Florence Elizabeth Betti Hinman

Other Events and Attributes:

• CMSI Member: 1313
• Family Search ID: G7R7-54J
• Residence: 1 Jan 1925, Postville, Allamakee, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1930, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1940, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
• Residence: 1944, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, USA
• Residence: 2000, Punta Gorda, Charlotte, Florida, USA

Notes:

Sources are from Genealogy of the Puritans by R.R.Hinman; History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfiled, Jacobus and Barbour Collection Woodbury, CT, Vital Rec. as well as Historical Families of Ancient Woodbury.

GEDCOM diskette submitted 20 May 1995; added to database on 20 Jun 1995; also contains information on the following CMS members:
CMS 55 - Nancy High
CMS 417 - Jane R. Porter
CMS 487 - Robert S. Flinn
CMS 1237 - Mary Louise Wilson Troy
CMS 1405 - Arnold Kendrick Stewart
CMS 1489 - Roger Bolton Montgomery

Florence married Chester Harold Paull on 31 Aug 1939 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA. Chester was born on 17 May 1907 in Fort Howard, Brown, Wisconsin, USA; died on 2 Mar 1995 in Port Charlotte, Charlotte, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Family Search ID: KD93-191
• Occupation: Wholesale Seedsman
• Residence: 1900, Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1910, Bellevue, Jackson, Iowa, USA; Ward 2
• Residence: 1920, Post, Allamakee, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1 Jan 1925, Postville, Allamakee, Iowa, USA
• Relocated: 1927, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1930, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1936, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Ira Perry Hinman (the 2nd) was born to Elizabeth Katherine Zentner & Charles Eugene Hinman in Bellevue, Iowa on 13 Oct, 1890. He was their first son but they had two older daughters, Lydia Wheeler Hinman and Blanche Hinman. Ira grew up in an almost ideal setting, along the MIssissippi, living a life almost like a combination Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. His father not only invented practical machinery but was trying to discover "perpetual motion" machine that would make him a millionaire. He was a near genius in his mechanical abilities, according to his son and grandson who had many gifts of their own for discovery and inventing mechanical solutions. Charles also had an itchy foot that did not like having to stay put in one place. He built a number of engines for boats, having discovered that a row of in-line engines could be set up to run off kerosine fumes poured over cordite. One of the boats, for which he was called the Mechanic, was the "Judgey" which he and the owner raced up and down the Mississippi River. Any who knew Charlie very well, admitted that he never really grew up, but remained like a child in being able to play with his "toys." He took one of the boats down the Mississippi River to New Orleans where he and his croneys sold it and had a great time in N.O. While such a man is an interesting character he can also be an irresponsible parent. No doubt that Ira Perry recognized early that he had both.

Yet the boy and man were different than his father's. The son who stuck his nose a lot closer to the grindstone and cared a lot more about his family.

In 1908, while still in high school, Charles took his son to San Francisco after the big earthquake. He came back to Bellevue, completed H.S. and then went to Chicago to find his first job. He went to work in 1911 for Illinois Seed as dock handler. When they advertised in paper for high school graduate to work in the office, Ira Perry answered the ad and was hired. He soon worked his wasy up from $9.00 a week to making $11.00. By then he had met Florence Montgomery on the street car and on 12 June 1912 they were married.
By the time Ira P. was thirty they built a home in the Chicago west side. In 1920 they moved to Iowa when Ira P. went to work for Harvey Roberts Seed Co. He was both a seed buyer, salesman and seed cleaner who could invent and build new kinds of seed cleaning equipment. This put him much in demand as he could know how to clean lots of seed which he purchased and then knew to whom he could sell it in car load lots. He went to work for Albert Dickenson Seed Co. in Minneapolis, MN in 1927. He was making a salary of over $1000.00 a month which a that time was cnsidered exceptionally good. The family had also sold the church and parsonage they owned in Postville so would appear they were well fixed for that time.
Florence was in ill health after the birth of daughter Patricia. This and perhaps other things led to Ira Perry having an affair in Bemidji, MN which because of a letter was discovered by Florence. This completely changed her attitude about life and feelings for her family and husband. She was completely irrational for a number of years. In being so, she even managed to get her husband fired in the middle of the depression from Minneapolis Seed Co. In so doing, Ira went to work in 1932 for the Barzen Seed Company in Theif River Falls, MN. He only stayed for a few years and then decided to go into business for himself. On about $300.00 he started buying seed, rented space in a warehouse and began cleaning seed. In 1937, the seed plant caught fire and burned to the ground. It took months to prove a loss and be able to pay his debts and get back into operation again. This time at 1610 Central Ave. He was well on the road to financial recovery when he fell after a light snow and bumped the back of his head on the steps. He went down town and was not seen again for five weeks. It was a case of partial abnesia so he thought he was living in period five years or so earlier. Again he was able to recover his health and return to business on a larger scale than ever. He sold out and retired in 1955. Eleven days after his retirement, he entered Swedish Hospital for surgery to remove polyps in his intestines. Upon doing a biopsy, it was found that some were malignant so his colon was removed. After five days, of poor recovery as he kept pulling out tubes in his nose, he died as they tried to place tubes back in. The autopsy later showed that there were still extensive malignant polyps in his intestines so his last few months would have meant either more surgery or dying within six months from intestinal cancer which had taken his father twenty five years earlier.
He is remembered most lovingly by those of us still living in 1994, nearly forty years after his death. We still remember his stories, his ability to cook a wonderful meal, his understanding and appreciation of other people and his gift for making problems seem less threatning.


Buried:
Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery

Ira married Florence Elizabeth Montgomery on 12 Jun 1912 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA. Florence (daughter of David Richard Montgomery and Mary Maria Haehnel) was born on 2 Dec 1892 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; died on 31 Dec 1971 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA; was buried on 5 Jan 1972 in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Family Search ID: KZS4-ZXL
• Residence: 1900, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 9
• Residence: 1910, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 12
• Residence: 1920, Post, Allamakee, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1 Jan 1925, Postville, Allamakee, Iowa, USA
• Residence: 1930, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1936, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA
• Residence: 1 Apr 1940, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, USA

Notes:

Florence Montgomery was born in a Chicago district near Maxwell Street that housed many newly arrived immigrants. The Hull House was a famous Settlement House where newly arrived foreigners could learn many cultural things. While she may never have visited there as a child she had the same outlook as parent did for their first generation children: "People could do and be anything they wanted if they were willing to work toward that goal." She only went through tenth grade before her father, David Montgomery felt she did not need more education and had her go to work at Goldblatt's Department Store on Maxwell Street. He entire $2.50 a week paycheck had to be brought home.

Even as a small child she was encouraged to sing "a capella" in her church. She was a member of the United Brethern church which did not believe in jewelry or any adornment. Women wore dainty white caps in church. Mother did not even own a wedding ring for many years. She had hoped to be a trained nurse but her father was very strict about how she dressed and he considered nurses to be fallen women. On time she said she bought a pale yellow blouse for fifty cents of her pay. When she brought it home, David Montgomery flew into a rage saying only women of the streets wore anything but white blouses. He then tore it into shreds.

Even after we moved to Iowa and to Minnesota she continued to study voice until late 30's. She sang with outstanding musicians and orchestra in Minneapolis. In 1935, when I had been injured in an auto accident, Florence was down at the auditorium singing with the Minneapolis Symphony. She was an extremely proud woman, strong minded and out-spoken. She could be loveable or feared.
It was hard to believe she was only about 4 feet 10 or 11 inches tall as she would say she's stand toe to toe with anyone and fight it out. She was indominable.

She too was an avid reader but thought reading fiction a waste of time. Most of her "library" contained philpsophical, psychological and religious ideas. She often quoted these, one favorite from 1922 was "The Mind in the Making" by Robinson. She finally gave me a copy she'd found in 1960's. Forty years later that book was just as relevant and remains so today. She also had no patience with "game playing." I do remember a time when she and Dad had friends and would play Pinochle. However, Dad loved to play two or three hand game of Cribbage. I enjoyed playing with him also but to Florence such games were a waste of time. She did enjoy gardening when she was younger and had beautiful Day Lily and Iris garden.

She had great prejudices when younger that were fueled by her fathers hatred of Roman Catholics. In her last years she mellowed greatly, had several Catholic friends that she would drive around to make holy pilgrimages to various churches. Then even at the end she accepted friendship of one of the nuns who took care of patients in Nursing Home where she died. She was born on Dec. 2, the same day and month as General Richard Montgomery and she died on Dec. 31, exactly one hundred ninety six years after him almost to the hour. He died of bullet wound outside Lower Quebec City while she died of Congestive heart failure after suffering for years from angina.She'd like being compared to this American hero of the Revolutionary War.

I am certain each of her children would remember her differently as she was a complex human being who was talented, witty, dramatic, demanding, moody, beligerant, generous, hospitalable, gracious, dignified and proud. While her stature was tiny, her ego and pride were gigantic. Al of her children were forced to live in her shadow as none could live up to her "self-portrait."


Buried:
Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Family Search ID: MKXB-VRW
• Residence: 1852, York, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1861, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1871, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Andrews Ward
• Arrival: 1890, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 9
• Residence: 1910, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 12
• Residence: 1920, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 24

Notes:

Birth:
Near Hoggs Hollow

Buried:
Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery

David married Mary Maria Haehnel in 1886. Mary was born on 15 Aug 1858 in Gorlitz, Sachsen, Germany; died on 10 Apr 1918 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; was buried on 13 Apr 1918 in Hillside, Cook, Illinois, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Family Search ID: MKXB-VY9
• Arrival: Aug 1864
• Departure: 6 Aug 1864, Hamburg, Germany
• Residence: 1871, Grey, Ontario, Canada; Normanby
• Residence: 1881, Grey, Ontario, Canada; Nomanby
• Arrival: 1890, Illinois, USA
• Residence: 1900, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 9
• Residence: 1910, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; Ward 12

Notes:

Buried:
Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 25 May 1841, Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Mentioned in Father's Will
• Residence: 1861, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; St Patricks Ward
• Residence: 1871, Cardwell, Ontario, Canada; Caledon
• Residence: 1873, Ontario, Canada

Richard married Hannah Smith on 30 Oct 1831 in York, Ontario, Canada. Hannah was born on 28 Apr 1812 in Thornhill, York, Ontario, Canada; died on 14 Oct 1883 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; was buried in 1883 in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1861, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; St Patricks Ward
• Residence: 1871, Cardwell, Ontario, Canada; Caledon
• Residence: 1880, New York, New York, New York, USA