Max Isidore Marie Jules (Jules) Houben (1898 - 1949)

Born 5 May 1898 in Verviers, Liège, Belgique

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Died 10 Feb 1949 at age 50 in Lake Placid, North Elba, Essex, New York, United States

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Biography

Max (Jules) Houben is Notable.

Max Houben was a Belgian athlete who competed from the early 1920s until his death at the 1949 FIBT World Championships. He won a silver medal in the four-man bobsled event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, and was the oldest Winter Olympics medalist (48 years, 278 days) until Canadian Russ Howard won a gold medal in men's curling at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin (50 years, 7 days).

Birth

Max Isidore Marie Jules was born in 1898. He was the son of Jules Felix Jacques Houben and Maria Anne Lambertine Rousseau ^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Registres de l'état civil: "Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914"
   Catalog: Registres de l'état civil Item 1 Mariages n° 185-fin 1897 -- Item 2 Naissances, décès 1898 -- Item 3 Publications de mariage 1898 -- Item 4 Mariages n° 1-276 1898
   Image path: Belgium, Liège, Civil Registration, 1621-1914 > Verviers > Naissances, décès 1898 > image 349 of van 1095
   FamilySearch Image: 9Q97-YMB9-QSLS

• Wikipedia:Max Houben.

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• Found on Family Search- accessed December 20, 2023. "Belgique, Liège, Registres Paroissiaux et Etat-Civil, 1590-1947", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6J83-LY8P: Fri Nov 10 15:30:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Max Isidore Marie Jules Houben and Jules Félix Jacques Houben, 7 May 1898.

• Found on Family Search- accessed December 20, 2023. "United States, New York, Index to Passengers Arriving at New York City, compiled 1944-1948", FamilySearch. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:7D83-5XZM: Fri Oct 06 16:36:10 UTC 2023), Entry for Max Isidore Houben, 1946.