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1872 - 1938 (66 years)
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Name |
Robert Anderson Woods [1, 2, 3, 4] |
Born |
22 Jan 1872 |
Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania [5] |
Gender |
Male |
Occupation |
Wholesale Coal Dealer, Salesman |
Religion |
Norma Woods characterized Robert as "unreliable, a man of th |
Died |
25 May 1938 |
California Hospital, Los Angeles, California [5] |
Buried |
28 May 1938 |
Inglewood Cem., Inglewood, California [5, 6] |
Person ID |
I858 |
Bishir Family |
Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
Family |
Katherine Ethelyn "Kate" Whitney, b. 17 Nov 1871, Mineral Ridge, Ohio , d. 14 Mar 1932, Los Angeles, California (Age 60 years) |
Married |
8 Oct 1890 |
Moselle, Missouri [1] |
Divorced |
Abt 1907 [2] |
Notes |
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Children |
+ | 1. Donovan Whitney Woods, b. 17 Jan 1893, Pasadena, California , d. 1979, Santa Barbara, California (Age 85 years) |
+ | 2. Robert Edgar Woods, b. 2 Dec 1893, Los Angeles, California , d. 27 May 1972, Dana Point, California (Naval Hospital) (Age 78 years) |
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Last Modified |
10 Nov 2022 |
Family ID |
F468 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Event Map |
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| Born - 22 Jan 1872 - Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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Notes |
- Robert and Kate met in Mineral Ridge, Ohio. She was studying music (she played the piano). They eloped when Robert was 18 and Kate was 19.
Robert's parents lived in Pittsburg but he was a traveling salesman for the Couples Woodenware Co. He had a territory of the Western U.S. and Mexico. At the time of his marriage to Kate he was living in San Antonio, Texas. Throughout the early
years of his marriage to Kate they lived in Los Angeles, then they moved to Cleveland, Pittsburg, Chicago, and other places.
To quote Norma Woods, "Robert and Kate had nothing in common but physical attraction." He would be with the family for a year and then disappear for a year. They were separated, on and off, for years and Kate was left to support their sons by
herself before their eventual divorce. During these times she would move in with her father in Ohio.
When Barbara Woods was a little girl, she remembers her grandfather, Robert and his wife Harriet coming out from Cleveland every winter in a cadallac. She visited them in the summers at a place by Lake Erie. He would take her to his office
where she played with his check writing machine and she went with him to his club for lunch. She remembers he had a pool table in his house.
Robert was quite wealthy at one time but was rather poor when he died.
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