinberg) Mandelbaum about 1871 in Illinois (no doubt Chicago) according to the 1885 census of Webster county, Nebraska. Therefore, Big Jake was about six years old when little Jake was born in 1877. Solomon and Adaline had only one other child, Carrie, born about 1870, who married Sam Grabschied of Pipestone, Minn. Adaline, age 62, wife of Solomon, died September 28, 1912, at her home, 4827 Harrison Street, Kansas City, Solomon Mandelbaum died at age 81 at the same home address in Kansas City on March 1st, 1924. According to the death certificate, his son Jacob was still living at the same home address.
It is probable that Jacob D. Mandelbaum returned to Chicago by 1888 at the age of 10, althought It is not known whether he went to Nebraska before or after the age of 10. The clue to this is the 1888 Chicago city Directory which lists Jacob Mandelbaum as a student at the Bryant & Stratton Chicago Business College. Perhaps that is too advanced a school for our Jacob and the listing refers to his uncle, Jacob Mandelbaum, the brother of Aaron.
The uncle Jacob would have been about 36 years old in 1888; perhaps he went to school to learn the real estate business. At any rate, Jake did go to night school and studied mechanical drawing. By the time he was 13 he lived in a boarding house, had a good job, and was completely self supporting, according to Bernice. At the age of 16, in 1893, he was listed as a "machinist", living ("boards") at 48 Hastings street, Chicago, the same address as his father Aaron Mandelbaum, who was listed as a salesman.
Early in the year 1899 Jacob D. Mandelbaum, age 21, married Estella Hambujer (Hamburg, Hamburger), daughter of Ephraim and Annie, who had moved from Detroit to Chicago in 1890. Note the financial panic and the Chicago World's Fair of 1890. Stella was born in Detroit December 19, 1881, the youngest of 11 children. She was 17 years old when she married. Apparently Jake had started his first store before he married. According to a news clipping from October 1939, he started a "lock shop" which later became a bicycle shop at the space where Wiebolt's store was at Lincoln and Belmont Avenues. "When Jacob Mandelbaum, the hardware merchant, came to Lincoln Avenue in 1897 in that place, he paid only $8.00 a month rent." Stella had lived at 3250 Lincoln Avenue in a four-room flat over a candy store, as a young girl, according to another news clipping. "Her parents were offered the house and lot for $2,500 and they paid only $6.00 a month rent." This address is where the Bond Clothing store was at the time of the news article.
The hardware store on the corner of Lincoln and Newport that the children and grandchildren all remember so well was at 3430 Lincoln Avenue and the phone number was L.V. 5551, accord- ing to a 1939 newspaper advertisement. (Jake advertised: "Serving this Community for 41 years. Mandelbaum's Hardware. J.D. Mandel- baum, prop. Everything in Hardware Tools and Paints.")
"Aunt" Nora Coughlin was the housekeeper of this family for 53 years, according to Anna Leah, and she was so loved that she was regarded as a member of the family. She was a strict Catholic and it "never bothered Nora when Gram observed any Jewish holidays... Gram would buy her fish on Fridays and during Lent." Nora lived to an advanced age with Stella in California.
The Lincoln-Belmont-Ashland Business Association, still a going concern, was formed in 1902 by three men, according to an old newspaper clipping. They were Jacob D. Mandelbaum, Charles Siegler, and Dr. Christian Keller, an optometrist. Dr. Keller had his office above the store of Roland Grayson on Lincoln Avenue and Jake's hardware store was across the street. Dr. Keller's son, by coincidence, now an old man, was an optometrist in St. Charles, Ill., the home of the author of this biography (1975).
In January of 1945 the Lincoln-Belmont Booster newspaper announced that Mr, and Mrs. Jacob Mandelbaum, "owners of the Mandelbaum hardware store, 3430 North Lincoln, have sold the business to Bill Schmieg and will go in for fishing, loafing, and general leisurely living." The sale of the business occurred on Jan. 6th, 1945, after 46 years in the hardware business and 46 years of marriage. "Cheery Mr. Mandelbaum, who doesn't look his 68 years, says, 'We're both In good health so we're going to quit and enjoy life. My wife has helped me with the business all these years and, by gosh, she deserves a rest and some fun." They then "took It easy at their home address 1325 Newport."
Ten years later, Feb.13,1955, Jake died. Cousin Betty Lans Kahn saw him a few days before he died In the hospital. He told her what his favorite poem was and asked her if she would like to hear it. She said yes, and he recited it completely. The poem is beautiful. It is Abou Ben Adhem, by James Henry Leigh
Jake was 77 years old. He died leaving 4 children, 9 grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren, according to his obituary in the Feb. 15, 1955 Chicago Tribune. He was given a Masonic burial by his nephew Daniel Maerker, and was interred initially at Ridgelawn cemetery, Chicago, then permanently at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. Stella lived another 13 years. She died aged 86 on Feb. 7, 1968, in Los Angeles, Calif., where she had been living with Bernice Beck, her daughter, and is buried at the side of Jacob in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The two graves are a few feet away from the grave of Cecil B. DeMille.
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Recognition of Retirement of Richard Roland Grayson, MD.
October 17, 2008 Introduction by Dr. Paul Gekas:Richard Roland Grayson recently was made an honorary member of the medical staff at Delnor-Community Hospital after forty-five years of service. He joined the medical staffs of Delnor Hospital and Geneva Community Hospital in 1963, when he moved here from Elmhurst, Illinois, where he had been practicing since 1960. He was one of the first physicians in the area to practice the speciality of internal medicine. To that end, he served as the Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine for three years and also was Committee Chairman of the Bioethics Department from 1990 to 1995. During this time, Dr. Grayson was a senior Federal Aviation Medical Examiner. He served the tri-city area by being Medical Examiner for the Department of Rehabilitation and Disabilities, taught a course on science and religion at Aurora University, was a member of the Saint Charles Board of Health from 1963 to 1990, and was a physician consultant for the Illinois Youth Center for a number of years. He also had a particular interest in the effects of stress on the body, especially its relation to peptic ulcer disease. In that regard, he founded the American Academy of Stress Disorders and served as its national president from 1971 to 1975. Richard Grayson was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1925. In 1943, at age 17 He attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana., he became an apprentice seaman in the U.S. Navy during WW II. He rose to the rank of Lt. j.g. He transferred to the University of Illinois and in a span of 3 '/2 years, obtained both a bachelor of science degree as well as doctor of medicine degree, graduating at age 22. Because there was no formal training in internal medicine at that time, he then spent two years at Cook County Hospital in their rotating internship program. He transfered to the US Air Force after internship at Cook County Hospital with the rank of Captain and took training as an aviation medical examiner.
The next ten years of his life were very prolific. From 1950 to 1952, he served in the U.S.Air Force, rising to the rank of captain. From 1952 to 1957, he was in private practice in Perryville, Missouri. Recognizing in 1958, that he needed more training if he wished to exclusively concentrate on diseases of adults, he took a fellowship in endocrinology and cardiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Grayson has published 36 articles in his lifetime, many of which were published between 1952 and 1960. He was the first person to describe diseases of the lung in silo fillers in the farms of Missouri. This article entitled, "Nitrogen Dioxide Pneumonia: A New Disease in Agricultural Workers", was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. This was a significant landmark article in describing that condition for the first time ever. A few years later, he wrote an equally significant article which was published in the American Journal of Medicine, entitled "Factors Which Influence the Radioactive Iodine Thyroid Uptake Test". This article has been cited numerous times, both in other articles as well as textbooks and journals. Outside of medicine, Dr. Grayson has an FCC advanced amateur radio license and was a member of the Toastmasters, Lions, Rotary and Kiwanis. He is a member not only of the Mayflower Descendants, but also a member of the Society of the War of 1812 and of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, because his great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson Grayson, fought at the battle of Shiloh, under General Ulysses S. Grant.
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She was an excellent pianist, and before marriage was encouraged to become a professional performer by her piano teacher, Professor Stoy, at Drake University. But she stayed in nursing school, and became a registered nurse. Eventually she became the full-time office manager for her husband's medical practice in St. Charles, often getting up at 6 AM to work on the books and bills in her study. Her children all told her to take it easy and not to work so hard, but she seemed not to know the meaning of the word ``rest''. She was an active member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, St. Charles, to which she often contributed her ability as organist and where she directed efforts to help those in need. When Dick managed to put all of that office work onto the computer, she chose photojournalism as a second career that would allow her to travel and to meet people; she specialized in antiques/collectibles, business/entrepreneurs, gardening, general interest, life styles, health/medicine, and home/decorating. She was an expert on brochures, corporate histories, and photography. She was a member of the Author's Guild, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her articles appeared in the following publications: The Antique Trader, AntiqueWeek, Best Report, Chicago Sun-Times, Country Accents, Country Living, Draperies \& Window Coverings, Glass Collector's Digest, Good News American, Hispanic Business, Homestyles, Left-Hander, Lutheran Brotherhood, Fox Valley Living, Mountain States Collector, Off Hours, Successful American Entrepreneur, Sunday Woman, Victorian Sampler, Viking, and Vista the Hispanic Magazine.
She planned her funeral years ahead of the event. Here is the homily she chose for Pastor Baerwald's sermon there, from Isaiah 30:29.
But for you there shall be songs, as on a night of sacred pilgrimage, your
hearts glad, as the hearts of men who walk to the sound of the flute on
their way to the Lord's hill, to the rock of Israel.She gave the following instructions about the funeral service.
Mood shall be joyous, full of praise and triumphant, about the beautiful
world God made and how it is all in harmony, beginning when even the
morning stars sang for joy. (I have the feeling that the most important
thing in the universe is the audible and inaudible harmonics.)Pilgrims take with them only what is necessary. They make special
provision for their trip. They have a certain goal in mind, and a true
pilgrim will allow nothing to deter him from making steady progress toward
his goal.A pilgrim is always a stranger, passing through one land after another,
living by values different from those of the people he passes; and yet, in
a sense, he possesses the world. A pilgrim is driven by something he
believes to be greater than himself, something that draws him like a
magnet.Throughout history, people have made pilgrimages to places they considered
holy: Jerusalem, Rome, Mecca, Lourdes, Canterbury, Santiago de Compostela.
And when they arrived, they did the things customary for pilgrims to do,
and they returned home.The Bible speaks of us as pilgrims. The one great difference between
pilgrims of history and believers is that when we reach our destination, we
will be home.She was an excellent pianist, and before marriage was encouraged to become a professional performer by her piano teacher, Professor Stoy, at Drake University. But she stayed in nursing school, and became a registered nurse. Eventually she became the full-time office manager for her husband's medical practice in St. Charles, often getting up at 6 AM to work on the books and bills in her study. Her children all told her to take it easy and not to work so hard, but she seemed not to know the meaning of the word ``rest''. She was an active member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, St. Charles, to which she often contributed her ability as organist and where she directed efforts to help those in need. When Dick managed to put all of that office work onto the computer, she chose photojournalism as a second career that would allow her to travel and to meet people; she specialized in antiques/collectibles, business/entrepreneurs, gardening, general interest, life styles, health/medicine, and home/decorating. She was an expert on brochures, corporate histories, and photography. She was a member of the Author's Guild, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors. Her articles appeared in the following publications: The Antique Trader, AntiqueWeek, Best Report, Chicago Sun-Times, Country Accents, Country Living, Draperies \& Window Coverings, Glass Collector's Digest, Good News American, Hispanic Business, Homestyles, Left-Hander, Lutheran Brotherhood, Fox Valley Living, Mountain States Collector, Off Hours, Successful American Entrepreneur, Sunday Woman, Victorian Sampler, Viking, and Vista the Hispanic Magazine.
She planned her funeral years ahead of the event. Here is the homily she chose for Pastor Baerwald's sermon there, from Isaiah 30:29.
But for you there shall be songs, as on a night of sacred pilgrimage, your
hearts glad, as the hearts of men who walk to the sound of the flute on
their way to the Lord's hill, to the rock of Israel.She gave the following instructions about the funeral service.
Mood shall be joyous, full of praise and triumphant, about the beautiful
world God made and how it is all in harmony, beginning when even the
morning stars sang for joy. (I have the feeling that the most important
thing in the universe is the audible and inaudible harmonics.)Pilgrims take with them only what is necessary. They make special
provision for their trip. They have a certain goal in mind, and a true
pilgrim will allow nothing to deter him from making steady progress toward
his goal.A pilgrim is always a stranger, passing through one land after another,
living by values different from those of the people he passes; and yet, in
a sense, he possesses the world. A pilgrim is driven by something he
believes to be greater than himself, something that draws him like a
magnet.Throughout history, people have made pilgrimages to places they considered
holy: Jerusalem, Rome, Mecca, Lourdes, Canterbury, Santiago de Compostela.
And when they arrived, they did the things customary for pilgrims to do,
and they returned home.The Bible speaks of us as pilgrims. The one great difference between
pilgrims of history and believers is that when we reach our destination, we
will be home.
The obituary of June Grayson, from the Aurora Beacon News, November 11, 1991.
Recognition of Retirement of Richard Roland Grayson, MD.
October 17, 2008 Introduction by Dr. Paul Gekas:Richard Roland Grayson recently was made an honorary member of the medical staff at Delnor-Community Hospital after forty-five years of service. He joined the medical staffs of Delnor Hospital and Geneva Community Hospital in 1963, when he moved here from Elmhurst, Illinois, where he had been practicing since 1960. He was one of the first physicians in the area to practice the speciality of internal medicine. To that end, he served as the Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine for three years and also was Committee Chairman of the Bioethics Department from 1990 to 1995. During this time, Dr. Grayson was a senior Federal Aviation Medical Examiner. He served the tri-city area by being Medical Examiner for the Department of Rehabilitation and Disabilities, taught a course on science and religion at Aurora University, was a member of the Saint Charles Board of Health from 1963 to 1990, and was a physician consultant for the Illinois Youth Center for a number of years. He also had a particular interest in the effects of stress on the body, especially its relation to peptic ulcer disease. In that regard, he founded the American Academy of Stress Disorders and served as its national president from 1971 to 1975. Richard Grayson was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1925. In 1943, at age 17 He attended Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana., he became an apprentice seaman in the U.S. Navy during WW II. He rose to the rank of Lt. j.g. He transferred to the University of Illinois and in a span of 3 '/2 years, obtained both a bachelor of science degree as well as doctor of medicine degree, graduating at age 22. Because there was no formal training in internal medicine at that time, he then spent two years at Cook County Hospital in their rotating internship program. He transfered to the US Air Force after internship at Cook County Hospital with the rank of Captain and took training as an aviation medical examiner.
The next ten years of his life were very prolific. From 1950 to 1952, he served in the U.S.Air Force, rising to the rank of captain. From 1952 to 1957, he was in private practice in Perryville, Missouri. Recognizing in 1958, that he needed more training if he wished to exclusively concentrate on diseases of adults, he took a fellowship in endocrinology and cardiology at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Grayson has published 36 articles in his lifetime, many of which were published between 1952 and 1960. He was the first person to describe diseases of the lung in silo fillers in the farms of Missouri. This article entitled, "Nitrogen Dioxide Pneumonia: A New Disease in Agricultural Workers", was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. This was a significant landmark article in describing that condition for the first time ever. A few years later, he wrote an equally significant article which was published in the American Journal of Medicine, entitled "Factors Which Influence the Radioactive Iodine Thyroid Uptake Test". This article has been cited numerous times, both in other articles as well as textbooks and journals. Outside of medicine, Dr. Grayson has an FCC advanced amateur radio license and was a member of the Toastmasters, Lions, Rotary and Kiwanis. He is a member not only of the Mayflower Descendants, but also a member of the Society of the War of 1812 and of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is a member of the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, because his great-grandfather, Andrew Jackson Grayson, fought at the battle of Shiloh, under General Ulysses S. Grant.
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Known as "Ted". Born February 6, 1898. Went to Alaska in 1944 to work on the Alaskan highway; he worked for the Herman Cole Construction Company of Ames, Iowa, in Valdez, 80 miles from Fairbanks, and saw black bears up there.
Died April 6, 1992, in Boone, Iowa.
Lived at 409 College in Boone in 1954.
Lived the last few years of his life in room 105B at the nursing home,
112 W. 4th St., Boone, Iowa.
Buried in the Story Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Ames, Iowa.
She was 12 when her mother died unexpectedly.
Esther Kinne and Emilie were in Nurse's training together at the Lutheran Hospital in Hampton, Iowa, but Emilie didn't finish. There is a picture from 1922 of three Kinne nurses: Emilie, Alma, and Esther, sitting on the roof of the hospital. Later Emilie would refer mystically to the time when she was (almost) a nurse, and hold it out as proof that she knew better than her doctors what was good for her.
The reason Emilie didn't finish nurse's training, according to Esther, is that the gossip about her relationship with the boyfriend of another nurse became overwhelming. The other nurses were even having secret meetings excluding Esther and Emilie to decide what to do about it.
After leaving nurse's training, Emilie moved to Fort Dodge and worked in the dry goods store, Boston Store. Often on Saturdays, after work, she would visit Tillie Theiss' farm house outside Fort Dodge for dinner.
She married Ted Lind May 1, 1924, at home in Burnside, Iowa. The witnesses were Elfrieda Knigge (bridesmaid) and Frank E. Peterson. (We have the marriage certificate.) Her four daughters were born between 1925 and 1942. Ted and Emilie had good voices and often sang together.
When daughter Gertrude was born, Ted and Gertrude kept her at first in a dresser drawer in their upstairs apartment in Fort Dodge.
Emilie says that when June was in second grade (so it would have been 1932) the family had an apartment in the home of August Becker, North Harlan Street, in Algona, Iowa. We have a copy of the front page of June's math book at Bryant school, second grade, called ``Walks and Talks in Numberland''. According to a newspaper article in Emilie's scrapbooks, the Bryant school in Algona was demolished in 1980 to make way for a new school.
It soon became evident that Emilie suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. She would pry into Ted's activities whenever he wasn't in her presence, and she would go to his employer or the police and accuse him of running around with other women, even though he wasn't (according to Alma Theiss). Ted would often lose his job because of this. She was abusive, and threw shoes and other articles at him. She was in and out of various mental hospitals, and being unable to take proper care of her family, it became Gertrude's responsibility to raise her younger sisters.
According to Theodor Fredrick Miller, in about 1930, Ted came home ten minutes late from work and Emilie wrongly accused him of being out with another woman, and there was a big fight.
According to Alma Theiss, Johanna (Kinne) Kramer and Henry (Heinrich Christian Kinne) were discussing Emilie's problems, and she reminded him that he had gone through the same difficulties with Emilie's mother, Emilie Henriette Seelemann. He replied, ``Ich weiss, Hännchen.'' So maybe paranoid schizophrenia is hereditary.
Ted eventually found it too hard to bear, and left her with their four daughters. She divorced him in September, 1946, in Boone County, on grounds of adultery and mental cruelty. Alma Theiss is pretty sure there was not another woman in his life at this time, despite the indication on the divorce certificate. Other family members disagree.
When Gertrude went off to nurse's training, Pauline was living with her father, and Karin and Jan lived with various families in Des Moines, as arranged by Emilie. But that didn't work out, and eventually Karin and Jan ended up on the Kinne farm where Johanna and Alwin were living, and they stayed there from 1947 to 1953. In 1953, Emilie, Janice, and Karin moved into a house near Gertrude's new family in Perryville, Missouri. This didn't work out either, and eventually Emilie ended up in a mental institution in Farmington, Missouri. She lived in a half-way house in Farmington. About 1970 she was in Elgin State Mental Hospital in Elgin, Illinois.
It was hard for relatives to make contact with Emilie -- she insisted on being loved, but gave no love in return. She found fault with everybody and everything, even her own daughters, who tried hard to take care of her and suffered from the rejection. Birthday presents would be criticized and discarded or given away. It was clear to those who loved her that this behavior was entirely due to her illness, and without it she would have been a lovable person with a good sense of humor and an appreciation of the beauties of nature and joys of close companionship. Later, in the nursing home, she fed the birds every day.
Eventually she was released from the institutions and was able to live on her own in Iowa. She had a fairly nice subsidized apartment in Woolstock, but eventually ended up in a single room occupancy hotel in Iowa Falls. Her single room was packed with mementos of her relatives, old clothes, and her furniture was relegated to a storage locker on the north side of town. Her room was not clean, and it was easy to imagine her on the street as a bag lady were it not for her family and her income from social security.
During the 1980's, June cared for her long distance -- for example, when she was hit by a car and had a compound fracture of the arm, it was June's job to drive from St. Charles to Iowa, pick her up, and bring her to a doctor in Illinois for treatment, because Emilie couldn't trust any of the doctors or hospitals in Iowa. She visited St. Charles frequently, but could never stay there comfortably for more than a few weeks.
Emilie loved music, and she knew how to play the piano, mostly hymns and popular tunes. She also knew how to play the harmonica. She loved to listen to June play hymns on the organ and piano, and said that June played hymns more sweetly than anyone else she had heard. Later she managed to scrape together $5000 to donate to the music program of Concordia College, a small mid-western liberal arts college. The money went toward scholarships for undergraduate music majors, and she received word of concerts they eventually gave.
After June died in 1991, Emilie's medical condition declined, and her fear of neighbors and doctors prevented her from getting prompt medical treatment.
Emilie had hallucinations. She believed that she had been abducted and tortured with laser beams, leaving wounds on her skin which appeared to others as nothing more than age spots. She read newspaper accounts of torture in Argentina, and saw advertisements for infrared remote control devices, and concluded that her torture was conducted by remote control. Then she wrote letters to the FBI begging for investigation and apprehension of those unknown persons who were beating and torturing her by remote control.
Dead relatives would appear to her in her hallucinations. She idolized her dead relatives, and felt an urgent need to remain in Iowa, and to be buried in Iowa. She loved the Iowa countryside, the Iowa people, and the Iowa weather, especially the snowy cold Iowa winters.
Eventually she wound up in a Des Moines hospital psychological ward suffering from congestive heart failure, but demanding to be treated for laser beam torture. The family was concerned that if she were released, she would ignore her medications, and decline again, so daughter Janice took her to her home in Houston, Texas. Eventually she ended up in a nursing home there, where she spent the last of her days. There she continued her habit of scanning the Fort Dodge and Dayton newspapers for items of interest to her; these were either announcements concerning relatives, or political items of interest. She was a good letter writer, and would accompany each letter with several newspaper clippings, with the interesting parts underlined. She was truly intelligent, and always kept her wits. She was able to complete most newspaper crossword puzzles.
She objected strongly to me researching the Kinne family tree, and claimed that her beloved Kinne realtives belonged to her alone. When Jan, Lisa, and I visited her mother's birthplace, Gräfenhainichen, in 1995, we discovered that Emilie's mother had no father listed on her birth record in 1865. Perhaps Emilie felt ashamed of this, and was trying to hide it from us. It is still a mystery to us how Emilie's mother arrived in this country as a child, and who William Reichenbach really was, if he wasn't Emilie's mother's father. We also have Sophie Miller -- her husband is supposedly William Reichenbach. Is it the same William Reichenbach?
Recent magazine articles tell us that you can live much longer if you are underweight. Janice thinks Emilie was anorexic and bulimic, and that this explained her being underweight. It might even explain her longevity. Near the end, she even survived pneumonia, despite declining to take the penicillin offered by the doctors.
She died December 21, 1995, and was buried in Dayton, Iowa, December 28, 1995, next to her brother Alwin. The morning of the funeral we all received a message of grace from God that Emilie would have appreciated - the countryside outside Dayton was covered with frost, and the bright sun reflected beautifully on the frost and ice. This was her beloved Iowa winter.
Address, August 14, 1978 to November, 1992: P.O.Box 1, Iowa Falls, Iowa 50126; phone: 515-648-5511, room 245.
Address in 1993: Highland Park Care Center, 2714 Morrison, Houston, Texas 77009; phone 713-862-1616.
The Trinity Lutheran Church in Dayton, Iowa, has some vital records.
This family tree shows Emilie's ancestors in a version we haven't been able to verify or accept.
Marriage Notes for Gustav Theodore Emmanuel Lind and Emilie Mathilda Theresa Kinne-1755
MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Burnside, Iowa.