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Source: S101 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R1
Source: S26 Author: Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Individual Records Publication: Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000; Repository: #R1 NOTESource Medium: Ancestry.com CONT
Source: S78 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Social Security Death Index Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2007; Repository: #R1 NOTESocial Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File, : Social Security Administration
Source: S84 Author: Ancestry.com Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Publication: Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005; Repository: #R1 NOTEUnited States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1920
Notes
Note N1535[Source: "The Story of a Family" by Ruth Withington, 1993]
born at Providence Hospital
shy
Attended Alexander Hamilton Junior HS
Graduated Roosevelt HS
chose not to go to college but follow "Uncle Home" and become a dry cleaner
Attended Edison Vocational School to learn the business
Worked in a cleaning plant in Everett (took an hour by bus to get there)
bought a Model A Ford
spent a summer workingin the mines on Chichagof Island, Alaska
1941 "Jack remembers how he and Mother would get up at 6 a.m. in the dark. Absolutely no lights could be seen from outside, or the patrolling wardens would report the offenders."
Eventually opened their own cleaning shop, Madison Master Cleaners at 1209 East Madison Street (open six days a week)
sold their Madison shop (site was taken over by Swedish Hospital)
Oct 1972 Bought larger, Martini cleaners in Burien working 6/days/wk, 8-10 hrs/day
↑ Source: #S84 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1929; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 269; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Effie V Crooks Object: @M476@
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jane Kries Seeman
↑ Source: #S78 Page: Database online. Number: ; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Record for Jack M. Crooks
↑ Source: #S110 Page: Database online. Newspaper: The Seattle Times; Publication Date: 8 12 2010; Publication Place: Seattle , WA , USA. Data: Text: Record for Jack Messinger Crooks
↑ Source: #S166 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Mossinger Crooks Object: @M940@
↑ Source: #S78 Page: Database online. Number: ; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Record for Jack M. Crooks
↑ Source: #S84 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1929; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 269; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Effie V Crooks Object: @M476@
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jane Kries Seeman
↑ Source: #S166 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John Mossinger Crooks Object: @M940@
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jane Kries Seeman
↑ Source: #S110 Page: Database online. Newspaper: The Seattle Times; Publication Date: 8 12 2010; Publication Place: Seattle , WA , USA. Data: Text: Record for Jack Messinger Crooks
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jane Kries Seeman
↑ Source: #S78 Page: Database online. Number: ; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Record for Jack M. Crooks
↑ Source: #S84 Page: Database online. Year: 1920; Census Place: Seattle, King, Washington; Roll: T625_1929; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 269; Image: . Data: Text: Record for Effie V Crooks Object: @M476@
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jane Kries Seeman
↑ Source: #S110 Page: Database online. Newspaper: The Seattle Times; Publication Date: 8 12 2010; Publication Place: Seattle , WA , USA. Data: Text: Record for Jack Messinger Crooks
↑ Source: #S78 Page: Database online. Number: ; Issue State: Washington; Issue Date: Before 1951. Data: Text: Record for Jack M. Crooks
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Jane Kries Seeman
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for John W. Crooks
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S101 Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Effie Viola Messinger
↑ Source: #S26 Data: Text: Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000.
↑ Source: #S26 Data: Text: Online publication - Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Individual Records [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000.
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