Ed was born March 31, 1883, in Philadelphia and moved with his parents
to St. Paul and later to Roscoe, Minnesota. He attended St. John's College
for a time, then moved to Texas. He married Aline Benola Blair,
a practical nurse and a widow with three children, in Liberty, Texas, on October 15, 1914. Aline was
born November 7, 1886, in New Orleans, to Lewis Blair and Clara Johnson.
Homer was the only child born to this
union, but Ed legally adopted Aline's children from her former marriage--Theodore,
Grace, and Louis.
Ted was a professor of zoology at UCLA, an authority on protozoa.
He married a fellow student, Frances Floed, on July 18, 1931, in New York. Frances was from Idaho. Ted died May 1, 1979,
and Frances died in August 1994.
Grace married William Henry Lange and lived on a farm near Houston. They had a son,
Homer Charles Lange. Grace died December 13, 1998.
Louis and his wife had a dental supply business in San Antonio.
Louis died in March 1980.
Ed was a heavy equipment operator and engineer. He died in Houston
on December 4, 1928. Aline died in Houston on February 11, 1938.
Source: Eighteen Cousins, by Bert Jahn (1988); updated 2003.
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