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Arthur Fredrick Duval4,35,36 was born on 12 November 1888 in USA, Kansas, Osage Co., Osage City.6,37 Note: The Calif. death index has 1889, but both his tombstone and military card has 1888. He lived at 946 Mission St. (Minnesota) in USA, California, San Francisco Co., San Francisco before 1910.38 The 1910 census says 946 Minnesota Street. He appeared in the census in 1910 in USA, California, San Francisco Co., San Francisco.39 From Soundex - 084 0051 0082. Census - ED 51, 4B Part of 32nd Assembly District.
#946 Minnesota Street, San Francisco. 22 April, 1910
Arthur F Duval, 21 and single. Lodger. Born in Kansas, Father - France, Mother - Kansas.
He was working as a car repairer in car shops.
Arthur and a Robert T Darling were lodging with Margaret M Harkins, a 57 year old Irish widow and her two sons and daughter; James 31, Albert 24, and Margaret 18.
Arthur lived at 2265 Mission St., Apt 28 in USA, California, San Francisco Co., San Francisco in 1916.40 This address was used for their home on their wedding announcement. He served in the military WWI Draft Registration Card on 5 June 1917 in USA, California, San Francisco Co., San Francisco. Registration Card No. 54
Arthur Fredrick Duval, Age 28
Home address: 2265 Mission, SF, Calif
Date of Birth: November 12, 1888
Natural-born citizen
Osage City, Kansas, USA
Occupation: Car-repairer
United Railways
24th & Utah Sts.
Dependents, Yes, wife
Married Caucasion
Military Experience: none
Medium height, Medium build, gray eyes, lt brown hair
signed T.P.S. Brown
Precinct 8?/25
San Francisco
California
June 5th 1917
Signed Frederick Duval
He died by commiting suicide on 27 April 1949 at the age of 60 in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., Los Altos Hills.6 Arthur was buried about 30 April 1949 at Alta Mesa Cemetery in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., Palo Alto.37 Lot 68 & 69, Sub 5
Section Blk A "B"
Tombstone reads -
A. Fred Duval
1888 In Loving Memory 1949 Arthur Fredrick Duval was born on November 12, 1888 in Osage City, Kansas, the last of three children. His early years was spent in Osage City. This changed when he was 16 due to his mother's death in December of 1905. All his family except his brother Louis left Kansas for California. In the 1910 census he was lodging at 946 Minnesota Street in San Francisco working as a mechanic in car shops. In 1916, when he was 26, he is listed in the San Francisco directory as living at 2265 Mission St., Apt 28. This address was also used on his wedding announcement for July of that year. By then he was working as a car repairer for United Railways, a San Francisco cable car company, located at 24th & Utah Streets. Family stories say Fred met Irene Weber while he worked at the Cable Car Barn and she was working at a San Francisco Bakery. Fred Duval and Irene Weber married on July 29, 1916 in San Francisco, California.
A few years after marriage, Fred and Irene left San Francisco and started living on and farming the apricot-prune ranch started by Irene's parents, which today is at the corner of Purissima Ave. and Robleda Ave in Los Altos Hills. The 1920 census lists them as fruit farmers living on Purissima Road near Jacob and Margaret Weber. Fred's main cash employment though was at the "Palo Alto Hardware." He kept this job the rest of his life except for a brief time during WWII. Their children were raised in the country on the family ranch. Fred was also a good carpenter and put in the floor of the Purissima School. He became a school trustee on 19 June 1924.
During World War II Fred was one of many employed by Joshua Hendy's Iron Works in Sunnyvale, which peaked at a labor force of 11,500 during the war to fill the demand for liberty ship engines. By the end of the war, Joshua Hendy Iron Works had supplied the engines for 754 of America's 2,751 Liberty ships, or about 28% of the total - more than that of any other plant in the country. In addition, the company in the late stages of the war produced 53 steam turbines and reduction gears for the more modern Victory ships. The company also supplied other military equipment during the war, such as turbine generators and antiaircraft gun turrets. In 1947, the Joshua Hendy Iron Works was sold to the Westinghouse Corporation. When the war ended Fred returned to work at the hardware store in Palo Alto, remaining their until his death in 1949.
In his free time Fred liked fishing and abalone hunting. At that time you could pick abalone off the rocks. His daughter Marion remembers going on a family fishing trip in the Klamath area where they stayed in a motel while it poured rain. Sometimes their neighbors, Mrs. Steineke and her daughters Marian and Maxine, would join them on camping trips. Her husband, Max Steineke, was away from home for long periods working as a geologist in Saudi Arabia. Another memory of Marion's was of a caravan of neighbors driving together to Santa Cruz for a beach outing when she was a young child in the 30's. While making their way over the summit along the primitive roads of that time the group came to a standstill. Marion asked her parents why they weren't moving. The problem was a narrow section of road edging a steep drop that some of the women drivers were scared to cross. Men in the group helped ferry the cars over the section before they could continue on their outing.
A couple of years after Irene's death, about the summer of 1948, Fred married Rita Speicker. Rita insisted that a condition of marriage was that he will the ranch and everything to her. Though advised not to, Fred agreed. This unfortunate event was stressful on the rest of his family. Hardly a year later Fred died on April 27, 1949, supposedly by suicide. Rita told his children that if they contested the death verdict she would tell everyone that his son Fred killed him. In this way the family ranch started by the Weber's was lost, the children not receiving a dime of their parents estate.
He was buried about April 30, 1949 in California, Santa Clara Co., Palo Alto, Alta Mesa Cemetery.
Newspaper articles indexing Fred Duval:
Bakersfield Californian - February 25, 1946, Bakersfield, California Image loading
Chapel in charge of ar Surviving are his Irene and Fred Duval of Los PEARSOX 4IOE services for Joe 507 Jeffer son...
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Bakersfield Californian - December 6, 1933, Bakersfield, California
Friday afternoon guests nt the George Michael home were and Fred Duval and children Frederic and and Du vals Weber of Los...
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City: Bakersfield Irene Sybil Weber and Arthur Fredrick Duval were married on 29 July 1916 in USA, California, San Francisco Co., San Francisco.40,41 DUVAL - WEBER - Frederick Duval, 27, 1266 Kansas street, and Irene S. Weber, 24, 59 Thirtieth street.
___________________________
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Weber
announce the marriage of their daughter
Irene Sibyl
to
Mr. Fredrick Duval
Saturday, the twenty-ninth of July
one thousand nine hundred and sixteen
San Francisco, California
At home
Twenty-two sixty-five Mission Street
Apartment twenty-eight
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Bakersfield Californian - July 29, 1916, Bakersfield, California Image loading
at the Shepard home Friends and former pupils of Miss: Irene Weber will he interested in the announcement of her marriage, which...
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State: California They40,41 appeared in the census on 2 January 1920 in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., Purissima, Mayfield Twp..42,43,44 Purissima Road
8,8 Duval, Frederick Head, MW, 31, married, Kansas France (French), Ohio, Fruit Farmer
Duval, Irene W. Wife FW 27, married, Montana Germany Minnesota
Own home free of mortgage
They42,43,44 appeared in the census on 19 April 1930 in USA, California, Santa Clara Co..45 The Duval family (except Marion, who wasn't born yet) was living on Purissima Ave. not far from Irene's mother and brother James. They owned their own home and a radio.
Fremont Township, Purissima ED 43-11, sheet 9B, line 52, Purissima Ave.
15, 15, Duval, Fred A., Head, own home, radio, farm, MW, 41, Married at age 28, Kansas, France, Ohio, Salesman, Retail hardware
Irene W, wife, FW, 38 married age 24, Montana, Germany, Minnesota
Lyle M, daughter, FW, 8, single, CA, KS, MT
Frederick E, Son, MW, 5, single, CA KS, MT
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Irene Sybil Weber4,35,46 was born on 23 March 1892 in USA, Montana, Missoula Co., Missoula.6 She graduated in June 1910 in USA, California, Santa Clara Co.. She died of a stroke after suffering from high blood pressure for many years on 6 April 1946 at the age of 54 in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., Los Altos.6 Irene was buried at Alta Mesa Cemetery in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., Palo Alto.37 Lot 68 & 69, Sub 5
Section Blk A "B"
Tombstone reads (see photo) -
Irene W. Duval
wife and mother
1892 1946 Irene Sybil Weber was born on March 23, 1892 in Missoula, Montana. She lived in Missoula at least five years, since her brother was born there in the spring of 1897, but leaving sometime before 1900 when her family is listed in the census in Winnemuca, Nevada. The stay in Nevada was not long, by the time Irene was 10 her family was living in California. Irene is listed as a student in the second class at the new hilltop Purissima School, which started on 1 September 1902. The school at that time was in a fruit shed on the corner of Purissima Ave. and Robleda Ave., an area now part of Los Altos Hills. She graduated with the Senior class of 1910.
Irene continued her education at the State Normal School (now San Jose State University) to become a teacher. She taught in Bakersfield for a while at Beardsley School, living with her Aunt Rose (Breuer) Milan. When the large photograph of Bakersfield School hanging in Marion (Duval) Heiken's home was taken, she was the principal. This picture is also hanging in the Bakersfield History? Museum. Irene didn't care for teaching though and left for other work. She was hired at A. Komsthoeft Bakery (Albert Komsthoeft, bakery 531 Castro) in San Francisco. It was probably while she was working in there that she met Fred Duval.
Like her mother, Irene enjoyed sewing. She also belonged to a Bridge Club with neighborhood women. When Fred and Irene got together with Steve and Adele DeWitt they would play Pinochle. While raising her family, Irene was very active in the school PTA. She would alternate with her neighbor, Emily Kilpatrick, being president or treasurer.
Though Irene was raised Catholic, she didn't attend church often. Her husband came from a strict Methodist family. She told her daughter that she "couldn't kneel."
Irene took care of more than just her family. She invited her elderly neighbor, Frank Fleischhauer, to take his meals with them. He had been born in Germany Nov 1858 and lived alone in a two room house. His property had a drying yard and orchard, barn/shed and outhouse. According to census records, Frank had immigrated to the US in 1880 and was working as a woodsman in 1900 up in Hydesville Twp., Humboldt Co. before buying property on Purissama Ave before 1910. In the 1920 census, Frank is listed next door to Jacob and Margaret Weber. He was a 61 year old single man when the Webers were 57. Marion recalls that he raised strawberries and always had a stick of salami behind his door. Marion would go visit him and ask for a piece of salami. Laughing, Marion recalls overhearing a neighbor complaining to her mom that she shouldn't let her eat that salami as it was dirty. Though he outlived Irene, Frank willed his property to her in gratitude for her care. Marion remembers seeing him with tears streaming down his face at her mother's funeral.
Bakersfield Californian - November 3, 1915, Bakersfield, California
'training this year under the direction of their "teacher, Miss' Irene Weber. The'higher grades had some bf the work Iftaj your,...
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Bakersfield Californian - December 21, 1915, Bakersfield, California
of which was a playlet under the direction of Miss Irene Weber. Those taking part were the Misses Aleen Whitehall, Lo-vena...taking part were the Misses Aleen Whitehall, Lo-vena Aldham and Irene Weber and Messrs. Jennings Pierce, 0. R. Shep-ard and George Oldham....
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Bakersfield Californian - February 25, 1916, Bakersfield, California
Henry McCoy, Walter Swanson, Louis Bur-rell and Harold Whitehill. Miss Irene Weber, their teacher, will, of course, accompany them. F. B....girls team will consist of Sorena Newton, Irene Pierce, Marie Williams, Algenes Watson, Erie Browning and Lena Routh....
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Bakersfield Californian - February 29, 1916, Bakersfield, California
...Mrs. Ergo E. Johnson, Miss Irene Weber and the hostess Mrs. Milan. * * � Surprise Party.......
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Bakersfield Californian - April 18, 1916, Bakersfield, California Image loading
...unable te&'worK.^ ; : Miss Irene Weber was obliged' to dismiss her classes tills afternoon arid return......
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Bakersfield Californian - May 17, 1916, Bakersfield, California
in health. Mrs. John F. Milan and her niece, Miss Irene Weber, will leave on next Friday for Ix>s Angeles, where...
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Bakersfield Californian - June 10, 1916, Bakersfield, California
in Illi- nois, Dr. Whitaker accompanying him. � ; Miss Irene Weber left this morning ' for her home In San Francisco,...
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Bakersfield Californian - May 3, 1937, Bakersfield, California
two other slstom and a brother In Min nesota a Irene Weber Ios and three Hosary for Alclntyre will be conducted at...
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Children were:
i. | .jpg) Lyle Margaret Duval4 was born on 18 July 1921 at 1040 Alameda in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., San Jose.3 Doctor's Hospital. This location burned down and was rebuilt on Lenzen St.Born at 8:05 PM, weight was 6 lbs, 8 oz. Last Name First Name Middle Date Sex Mother County Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place Death Place Residence Death Date SSN Age | |
ii. |  Fredrick Edward Duval4 was born on 17 September 1924 in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., San Jose.3 Born at 1040 The Alameda. Doctor's Hospital (burned down with its' records)Last Name First Name Middle Date Sex Mother County DUVAL FREDERICK EDWARD 09/17/1924 MALE WEBER SANTA CLARA He served in the military WWII enlistment on 18 May 1942 in USA, California, San Francisco Co., San Francisco.47 U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 about Frederick Duval Name: Frederick Duval Birth Year: 1911 Race: White, citizen Nativity State or Country: California State: California County or City: San Francisco Enlistment Date: 18 May 1942 Enlistment State: California Enlistment City: San Francisco Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Grade: Private Grade Code: Private Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men) Source: Civil Life Education: 2 years of high school Civil Occupation: Electric Truck Driver Marital Status: Single, without dependents Height: 66 Weight: 157 Skills: semi-skilled, warehousing, storekeeping, handling, loading, unloading, and related occupations He died on 9 July 2008 at the age of 83 in USA, California, Placer Co., Roseville. Fredrick graduated at San Jose State College, BS Engineering in USA, California, Santa Clara Co., San Jose. Plant engineer at Fiber Glass in Santa Clara. After retirement, moved to Los Vegas, NV. Since moved back to Calif., currently residing in Roseville, Sacramento Co.. | |
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