CALIFORNIA

Census Reports

1940

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UPDATED JANNUARY 2, 2023

 

CALIFORNIA 1940 CENSUS

 

Remember the Woody Guthrie folk song about the Dust Bowl Refugees heading to California in the 1930s?  Here’s how the song starts “C҃alifornia’s a Garden of Eden, a Paradise to live in or see, but believe it or not, you won’t find it so hot, if you ain’t got the Do Re Me boys, if you ain’t got the Do Ray Me.” You are going to find a huge influx of our folks from Texas and Oklahoma have headed out here hoping to survive the Great Depression and the dry dust. Well, here we go. There are a ton of Putmans and Putnams and dozens of people listed as Putnam or Putman but really aren’t. Handwriting horrible so that Patmans and Pulmans and Pitmans and others born in Russia and German according to the writing are stuck onto the Putnam/Putman page. I’m listing them in case they want you to send a present or something as their relatives.

 

HORACE PUTNAM  Alameda, Alameda County

He is 48 MT and his wife Maybelle is 48 CA. He is a yardman for the railroad and they were here in 1935. He is Horace Joseph Putnam, a son of Percy Putnam and Margaret McDonald from Aroostook County, Maine, and was born in Great Falls, Cascade County Montana March 17, 1892. He married Mary Theresa Thompson and has been up there with her until 1935 when he was here with Maybelle. Mary and the kids are still up there in Great Falls now in 1940 and she will be there till she dies September 8, 1958. Mary says she is widowed. Horace will die in Contra Costa County July 29, 1963.

 

SOULE A. (AUGUSTA) PUTNAM  Alameda, Alameda County

He is listed as 81 CA and single but really divorced. He is living with his widowed sister Ina Malone 72 CA. He is a son of Albert S. Putnam and Susan A. Leach from Amador County. He married Susie Dupuy in 1894 and they divorced in 1898. She has had 3 marriages all ending in divorce fairly quickly. Then Soule was married to Ida in Oakland in 1910 and was alone in San Francisco in 1920 and in 1930. He was born in California May 21, 1858 and will die here in Alameda May 16, 1944.

 

WILLIAM (U. or H.) PUTNAM  Alameda, Alameda County

He is 67 CA single and is living with his married sister Ola Mae Dodge 59 CA and her husband Fred A. Dodge 58 CA. They are kids of Allen H. Putnam and Sarah Ann Remick from Humboldt County. His dad was from Maine but was with his widowed mother in Dover, Maine in 1850 and ideas on daddy.

 

CHRISTINA S. PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

She is 65 GERMANY and widowed. She is living with her single daughter Christine H. 33 PA. Christina S. Haberstroh was married to Milo Boone Putnam in Pittsburgh in 1900 and 1910. He died and she is widowed there with her daughter in 1920. Young Christine is single and a teacher in Winters, Yolo County California in 1930. Christine is still a public school teacher and is also listed here in town as a lodger with Gertrude Hutchinson. Boone was a son of Walter Tell Putnam and Elizabeth MacMillan from Pittsburgh. His grandfather Walter was a son of Silas Putnam (1351) and Sarah Luddon of Sutton, Massachusetts where he was born August 11, 1829.

 

I. D. (IVAN DECATUR) PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

He is 54 OR and his wife Gertrude Patten is 55 MO. He is a son of Charles Frederick Putnam Jr. and Elizabeth Hutchinson, and was born back in Lake County Oregon. He was with the family in San Bernardino County California in 1900 and with his widowed mother there in 1910. He and Gertrude were in Stockton, San Joaquin County in 1920 and here in 1930. He was born in Oregon May 19, 1885 and will die in Berkeley, Alameda County California July 31, 1951. Gertrude was born July 2, 1885 and will die in San Diego November 5, 1962. His grandfather Charles was a son of Joseph Washington Putnam and Susan Hall of Lexington, Kentucky and then Stow, Massachusetts before that.

 

JOHN A. (ALPHEUS) PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

He is 32 CA and his wife Dorothy is 32 CAN. He is a son of John Wesley Putnam and Mabel Celeste Black and was born in Sonoma April 23, 1907 and will die here in Berkeley October 23, 1966. New England family that went up to Nova Scotia after the Revolution and then came back down here in the 1860s.

 

JOSEPH F. (FRANKLIN) PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

He is 53 IN NY DE. His wife Mae Cole is 53 NY and they have Joseph C. 19 NY. He is a mechanical and electrical engineer in the oil industry. He is a son of Joseph Edward Putnam and Mary Franklin from Rochester New York. He was at home there in 1900 and 1910 and married to Mae there in 1920. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana December 24, 1886 and will die out here in Hayward, Alameda County August 23, 1960. Mae is a daughter of Thomas Gooding Cole Jr. and Ida Alice Forward. She was born in Connellsville, Oneida County New York August 12, 1886 and will die in Contra County California January 3, 1974. The son Joseph Cole Putnam was adopted by them. He was born in New York May 7, 1920 and will die in Sacramento July 28, 1974. He will marry Virginia Perry. New England family.

 

RAY PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

He is Ray Culver Putnam 40 CA NY CA and his wife Florence Schmidt is 39 IL. He is a pharmacist at a drug store and she is a clerk there. He is a son of Isaac Putnam and Helen Matilda Culver from Solano County. He was home in Dixon, Solano County in 1900 and 1910 and then single in San Francisco in 1920. He and Florence were in Novato, Marin County in 1930 and in Albany, Alameda County in 1935 and he was also a druggist then. He’ll be back in Dixon and die there in 1942. Isaac was a son of Sebastian Gonsolus Putman and Philinda Elwell from Montgomery County New York. Dutch family.

 

ROBERT L. (LAWRENCE) PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

He is 36 MO and divorced. He was in Oakland in 1935 and Chicago in 1930. He is a typesetter at a book publishing company. He is a son of William Hagey Putnam and was with his dad and stepmother in Chicago in 1920 and 1930. His dad is a son of Edwin Putnam (2632) and Julietta Lawrence from Jackson County Michigan and then Whiteside County Illinois where he was born June 24, 1903. He was then in Cedar, Jasper County Missouri in 1900 and ԭissingՠin 1910, but Robert and his sister were in an orphanage in Denver in 1910. Edwin was a son of Jeremy and Sarah Putnam (1174) from Vermont and then Michigan. Robert was born in Jasper County Missouri June 24, 1903. His mom was Medora Hoffman who his dad married in Missouri February 27, 1902. Robert married Barbara Agnes Keslin in Chicago. She was born there November 8, 1905 and will die in Chicago December 17, 1985. She is a daughter of Franciscus Keslinkewitz Amelia Emily Goss. I don’t think she remarried. Robert’s dad was a printer like he is here now. Robert will die in Tehama, California September 8, 1970.

 

THOMAS M. (MILTON) PUTNAM  Berkeley, Alameda County

He is 64 CA NOVA SCOTIA NOVA SCOTIA and is a teacher at the University of California. His second wife Madeline ԍattieՠBlanchard is 57 MA and they have Thomas M. Jr. 18 CA still at home. He is a son of Thomas Crowe Putnam and Maria Rutherford from Nova Scotia. He was born in Sonoma County California May 22, 1875. He was single teaching school in Archer County Texas in 1900, and he was here in 1910, but then was married to Margaret Murray, and in 1920 and 1930 married to Madeline. He will die here September 22, 1942. The line goes back to Massachusetts. New England lineage.

 

FRED L. (LEWIS) PUTNAM  Hayward, Alameda County

He is 71 WI VT VT and his wife Myrtle Owen is 65 PA. He is a son of John P. Putnam and Ida Rich from Sauk County Wisconsin. John was a son of Jonathan Putnam (1952) and Mary Stockwell of Orange County Vermont. They were in Barron County Wisconsin in 1900 and in Ashland, Jackson County Oregon up through 1935. They will be down here till they die. He will die here November 3, 1947. Myrtle will die in Marin County August 9, 1942.

 

ALBERT C. PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 54 CA and his wife Myrtle is 34 NE. He is a shipping clerk at a wholesale stove company. No such critter. I think he is Albert G. (George) Putnam and 34 CA and the son of Victor D. Putnam and Emily D. McCoy from San Francisco. That one is the right age and it makes him same age as Myrtle not 20 years older. If so, New England folks from Winchester, Massachusetts to Madison County New York to a long time in Stockton, Chautauqua County New York before heading west to California in the 1890s.

 

CARRIE L. PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

She is 72 PA and still widowed as she has been since before the 1920. Her daughter Maude A. is 44 CA and single. Carrie Louise Hodgkinson married Albert Putnam from Maine in 1892. Albert was a son of Lemuel Putnam and Azuba Hastings from Lincoln County Maine. He came out here in the 1870s and was in Sierra County in 1880 and they were in Nevada County California in 1900. He died in 1909 and Carrie was widowed in Jan Jose in 1910 and then has been here ever since. She is a daughter of Henry H. Hodgkinson and Meriby Louisa Brown and was born in Brookville, Jefferson County Pennsylvania July 30, 1867 and will die here July 9, 1956. Maude is a public school teacher and as such was never married. She was born in Nevada County August 1, 1895 and will die here in Oakland June 26, 1977.

 

CECIL M. (MONROE) PUTNAM  Oakland, Piedmont Township, Alameda County

He is 39 CA NY CA and his wife Marilyn Maud Smith  is 38 CA and they now have Donald 7 CA and Cecilyn 5/12 CA. He is an insurance agent and they have been married 16 years. Heճ doing fine as they have a maid Eileen Kashuba 22 CAN. He is a son of Kingman Putman and Mary Pratt from Alameda. He was born there October 24, 1901, and he will die here in Alameda County October 18, 1975. Marilyn was born in Fresno November 16, 1902 and will die in Piedmont, California January 20, 1989. New England family from Herkimer County New York and Guilford Vermont before that. They were here in 1930.

 

CLARK M. (MILTON) PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 61 NY and widowed. The entry said he was a she born in Wisconsin and should read Mrs. Clark M. Putnam. This is really Alma Grace Rogers the widow of Clark Milton Putnam. She is 61 WI and is lodging in a hospital or sanitarium of sorts, and was last in Madison, Wisconsin. Clark was married to Grace Rogers back there in Madison in 1900 thru 1920. I don’t find him in 1930, but probably there. Clark was a son of Alfred Putnam and Mary Ackerman. He was with them in Eaton County Michigan in 1870 and in Sheboygan, Wisconsin in 1880. He died in Wisconsin March 18, 1931 and is buried in Madison, Wisconsin. Alma was born in Wisconsin September 17, 1878 and will die May 17, 1966 and will be buried by Clark in the Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison.

 

CLARENCE PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 46 CA, his wife Lola George is 50 CA and they have Robert 16 CA and George 14 CA. He is an advertising salesman. Clarence Elwood Putnam is a son of Soule Augustus Putman and Susie Mae De Puy. He was born in Sacramento April 26, 1895 and will die in Martinez, Contra Costa County August 18, 1969. Lola is a daughter of Scott and Alice George and was born in 1889 and will die here in Oakland November 16, 1968. Now this gets interesting. Clarence shows up out of nowhere and appears in the 1930 census in Monrovia, Los Angeles County with Lola and the two kids. Never appears before that. His draft registrations for both WWI and WWII say he was in San Francisco. In 1942 he was in the California State Guard and stationed there and his wife was back home here in Oakland. I gave up hope in 2002 working on the 1930 census, but now in 2013 the Internet is sooooo valuable. People are putting up family sheets with dates, parents and most everything. There are at least 5 family sheets with the line for Clarence and info on Lola and the two sons. In 1900 Clarence is listed by his middle name Elwood living with his grandparents Edward and Nellie De Puy in Sacramento at age 5, and in San Francisco in 1920 and again listed only as Elwood. I had guessed that he was Francis Marion Putmanճ son from Colusa County. Wrong because I never knew Clarenceճ middle name till today. Now I can finally see the line back to New England and then to ‘Old’ England. Soule Augustus Putnam is a son of Albert Sumner Putnam and was born in Calaveras County May 21, 1858 and is still alive and won’t die till May 16, 1944 here in Alameda County. I find him in 1910 through 1930 in San Francisco, but Clarence is never with him. None of the family sheets find him either. Anyway Souleճ dad Albert is Eben’s number (3439), a son of Adam Putnam (1711) and Nancy Puffer of Lowell. Albert came out here in the Gold Rush of 1848 and was a miner in Calaveras till 1860 and in Amador County in 1870 and 1880 and died before 1900.

 

GUY L. (LELAND) PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 55 WA NY NY and his wife Grace Meysel 46 CA, and they have Guy Leland Jr. 21 CA and Patricia Ann 23 CA, still at home. He is a real estate agent. He is a son of John Henry Putman and Elizabeth Shuey. The family was here in Alameda County in 1860 and 1870, and then in Columbia County Washington in 1880 and 1900. Thatճ where Guy was born February 1, 1865. They were in Berkeley in 1920 and 1930. He will die in Contra Costa County February 6, 1974. Grace is a daughter of Oscar Meysel and Elizabeth Lindsay and was born in California May 22, 1894 and will die here in Alameda County February 8, 1977. Dutch Putman line originally from Montgomery County New York.

 

H. (HIRAM) GARDNER PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 30 KS and his wife Margaret is 26 CA. He is a son of Silas O. Putnam and Ada Theodosia Gardner and was born in Leavenworth, Kansas December 14, 1911. He was with his folks in San Diego in 1920 and 1930. He will die in Los Angeles County July 31, 1966. His grandfather Silas R. Putnam was from Cheshire County Vermont who went to Michigan in the 1840s and to Leavenworth, Kansas in the 1850s. New Englanders.

 

HAZEL PUTMAN  Oakland, Brooklyn Township, Alameda County

She is 34 CA single and living with her married sister Grace 48 CA and husband Woodford Day 49 CA. They are daughters of James Lawrence Putman and Mary Jane Putman from Sutter County. Hazel was born in Sutter, California July 4, 1904. Grace was born in California on April 13, 1891. She married Woodford F. Day in Sacramento in 1915. James was a son of Daniel Webster Putman and Louisa Perry. He is on the Southern Putman Line out of Virginia and then Kentucky. Mary Jane ‘Jennie’ is a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Margaret Kees, and was born in Brown County June 14, 1861. Henry was on the line of the ‘other’ William Putman/Putnam of Brown County.

 

HENRY W. (WHITFIELD) PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 55 MA, his wife Norma Elliott is 54 MI and Richard Irving 19 NY is still at home. He is a manager of a farm implement company as he was in Rochester, New York in 1930. He is Henry Whitfield Putnam a son of George Putnam and Anna Holt from Reading, Middlesex County Massachusetts where he was born January 8, 1885. He was at home there in 1900. He married Norma in Indiana September 3, 1907. They were in Rochester, New York in 1910, 1920 and 1930 and here by 1935. Norma was born in Michigan February 14, 1886 and will die in Phoenix, Arizona May 13, 1977. Henry will die there January 1, 1968. The son Richard Irving Putnam was born October 7, 1920 and died in Livermore, Alameda County California September 22, 1979. In 1940 he was a student at University of California. He married Jane Ann Markovitz in Berkeley, California and they were divorced in June 1966 in Contra Costa County California. She later died March 17, 1995 in Contra Costa County. He then married Juanita Jean Womack November 24, 1968 in Monterey, California. They were divorced in June 1974 in Santa Clara County. Richard will die in Livermore, Alameda County September 22, 1979.

 

JANE D. PUTMAN  Oakland, Alameda County

She is 64 NY and widowed. She says she was in Colorado before this. Cant find any Jane that fits here or there.

 

JESSE A. (APPLEGATE) PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 64 OR OR OR and his wife Edna O. Hildebrand is 57 OR. And they have a nephew Durstan Hildebrand 17 CA. Jessie is now a real estate broker and Edna is a club editor at the newspaper. They were here in 1910 and in Humboldt County in 1920 and here in 1930. He is a son of Charles Frederick Jr. and Elizabeth Hutchinson from Lane County Oregon. He was born there April 13, 1876 and will die here in Alameda October 5, 1959. He and his folks were back here in Redlands by 1900, and his widowed mom is there now. New England Family that went from Sutton, Massachusetts to Lexington, Kentucky then to Oregon couple of generations back.

 

LOUISE T. PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

She is 43 MA single and a maid for Edward and Etta Kushner. Says she was here in 1935. She is a daughter of David Abbott Putnam and Alice Thornton Merrill and was born in Danvers, Massachusetts July 4, 1896 and was there in 1900 and then out here with the folks in Riverside, Riverside County by 1910 and they are still there now. She never married and will die back in Riverside May 28, 1961.

 

MRS. L. E. PUTMAN  Oakland, Brooklyn Township, Alameda County

She is 67 CA and widowed. Says she was here in 1935. She manages the apartment house she owns. There are 6 families living here. Can’t find her here any earlier. There were no guys in Alameda County in 1930 with initials that would be L. E. So probably her initials. There was a Lilly A. Putman 56 CA widowed in Los Angeles in 1930, but thatճ about it and a long way off. In 1920 though there was a Lilly Putnam age 38 CA with lodgers then too. No real clue to any of them.

 

MARIE L. PUTMAN  Oakland, Alameda County

She is 23 CA single and lodging. She is a staff nurse in the hospital. Yet another one I can’t find earlier or in any search on ancestry.com

 

RICHARD PUTMAN  Oakland, Brooklyn Township, Alameda County

He is 23 CA, his wife Asunda 20 CA and their son Richard E. is 7/12 CA. He is a garage mechanic. I can’t find him earlier and the name spelling looks more like Patman.

 

THELMA PUTMAN  Oakland, Brooklyn Township, Alameda County

She is 36 CA divorced and lives with her mother Mary Forman 65 CA. She was last in San Francisco. Can’t find her married in 1930 so no ideas on her husband.

 

VIRGIL PUTNAM  Oakland, Brooklyn Township, Alameda County

He is 26 IL and his wife Margaret 23 WA. He is a warehouseman at a glass company. They were married here in 1935. He is Virgil Eugene Putnam a son of Thomas Benjamin Putman and his first wife Mabel Cummings. He was born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County Illinois January 27, 1914 and will die here in Alameda County November 1, 1983. Ben was son of Thomas Putman from Shawnee, Gallatin County Illinois. Southern Putman family going back to Laban Putman from South Carolina, a brother of my Daniel Putman and sons of Barnet Putman from Virginia.

                                                                                                                                                    

WILLIAM PUTNAM  Oakland, Brooklyn Township, Alameda County

He is 59 MI MI MI and is a custodian/janitor in the public school. His wife Lena M. Smith is 58 NY. They have been here since 1910. He is William Edward Putnam and was born in Michigan June 28, 1880 and will die in Contra Costa April 23, 1946. According to that death index his mother’s name was Schrier. So I found his folks! Had his mom as Ellen Schriver, but same gal. They are John Edward Putnam born in Lockport, Niagara County New York in 1845 and Ellen Schryer from New York. Both folks died in Detroit, Michigan, he in 1896 and she in 1901. That’s when and why he headed to California. Family out of Vermont.

 

WILLIAM PUTNAM  Oakland, Alameda County

He is 44 GA, his wife Nan Whalley is 49 ENGLAND and they have Dorothy 16 CA. He is a brake mechanic for the railroad. Can’t find anything on him. But there is a birth index for Dorothy. She was born in Sacramento County August 7, 1923 and her mom’s name was Whalley. Then found her death certificate. Married name was Dorothy Lee Smith same birthdate and Mom’s name and then she died also in Sacramento County March 2, 1989. And that her father’s name was Putnam. Yeh, right big help. But now that we know Dot was born in Sacrament, look what I find in 1930: NELLIE PUTMAN  Sacramento, Sacramento County. She is 33 ENG and divorced. She has Dorothy 6 CA GA ENG and John F. 4 CA GA ENG. They live with her folks John and Annie Whalley from England. She wasn’t married here in 1920 so no ideas as to the husband except he was from Georgia. So that’s where everyone but Bill is in 1930. I can’t find him though and I just can’t ever find him in Georgia. So, got Nan figured but still not Willie.

 

ROY PUTNAM  Pleasanton, Alameda County

He is Roy Ignacious Putnam 66 MN US US and not working. His wife Elesia or Elise Mesca is 54 CA. He was married to Elsie here in 1910 and probably here in 1920 but not indexed. They were here in 1930 though. He was born in Minnesota January 10, 1874 and will be here till he dies September 2, 1949. He was shown with parents Gordon Winslow Putnam and his second wife Karen Bentson in the 1885 State Census. He is not shown in the 1875 or the 1880 so would be adopted or something.

 

CHARLES W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Oroville, Butte County

He is 73 GA GA GA. His wife Matilda Frances Kloss is 70 CA and they still have Ora 47 CA and Charles Monroe 45 CA. Charles is the president of the National Bank here in town. He is a son of William Monroe Putman and Mary Moran from Gordon County Georgia. The family was here in the 1870s and he has been here ever since. He was born in Rome, Floyd County Georgia November 14, 1866 and married Matilda out here on March 20, 1892. She is a daughter of Phillip Koss and Margaret Yung and was born here in Butte County November 25, 1869. She will die here in Oroville December 22, 1942. Charles will die in Oroville April 15, 1954. Southern Putman Family.

 

ERNEST C. (CLARK) PUTNAM  Oroville, Butte County

He is 48 UT UT UT and a truck driver for the County road department. His wife Alice Mary Eccles is 48 UT. He is a son of Savannah Clark Putnam and Clarissa Amelia Cornia from Woodruff Utah. Ernest was born there September 16, 1891 and will die here in 1976. He married Alice October 11, 1911 and they were in Salt Lake City in the 1920. They moved over here around 1922. This is a Mormon family that came out to Utah from Rumford Maine in 1871. They were from Massachusetts before that. New England line.

 

ALFRED P. (PORTER) PUTNAM  Colusa, Colusa County

He is 45 CA and his wife Georgia Bleekman 30 CA and their Son Alfred P. Jr. is 3 CA. He is a son of Perley Porter Putnam Jr. and Ella Virginia Williamson and was born in Porterville, Tulare County March 2, 1895 and was with his folks in Kern County in 1900, Sacramento County in 1910 and here in 1920 and will be till he dies here June 20, 1960. He married Georgia in Sonoma February 20, 1925.  Georgia was born in California March 9, 1910 and will die in Butte County November 25, 1966. New England Family out of Massachusetts then Pennsylvania and Texas.

 

LOUIS PUTMAN  Colusa, Colusa County

Louis Festus Putman is 50 CA MO CA and his wife Natha Coleman is 47 CA. They have Carolyn 20 CA, Louis Jr. 18 CA and Natha Jean 13 CA. He is a son of Herman Ross Putman and Mary Ann McConnell from here. He runs the grocery store his grandfather started. The store will eventually burn to the ground later in 1940. Louis will be around here though till he dies January 26, 1967. Natha Clyde Coleman is a daughter of Thomas Jefferson Coleman and Caroline Clyde Read. She was born in Colusa September 3, 1892 and will die in Yuba City, California May 27, 1975. Southern Putman family out of Virginia to Kentucky to Missouri to here in 1870.

 

MARY A. PUTMAN  Colusa, Colusa County

She is 75 CA and still widowed. She is Mary Ann McConnell the widow of Herman Ross Putman who died here August 25, 1925, and was a son of Francis Marion Putman. Mary Ann was born here June 11, 1864 and will die in a hospital in Sacramento August 6, 1952, and will be buried here. Her son Victor Yvo is 47 CA IN CA. He was born here November 29, 1891 and will die in Yuba City July 17, 1970. He was helping run his dadճ grocery store, but is closed now. He is still single, but will marry Mary Ann Desmond here on August 19, 1954. Southern Putman family.

 

EMMETT PUTNAM  Williams, Colusa County

He is 43 WI WI WI and a salesman. His wife Alba Fay Peake is 37 CA. They have Janice 19 CA, Vernon 12 CA, Edwin 10 CA and Marilee 9 CA. Emmett Orange Putnam is a son of Charles Putnam and Clara Jane Brown from Superior, Douglas County Wisconsin. He was born there November 19, 1986 and was home there in 1900 and 1910 and the family was all here in 1920 and 1930. He married Alba in Sacramento December 20, 1919. She is a daughter of Edwin Hyde Peake and Lucy C. Ward and was born in Vallejo, Solana County February 23, 1903 and will die in Spokane, Washington August 18, 1968. Emmett will die in Colusa of a stroke on June 22, 1953. Interesting thing is that his mother’s father was named Orange Brown and that’s where his middle name came from. Colorful people those Browns were.   This Putnam family was from Vermont and New Hampshire before Wisconsin. New Englanders.

 

HOMER PUTNAM  Outside Antioch, Contra Costa County

He is 55 WV WV WV and his wife Lucy Belle Ochsenbein is 52 OH. They have Mabel 17 OH. Homer Warder is a son of Jonathan and Anna Putnam from Gilmer County West Virginia and Fauquier County Virginia before that. Southern Putmans. He was born in Gilmer County May 23, 1884 and will die here December 18, 1948. His wife Lucy Belle is a daughter of Samuel Kinsey Ochsenben and Ida Willetta Snodgrass and was born in Belmont County Ohio September 14, 1887 and will die here in Contra Costa County February 24, 1949.  They were in Belmont County Ohio in 1920.

 

REX PUTNAM  Outside Antioch, Contra Costa County

He is 29 WV, his wife Valerie I. Cowan 26 TX and they have a daughter Rexene 6 CA. He works in a steel mill. He is Samuel Rex Putnam and is a son of Homer Warder Putman and Lucy Belle Ochsenbein in from Belmont, Ohio and was born back where his dad lived in Gilmer County West Virginia by 1910 and where he was born February 27, 1911. His folks came out here in the 1920s and the family was all here in Contra Costa County in 1930. He will die in San Francisco October 14, 1977. Valerie was born in Austin, Texas August 16,1913 and will die here in Contra Costa January 9, 1993. She is a daughter of Charles Cowan and Mattie Matlock. Southern Putman Family out of Fauquier County Virginia.

 

ROSCOE J. (JOHN) PUTNAM  Outside Antioch, Contra Costa County

He is 26 OH and his wife Elsie Elizabeth is 21 MEXICO. He is a son of Homer Warder from here in Antioch and works in a steel mill like his dad and brother Rex. He was born in Martins Ferry, Belmont County Ohio March 3, 1914 and will die here December 28, 1978. Elsie will die here in 2001. Southern Putman Family out of Fauquier County Virginia.

 

GEORGE B. (BLALOCK) PUTNAM  Concord, Contra Costa County

He is 52 WA CA CA and a farm inspector-horticulturalist. His wife Frances Catherine Vessing is 54 CA and they have Robert Kemble 25 CA. He is a son of George Albert Putman and Grace Amy Brackett. He was born in Walla Walla, Washington May 7, 1888 and will die here Contra Costa County December 1, 1953. Frances was born in Alameda County January 21, 1886 and will die in Almeda January 24, 1964. This is a New York Dutch Putman family from Montgomery County New York.

 

GRACE A. PUTNAM  Concord, Contra Costa County

She is 76 CA and widowed. Grace Amy Brackett was married to George Putnam up till he died in the 1920s. George Abram Putman was a real estate agent and a son of John Henry Putman and Elizabeth Shuey from Montgomery County New York. Dutch family. He married Grace when the family was in Washington on January 16, 1886. Grace is a daughter of Rufus Brackett and Amanda Hook. Grace was born here in Costa Contra County February 8, 1863 and will die here July 11, 1958.

 

JOHN V. (VAN ALSTYNE) PUTMAN  Concord, Contra Costa County

He is 37 CA CA CA and a chemist with Standard Oil Company. His wife Alice is 38 CA and they have been married 2 years. He is a son of George Albert Putman and Grace Amy Brackett from Walnut Creek here in Contra Costa County. John was born November 16, 1902 and will die here March 26, 1977. They were here in 1930. His dad is a son of John Henry Putman and Elizabeth Shuey from Montgomery County New York. Dutch family.

 

TRAVIS/TRAVERS PUTNAM  Martinez, Contra Costa County

Spelling is yuck. Could be Travers. He is 42 KY, his wife Letitia Redden is 34 MA and they have Gloria 3 CA, Eugene 2 CA and Robert 6/12 CA. He is a timekeeper for the W.P.A. They were all in San Diego in 1935. There is a birth record of Robert Edward Putnam born in Contra Costa March 24, 1940 and his mother’s name was Redden. Robert will live in Watertown, Massachusetts and die in Massachusetts March 30, 1996. Travers Guy Fenner was a son of Robert Edward Lee Putnam and Ellen Elizabeth Neff and was born in Kentucky March 4, 1900. Robert was a son of Alfred G. or Alpheus G. Putnam. Alfred was a son of George Washington Putnam II and grandson of the elder George Washington who was a son of Israel Putnam II and Sarah Waldo of Pomfret, Connecticut. Robert Putnam was born in Louisville on August 24, 1868. Travers and Letitia were in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1936 and will be back in Massachusetts soon and be there the rest o their lives.

 

RALPH A. (ARNOLD) PUTNAM  Outside Pittsburg City, Contra Costa County

He is 30 OH and works in a steel mill. His wife Ruth Emmeline Straub is 29 MO and they have a daughter Barbara 10/12 CA. He is a son of Homer Warder Putman here in Contra Costa and he was at home with them here in 1930 and in Belmont County Ohio before that. He was born in Glens Run, Belmont County Ohio May 25, 1909 and will die in Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County April 29, 1973. He married Ruth here October 12, 1935. She is a daughter of Karl Peter Lewis Straub and Frances Agnes Springett and was born in Maplewood, St. Louis County Missouri November 9, 1910 and will die in Concord, Contra Costa County October 13, 2002. Southern Putmans out of Fauquier County Virginia.

 

LESTER PUTNAM  Richmond, Contra Costa County

He is 46 MI NY MI and does time studies at an automobile factory. His wife Madeline Mae Miller is 42 KS and they have Lester Jr. 19 CA and Warren G. 15 CA. He is a son of Harmon Putnam and Clara Gates from Osceola County Michigan and then Kalamazoo County. Lester and Madeline were there in 1920 and they were in San Francisco in 1930. Lester was born in Michigan April 14, 1893 and will die in Contra Costa California March 15, 1967. New England family that went up into Canada and came back a while ago.

 

HARRY H. (HERBERT) PUTNAM  Outside Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County

He is 41 CA ME PA. His wife Hazel Albia Dickinson is 40 CA and they have Harry H. Jr. 18 CA. He is a son of Albert Putnam and Carrie Hodgkins. Albert was a son of Lemuel and Azuba Putnam of Jefferson, Lincoln County Maine. They were in Nevada County in 1900 and Carrie was widowed in San Jose in 1910 and in Oakland in 1920, 1930. Harry married Hazel in San Jose November 13, 1920 and they were in Oakland through 1935. He is a clerk at a bank. Hazel is a daughter of Almer Edwin Dickinson and Mabel Myrtle Brebner and was born in Ukiah, Mendocino County California December 4, 1899 and will died up in Ukiah December 6, 1991. The Jon Harry Junior was born May 14, 1922 in Berkeley and will marry Melanie Elaine Lamb, be a pilot in the Air Corps in WWII and die in Riverside, California February 6, 2000. Melanie will die in San Mateo April 9, 1992. Got lucky and found a sheet on the whole gang. Thank Ancestry again

 

MENNA PUTNAM  Outside Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County

Menna Zilpha Kinkead is 65 CA and widowed. She lives with her married daughter Ila 45 CA and husband Ernest Maltry 47 GERMANY. Menna is the widow of William Porter Putnam from Tulare County. He was a son of Royal Porter Putnam. New England family from Pennsylvania and New Hampshire before that. They were in Tulare County in 1900 and here in 1910. In 1920 and 1930 and 1935 they were in Berkeley, Alameda County. William died in Berkeley July 22, 1921. Menna will be around till she dies August 14, 1948.

 

KINGMAN B. PUTNAM  Township 4, Contra Costa County

He is now 68 NY NY NY and his wife Marie Pratt is 70 CA. He is now retired and they have a nurse and a houseboy to help. They have been in Alameda since the 1900 and then here in 1930. He is a son of John M. Putnam and Emily Vincent, as shown in 1880 at home in Herkimer County New York. He and Mary were married in San Francisco April 14, 1895. There is a death index record that he was born July 13, 1870 and will die in Alameda January 28, 1965. New England family.

 

MYRA PUTMAN  Greenwood, El Dorado County

She is 40 CA and has with her Gloria 13 CA, Diane 8 CA and Denise 4 CA. Myra Lee Harbert was married to Clarence Lee Putman in Los Angeles in 1930. She says she is married and Clarence is in Nye County Nevada now and says he is widowed. They are separated and a descendant says he loved mining and was partial to Nevada and Myra really wasn’t interested in going to the desert. Anyway, Clarence is be the son of William and Lou Putnam as shown in 1885 in Dodge City, Kansas. But can’t find his dad before that so don’t know the line yet. I would guess Dutch out of New York State. He and Myra were married in Los Angeles in 1923 based on the ages they say they were when the got married. He was in Harney County Oregon single in 1900. He married Carrie Luce there October 12, 1908. They were in Nye County Nevada in 1910 and he was Գingleՠthere in 1920. Then he came to California and then went back to Nevada. He is a miner at the mine in Arista, Nevada. There is a gold mine here in Greenwood and thatճ why they moved here I guess. Clarence will stay in Nevada and will die there in Tonopah on July 2, 1952.

 

JOHN F. (FREDERICK) PUTNAM  Big Creek, Fresno County

He is 28 CA single and working as an electrician at a huge hydroelectric plant. John Junior is a son of John Frederick Putnam and Lillian Blanche Miller. He was born in Orosi, Tulare County January 11, 1912. He will marry Ferne Louise Johnston March 14, 1942. She was born March 9, 1917 and will be here in Fresno till she dies August 30, 2007. John will die here January 27, 1986. This is a Southern Putman family out of Brown County Illinois and then back through Kentucky to Culpeper Count Virginia and then to England.

 

HARRY PUTMAN  Outside Fresno City, Fresno County

He is a cotton buyer 33 OK and his wife Grace is 34 OK. Harry Maupin Putman is a son of Glen Worth Putman and Ida Lou Manning and was born in Jackson County Oklahoma September 14, 1906 and will die in Los Angeles February 23, 1972. His dad was a cotton farmer there and Harry was a buyer there in 1930 as was his brother Glen. Line goes back to Joseph Worth Putman in Tarrant County Texas to William Jacob Putman then Ezekiel Putman from Hall County Georgia. Southern Putman family.

 

ELLIOT B. (BELLEVILLE) PUTNAM  Fresno, Fresno County

He is 36 KS, his wife Lillian Tinkler is 33 KS and they have Elliot Junior 15 KS and Joyce 12 KS. He is a public accountant. He is a son of John Ernest Putnam and Emily Margaret Belleville and was born in Salina, Kansas July 13, 1903 and has been there through 1935 at least. He was a bookkeeper in Dinuba, Tulare County in 1938. He will be here the rest of his life and die January 29, 1972. Lillian is a daughter of Charles and Ella Tinkler and was born in Salina, Kansas in 1907.

 

MARTHA PUTMAN  Fresno, Fresno County

She is 32 CA single and lodging as she was here in 1930. She is a librarian at a college here. Martha Hoffman Putman is a daughter of DeWitt Clinton Putman and Eva Hoffman and was born in Los Angeles January 24, 1908 and was there with her widowed mother in 1920, and here ever since. Her dad was a son of Jacob Putman and Louis Corey. Dutch family out of Steuben County New York.

 

NOLA PUTNAM  Fresno, Fresno County

She is 17 OK single and boarding and doesn’t seem to have a job. She is a daughter of Jack Alton Putnam and Nellie Mae Weyrick from El Dorado, Jackson County Oklahoma. She was home there in 1930. Her dad is a son of Ernest and Nola Putnam from Marshall County Indiana. He was at home in 1900 in the Chickasaw Nation and married here in 1910. They were in Torrance County New Mexico in 1920 as were his folks.

 

R. D. (RUSSELL DAN) PUTNAM  Fresno, Fresno County

He is 47 IA, his new wife Hazel V. 44 IA and they have Shirley 10 IA and Dean 8 NV. He is a mechanic in a gravel pit. Never knew you could fix gravel with a wrench. Hmm? He is the son of Edgar Putnam and Rose Shank and was born in Laurel, Marshall County September 13, 1894 and was there with them through 1910 and then he married Louise M. McGowen July 26, 1913 in Chicago and they were in Marshall County in 1920. Louise was there in the 1925 census but not him though she said she was married. Obviously divorced and Russell was single in Jenny Lind, Calaveras County California in 1930. Hazel and the kids who are probably hers through a prior marriage were in Marshall County Iowa in 1935 and Russ was in Nevada. He will die in Fontana, San Bernardino County on May 17, 1967. I found a sheet for Dean Putnam that has him born in Carson City, Nevada October 9, 1931 and will die January 29, 1991 in Tucson, Arizona. It says his dad is ‘Private’ and no mom. So he may be an out-of wedlock son of Russell.

 

SHIRLEY M. (MAE) PUTNAM  Eureka, Humbolt County

Shirley is 52 CA and widowed. She is the City Treasurer. She was married to Lewis C. Putnam here in 1910, was single here in 1920 and I don’t find her in 1930. She was born August 13, 1887 and will die here in Eureka January 3, 1971. Lewis or Louis was a son of Andrew Jackson Putnam and his second wife Margaret. They were in San Juan, Nevada County in 1880, and here in Eureka in 1900. Andrew is #2806, a son of Peter and Martha Putnam from Sutton, Massachusetts. He just deserted his first wife Charlotte Andrews and came out here in the late 1850s. I don’t have anything on Louis/Lewis.

 

ALDEN L. (LYON) PUTNAM  Trinidad, Humboldt County

He is 70 MA MA MA and manages an auto cabin campgrounds. His wife Mabel is 65 MD. He is a son of Arthur Alwyn Putnam and Helen Staples from Uxbridge Massachusetts. He was home in 1880 and then was married to Mary Ann Taft in Rockland County New York in 1900. They were divorced and he was by himself in Battle Creek, Michigan and then married to Mabel in Oakland County Michigan in 1920, and here in 1930. I don’t know Mabel’s maiden name but she was married to a Morrison before marrying Alden. Alden was born in Blackstone, Worcester County Massachusetts October 27, 1869 and will die here September 15, 1949.

 

PATRICIA PUTMAN  El Centro, Imperial County

She is 10 TX and lives with her grandparents Ivan and Fannie Brown also from Texas. Can’t find her in 1930. Says she was in Plainview, Texas in 1935.

 

ARTHUR PUTMAN  Bakersfield, Kern County

He is 50 TX, his wife Clarissa ‘Clara’ Powers is 41 TX and they have Loretta 18 OK, John 15 AZ, Arthur 12 AZ, Naomi Lee 9 OK, Buster Ervin 5 CA, Katherine 3 CA, Irene 2 CA and King David 6/12 CA. He is a son of John Morrison Putman and Ida Smith and was born in Clearwater, Texas August 1, 1891. He was in Fannin County Texas in 1900, Grayson County in 1910 and he was just married to Clara and was still with his folks in 1920. He and Clara were in Oklahoma City in 1930 and now here. He doesn’t have a job, but is happy to be out of the Dust Bowl. He will die here November 12, 1941. Clara is a daughter of Noah Henry Powers and Laura Edna Nix and was born in Texas August 12, 18899 and will die here in Bakersfield in August 1975. Southern Putman line that goes back to Fannin County Texas to Jackson County Alabama to Tennessee to North Carolina.

 

BARBARA PUTMAN  Bakersfield, Kern County

She is 23 CA single and boarding. She is a public school teacher as are the other 5 gals in the apartment. She is a daughter of Charles Crawford Putman and Rachelle Roxalene Waters. She was born in Los Angeles December 1, 1916 and was with her folks there in 1920 and 1930. Her folks are in Santa Barbara and Barbara was there in 1935 with them. She will marry Bill Dane Elliot and they are in Seattle, Washington in 1951 and she will die in La Habra, Orange County California September 12, 1990. The family is out of Brown County Illinois. The family moved out here in the late 1880s. Southern Putman family out of Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

THOMAS A. (ALLEN) PUTNAM  Garwood, Kern County

He is 64 MO IL MO. His wife Carrie English is 58 KS and they still have at home Thomas R. 37 OK, Everett 22 TX, Claudia 19 TX, Marie 16 TX and Cecil 14 CA. He now owns a farm. He is a son of DeWitt Clinton Putman and was born in Vernon County Missouri and then with the family in the Cherokee Nation Oklahoma in 1900 and Wharton County Texas in 1910. I don’t find them in 1920, but they were still in Texas. They were right here in 1930. Thomas was born in Saline County Missouri August 6, 1876 and will die here in Kern County March 20, 1943. Carrie was born in Kansas July 23, 1881 and will die here December 26, 1960. The family goes back to Grundy County Illinois and Jefferson County New York and finally Montgomery County New York. The son Everett Owens Putnam was born in Wharton County Texas January 5, 1918 and will die November 28, 1988 in San Bernadino County California. He will marry Leslie Louise Ives from Arkansas and be with her. She will die in San Bernardino June 22, 1989. Dutch family from there.

 

MARGARET PUTNAM  Reward, Kern County

She is 26 or 28 CA and single. She is a public school teacher and lodging with two other teachers. Looks to be the daughter of Sumner Putnam and Katherine McKenzie as shown in Fresno County in 1930 at age 18. New England family.

 

MURRAY PUTNAM  Outside Taft City, Kern County

He is a petroleum Engineer for Standard Oil Company like everyone in this area. He is 34 CA and his wife Olene Lazelle Lund is 31 MI and they have Susan 1 CA. He is a son of Thomas Milton Putnam and Madeline Blanchard and was born May 7, 1905 in Oakland and was at home with them in Berkeley in 1910 and 1920. He will die in Menlo Park June 26, 1976. His dad is a son of Thomas Crowe Putnam from Nova Scotia. He was born in Sonoma County California May 22, 1875. Olene was born in Mancelona, Michigan in 1908 and will die in Menlo Park, California November 22, 2005 New England family that went to Nova Scotia after the Revolution.

 

EUGENE R. (RUFUS) PUTNAM  Township 3, Kern County

Eugene is listed as 64 CA.  His wife Bessie Wear is 60 CA. Her widowed dad George W. Wear 88 MS is here now too. He is a son of John Drury Putnam and Louisa Murphy. They were in Lassen County in 1880. Eugene was in Tulare County in 1900, and his folks were in Riverside County then, and then in Fresno County. He was born in Lassen County April 10, 1876 and will die in Santa Clara County October 22, 1956. He and Bessie were here since the 1910 census. Bessie is a daughter of George Wallace Wear and Martha Fanny Nash and was born in Bakersfield, Kern County July 1, 1879 and will die here July 11, 1954. New England Family goes back Howard Putnam from Sutton, Massachusetts to New York, Indiana, Iowa and here.

 

ALPHA PUTNAM  Wasco, Kern County

She is 20 OK and says she is married. She may be the wife of Everett Putnam who is also shown now with his folks Thomas Allen Putnam and Carrie English in Garwood also right here in Kern County and says he is married as well. Don’t think it’ll last as she will marry several people and he will marry Leslie Ives. She is with her divorced mother Myrtle Holmes 46 AR and her single sister Mary Sisk 17 OK. She is Alpha Lorraine Sisk and according to her California Death Index, she was born in Oklahoma December 14, 1920 and died here in Wasco, Kern County March 1, 1983 under the last name of Putnam. It gives her fatherճ name as Edward Sisk and motherճ as Myrtle Faulkner. In 1920 she was in Henry, Okmulgee County Oklahoma and 1930 in Dewar, Okmulgee County Oklahoma with her folks.

 

JAMES PUTNAM  Avenal, Kings County

He is 24 WI and his wife Camille Cornwall 23 NE. He is an oil field worker and Camille is a sales lady in a bakery. James William Putnam is a son of Daniel Ransom Putnam and Maude Van Winkle. He was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin December 15, 1914 and will die in Carter County Oklahoma December 21, 1976. Camille is a daughter of Earle Gibson Cornwall and Ruth Virginia Wetmore and was born March 18, 1917 in Dwight, Nebraska and will die in Victoria, Texas in March 1997. Jimճ dad Dan is a son of Frank Harrison Putnam and his first wife Ida Langdon. Frank was a son of Harrison Putnam (#2790) and Clementine Permelia Lovering from Bureau County Illinois. Jim was with the family in Fort Dodge, Webster County Iowa in 1920 and Peoria, Illinois in 1930. His folks are here in Stanislaus County now. New England family.

 

E. (EDGAR) F. PUTNAM  Lemoore, Kings County

He is 63 VA single and was single here in 1920, 1930 and 1935. He is a building contractor. He is the son of James K. Putman and Alice Steed from Warren County Virginia. He shows up in Virginia in 1880 at age 4 with James and Alice. Southern Putman family.

                                                                                                                                               

EUGENE PUTNAM  Susanville, Lassen County

He is 28 OK, his wife Laverne W. is 23 CA and they have Jack 2 CA. He is Eugene Maxwell Putnam a son of Claude Elmer Putnam and Mary Eugenia Maxwell. His dad was with the railroad and travelled all over the place. He was originally from Ohio then Washington in 1900, Oregon in 1910. Eugene was born in Oklahoma City May 23, 1911 and they were in King County Washington in 1920 and Los Angeles in 1930. He will die in Tuolumne County California August 5, 1992. Can’t find any info on Laverne. One family sheet has his wife as Philomena Castiaux. Beats me

 

FRANK J. (JOSEPH) PUTMAN  Alhambra City, San Gabriel Township, Los Angeles County

He is 30 MT and his wife Jo B. is 30 CAN. He was in Pasadena with his brother Warren in 1930 and 1935, and Jo was in Galveston, Texas in 1935. He is a son of Abner Earl Putman and Martha Louise Hickson from Custer County Montana. He was born there February 28, 1910. They were there in 1900, and then the folks were separated or divorced in 1910. By 1920 they were both still there and remarried and Frank was with his mother Martha who was married to Charles Egle then. He was single here in 1930. He runs an automobile parts business. He will die in San Francisco March 24, 1987. Southern Putman family out of Gonzales County Texas, then back to Tennessee and then South Carolina.

 

PUTNAM KIDS  Alhambra City, San Gabriel Township, Los Angeles County
We have THOMAS 16 WA, ROBERT 15 WA, DON LEE 13 WA and WILLIAM 11, WA who are stepsons of Harold Burke 36 WAS and their mother Lois Burke 37 WA. Lois Talkington was married to Edward W. Putnam September 11, 1920 in Spokane, Washington. They were divorced in the early 1930s and she married Harold. Edward is currently in North Bend, Coos County Oregon married to Pearl from Kentucky. Edward William Putnam is a son of William M. Putman and Alice Miranda Wainscott from Llano County Texas and then up into Washington where he married Alice. Southern Putmans through Madison DeKalb Putman from Kentucky and then South Carolina. He was born in Bridgeport, Douglas County Washington January 3, 1897. He was single with his mom in 1910 and single in Lincoln County Washington in 1920. There is a marriage certificate that Lois Talkington/Tarkington was married to Edward W. Putnam September 11, 1920 in Spokane, Washington. They were divorced in the early 1930s. He was in Wenatchee, Chelan County Washington and was listed as married in the 1930 Census there, but Lois wasn’t there. He was single in Great Falls, Montana in 1935. In 1940 he was married to Pearl from Kentucky and they were in North Bend, Coos County Oregon. He died in Washington, Daviess County Indiana May 25, 1980. Agnes Wininger was listed as his wife on his death certificate.

 

DOROTHY PUTNAM  Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County

She is 37 NM and divorced. She is a housekeeper for a Fisher family. She was in Los Angeles in 1935. She is the ex-wife of Harvey Buhl Putman who was a son of Charles Edward Putnam and was at home with them in Los Angeles in 1920. Dorothy was in Inglewood, Los Angeles County with her widowed mother Evelyn Stengle in 1920 and had been married for two years. Harvey has married a Helen and they are in Los Angeles now in 1940.

 

JOE P. (PETER) PUTMAN  Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County

He is 51 KY married and in the Pacific Branch of the National Military Home. He is a son of Jesse Miles Putman and Nancy Jane ‘Nannie' Hendricks from Muhlenberg County Kentucky where he was born in November 1891 and he will die back there in Hopkins County Kentucky September 29, 1954. Southern Putman family out of South Carolina.

 

ROY G. (GRISWOLD) PUTNAM  Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County

He is 53 IA, his wife Annie Martin is 50 IA and they have Joan E. 21 --, and Annie’s mom Fannie E. Martin 78 IA. He is a son of Horace I. and Vera Putman. He was born in Green Lake County Wisconsin. The family was in Pomona, Los Angeles County in 1900. He was married here in 1910 and 1920 and will be in 1940. His dad was from Charlestown New Hampshire. New England folks.

 

CHARLOTTE PUTMAN  Burbank, Los Angeles County

She is 64 IA and divorced. She was in Los Angeles in 1930 and said then she was widowed. No ideas then or now. You might look at the Charlotte in Beaumont, Texas in 1910. Charlotte Bond was briefly married to Fred Eugene Putnam. They were in Beaumont, Texas in 1900 and their daughter Bessy or Betty was with them at age 5 born in Michigan. By 1910 Fred was married to Anna Gray and had another wife, Pearl Harris, before calling it quits and dying August 7, 1931 of shear exhaustion. Charlotte was back in Chicago in 1920. She was in Los Angeles in 1930.

 

ELVA PUTNAM  Burbank, Los Angeles County

She is 29 KS and divorced. She lives with her folks George and Cora Adams. She has two Putnam kids born in Glendale: Norman 6 CA and Jackie A 4 CA. Found a birth record for Norman Richard born August 8, 1933 and mother’s name was Adams. He was born in San Diego County for what that’s worth. Jack Adams was born in Los Angeles County July 10, 1935 and mom was an Adams. She married Adelbert William Putnam in Los Angeles February 4, 1933. He was a son of Adelbert Carl Putnam and Ethel Elizabeth Birkinshaw and was at home in 1920 in Salt Lake Utah. She will marry John A. Franklin June 2, 1961. Adelbert had married Fay Smock in Detroit, Michigan April 6, 1929. He will marry Pearl Smith in Marion, Indiana February 28, 1941.

 

HERBERT PUTNAM  Burbank, Los Angeles County

He is 47 MO and his widowed mother Laura 70 MO. He was married to Maude Bartlett in 1923 and they were in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1930. Then he and his mom were in St. Joseph, Buchanan County Missouri in 1935. He is Herbert Donald Putnam a son of Louis Daniel Putnam and Laura Buie and was born in St. Louis October 12, 1891 and will die here in Los Angeles County January 15, 1976. Louis is a son of Daniel Porter Putnam and Mary Ann Shelton. He was born in Willsboro, Essex County New York July 21, 1853. Massachusetts family. Laura is a daughter of Donald Buie and Annie Laurie Herbert and was born in St. Louis June 5, 1868. She will die back there July 14, 1949.

 

WILLIAM R. (RAYMOND) PUTNAM  Burbank/Glendale, Los Angeles County

He is 63 KS, his wife Maude Jennette Hoskins is 58 CO and she has a son from her second of three marriages, George P. Luttge 29 CA. It’s Bill’s 2nd too. He is a son of William Riley Putnam and Mary E. Humphries from Smith County Kansas. He was born there in Center, Smith County September 25, 1876 and was at home there in 1880 and 1900. He was married to Eliza and was in Billings Montana in 1910 and 1920. He was divorced here in Perris, Riverside County in 1930, then here in Glendale in 1935. He married Maude on June 3, 1937. She was married to Benjamin Franklin Dewey May 8, 1900. They divorced and she married George Henry Luttge January 8, 1910 and he died in 1935 and then married Bill. Maude was born in Platteville, Weld County Colorado October 13, 1881 and will die here in Burbank/Glendale February 15, 1944. Bill will die next year on July 25, 1941. New England family from Vermont.

 

ANSON L. (LEROY) PUTNAM  Compton, Los Angeles County

He is 29 OK, his wife Helen Virginia Stock is 26 CA and they have Robert 1 CA. He is a son of Chelsea Leroy Putnam and his first wife Rose Lee Leffel and was born February 25, 1912 in Greer County Oklahoma and will die in March 1979. He is buried in Kingman, Mohave County Arizona. His wife Mary Myrtle is buried next to him. She was born July 5, 1910 in Russell County Virginia and died in July 1983. So, Helen and he will get divorced sometime as she will die in La Habra, Orange County June 27, 1988. Helenճ death certificate names her as Helen Virginia Sutton with a maiden name Stock. So they both will remarry later on. His dad is a son of Anson Wesley Putman and Frances Sedalia Gilstrapp from Greer County Oklahoma, and his dad was from Michigan and the line goes back to Montgomery County New York. Dutch Poutman family.

 

CARL PUTMAN  Culver City, Los Angeles County

He is 36 CA and his wife Anna is 32 CA. He is a set dresser at a movie studio. Says he was here in 1935, but I don’t find him ever in California.

 

DONALD CLYDE PUTNAM  Downey Township, Los Angeles County

He is 27 MI, his wife Ruth Fontelle Parker 24 OK and they have Donna Lee 1 CA. He is a trimmer in a metal factory. Don is a son of Grant Putnam and Rosetta Graham and was born in Novi, Oakland County Michigan August 18, 1912. He was with his folks there in 1920 and in Los Angeles in 1930. He married Ruth in Huntington Park July 3, 1936. He will die in Riverside, California March 17, 1980. Ruth is a daughter of Walter Parker and Leona Mae Watts and was born in Pittsburg County Oklahoma August 25, 1915 and will die in Riverside July 1, 2001. The line goes back through Michigan to New York to Connecticut (Cornelius Putnam) to Massachusetts.

 

HOWARD PUTNAM  Downey Township, Los Angeles County

He is 25 VT married and lodging, but no wife is around. He was in rural Vermont in 1935. I found a family sheet. He is Howard John Putnam a son of George Henry Putnam and Anna Elizabeth Frappier and was born in Rutland, Vermont July 1, 1916. Now ɠit gets interesting. He married Margaret Elizabeth Hinckley in Shrewsbury, Rutland County Vermont about 1936 or 1937. She is back there now with sons Howard John Jr. born in 1937 and Eugene Hinckley Putnam just born January 13, 1940. She says she is widowed. Yeh sure. In fact he will be back in Vermont soon, as they are listed as living together in 1946 at 205 State Street in Rutland, Vermont. He will die out here in Santa Cruz April 10, 1961. Margaret will stay out there and will die in Windsor, Vermont January 17, 1957. Then, as to his family. His grandfather George was a son of John Charles Putnam and Cordelia Catman and was home in Pittsford, Rutland County in 1900 and in the Army at Fort Milne in New York in 1910. I don’t find them in 1920, but were around there. He was born February 20, 1888 and will move to California and die in Santa Clara County March 6, 1957. Anna was born September 25, 1888 and will die in Santa Clara County August 8, 1980. This is a family that came down to Rutland from Canada in the 1840s, George Putnam and Rosella Porro. I don’t know if the line back to New England yet though, but I am sure it does. I must say finding info on Ancestry.com is a huge help.

 

KENNETH L. (LUTHER) PUTNAM  Downey Township, Los Angeles County

He is 25 AZ and his wife Philomena Hess is 21 ID. He is a son of Lloyd Raymond Putnam and Elizabeth Prout from here. His dad is a son of Charles Frederick Putnam Junior and Elizabeth Hutchinson. He was at home in 1900 in Redlands, San Bernardino County California. He was single in Arizona in 1900 and married Elizabeth Prout in 1902. They were in Pinal County Arizona in 1910 and 1920. That’s where Ken was born July 11, 1914. He will die November 3, 2000 in Parowan, Utah. He was living with his dad in Downey, Los Angeles County in 1930. He is in Las Vegas, Nevada with a second wife Marie in 1950. His dad is widowed in Redlands, San Bernardino County now in 1940 living with his widowed mother Elizabeth who is now 88. His line goes back to Lexington, Kentucky and then to Stow, Massachusetts before that. New Englanders.

 

MARGUERITE PUTNAM  Downey Township, Los Angeles County

She is 44 SD married and an inmate at the Norwalk State Hospital for the Insane. Marguerite Elizabeth Danaher was married to Jesse Putnam in Davison County South Dakota in 1920 and in Lynwood, Los Angeles County in 1930. He is currently in Long Beach with the kids. See that listing for Jesse’s line from New England.

 

ROLAND PUTNAM  Downey Township, Los Angeles County

He is 41 ND and his wife Erna Clara Amthor is 36 GERMANY and her parents Otto Amthor 63 and Catherine Amthor 63 also born in Germany. Roland Wallace Putnam is a son of Wallace Rolland Putnam and Sarah Ann Noyes and was born in Towner County North Dakota in January 1898. Wallace was a son of Levi Putnam (2483) from Charlestown, New Hampshire. He was there with his folks in 1900 then in Spokane, Washington in 1910 then Portland, Oregon in 1920, Sturgeon, Alberta Canada in 1921 and in Willowbrook, Los Angeles County in 1935. Erna came to this Country in 1911 and came down from Canada into Idaho November 9, 1928. She will die in Riverside, Orange County May 22, 1992. New England folks.

 

FRED PUTNAM  El Monte, Los Angeles County

He is 68 IL and divorced. He is a real estate broker wit his own business and was here divorced in 1930. Frederick Barnes Putnam is a son of Parker Trull Putnam and Laura Austin from Peoria, Illinois. He was single in Los Angeles in 1900. He was married to Katherine Alice McGirk and they were in Imperial County in 1910 and in San Joaquin County in 1920. Then they got divorced and he married a Mexican girl and got divorced again. He was born in Peoria June 15, 1871 and will die here in El Monte January 30,1954.  His ex, Katherine is listed below. New England line.

 

HORACE R. (ROLAND) PUTNAM  El Monte, Los Angeles County

He is listed as 31 MT but it’s really Canada. His new wife Geraldine Johnson is 29 KS and they have Claudette R. 3 KS and Jerome D. 1/12 CA. He is a salesman at a retail hardware store. He is a son of Homer Ralph Putnam and Edith Winona Jackson. He was born December 11, 1908 while the folks were in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada. They were there in the 1911 census. He was at home in 1920 with them in Anaconda, Deer Lodge County Montana. His folk were from Wabash County Indiana and the family was from New Hampshire before that. He married Alice Barkley Wycoff in Riverside, California July 5, 1926 and they had a son Charles Roland Putnam August 17, 1928 in Newport Beach and then they got divorced. Alice was in Newport Beach in 1930 with Charles and living with her widowed mother Grace Wycoff. Horace was in La Junta, Otero County Colorado in 1930 living with his mother’s brother Aura Jackson. It was there he married Geraldine. The son Jerome Dean Putnam was just born February 23, 1940. He will marry Margaret Slaughter in Los Angeles County March 4, 1961 at age 17.

 

KATHERINE PUTNAM  El Monte, Los Angeles County

Katherine Alice McGirk is 59 TX and divorced from the above Frederick Putnam listed above. She was divorced here also in 1930. She is a public school teacher. She is lodging with 5 other schoolteachers. She should have known better than to marry Freddie. In those days girl public school teachers simply were not allowed to marry period! Part of their dedicated religion to the students and not to a husband.

 

IDA E. PUTNAM  El Monte, Los Angeles County

She is 68 GER and widowed. She has a niece Grace E. Putnam 45 ME, nephew S. Leroy Putnam 41 ME and their daughter Donzella 5 MA. All but Donzella were in Covina, Los Angeles County in 1930. Samuel Leroy is a son of Samuel Putnam and Minnie Whitney from Piscataquis County Maine and he was home there in 1900. In 1920 he is married to Grace E. Stout in Bangor, Penobscot County Maine where they were married October 2, 1916. Ida Emma Fireobin was married to Earnest Redmont Putnam, a son of William Tasker Putnam and Aorline Boody from Waldo County Maine. He died in Baldwin Park, California November 10, 1928. Ida was widowed in Covina, Los Angeles County California in 1930 and will die in Los Angeles December 18, 1950.

 

MARK M. (MAYNARD) PUTNAM  El Monte, Los Angeles County

He is 37 MA MA MA and is a bottle filler at a dairy farm. His wife Dorothy Ellen Spencer is 37 NY and has a daughter from her previous marriage Gloria Arnold 14 CA. He is a son of Maynard Darius Putnam and Martha G. Hayes from Worcester Massachusetts. He was there in 1910 and 1920 and single here on the dairy farm in 1930. They were married February 13, 1932. He was born in Sutton, Massachusetts November 19, 1902 and will die in El Cajon, San Diego County August 17, 1992. They are living in Rosemead, California in 1941. Dorothy Elizabeth was born December 8, 1903 and will die in Clark County Nevada June 21, 1988. No ideas as to her maiden name.

 

MILO B. (BURNBRIDGE) PUTNAM  Gardena, Los Angeles County

He is 50 KS MI IL. His wife Grady M. Stone is 47 TX. He owns a cleaning and tailoring shop. He is a son of Anson Wesley Putman and Frances Gilstrap. He was in Greer County Oklahoma with his folks in 1900 and there married in 1920. They were right here in 1930. Anson was a son of John Cornelius Putman and Mary Eliza Hammond, his grandparents were Cornelius Putman and Eliza Ann Johnson of Amsterdam, Montgomery County New York. He was born in Laningsburg, Shiawassee County Michigan. This is a Dutch family from Montgomery County New York.

 

TROY L. (LADIEU) PUTNAM  Gardena, Los Angeles County

He is 25 OK single and lodging. He is a mechanic in an automobile dealership or agency. He is a son of Chelsea Leroy Putnam and his first wife Rose Lee Leffel who died June 19, 1919 in Oklahoma. They were in Los Angeles in 1930. His dad is a son of Anson Wesley Putman and Frances Gilstrap from Greer County Oklahoma. Troy Ladieu Putman was born March 2, 1916 and will die in Fort Worth, Tarrant County Texas June 7,1963. He was a master sergeant in the Air Force in WWII. He will marry Addie Ray Hess. She was born January 19, 1914 in Westworth, Tarrant County Texas and will die in Bedford, Tarrant County January 8, 2005. His line was from Michigan and then the line goes back to Montgomery County New York. Dutch Putman family.

 

CHRIS J. (JOSEPH) PUTNAM  Glendale, Los Angeles County

He is 33 GA, his wife Frances Louise McCauley 28 CA and they have a nephew James W. Putnam 21 CO.   He is an electrician at a motion picture studio. He is a son of Christopher and Minnie Putnam and was born in Georgia in 1906 and was with them in Greene County Missouri in 1910 and Denver, Colorado in 1920. The nephew James was always with the family and I think or thought he was Chrisՠbrother. Frances is a daughter of George McCauley and Pearl Moxley and was born Los Angeles November 10, 1911 and will die here December 7, 1993. His dad is a son of Isaiah Porter Putnam and Ann Reid. He was born in Knox County, Tennessee. He was at home with the folks in 1880. The parents were in Clark County, Washington in 1900 and Christopher was still in Knoxville. Isaiah was a son of Thomas Cowdin Putnam and Sarah Colby. His folks were from Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Thomas’ folks were Isaiah Putnam and Hannah Cowden, his grand-folks were Daniel Putnam and Rachel Small.

 

CLARENCE PUTNAM  Glendale, Los Angeles County

He is 29 ND, divorced and living with his aunts Ida Townsend 69 VT and Minnie Townsend 68 VT, who are his motherճ sisters. He sells automobile financing. Clarence Charles Putnam is a son of Clarence Simeon Putnam and Bertha Townsend from Barre, Vermont. He was born July 15, 1910 and has either married or will marry Mildred Dale Hess and die in Claremore, Rogers County Oklahoma in January 1972. His folks are back in Fargo, North Dakota where his dad is a director of music at the college there. New England folks.

 

CLAUDE G. (GEORGE) PUTNAM  Glendale, Los Angeles County

He is 55 MI MI OH and is an artist for a magazine. His wife Hazel Van Dusen is 53 MI and they have Claude Jr. 19 CA. Her widowed mother Clara Van Dusen 74 OH is with them as she was in 1920. He is a son of George Duncan Putnam and Caroline Louise Waterbury from Pontiac, Michigan. They have been here since 1910. New Englanders Connecticut to Oneida County New York to Michigan.

 

FRED O. (ORRIS) PUTNAM  Glendale, Los Angeles County

He is 57 SD, his wife Beadie Smith is 56 KS and they still have at home Willis 22 KS, Ira 20 KS and Betty Jean 18 KS. He is a house painter with a building contractor. He is a son of David Thomas Putman and Sarah Margaret Hensley and was born in Spencer, Mt. Cook County South Dakota March 26, 1883 and will die in Burbank, Los Angeles County November 24, 1966. Beadie was born June 22, 1883 in Whitestown, Indiana and will die in Burbank October 11, 1965. Although he was born in South Dakota, Fred and his family was in Cowley County Kansas by 1910 and he was there through 1930. His dad was from Minnesota and his dad Ansel Delos Putman was from Monroe County New york. Dutch Putman line that goes back to Montgomery County New York when Johannes Pootman came over from Holland in the 1650s.

 

LAURA B. (BARRETT) PUTNAM  Glendale, Los Angeles County

She is 72 IN widowed and a housekeeper for Lawrence and Elizabeth Armond. She was the second wife of David Thomas Putnam and was married to him in Winfield, Cowley County Kansas in 1920. He was a son of Ansel Delos Putnam and was in Mercer County, Missouri in 1880. David and Sarah Hensley his first wife were married in Cainsville, Harrison County Missouri in 1878. They were there in 1895 and 1900. David was widowed in Cowley County in 1910. He married Laura and died in the 1920s. She was in Los Angeles in 1930, and Wichita, Kansas in 1935 and now here. Laura Rutledge was married to Sylvester Barrett in Gibson County Indiana in 1900 and widowed Cowley, Kansas before marrying David. She was born in Indiana November 14, 1867 and will die here in Los Angeles County November 14, 1963. David was part of the Dutch Putman family out of New York State.

 

MAUDE L. (LAURA) PUTNAM  Glendale, Los Angeles County

She is 59 ENG and widowed but actually divorced. She is living with her married daughter Eleanor Sewell 35 SD and husband John W. Sewell 39 MN. Maude Pickthal was married to Frank Howard Putnam and they were in Iowa in 1900 and Minneapolis in 1920. He is still there married to another gal. She came out here with two of her daughters and was in Los Angeles in 1930. Frank is a son of Charles Edward Putnam and Mary Ellen Fawcett from Nashua, New Hampshire.

 

RALPH M. (MARION) PUTMAN  Glendale, Los Angeles County

He is 62 KS IL IL and is now a tax assessor in the town office. He was a supervisor for American Oil Company in Santa Barbara in 1930. His second wife Cora Bolles is 52 OH and they have Jane Marian 23 CA (record clerk at a junior college here), John Franklin 21 CA (stock clerk at an aircraft manufacturing plant) and Nancy Louise 11 CA. These three are all they ever will have. He is a son of Johnson Putman and Lydia Frye from Walnut Township, Barton County Kansas. He was born December 4, 1878. He married Ruth Ellen Munger April 7, 1912. She died in 1914 and he married Cora Bolles September 11, 1915. He will die in Los Angeles County May 16, 1959 and Cora will die in Orange County January 30, 1975 at age 90. The family was originally from Brown County Illinois. Southern Putmans from Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

OLIVE PUTMAN  Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 80 VT and widowed. She was here in 1935, but never find her before. Rand found her name to be Olive Melinda Gates, but still no ideas as to who she married and all. Mystery.

 

CLIFFORD J. (JAMES) PUTMAN  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 45 NE living with his widowed sister Estella Dorothy 46 NB. He says he is married but Marie is nowhere around. He was married to her in Thurman, Rock County Nebraska in 1920 and 1930. He is a son of Richard Gilbert Putman and Loretta Hotskin and was born in Rock County July 14, 1895 and will die in Los Angeles County May 24, 1962. His dad is a son of Peter John Putman and his second wife Jane Sparks from St. Lawrence County New York. They have been here in Nebraska since the 1870s. Dutch family from Montgomery County in New York State.

 

DANIEL P. PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 91 PA (no born in NH) widowed and living with his divorced daughter Lillian Annette Van Gelder 52 IA who is a music teacher. This one was screwed up. He is Daniel Proctor Putnam, age is right but name is spelled Putnam and he was born in New Hampshire. He and Annette were here in 1910 and she was divorced here in 1920 and somehow they were all overlooked in 1930. He is a son of Harrison Putnam and Clementine Lovering from Croyden, NH and then Bureau County Illinois and then Dan went to Iowa. The family was in Union County South Dakota in 1880 and in Adair County Missouri in 1900. He was married to Anna Chapman Rice through the 1900. Dan will die here next year on July 24, 1941.

 

DOLORES PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

She is 19 IL single and lodging with her married sister Virginia Henley 25 IL and husband Irvin Leonard Henley 30 MO. They are daughters of Benjamin Putman and Mabel Cummings. In 1920 Virginia was in the family at age 5 IL in East St. Louis, St. Clair County Illinois. Ben is a son of Thomas Putman from Shawnee, Gallatin County Illinois.

 

ELMER PUTMAN  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 30 PA, his wife Vera Beatrice Surrell is 27 OH and they have Marion Joyce 6 OH and Carol 3 OH. He is an inspector in an aircraft factory. They were married in Cleveland, Ohio February 21, 1931. Elmer Ray is a son f Walter James Putman and Anna Mary Stevenson and was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania June 13, 1909. They are back in Columbus, Ohio in 1950 and will get divorced out here in 1960 and he will marry Harriet Bachman September 13, 1961 and then die in Camarillo, Ventura County July 12, 1972. This is a German Buttman/Putman family out of Somerset County Pennsylvania and Maryland before that. There is a great family tree on Ancestry with all sorts of photos and all.

 

ERIA (URIAH)  PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is Uriah Shaefer Putnam 77 CA IL VA single and Living at his brother Howardճ home. He is a son of John Drury Putnam and his first wife Hannah Shaefer. He was in Sonoma County orphaned in 1870 and 1880. I don’t find him in 1900, but he was in Kern County still listed as Uriah S. in 1910 and in San Bernardino County in 1920, and Los Angeles in 1930. He was born in California April 8, 1863 and will be at his brother Howard’s house in Inglewood till he dies August 21, 1946.

 

EVERETT F. (FRANKLIN) PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 36 NE NE NE, and is a steel worker for an engineering company. His wife Esther May Coats is 31 NE and they have Donald Keith 11 NE, Ellsworth E. 9 NE, Paul E. 7 NE, Richard Dwayne 5 NE and Robert Franklin 3 NE. He is a son of Isaac Franklin Putnam and Mary Alice Merritt from Ponca, Nebraska. He was born February 19, 1904 Ponca, Dixon County Nebraska and will die in San Bernardino August 13, 1983. Esther was born in Nebraska June 10, 1908 and will die here December 30, 1948. They were in Ponca in 1920 and 1930. His grandfather Charles Franklin Putnam was from Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont.

 

GRANT W. (WILTON) PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 38 SD US US and is a pharmacist at his own drug store. His wife Opal is 39 OR and they have Dale W. 12 CA, Eleanor 10 CA and Donald 8 CA. He is a son of Louis Wilton Putnam and Clara Emily Olson. He was born November 7, 1901 in Langford Village, Marshall County South Dakota. Then the family was in Spokane County Washington in 1910 and Whitman County in 1920. Louis was a son of Norman Putnam and Julia Stratton in Michigan and then Iowa. Originally the family was from Danvers, Massachusetts and then Windsor, Vermont then Genesee County New York and then Way out West.

 

HARRY M. (MORANCY) PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 64 IL (listed as MO but wrong), his wife Myra O. Bridewell is 56 MO and their son Lawrence is 26 MO. He is a son of William Henry Harrison Putnam and Melvina Lynde. His dad used the nickname Morancy, hence his middle name. He was born April 15, 1876 in Jo Daviess County Illinois and then was with the folks in Carthage, Jasper County Missouri in 1880, 1900 and 1910. I haven’t found him in 1920 or 1930, but pretty sure he was around here. His wife and kids were in Los Angeles in 1930, but he wasn’t there with them. He will die here September 16, 1945. The son Lawrence Bridewell was born July 27, 1912 and will die in San Luis Obispo January 2, 1990. He will join the Army April 11, 1942 till it ends. They have another son William who is now in San Luis Obispo.

 

HOWARD E. (ELI) PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is 66 CA IA TX and his wife Myrtle Viola Stancliff 52 CA. Their daughter Gertrude Naylor 34 CA has been married and divorced since 1920. They also have their daughter Joyce 16 CA. He is still an oil pumper in the oil fields. He is a son of John Drury Putnam and Louise Murphy. He was born November 20, 1873 in Milford, Lassen County and will die here December 23, 1943. He married Myrtle in 1904. She is a daughter of Perry Willard Stancliff and Sara Angeline Ward and was born November 2, 1877 in Los Angeles. She will marry a Clark guy in 1945 and die as Myrtle V. Clark and will die in Orange County February 13, 1967. Howard was with his family in 1880 in Lassen County California. He was married in Fresno County in 1910 and here in Los Angles in 1920 and in Redondo Beach in 1930. His dad was a son of Daniel Green Putnam and Elizabeth Washburn of Warren County Illinois and Vermont before that. His brother Uriah is renting a room from him for $6 a month. I have listed him earlier.

 

LOTTIE B. (BELLE) PUTNAM  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

She is 70 IL NY NY single and boarding. She is a retired public school teacher. She is a daughter of Morancy Putnam and Malvina Lynde and was born in Jo Daviess County Illinois in late 1869 and was there in 1870 then in Carthage, Jasper County Missouri in 1880, 1900 and 1910. I don’t find her in 1920 and she was here in 1930. Her dad’s name Morancy was his nickname, and his real name was William Henry Harrison Putnam, a son of Daniel Putnam (number 1269 in Eben Putnam's book). He was born back in Otsego County New York. The family was from Vermont and Massachusetts before that.

 

URIAH PUTMAN  Inglewood, Los Angeles County

He is Uriah Schaefer Putnam 77 CA IL VA single and retired. He was a cook at a cafe. He is a son of John Drury Putnam and his first wife Hannah Schaefer. He was in Sonoma County orphaned in 1870 and 1880. I don’t find him in 1900, but he was in Kern County still listed as Uriah S. in 1910 and in San Bernardino County in 1920. He has basically the same specs in 1910-1930 and in 1920 and 1930 he is a cook. He was born in California April 8, 1863 and will be here till he dies August 21, 1946.

 

ALLEN PUTNAM  La Verne, Los Angeles County

Allen Orrin Putnam is 49 MA single and owns the house his mother had here since the 1920. Nettie died here December 3, 1931. He is a son of Orrin Eleazer Putnam and Annette ‘Nettie’ Holton. He was born in Templeton, Massachusetts August 17, 1891. Nettie married Orrin in the late 1880s and they split. He then married Alice Smith in 1898 and they were separated by 1900. In 1900 Nettie and Allen were with her folks in Northfield, Franklin County Massachusetts. Orrin Eleazer Putnam was a son of Hiram Putnam and Mary Small. Allen never married and will be here in this house till he dies May 18, 1980 at age 88.

 

GEORGE W. (WASHINGTON) PUTNAM  La Verne, Los Angeles County

He is 54 IA and has a son Marshall 14 IA. He says he is married but his wife Edith M. Nettleton died back in Iowa in 1931. He was here in 1935 and in Coldwater, Butler County Iowa in 1930 with his wife Edith and 4 kids, Marshall the youngest. He owns a farm. He is a son of Marshal Danforth Putnam and his first wife Betsy Jane Sneath. He was born in Greene, Butler County Iowa October 7, 1884 and will die in Alhambra, Los Angeles County June 26, 1968. Edith was a daughter of Felix J. Nettleton and Elizabeth Hardman and was born in Coldwater, Butler County in March 1886 and died in Greene, Butler County in 1931.

 

ARTHUR R. (RANDOLPH) PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 56 OH OH OH and his wife Genevieve ԊennieՠMoses is 59 OH. He is out of work. They were married in 1928 and here in 1930. He was married to Kathryn Saunders in Cleveland in 1910 and then single in the oil fields of Wichita County Texas in 1920. He is an oil field worker. He is a son of Pembroke Russell Putnam and Mary C. Randolph from Cleveland Ohio. He was born there July 1, 1883. He will die in Los Angeles March 16, 1951. Jennie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio August 5, 1877 and will die in Los Angeles October 5, 1946. New England family. Line goes back several generations in Ohio to Calvin Putnam who came out from Middlesex, Washington County Vermont to Ebenezer Putnam from Massachusetts.

 

ARTIE A. PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 65 KS and has her daughter Fay N. 46 UT. Fay is a comptometer operator at a public utilities company. Her widowed mother Artimishia Myers 85 CA. She was widowed with Fay and living with her folks in Salt Lake City in 1900, 1910 and 1920. Then they were in Los Angeles at her folks in 1930 and then here by 1935. Seems her husband was Frederick Putnam and was born in New York. They were married in Kansas in the 1890s. Artie was born in Kansas September 10, 1873 and will die in Long Beach, California May 15, 1970 at age 96. Fay was born November 19, 1893 and will die in Ogden, Utah in December 1983 at age 90. Good genes.

 

BERT PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 54 NY, his wife Ada Sanders is 56 IA and their married daughter Ruth Brogan 25 IA and her daughter Dolores 4 CA are with them. He first pops up in the Christian Home in Kane, Pottawattamie County Iowa in 1900 as a grandson of Lewis B. Servis. His California death record states his father’s name was Putman, his mother’s Serviss and he was born in New York March 31, 1886 and died in Los Angeles November 26, 1952. He and Ada were in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County Iowa in 1910 and were living with her folks so that’s how I got her last name. In 1920 they were in Seattle, Washington and here in Compton, Los Angeles County in 1930. He was an engineer for the railroad in 1910 and still is. His WWI draft registration gives his name as Bert Mark Putman and his birth as March 31, 1885. The 1910 census gives his dad’s birthplace as Pennsylvania and his mom’s New York.

 

C. (CHARLES) FREELAND PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 48 NE ME WI and is a pharmacist with a drug company. His wife Lucille Burkhardt is 38 WI and they have Barbara L. 15 CA. They have been married for 17 years and were here in 1930. He was here with his family in 1910, and here with his widowed mother in 1920. He is a son of Frank Charles Putnam and Ida J. Abbott. He was born in Aurora, Nebraska May 2, 1892, and was there in 1900. New Englanders out of Lincoln County Maine and then to Sheboygan County Wisconsin to Nebraska.

 

CHARLES S. (SYLVESER) PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 57 IA CAN CAN and his wife Charlotte E. Reynolds is 57 IL. He owns a Cafe here. He owned and operated another one in San Diego through the 1920s and was still there in 1935. He is the son of Henry Putnam and Elizabeth Beaudette from Canada. They were in Sioux County Iowa. Charles was there with his widowed mother in 1900. His dad died there in 1893 and his mother in 1905. They were in Marion County Oregon in 1910 and were in Long Beach in 1920 and in San Diego in 1930. Now a little interesting stuff. Henry was born April 18, 1830 in St. Johns, Quebec just across the border from Vermont. He was born with the name Patenaude, and was listed as Henry Putnode in Westford, Chittenden County Vermont in 1850. Probably because there were several Putnams in Westford, he changed or had Anglicized his name to Putnam sometime in the 1850s while in Vermont. Anyway, Charles was born in Sioux County Iowa November 13, 1881 and will die here in Los Angeles County January 14, 1949. Then as to his wife, I see her spelled as Charlotte, Charlotta and Carlotta now in 1940, but family trees have her as Caroline so not sure.

 

DOROTHY PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

Dorothy Frances Newman is 30 CA and married and her son John Robert Putman is 5 CA. They live with her folks John and Ada May Newman. No idea on her husband, but found a birth certificate for John Robert Putman born April 21, 1934 in Anaheim, Orange County. Also found a divorced certificate that he and Dorothy Shaw divorced in Orange County in June 1966. Found her in a family sheet that says she married Joseph William Putman but nothing about him or his folks. In a City Directory it says Joseph W. Putman and Dorothy F Putman were living in San Diego in 1935 and 1937 and he was in the U. S. Navy. Another directory has them in Long Beach in 1938, 1939, 1940, and 1941 and still in the Navy. They are in a City Directory for Santa Ana in 1952 and he is retired from the Navy then. The Dorothy’s death certificate has still a Putman born September 13, 1909 and died in Orange County July 2, 1989. Her mom’s maiden name was Allen. Found a listing for her in 1930 that I didn’t have. She was 19 married and living with her folks in Anaheim, Orange County. Guess Joe was in the Navy then too. Maybe we’ll figure him out someday.

 

ERMA PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 54 OH and widowed. She is a private nurse for Frances Folsom 94 IA. She was in Ponca, Dixon County Nebraska in 1935. Erma Heaton Bell was there in 1920 and 1930 married to Carl Boyce Putnam. He was a son of Horace Elijah Putman and Martha ‘Mattie’ Stark and was born in Otter Creek, Dixon County December 2, 1883. He died in Ponca January 17, 1936. Erma will die here in Long Beach May 2, 1964. She is a daughter of Samuel Heaton and Leonetta Priscilla Stout.

 

ETHEL PUTNAM WILLARD  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 51 SD ME ME and married a year to Clyde Willard 50 IL. Interesting that she kept her maiden name. Maybe Clyde was just a wasted year. She is a daughter of Ulmer John Putnam and Sybil Willard who have been here since 1910 and were in Davison County South Dakota in 1900. She and Clyde were here in 1930. Ulmer was from Dover Maine and with his widowed mother in 1850 so I don’t know who his dad was. He next shows up in Walla Walla, Washington in 1880.

 

FRANK R. (ROWELL) PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 31 MN, his wife Ellen H. Hayes 28 MI and they have Barron H. 3 CA. He is a lieutenant in the Navy. He was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia in 1935. In 1930 he was in the U. S. Naval Academy in Ann Arundel, Maryland. And in 1910 and 1920 he was at home with his folks in Red Wing, Goodhue County Minnesota. He was born in Red Wing July 16, 1908 and married Ellen about 1936. She was born in 1912 and will die in Los Angeles County February 14, 1968. They must have divorced as he will later marry Helen Nichol. She will die August 2, 1965 and he will marry Helen Roberts in Santa Clara County April 15, 1967. Helen will die in Santa Clara County October 19, 1989. Frank will die in Santa Clara County January 2, 1989. New England line out of Danvers, Massachusetts to Minnesota in the 1870s.

 

GENE PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 23 AZ single and lodging. He is a waiter at a drive through and was in the same place in 1935. Arthur Eugene Putnam is a son of Lloyd Raymond Putnam and Elizabeth Ann Prout and was born in Superior, Pinal County Arizona in 1917 and was there in 1920 with his folks and then here in Downey, Los Angeles County in 1930 with his widowed dad. His dad Lloyd is a son of Charles Frederick Putnam Junior and Elizabeth Hutchinson. He was at home in 1900 in Redlands, San Bernardino County California. He was single in Arizona in 1900 and married Elizabeth Prout in 1902. They were in Pinal County Arizona in 1910 and 1920 and in Downey, Los Angeles County in 1930. V His dad is widowed in Redlands, San Bernardino County now in 1940 living with his widowed mother Elizabeth who is now 88. His line goes back to Lexington, Kentucky and then to Stow, Massachusetts before that. New Englanders.

 

GEORGE HENRY PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 33 OK, his wife Lois Beth Tomlinson 27 MN and they have Richard Earl 4 CA and Worth Farris 1 CA. They were here in 1935 they say. He was single in Bell, Los Angeles County in 1930 working in a glass factory. He married Viola Pearl Johnson October 18, 1930 in Yuma, Arizona. She was born October 8, 1908 and died one day after their son George Robert Putnam was born on April 9, 1931. Young George is now with her folks in Los Angeles. This George is now working in a stevedore company on the waterfront here. He is a son of George Putnam and Mammie Farris from Garfield County Oklahoma. Georgeճ grandfather Aldridge Putnam was from Canada. George was born in Garfield County December 21, 1906 and will die here in Los Angeles County March 24, 1951. Beth is a daughter of Joseph Tomlinson and Hazel Vincent Dresser and was born in Minnesota November 9, 1912 and will die in Los Angeles County February 25, 1994. A New England family originally from Massachusetts.

 

HARRY S. (SAMUEL) PUTNAM JR.  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 26 CA, his wife Marian Hales 25 CA and her mother Mabel C. Hales 45 MO. He is a son of Harry Samuel Putnam and Theresa Agnes Gray and was in Torrance, Los Angeles County with them in 1930. His dad died and his widowed mother Theresa is here in Long Beach now as well. He dad was a son of Samuel Henry Putnam and Sarah Adeline Woodbury from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was home there in 1880 and in 1900. They were in San Diego in 1910 and were in Durango, La Plata County Colorado in 1920. New Englanders.

 

HENRY A. PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 69 PA and owns a grocery store. His wife Mary A. is 67 MD and is a clerk in the store. They say they were here in 1935. Henry was married to Rose and was in Chicago in 1910. In the 1910 I found: There is a death record in Michigan for a Henry Roberts Putnam, wife Rose, who died in Coldwater, Michigan March 29, 1912. His folks were listed as J. D. Putnam born NY and Mary Roberts born CAN. This makes him a son of John Rice DeGarmo Putman and Mary Ann Roberts. That family was in Brooklyn, New York City in 1850 and 1860. Henry was born there February 28, 1861. I can’t find him in 1870 or 1880. He married Minnie Winona Sims in Wood County West Virginia on May 7, 1889. He listed his folks as J. D. Putman and Mary Ann Roberts. She died or they split and he married Rose about 1899. Dutch family from New York State.

 

JESSE A. (ALLEN) PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 46 SD PA MD. He says he is married. His wife Marguerite Elizabeth Danaher isn’t here as she is in the Norwalk State Hospital for the Insane in Downey, Los Angeles County and she was there in 1935 too. At home are John H. 17 SD, Thomas Patrick 15 CA, Vincent Leonard 13 CA, Mary C. 11 CA and Betty Anne 8 CA. He now owns a fuel oil business. Jesse is a son of Harry A. Putnam and Mary Anne Herr and was born in Minnehaha County South Dakota January 25, 1894. He was at home there in 1900 through 1910 and then was married in Davison County South Dakota in 1920. He was married here in Lynwood, Los Angeles County in 1930. He will die here December 29, 1965. His folks were from Bradford County Pennsylvania and Massachusetts before that.

 

JESSIE PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 53 PA married without a husband and has Perl/Earl/?? B. Williamson 24 IA as a son in law. She is a counter girl at a cafeteria and he is a machinist in the U. S. Navy. He also says he is married, but his wife isn’t here either. He was right here in 1935 and Jessie was in Los Angeles. In 1930 Jessie was widowed in Long Beach with her daughter Gloria who would be 30 now. Bad handwriting here and if he is 29 then that may be the wife. Jessie is the widow of Walter Francis Putnam, a son of Francis Emery Putnam from Pennsylvania. They were in Coos County Oregon in 1910 and I don’t find them in 1920. She is Jessica Spears Putnam, a daughter of Thomas Spears and Dorcas Elizabeth Gardiner and was born July 21, 1886 in Stephens Point, Susquehanna County Pennsylvania and will die in Long Beach, November 30, 1978. Walter her really divorced hubby is still up in Coos County Oregon and will die there in North Bend June 19, 1948. He is a son of Francis Emery Putnam and Theodosia Victoria Graves from Broome County New York and the line goes back to Vermont then to Massachusetts.

 

JOHN PAUL PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 41 MO, his wife Marie Stepp 39 NE and her other Rosetta Stepp is 67 KS. He is a bank accountant and Marie a clerk in a grocery store. They were Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1935. According to his California death index he was born in Missouri December 12, 1898 and will die in Pasadena, Los Angeles County April 1, 1983. He was born in Joplin, Missouri December 12, 1895 and will die in Pasadena, California April 1, 1983. There is a family tree that says his parents were William and Adelaide Lieb. His death certificate also states his mother was Marie Griswold. He had to have been adopted by a Putnam at some stage. I am guessing his wife Marie was a Stepp based on her mother’s name, but the Stepp may have come from a second marriage. Hopefully a descendent will call and straighten this all out.

 

LEOLA PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 32 IA single and boarding. She lives 2 houses down from Jesse and his family. She says she was in Pomona in 1935. Can’t ever find her. Think transcribed wrong and not a Putnam. Don’t know.

 

LESTER I. (IRWIN) PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 67 MN and widowed and in a boarding house. Says he was last in rural Trempealen County Wisconsin and was there in 1910, 1920 and 1930. He was born in Whitewater, Winona County Minnesota October 18, 1872, married Grace A. there in 1899. He is a son of Charles J. Putnam and Harriet Amelia Irwin. He will die out here June 12, 1951.

 

MARY A. PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 92 NY NJ CT and widowed. She is with a second cousin May L. Symonds 59 IL. He was here widowed since back in 1910 and always by herself up till now. Her death record says her dad’s name was Wade and her mom Griswold and she was born in New York February 28, 1948 and died in Los Angeles December 14, 1940. She is Mary Ann Wade and will die here in 1940. She was married to James Putman and was with him in 1900 in Aspen, Colorado. He is a son of William Putnam and Mary Hopkins of Herkimer, New York. He died in Aspen in 1901.

 

 

MAY PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

Edna May Erickson is 47 MN. She was married here to John Coleman Putman in 1920. He was a newspaper reporter. He was a son of Willis Stone Putman and Addie Cotton from Rochester, Fulton County Indiana. He was born in Rochester December 12, 1895. He was home there in 1900. His Folks Willis and Addie are here in town too. His dad is a son of Daniel Putman and Lucinda Colbert from Ohio and then Brown County Illinois Southern Putman family.

 

NELLIE PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 73 IA and widowed. Nellie Hubbard was the wife of John Putnam and they were all in Black Hawk County Iowa in 1900 then She was widowed here in 1920 and 1930. John popped up in Black Hawk County Iowa at age 3 in 1870 with his mother Cassie McIlroy and her new second husband Andrew Cushman. Oscar Putnam was her husband back in Ohio. They were married in 1865 and then split or he died. No clues as to who he was.

 

RALPH C. (CHARLES) PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 37 AZ and his wife Gladys Marie Craigmiles is 38 MO. He works in the oil fields as a pipe welder. He is a son of Charles Franklin Putnam. Charles was a son of Osgood Putnam (2122) and Rhoda Ann Hall from Groton Massachusetts. They were in Gila County Arizona in 1900 and Ralph was born there August 11, 1902. In 1910 and 1920 he was with his widowed mother Nora in Albuquerque New Mexico. He will die in Los Angeles County, probably here, July 30, 1955.

 

RAY (RAYMOND FRANCIS) PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 21 AZ single and boarding. He is a truck driver. He is a son of Lloyd Raymond Putnam and Elizabeth Prout. He was born in Pinal County Arizona and there in 1920 and with his widowed dad in Los Angeles in 1930. His dad, also a truck driver, is a son of Charles Frederick Putnam Junior and Elizabeth Hutchinson. He was at home in 1900 in Redlands, San Bernardino County California. He was single in Arizona in 1900 and married Elizabeth Prout in 1902. They were in Pinal County Arizona in 1910 and 1920. Lloyd is still widowed and living in Redlands, San Bernardino County now in 1940 with his widowed mother Elizabeth who is now 88. His line goes back to Lexington, Kentucky and then to Stow, Massachusetts before that. New Englanders.

 

RAYMOND PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 45 IL and divorced. He is a bookkeeper at a coin machine company. He was here in 1935. He is a son of Sylvester Putnam and Sarah E. Potts and was born in Illinois August 22, 1894 and then with his folks in Dubois County Indiana in 1900, Martin County in 1910 and then Hingham, Massachusetts where I used to live. He was the one that lived there in 1920. I was there in 1970 and 1980. He was on a receiving ship at the shipyard there in 1920. He said he was married then. He will die here in Long Beach September 17, 1969. Line goes back to Sutton, Massachusetts through Wabash County Illinois to Columbia County New York to Worcester County Massachusetts.

 

THERESA PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 67 MA and now widowed. Also here is Isabelle Hyde 73 MA also widowed and listed as her mother. Strange entry as Theresa’s last name is Gray and Isabelle would have been 6 years old when she had her. I don’t think so. Also the next 6 listings above all said they were widowed. Oh well. Theresa Agnes Gray was married to Harry Samuel Putnam from Worcester, Massachusetts. For what it’s worth Isabelle said she was in Worcester in 1935. Maybe she’s a step mommy or something. Anyway Harry was a son of Samuel Henry Putnam and Sarah Adeline Woodbury from Worcester, Massachusetts. He was born there December 3, 1876. He was home there in 1880 and in 1900. He married Theresa there February 8, 1898 and they were with his folks in 1900. They were in San Diego in 1910 and were in Durango, La Plata County Colorado in 1920, and Torrance. Los Angeles County in 1930. He died sometime between then and now. Theresa was born in Worcester in 1874 and will die in Los Angeles County July 30, 1964. Their son Harry S. Jr. is married here in Long Beach.

 

TYLER PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 47 OH, his wife Gladys Flora Howe is 37 MI and they have Bruce 3 CA. Her mother Lillian M. Howe 72 NY is with them. Tyler Warren Putnam is a son of Pembroke Russell Putnam and Mary Catherine Randolph and was born in Cleveland March 24, 1893. He was there to the 1920s and then out here with his widowed mother in 1930. He was working in the oil fields then, but now is a foreman on a sewer project. Gladys is a daughter of Isaac Amariah Howe and Lillian Ensign and was born in Calhoun County Michigan April 29, 1901 and will die here in Long Beach November 18, 1988. Tyler will die here June 24, 1982. New England family out of Medina County Ohio from Middlesex County Vermont and Massachusetts before that.

 

WILLIAM PUTNAM  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 57 MA NY MA and a distributer of advertising. His wife Marguerite Blair is 54 KS and they have William Blair 25 IL (born April 13, 1914 and died April 24, 1995), and John Blair 22 KS (born April 15, 1918 and died July 25, 1987) and Katherine 9 KS. He is a son of Leonard Druary Putnam and his first wife Ann Marie Corey and was born in Massachusetts December 24, 1883. His dad was in the Barnum & Bailey Circus and was single in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1880. He married Ann in New York City August 9, 1883. William was born while the Circus was on the road in Massachusetts. Ann then died July 9, 1891 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. They were in Wichita Kansas in 1920. In 1900 he was living with his uncle John Putnam in Queens, New York. John sorta took him in after Leonard’s first wife died and Leonard was on the road all the time with Barnum and Bailey Circus at the time. Marguerite was a daughter of John Alvin Blair and Catherine Wendell and was born November 8, 1885 and will die here January 29, 1957. William will die in 1959. They were here in 1930William and Marguerite are buried at Westminster Park in Westminster, Orange County California.

 

WILLIAM J. (JONATHAN) PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 51 CO US IA and his wife Daisy Chase is 61 IN. She was married before and has a son Robert Yandell 37 OR. He is a field superintendent at the Long Beach Airport. He is a son of William Lee Putman and his first wife Alice Waterhouse. He was born in Denver April 25, 1888, and was with his grandmother Elizabeth Coulson Putman there in 1900. He married Daisy January 13, 1910 in Oregon. He and Daisy were in Spokane, Washington in 1920 and here in 1930. He will die in Jackson County, Oregon July 2, 1944. Daisy will die in Los Angeles October 15, 1961.

 

WILLIS S. (STONE) PUTMAN  Long Beach, Los Angeles County

He is 70 IL and his wife Addie L. Cotton is 70 MO. He is a son of John Putman and Sarah Ann Stone and was born in Quincy, Adams County Illinois in July 1869. He married Addie in Iowa June 12, 1892 and then they were in Rochester, Indiana in 1900, Des Moines, Iowa in 1910 and here in Long Beach by 1925. This is part of the Southern Putman line from Virginia to Kentucky to Brown County Illinois.

 

ALBERT PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 31 UT single and an adopted son of Allen and Mary Hayes. I found a family sheet that he is a son of William Oscar Putnam and Alice Zesiger and was born in Bountiful, Davis County Utah in 1898. He never appears with the family. He had a twin Alfred who never showed up either. Beats me. The family is out of Oxford County Maine and Hillsboro County New Hampshire before that.

 

ALBERT A. (ANTHONY) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 36 GERMANY, his wife Elsie is 29 MO and they have Deanna M. 2 CA and a stepdaughter of Elsie, Joan L. Lind 10 CA. His ‘original’  birth name is Albert Anthony Putynkoski born in 1904.

 

ALBERT E. (ERNEST) PUTMAN  Llos Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 46 OK OH MI. His wife Irene A. Sanchez is 44 CA and her widowed mother Raquela Sanchez is 76 CA. He is a supervisor at a commercial bakery, and she a saleslady at a dry goods store. He was born March 27, 1893 in Oklahoma and he will die in Palmdale, Los Angeles County February 3, 1974. He is a son of Henry C. Putnam and his second wife Leuticisha Dennis. Henry is a son of Daniel Putman and Elizabeth La Tourette from Clark County Ohio. He was at home in Oklahoma County in 1900 and 1910 and they were in New Mexico in 1920. Southern Putmans from Virginia to Ohio to Indiana and then here.

 

ALFRED E. (EUGENE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 82 IL NY NY and still says he is married, but he is lodging by himself as he was in 1930. He is a retired attorney. He is a son of Charles Sewell and Mary Putnam. He was born in Bureau County Illinois when the family was briefly there. They returned to New York. Alfred was there in 1880. He has been around since the 1890s and was married Margaret Bogart up till 1930. She is currently in Napa Valley and says she is widowed and said the same in 1930. She will die in Sonoma County in July 1944 and he will die here in December 1944, so they are separated. They were here in 1900 and in Santa Barbara after that.

 

ARION PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 69 NY NY MA. His wife Rose Eberhart is 61 PA and they have Ralph S. 35 CA still at home. Both he and his son are photographers with their own studio like his dad. He is is a son of John R. Putnam and Ellen F. Enderle from New York City and then out here. He was born in New York July 11, 1870. The whole family was in New York City in 1880 where his dad started a photography studio. They then moved out here and were here from the 1890s on. Arion will be here until he dies March 11, 1949. Rose won’t die until 1960. His father John is a son of Thomas H. Putnam and his first wife Sophia Sherman and was born in Delaware County New York. This family is a part of the ‘other’ New England family. The one out of Yorkshire England. His married sister Blanche, a teacher, and her husband John Gardiner, a real estate broker, still live next door. They were all here in 1920 and 1930.

 

BENJAMIN PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 26 MO and his wife Mary 23 MO. They are lodging and were in St. Louis, Missouri in 1935. He is a credit manager at a finance company and she a receptionist at a retail baking company. I can’t find him in Missouri ever.

 

BENJAMIN R. (RISLEY) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 68 IA NY PA and is a trustee for a private estate, probably his own. He was a fruit grower in 1930 as he had been for a while. His wife Wilella Thorington is 60 COLUMBIA (Panama in 1930). He is a son of Charles Edwin Putnam from Davenport, Iowa. He was born there December 29, 1871, and will die in Los Angeles County February 7, 1946. Wilella was born December 20, 1879, and will die in Los Angeles County on November 22, 1950. He and Wilella were in Berkeley in 1910 and Tulare County in 1920 and 1930. He is named for his grandfather from back in New York State. His sons William and Thorington are here in Los Angeles now as well.

 

BRUCE PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 55 TX TX TX and is a streetcar motorman as he was in 1930. His wife Lilly (Daisy in 1930, same gal) is 55 MO and they have Betty 16 CA. He is a son of William Jacob Putman and Elizabeth Ann Farmer from Eastland County Texas. He was born there September 12, 1881 and home in 1900. He was living with his brother Charles in 1910 and then with his widowed mom in Coleman County Texas in 1920 and married Daisy in 1922. Southern Putman family that goes back to Ezekiel Putman of South Carolina and then Georgia.

 

BYRON PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 62 NH NH NH and still single. He is a son of Prescott Putnam and Emily Cutting from Claremont, Sullivan County New Hampshire. He was home there in 1900, and was single in Alhambra Los Angeles County in 1920. He was born March 30, 1878 and will die in Glendale April 8, 1965.

 

CARTER PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 51 IL VT IL, his wife Hazel Evelyn Probst is 44 IA and they now have Virginia 21 CA, Dorothy 18 CA, and Louise 16 CA. He is Carter Everest Putnam a son of Orlando Proctor Putnam and Clara Cone from Lake County Illinois where he was born June 8, 1888 and then Barton County Kansas in 1900 and Des Moines Iowa in the 1910. He and Hazel were in Los Angeles in 1920 and in San Bernardino County in 1930. He owned a citrus farm then but now no one in the family has a job and they are renting a house. He will die here April 16, 1957. Name has been spelled Putman since 1920. Family was from Sullivan County New Hampshire and Sutton, Massachusetts before that.

 

CHARLES G. (GORDON) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 49 CA NY OH and divorced. He lives in a hotel and kinda out of work now. He is a son of Ralph Winslow Putnam and Mary Jane Davidson and was married to Lillian Cecelia Burke in San Louis Obispo County in 1920. He was here in 1930 and said widowed then. Lillian still is in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County and in both 1930 and now she says she is married. Then Charles is also listed now in a hotel in San Francisco living with a gal named Helen born in Arizona and they say they are married. So Charles is married, divorced and widowed all at the same time. Hmmm. New England family, Sullivan County New Hampshire to Wayne County New York and then way out here.

 

CHARLES R. (ROBERT) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 26 AZ, single and lodging. He is a chemist in a chemical plant. He is a son of Lloyd Raymond Putnam and Elizabeth Prout. He was born in Pinal County Arizona May 14, 1913 and will die out here in Kern County November 4, 1980. His dad is a son of Charles Frederick Putnam Junior and Elizabeth Hutchinson. He was at home in 1900 in Redlands, San Bernardino County California. He was single in Arizona in 1900 and married Elizabeth Prout in 1902. They were in Pinal County Arizona in 1910 and 1920, and in Downey, Los Angeles County in 1930. His dad is widowed in Redlands, San Bernardino County now in 1940 living with his widowed mother Elizabeth who is now 88. His line goes back to Lexington, Kentucky and then to Stow, Massachusetts before that. New Englanders.

 

CHARLOTTE PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 53 AZ and widowed. She says she was right here in 1935, but I can’t find her in 1920 or 1930.

 

CLARA C. PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 68 IL OH IN single and living in a lodging house. She was here in 1930 and a hotel chambermaid then. She is a daughter of Luther Edgerton Putnam and Sarah Jane Martin from Champaign County Illinois. Luther was a son of Charles Marsh Putnam from Licking Co, Ohio and from Salem, Massachusetts originally.

 

CLAUDE LEE PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is a sales manager at an automobile plant or dealership and is 36 GA. His wife Maria Irene is 31 OK. In 1930 he was in Buffalo, New York with a wife Donna from New York who he married there in 1925 and he was in advertising and they lived in the Hotel Ford. He spelled his name Putnam then. That’s as far back as I can get with him.

 

CLARENCE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 37 MO and his wife Juanda Juanita Baker is 33 CO. They were both in Pueblo, Colorado in 1935. Neither has a job now. In 1930 Clarence was in Pueblo and was married to Hazel Florence Alcott who was 12 years older than he was. She ran a beauty shop and Clarence was a barber there. She is still there, still runs the beauty shop and says she is still married. Who knows, Clarence may be a Mormon. Anyway he is a son of Wilbur Addison Putnam and Birdella Buckworth and was born in York, Putnam County Missouri May 7, 1901 and then was in Colorado by 1910 with the folks. He was with his folks in Crowley County, Colorado in 1920. He then married half the State and was out here a short time ago. He will die in Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County California September 9, 1965. Family came from Sutton, Massachusetts to Putnam County Missouri and settled there as it was named for their cousin Israel the General in the Revolution.

 

C. (CHILUS) EARL PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 46 IL, his wife Anna R. is 46 IL and they have three lodgers. He is a painter with a building contractor as are the lodgers. He is a son of Barnet Putman and Della Brayfield and was born in Du Quoin, Perry County Illinois December 26, 1893 and he will die here in Los Angeles April 11, 1957. Line goes back through William Putman and Julia Ann Foster in Gallatin County Illinois to Barnet Putman in Kentucky to Laban Putman and Betsy Young in Union County South Carolina. Laban was a brother of my Daniel Putman and they were sons of Barnet Putman and Sarah Elizabeth Rogers from Virginia. Southern Putmans.

 

DONALD PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 25 CA and his wife Ruth 25 CAN. He is a clerk in a department store and she is a saleslady there. He is Donald Elmer Putnam a son of Clyde Elmer Putnam and Mary Eugenia Maxwell and was born in San Francisco May 25, 1914 and at home here in 1920 and 1930. He will die in Alameda, California June 19, 1961. There are several family sheets on his dad saying his folks were Henry Putnam and Nancy Hackett in the Cleveland area of Ohio. I find a Henry Putnam and Nancy Stewart in 1880 in Fulton County Ohio who are probably them. Not sure though.

 

DONALD F. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 25 CA single and Lodging. He is a mailing clerk for a company that makes garage doors. He was in Riverside, Riverside County in 1935 and earlier as he is a son of Arthur Clair Putnam and Adelaide E. Hills and was born in Los Angeles October 22, 1914 and will die back in Riverside December 1, 1997. His dad is a son of Osgood Putnam and Frances Hitchcock from Madison County New York as shown there in 1900. Dutch family from New York State.

 

DORIS PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 46 KS and widowed and her daughter Pamela is 13 CA. Says they were here in 1935.She was married to Walter Howard Putnam, a son of Jacob Putnam and Minnie Robinson from Buffalo, New York. Dutch Family.

 

EARL ORSON PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 36 NE, his second wife Barbara is only 19 CA and they have Jean S. 1/12 CA. He is the son of Herbert Lee Putnam and was in Sioux City, Iowa with his widowed dad in 1910. He was born in Nebraska February 3, 1904 and was married to Mabel Lorene Pollard here in Los Angeles in 1930 they were divorced. He will later marry Pearlia Ruth Dupey July 2, 1963 in Nampa, Canyon County Idaho and die in Arlington, Snohomish County Washington February 23, 1986. Pearlia will die up there in Arlington, Washington July 24, 2007. New England Line way back when.

 

EARLE W. (WILBUR) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 46 MA MA MA and his wife Verna K. is 42 TX. They have been married 17 years. He is an accountant at a concrete company. He is a son of David Abbott Putnam and Alice Thornton Merrill from Danvers, Massachusetts. He was born there June 17, 1893 and will die here in Los Angeles July 8, 1951. The family was there in 1900 and out here in Riverside California by 1910. Verna was born in Texas February 5, 1898 and will die out here November 5, 1967. New Englanders.

 

EDITH B. (BISHOP) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 65 IN and widowed. She has her daughter Edith V. 41 TX and still her mother Mary A. Bishop 84 IA. Edith Bishop has been since her husband Arthur Burch Putnam died back in 1908. Her dad was here in 1920, but has died since then. Arthur was a son of George Putman and Helen Burch from Jefferson County New York. This is a Dutch family from New York. He worked for the U. S. Customs in El Paso Texas, and died in an accident just over the line on the Rio Grande near Anapra, New Mexico September 12, 1908.

 

ELIZABETH PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 70 MI and widowed. She is living with her married daughter Josephine 49 MI MI MI and husband Ivan F. Packard 48 MI. Elizabeth Frances Warby was married to Mortimer Putnam in Flint Michigan in 1900 and 1910 and then he died there December 10, 1910. They were all in Burlingame, San Mateo County in 1930. Elizabeth is a daughter of John Warby and Ann Colby and was born July 3, 1869 and will die in Los Angeles December 6, 1950. New England family out of Batavia New York and then Massachusetts before that.

 

ELLA PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 78 IL and widowed and her daughter Dorothy C. is 44 IL single, and they have two lodgers. Dorothy is a caretaker here as she was in 1930. Mary Ella Crocker was married to Frank Wright Putnam in Chicago in 1900 and the Youngstown, Ohio in 1910. Frank was a son of Edwin Lombard Putnam (2808) of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, New Hampshire. He was born there October 26, 1853.

 

ELLEN H. (HANCE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 68 OH and widowed as she has been since her husband Frank W. Putnam died here in 1904-1905. Frank was a son of Norman Williams Putnam and Maria Douglas. He was born in Knox County Ohio June 3, 1853. He married Ellen January 16, 1901 and died a few years later. Ellen is a daughter of Thomas Douglas Hance and Frances Bunker and was born in Morrow, Ohio February 13, 1872 and she will die here December 2, 1943. Family from Massachusetts to Vermont and then West.

 

EMMA PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 62 TX and lodging. Emma Idee Harrison was married to Frank Richard Putman here in 1920 and 1930. They were married September 14, 1904. He is a son of James Grey Putman and Margaret Tennessee Thurman and was born in Georgia April 27, 1873 and will die in Los Angeles August 17, 1951. In 1900 he had a wife Eva who died about 1902. He is a jeweler. Southern Putman line that goes back Texas to Greene County Missouri to Alabama to Ezekiel Putman of Hall County Georgia and South Carolina before that.

 

ERNEST PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 37 KS and his wife Leona Blanche Landry is 26 LA. He is a route supervisor for a commercial dairy and she is a checker at a laundry as is her sister. Also here is her married sister Edna 27 LA and her husband William Atteberry 30 MO. Ernest Lee is a son of Benjamin Franklin Putnam and Amy Belle Morris and was born May 29, 1903 in Osage, Bourbon County Kansas. They were here in 1935. Leona was born in Lafourche Parish Louisiana April 2, 1914 and will die in Costa Mesa, Orange County February 5, 1987. Ernest will die in Costa Mesa December 29, 1979. This is that elusive Putnam line that appeared in Virginia in the 1700s and was Quaker and went to Guilford County North Carolina and then to Jefferson County Tennessee to Missouri and out here.

 

FLORA B. (BELLE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 44 MI and now divorced. Her mother Rose Riley 74 MI and widowed is with her. They were in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920 and her momճ name was Rose Riley. Her dad was Edward H. Putnam a son of William Putman and Hulda Ann Burroughs. Flora was born a Putnam. She was probably married in Cleveland, but no clue as to whom. Good luck! Dutch Family out of New York State.

 

FLORENCE M. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 29 MN and divorced. Says she was in Santa Monica in 1935, but I can’t find her earlier to figure out who her husband was and if a Putman at all.

 

FRANK PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 28 AR and his wife Helen 25 MO. He is a milk salesman. They were both in Joplin, Missouri in 1935. Charles Franklin Putman is a son of David Wilson Putman and Martha Ora Villines. He was born in Boone County Arkansas in 1911 and with the family in Joplin in the 1920s or maybe a bit earlier. I don’t know who Helen is, but in 1942 when he enlists in the Army back in Missouri he states he is divorced. He will later marry Thelma Mae Theys in Sioux Falls, South Dakota on December 26, 1942. They both had been married before and divorced. His dad David is a son of Robert Martin Putman and his second wife Martha Ann Bell from Jackson County Missouri. Line then goes back to Tennessee and North Carolina to Virginia. Southern Putmans.

 

FRANK PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 65 CAN NY MD and now married to Martha Bartow Humphries 77 GA. He does carpentry work at a movie studio. Frank is a son of Lorenzo Putman and Mary Jane Graybiel and was born February 19, 1875 in Smithville, Niagara County Ontario Canada. He will die here July 16, 1953. He was home there in the 1881 census. He was married to a Mary from Ireland and they were in Clackamas County Oregon in 1910 and Clark County Washington in 1920. He was here single in 1930. He married Martha June 10, 1933 in Fullerton, Orange County California. Martha is a daughter of Thomas Dubois Humphries and Effa Ann Carter and was born August 28, 1862 in Reynolds, Taylor County Georgia and was married there before coming out here. She will die in Glendale, Los Angeles County in 1941. Dutch family originally from New York State.

 

FRANK D. (DEWITT) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 70 GA MA MA and he works for the U. S. Customs Service. His wife Lottie M. Crosby is 66 CA. He is a son of John Howard Putnam and Antoinette Parsons. He was born November 2, 1870 while the family was in Savannah, Georgia. Then they were back in Revere, Massachusetts in 1880, and then with the family in 1900 in Everett Massachusetts, and then out here from then on. They were here in 1920. Lottie was born June 23, 873 and will die in Santa Barbara July 17, 1948.  He will be around till he dies March 13, 1949 also in Santa Barbara. Same with his brother Harold here in Los Angles. Harold will die in Santa Barbara January 6, 1948. Guess they all moved there together

 

FRANK E.  (EVANS) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 30 KS, his wife Opal I. 26 CA and they have Daniel 3 CA and Pamela 7/12 CA. He is an accountant in an air and refrigeration plant. He is a son of John Howard Putnam and Regina Fontelle Evans and was here with them in 1920 and 1930. He was born back in Kingman County Kansas May 31, 1909 and will die here in Los Angeles February 3, 1983.

 

FRANK R. (RICHARD) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 33 TX, his wife Ivy Aileen Reilly 33 PA and they have Frank Richard (3rd) 11 CA, William John 9 CA and Beverly Joan 4 CA. He is Frank Jr., son of Frank Richard Putman and his second wife Emma Idee Harrison. He was born December 31, 1906 in Parker County Texas. He married Ivy here on January 7, 1928. He will die here in Studio City June 7, 1992. Ivy was born in Pennsylvania August 1, 1906 and will die here in Studio City October 3, 1996. His folks moved here by 1920 and are still here in Los Angeles. Southern Putmans going back to Ezekiel Putman in Hall County Georgia and then to South Carolina and North Carolina.

 

FRED PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 31 CA and his wife Gretchen Elvira Johanson is 25 CA. He is Frederick Singleton Putman Jr., son of the following Freddie. He was born here March 26. 1909 and will die here January 25, 1973. He married Gretchen February 4, 1930. Gretchen was born in Los Angeles October 25, 1910 and will die here November 29, 1977. Southern Putman family from Illinois.

 

FRED PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 48 KS and his wife Pearl 50 CO. He is a theatrical mechanic and they have been here since 1920. He is a son of Edward Putman and Jennie Weaver and was born in Winfield City, Cowley County Kansas July 1, 1891 and was at home with his folks in 1900 and 1910 and in New Mexico in 1917 when he registered for the draft. He was born July 1, 1891 and will die out here in Los Angeles November 25, 1949. He was married to Pearl here in 1920 and 1930. This is a Southern Putman line out of Virginia to Indiana to Tazewell County Illinois.

 

FRED PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 53 IA, his wife Anne Schwab 50 IL and Walter H. 19 ND is still at home. On another page is his son John F. 21 ND in a screwed up listing. He is indeed with the family right now. Anne’s brother Edgar Schwab 30 IL is with them. He is a son of Andrew Putman and Anna Barnhafu. Andrew was born in Germany and was single in 1880 in Winfield, Scott County, Iowa. Fred was born there August 9, 1886 according to his WWI draft registration. They were in Rock County, Minnesota in 1900. Fred was married and with his widowed mother in Richland County North Dakota in 1910 and 1920. They were here in 1930.

 

FRED O. (ORRIS) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 33 KS, his wife Avis Vaughn is 29 OK and they have Virginia 11 CA and Willis 6 CA. He is a caretaker at a reservoir maintenance plant. He is a son of Fred Orris Putnam and Beedie Smith and was born in Atlanta, Cowley County Kansas March 21, 1907. He married Avis May 4, 1927 in Sedan Chautauqua County. He was in Winfield, Cowley County in 1920 and married to Avis here in 1930. He will die here June 14, 1983 in Columbia, Tuolumne County California. His dad Fred is a son of David Thomas Putnam and Sarah Margaret Hensley from Minnesota and Mercer County Missouri. He had been there in Cowley County since the 1890s, and was a son of Ansel Delos Putman. This is the Dutch Poutman family out of Jefferson then Montgomery County New York.

 

FREDERICK S. (SINGLETON) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 80 IL, his wife Mary Elizabeth Whitcomb is 71 DC and their daughter Mary Elizabeth is 35 CA and their other daughter Ellen Patricia is 33 CA. He is a son of Simon Kenton Putman and Hulda Singleton from Mount Sterling, Brown County Illinois. He was born there April 5, 1860 and single in 1880. He seems to have gone to New Mexico, as it was there in Albuquerque he married Mary Elizabeth Whitcomb on October 21, 1891. His wife Mary was born in Washington DC on March 28, 1869. They both will die in Los Angeles, he on February 19, 1942 and she on August 21, 1947. They were here since 1900. Southern Putman family Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois and then out here.

 

GENEVIEVE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 49 IA and divorced as she was here in 1930. She has Marie (Muriel) Janice 24 IA, Janet Bernice 23 IA and a son Barrett 20 IA. Muriel and Janet are dancers in movie studios and Barrett is a draftsman at Douglas Aircraft. Genevieve Spears was married to Bennett William Putnam in Hardin County Iowa in 1920 and then the got divorced. He is still back there living with his brother Earl. Bennett is a son of Allen and Phebe Putnam from there. New England family. There is this from the daughter Muriel’s obituary. She was born in Eldora November 29, 1914 and died at her home near Reno, Nevada January 19, 2011 at age 96. She married Maurice Edward Hibbert in Los Angeles August 24, 1940. She and her sister Janet became professional dancers and were in a great many musicals and movies including ones with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Nelson Eddy and many others. Her mom Genevieve was a costume designer in several movie studios. She dropped out of the movie business after Maurice finished his service in WWII and lived in Arcadia, California. Maurice died in 1982 and she later moved to Reno. Her sister Janie Bernice Sanders was still alive and kicking in 2011. The son Barrett Graham was born April 22, 1919 in Eldora and married Cardlee Jean Dunagan and died in Reno, Nevada January 17, 2003. Then, Bennett is back in Eldora, Iowa and will die there in 1948. Genevieve is a daughter of Robert Thompson Speers and Mary Ann Graham and was born in Eldora, Iowa November 9, 1989 and will die here in Los Angeles September 15, 1951.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 29 CA, his wife Jean 24 MA and they have Arlene 4 NY and Robert 1 CA. They were in Jackson Heights, Long Island New York in 1935. He is a mechanic at an aircraft factory. George Chote Putnam is a son of Arthur Putnam and Grace Story and was born in San Francisco January 16, 1911. Arthur is a son of Oramel Hinckley Putnam and Mary Melissa Gibson originally from Vermont.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 36 GER and his wife Gertrude is 32 GER. They say they were in Cleveland, Ohio in 1935. Not really any Putnams born in Germany that I can see. Gotta be Patman or some such other name who got it ‘anglicized.’

 

GEORGE  P. (PALMER) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 52 NY, his current wife Jean Marie Cosigny James is 28 IA and he has a servant Leo Santos 28 Philippines. He is a writer and a book publisher. Okay, ready for this one? He is a son of John Bishop Putnam and Frances Faulkner and was born in Rye, Westchester County New York September 7, 1887. His dad was a son of George Palmer Putnam and Victoria Haven. That George was the founder of G. P. Putnam & Sonճ Publishing in New York City. This George was at home with his folks in Rye and then married Dorothy Binney a couple of miles north in Stamford, Connecticut where I once lived in the 1960s. They were married October 26, 1911 and lived in Bend, Oregon in 1917, New York City in 1919 and back in Rye in 1920. He was travelling around a bit on work and a lot on pleasure. He and Dorothy were divorced in 1929 and he was single in New York City in 1930. He met Amelia Mary Earhart and married her in Noank, Connecticut February 7, 1931. Yep, that Amelia, the flier who set out to circle the Globe and died, or at least disappeared, July 2, 1937 over New Guinea, Howland Island in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean. He then married Jean Marie listed here in 1939. She will die in 1943, and he will give one more shot by marrying Margaret Havilland in 1944. She will die in 1947. He will decide he has just wiped out too many gals and will remain somewhat widowed till he dies in Trona, San Bernardino January 4, 1950 probably of shear exhaustion at age 62.

 

GEORGE R. (ROBERT) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 8 CA and a grandson of Robert Bruce Johnston 51 MA and his wife Alice 54 MA. His birth record states his mom was Viola Pearl Johnston and he was born here April 8, 1931. His dad is George Henry Putnam a son of George Putnam and Mammie Farris from Garfield County Oklahoma. Georgeճ grandfather Aldridge Putnam was from Canada. His dad married Viola Pearl Johnson October 18, 1930 in Yuma, Arizona. She was born October 8, 1908 and died one day after their son George Robert Putnam was born on April 9, 1931. His dad George has since married Lois Beth Tomlinson and they are currently in Long Beach, Los Angeles County. Then Ɋthis little George will marry Barbara Gibb Steliga September 24, 1971, and then get divorced in March 1972. He’ll then marry Sandra Jones June 10, 1972.

 

GEORGE W. (WASHINGTON) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 59 KS and his wife Augusta is 63 GERMANY. He is a lathe operator at a lumber-planning mill. They were here in 1930 and he was widowed here in 1920. His first wife’s last name was Giles. He first appears in the 1885 Kansas State Census with his folks George Putman and Armelda Steele in Junction City, Davis County at age 4. His dad was the son of Lansing B. and Sarah Putman from Livingston County New York. That George was home there in 1850 at age 1. He was born January 18, 1881 and will die in San Bernardino County September 29, 1945. This is a New York Dutch family.

 

GEORGE W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 46 NE NE IRE and a carpenter at a movie studio as he was in 1930. His wife Florence Iva Dow is 42 CA and they have Virginia Isabel 19 CA and Ronald Alan 8 CA. He is a son of George Washington Putnam and Belle Carson. His dad was at home with his folks in Lincoln Nebraska in 1880. In 1920 he and Florence are married and in Savannah, Georgia where he was working as a showman at a carnival there. They were here in 1930. His death record states he was born in Nebraska December 7, 1893 and died in Los Angles March 17, 1971. He married Florence August 21, 1918. She was born January 9, 1898 in San Lorenzo California and will die here July 24, 1947. She is a daughter of Elihu E. Dow and Nettie Elaine Coon.

 

H. L. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is indexed as Butnem, but writing looks like Putnam or possibly Butman. Since I have no clue who he is and can’t find in 1930, so here we go. He is 36 KS, his wife Catherine 36 MO and they have John 13 CA, Joseph 6 CA and Mary Alice 1 CA. He is a farmer and swears to God he is in the same house he was in in 1935.

 

HAROLD PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 47 WI and his wife Ruth Walker is 48 Nebraska. He is a retail salesman of electric appliances and Ruth manages the apartment house they live in. He is Harold Orin Putnam a son of Orin Putnam and Emma Khun and was born in Oshkosh, Winnebago County Wisconsin May 16, 1892 and will die in San Diego December 8, 1981. His folks moved to Portland, Maine in the early 1900s and he married Ruth there February 21, 1920. The have been in Portland up till now. Ruth was born in Norfolk, Madison County Nebraska March 8, 1892. She has been in Portland since before 1900. His dad Orin was from Binghamton, New York and his dad Roswell was from Charlestown, New Hampshire.

 

HAROLD A. (ASHERTON) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 38 ME single and lodging by himself. He repairs radios. He is a son of Harold A. Putnam and Katherine Larson from Augusta, Maine where he was born March 31, 1903 and married Adeline E. Dobson in Portland, Maine December 26, 1930. Adeline was born November 23, 1901 and will die in Portland in December 1977. He will die in Los Angeles February 24, 1984. I guess they got divorced and he was in Queens, New York City in 1935.

 

HAROLD D. (DOUGLAS) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 24 OR and a nephew of Willard Spears 59 PA, who is his mom’s brother. His divorced sister Evelyn Bostwick 27 OR. He is a receiving clerk at a railway express office. He is a son of Harold Douglas Putnam and Roseline Spears. He was born July 14, 1915 in North Bend, Coos County and was there through 1930 and was in Long Beach, California in 1935 as was his sister. Evelyn Dorcas was born March 16, 1913 in North Bend. She married Robert Edward Bostwick in the later 1930s and divorced by 1939. She will marry John Archibald McMullen here in October 1941 and will die in Northridge, Los Angeles County March 23, 1977. According to the only family sheet I found, young Harold will marry 4-5 different gals and then collapse and die March 31, 2006 in Rancho Cucamonga, Los Angeles County. Then as to his folks. They were married in 1909 and divorced in the 1920s. His dad Harold married Dorothy Matilda Hagen and died in Portland, Oregon July 18, 1968. His mom got committed to the State Hospital for the Insane about 1933 and will die in Pendleton, Oregon February 9, 1944.  New England line Massachusetts to Essex County Vermont to Broome County New York to Wayne County Pennsylvania and then all over the place.

 

HAROLD E. (EVERETT) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 67 MA MA MA lodging and still single. Guess he never married. He is a carpenter at a motion picture studio. Builds sets and all that stuff. He is a son of John Howard Putnam and Antoinette Parsons. He was born in Revere Massachusetts November 15, 1872, and then was with the family in 1900 in Everett Massachusetts, and then out here from the 1910 on. He will be around till he dies in Santa Barbara January 6, 1948. His brother Frank DeWitt Putnam is still in town as well. New England folks.

 

HAROLD I. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 25 TX single and living with his married sister Hazel L. Burkhart 34 OK and her husband Barton L. Burkhart 38 TX. They would be kids of Thomas Allen Putnam and Carrie English. Hazel shows up in 1910 when they are in Wharton County Texas having come over from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma in 1900. I don’t find then in 1920 but the family is in Garwood. The folks are in Garwood now in 1940. Tom will die there in 1943. They were in Garwood, Kern County California in 1930 and Harold is there and Hazel is married of course. This is a Dutch Putman family from New York State way back.

 

HAROLD I. (IRWIN) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 29 NE and his wife Cathleen M. is 24 MT. He is a plumbing contractor. He is a son of Isaac Franklin Putnam and Mary Alice Merritt and was born in Ponca, Dixon County Nebraska March 19, 1911 and has been there up through 1935. He will eventually die out here in Orland, Glenn County California September 17, 1989. His dad was also born in Ponca January 1, 1870 and will die there February 21, 1948. His dad Charles Franklin was born back in Vermont. His brother Howard Israel is here in Los Angeles now too New Englanders.

 

HARRIET PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 63 KS and widowed. She was here in 1920 and 1930 married to Herbert Putnam, and earlier in Butler County Kansas in 1900 and here in Long Beach in 1910. He was a son of John Russell Putnam and Genella Lord of Madison County New York where he was born September 25, 1873. Line goes back from New York to Elijah Putnam and Phoebe Wood in Medford, Massachusetts.

 

HARVEY B. (BUEL) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 34 MO and his wife Helen is 29 TX. He is a steel foreman in an iron construction company. They were here in 1935. He is a son of sorts of Charles Edward Putnam from Vermont and Winnie Blackman from Missouri. He was born in Missouri June 22, 1905 and will die in Los Angeles September 23, 1969. His dad Charles was a son of John Day Putnam from Connecticut who was a grandson of the famous General Israel Putnam from Putnam Connecticut. His dad was single here in Los Angeles in 1900. In 1910 his dad was still single here and then was with Winnie and Harvey here in 1920. So Harvey belongs to Winnie and his middle name is his real one. In 1930 Winnie has Harvey and says she is widowed. Hmmm. Anyway Harvey will split or something from Helen and marry Anna Shalvis in San Bernardino January 22, 1963. Another record gives her name as Anna Kolesar.

 

HAZEL PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 40 OH and divorced and has her daughter Marjorie 21 OH with her. Hazelճ not working and Marjorie has the tough job of home maker. Hazel Helen Fouty had been married to Sherman Putman in Van Wert County Ohio where Marjorie was born. He was working on highway projects. He is a son of Solomon Putman and Mary Brubaker from Van Wert County. He was there in 1910 with Hazel. They were there in 1920 and in Allen County Ohio in 1930. Then Shermie did a ‘no-no’ and landed in the Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio and was there in 1935 and still now in 1940. I would guess that was reason enough to get divorced and head way out here away from him. German family out of Somerset County Pennsylvania.

 

HENRIETTA PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 53 TX and widowed. Her daughter Eulalie M. is 35 TX. She is Henrietta Boggess Newley who was married to Charles Leland Standford Putnam here in 1920. He was working in the Panama Canal Zone, and died there in September 1920. She was widowed here in 1930. Leland was a son of Charles Dunscomb Putnam from Windsor, Ontario County Canada and Martha E. Read from Richmond County Georgia who got married in Arizona. Leland was born there July 1, 1877. Henrietta was born in Texas August 11, 1885 and will die here in Los Angeles June 17, 1959.  Eulalie was born in El Paso, Texas May 12, 1904. New England line that went from Massachusetts to Canada and then back into Arizona.

 

HERVEY A. (ARMSTRONG) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 58 IN, his wife Nellie May Barker is 54 FL and their daughter Betty Jane is 20 CA. He is a mechanic in an automobile garage. He is a son of Martin Waterman Putnam from New Hampshire and Annie E. Brown from Ohio. He was born April 23, 1882 when they were in Brightwood, Marion County Indiana. Then they were in San Jose in 1900 and then his folks got divorced. His mom stayed in San Jose, Santa Clara County and Hervey and his dad moved to San Francisco. His dad is a son of Henry Putnam and Lavinia Hall of Wilton, New Hampshire. Hervey will die here in Los Angeles February 12, 1967. Nellie was born November 7, 1866 in Jacksonville, Florida and will die in Los Angeles August 26, 1956.

 

HORTON PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 42 TX and his wife Fannie Matthews is 43 KY. Her brother Joe 57 KY and wife Florence 44 NE Matthews are with them. They were here in 1930. Horton is a Policeman and has been since the late 1920s. Fannie is a real estate saleswoman. He is a son of John William Putman and Mattie Shofel. His dad was born in Moore County Tennessee and grew up in Alabama. They moved to Quanah, Hardeman County Texas with his folks Harrison Putman and Matilda Prince. Horton was born there October 15, 1896, and then was in Kiowa County Oklahoma in 1910 and in Osage County Oklahoma in 1920. He will die here in Los Angeles June 19, 1970. He was married before to Olive Hove on March 21, 1918 in San Francisco but divorced by 1919. Southern Putman family descended from Wilson Putman from North Carolina.

 

HOWARD I. (ISRAEL) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 25 NE and his wife Josephine M. is 23 NE. He is a carpenter with an engineering company. They were both in Dixon County Nebraska in 1935. He is a son of Isaac Franklin Putnam and Mary Alice Merritt and was born in Ponca, Dixon County Nebraska June 12, 1914 and has been there up through 1935. He will die in 2009. His dad was also born in Ponca January 1, 1870 and will die there February 21, 1948. His granddad Charles Franklin was born back in Vermont. His brother Harold Irwin is here in Los Angeles now too. New Englanders.

 

HUBERT PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 28 WA, his wife Sarah Geraldine ‘Sally’ Goodwin is 23 CA and they have Beverly Jean 4 CA. He is a foundry worker in an aircraft production plant. Hubert Lee is a son of James Albert Putman and Marcia Goldie Briscoe and was born in Montesano, Chehalis County Washington January 25, 1912. He married Sarah Geraldine Goodwin and will die in Hawaii in 1971. They must have been on vacation in Hawaii and he is buried in Fair Oaks, Sacramento County. She was born in San Juan, San Benito County California May 8, 1916 and will die in Sacramento, California January 19, 2002. Southern Putman family out of Brown County Illinois and Kentucky before that.

 

JAMES H. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 48 SCOTLAND and his wife Bella R. is 45 RUSSIA. Bet ya a quarter that they aren’t really Putnams.

 

JERRY PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 21 MT single and lodging. He is a driver at a storage plant. Jeremiah Michael is a son of James and Lillie Putman and was born in Vaughn, Cascade County Montana. His folks were in Otero County Colorado in 1910. Lillie was widowed in 1930 and she and the kids were in Holt County Missouri. James was a son of Jeremiah Michael Putman and America Jane Manes from McNairy County Tennessee. He was home there in 1880 and in 1900. Southern Putmans from North Carolina and Virginia before that.

 

JOHN D. (DAY) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 63 WI CT CT and his wife Mary Adele Ackerson is 58 NY. He is a wax worker in a company making bee supplies. John Junior is a son of John Day Sr. and Helen Catherine Lovell and was born in River Falls Wisconsin where his dad was mayor. He was born there June 14, 1876 and will die here in Los Angeles August 29, 1951. His dad was from Brooklyn Connecticut, a great grandson of General Israel Putnam. The family moved out here in the 1890s.

 

JOHN E. (EUGENE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 29 WI divorced and boarding. He is a machinist for and aircraft manufacturing company, probably Douglas. He is a son of Eugene Putnam and Marie Carls and was born in Monroe County Wisconsin July 30, 1910 and was there in 1920 and in Beloit, Rock County Wisconsin in 1930 and 1935. I don’t have any info on who he married and then divorced. He will die in Riverside County July 27, 1991. His dad is a son of Sylvester Putnam and Laura Chatterton from New York. New Englanders I think.

 

JOHN F. (FREDERICK) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 21 ND and listed as a son. He is on the top line and there was no Putman at the end of the previous page. He is a son of Fred and Anna Putman listed earlier. I have added him into that entry as well.

 

JOHN J. PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 39 GERMANY and his wife Ruth is 38 PA. Whole bunch of German guys have taken the Name Putman or maybe that’s just the way it sounded to the Census Taker. Not one of ours I imagine.

 

JOHN H. (HOWARD) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 58 KS IL TN and is an electrician at a picture studio (photography studio). His Wife Regina Fontelle Evans is 54 KS. He was in Cowley County Kansas with his widowed mother Mary E. (Smith) Putnam in 1900 and married to Regina in Kingman County Kansas in 1910 and then here in 1920. No clue to his dad except he was from Illinois. His death index say he was born February 16, 1882 and will die here May 23, 1943 and his mother’s name was Mary Elizabeth Smith. I found a family sheet that says she was married to William Boyd Putnam born in Iowa May 15, 1855 and he died here in 1894. He was a son of James Daniel Putman and Diadema Smith from Fulton County Illinois. So here is what I have now. William Boyd was born in Fulton County, Illinois May 15, 1851. He married Mary Elizabeth Smith September 6, 1877 and died in Arkansas City, Cowley County Kansas in 1894. Mary was widowed there in 1895. She was there with the kids, especially Jesse through the 1930 and died there in 1935. John Howard Putnam born in Kansas February 16, 1882. He married Regina Evans. She was born April 26, 1885 and died in Los Angeles County California August 28, 1980. He died May 23, 1943 in Los Angeles County. Southern Putmans from North Carolina to South Carolina to Indiana to Illinois and so on.

 

KATE C. (COLEMAN) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 68 MO and widowed. She is a housekeeper of the nurses’ home at the Chase Sanitarium. She is living in the hospital and has been widowed since the early 1900s. She is Kate Coleman who was married to Frederick Putnam. They were in Jefferson County Missouri in 1900 and she was out here widowed in 1910 in Santa Barbara. Kate was born in Missouri July 22, 1872 and will die here in Los Angeles August 16, 1959. Fred’s line goes back to Grafton, Vermont and then Massachusetts.

 

LAURA E. PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 64 CO and is living with her married daughter Mary 43 CO and husband Florintino Gonzales 40 Philippines. Laura was married to John Roderick Putman in Denver, Colorado in 1910 and Seattle, Washington in 1920. He is/was a son of John Putman and Mary Randall and was born in Tuscola County Michigan in May 1871. Line goes back to William Putman and Irene Waltz in Jefferson County New York. Dutch Putman family from Montgomery County New York.

 

LENNA PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 39 OK and widowed. She has Mary Louise 8 CA and Ramona 16 CA. They were here in 1935. There is a birth certificate for Mary Louise born June 1, 1931 and her motherճ maiden name was Litaker. Lena was married to Tilden Irvin Putnam who died here June 4, 1939. Tilden was a son of Mark Putnam and Mary Elmyra Samis and was at home with them in Whittier, Los Angeles County in 1930. Ramona is also listed later in Los Angeles as she is away as a student. She was a child of Lenaճ first marriage to a Wilson fella.

 

LEONARD S. (SAMUEL) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 59 TX, his wife Anna Elizabeth Armstrong is 53 MO and they have Floyd F. 18 CA and Leonard R. 13 CA. His mother Sereanna Renfro was married to some Putnam in the 1880s and he died by 1900, so don’t know who he was. Sereanna was married to Henry Armen in Phoenix, Arizona in 1900 and Sam and his brother John were there as stepsons. He was born in Texas in a covered wagon on August 26, 1881. In the 1900 it says he was born in Arkansas. Can’t find him. He was here in 1935 and will die here August 27, 1951. Anna will die here October 17, 1955. Sam is a route manager for a newspaper and Floyd is a deliveryman.

 

LILLIAN PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 30 NE and has Alberta 13 CA and Arthur 11 CA. Says she is married but he’s not here. Found a birth record for Arthur Lee Putnam born in Los Angeles September 14, 1928. His mother’s maiden name was Coon. His death record has him dying here May 15, 1996. Then found Alberta Madora Putnam was born April 19, 1927 and mom was named Coon. So at least we know Lillian Coon married a Putnam fella out here. She says she was here in 1935 but I can’t find them in 1930 yet. Ah, but tried a search of the 1930 for any Arthur born in 1929 with a mommy Lillian. BINGO!  In Los Angeles Arthur Kerber 27 NE and wife Lillian Kerber 20 NE have a daughter Alberta Kerber 2 11/12 CA and a son Arthur Kerber 1 7/12 CA. So it’s Sometime in the 1930s, Arthur and Lillian called it quits and she married some Putnam guy here. Still no clue who he was/is but figured the kids and they are adopted Putnams. Interesting.

 

MARGARET PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 38 IA single and is living with her married sister Florence 36 IA and her husband Belford W. Vanpelt 45 IL. They are daughters of Horace Caruthers Putnam and Louise Magdafrau from Henry County Iowa. Margaret was born there September 15, 1901 and will die in Ventura County November 1, 1973. Florence Emily was born July 17, 1903 in Henry County and will die in Orange County January 22, 1984. Their dad Horace was widowed here in Los Angeles in 1930 and Maggie was with him then. He was the County Sherriff back in Henry County Iowa. He was a son of Philip Dodderage Putnam and Isabel Carothers from Fayette County Ohio. His dad was from Connecticut before that. New England line.

 

MARVIN PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 33 KS US US and his wife Marjorie Anna Lucas is 28 MN, and they have Phyllis Lee 9 CA and Barbara Jean 7 CA. He is Marvin Stanley Putnam a son of Benjamin Franklin Putnam and Amy Belle Morris from Fort Scott Kansas. He was born there August 21, 1906 and will die in Costa Mesa California July 20, 1971. Marjorie is a daughter of Frederick Leroy Lucas and Inger Matilda Schak and was born in St. Paul, Minnesota December 30, 1911 and she will die in Glendale November 17, 1982. His folks are from Vernon County Missouri and Tennessee before that. The elusive family out of Guilford County North Carolina. He is a bookkeeper for Union Oil Company as he was back in 1930.

 

MARY PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 87 NY widowed and living with her married daughter Kittie Rohlich 45 OR and her husband Lucien Rohlich 48 IL. Mary McLeod was married to Walter Edgar Putnam and was there with him in Tulia, Swisher County Texas in 1930. He died there March 20, 1936. They were in Tulia, Texas in 1935.

 

MARY PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 61 NM and says she is married, but no husband is around. Also says she was here in 1935, but I can’t find her any earlier.

 

MARY P. (PITMAN) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 49 MI and widowed. She has her son Steven P. 22 MI with her. Mary Pitman was married to Howard E. Putman in 1930. Howard is a son of Thomas Rolfe Putnam and Elizabeth Van Vleet from Canada and then here in the 1870s. Thomas was number 2538, a son of Joshua Putnam (1142) and Mary Barrows. Josh was a son of Seth Putnam (452c) who went into Canada in the 1790s from Vermont. Elizabeth is a daughter of Alvin Van Vleet from Holland. She was born in Quebec November 2, 1829 and died here in Detroit October 13, 1913. Thomas died here on July 10, 1916. Mary is Howard’s second wife. He married Ann E. Palmer in Windsor, Ontario across the lake from Detroit December 25, 1893. I don’t have any stats on Mary. The son Steven Pitman Putman was born August 4, 1917 and will die here January 12, 1986. Steven is a part player (also called a bit actor) at a movie studio.

 

MERLE H. (MERRILL HORACE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 39 NE, his new wife Ethel 38 NE and they have Ronald L. 3 IA. He is an automobile mechanic. He is a son of Horace Elijah Putman and Martha Stark from in Dixon County, Nebraska where he was born September 17, 1897. He was in Ponca, Dixon County Nebraska in 1920 and 1930 married to Catherine Sheehan. They divorced in the 1930s and she in in Onca now with the kids. He says that he and Ethel were in Minot, North Dakota in 1935. He will die in South Gate, California January 4, 1963. Southern Putman family.

 

Mrs. N. A. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 36 and living in a hotel. Good luck.

 

NELLIE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 69 IN and divorced. Mary Austin was married to Arthur Putnam here in 1920 and 1930. He is a son of Edwin Lombard and Emeline Putnam of Hinsdale, Cheshire County New Hampshire. He was married to Ima Lucy Bement. They were married in Cheshire County in 1900 and in Bennington, Vermont before that. Ina and the kids are all back in Bennington. Arthur and Nellie were here in 1920 and 1930. He will die here November 12, 1954. I don’t have more on Nellie.

 

NORA LEE PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 14 OR and lives with her mother Edith 33 TN (MN) and her stepfather Perry Thornsberry 30 MO. In 1930 she was in Medford, Jackson County and listed as a guardian of Elmer and Myrtle Wilson. It gave her dad as being born in Iowa and mom in Minnesota so I would that was where Edith is from.

 

OLGA A. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is Olga Anna Olson and is 50 DENMARK and widowed. She was here in 1930 married to Mark Noble Putnam. He has died and she still has her divorced daughter Esther Lloyd from her first marriage and Mark Putnam 14 CA from her last. Mark had been married to Alvina from Kansas here in 1910 and 1920.Mark was a son of Mahlon Champlain Putnam and Flora Sweet from Maine. He was born in Kansas right after his folks moved there. He was there in 1880 and in Wichita in 1900. New England Putnams.

 

OLGA M. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 53 OH OH OH and lives with her now widowed sister Hattie Fay Winters 50 OH who was married to Harold Winters here in 1930. She is a nurse. They were all here in 1930. She is a daughter of Archibald Putnam and Euphemia Jane McCord from Columbiana County Ohio. New Englanders. I don’t know when Olga will die, but Hattie was born March 15, 1890 and will die right here February 29, 1952. That’s impressive to do anything on Leap Year Day. Maybe just a big ‘leap’ into Heaven.

 

OLIVE PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 68 IA IL OH and single. Her widowed sister Maud Crandall 64 IA is with her. They are daughters of Jasper Newton Putman who died in 1909 in Davis County Iowa. Olive was born March 6, 1872 and was here with her widowed mother Eliza Jane Grant in 1920 and 1930. Maud was born October 6, 1875 and married Benjamin Crandall on September 14, 1903 and will die here July 2, 1947. Jasper was a son of Elijah Putman and Elizabeth Duff from Davis County and Fulton County Illinois before that. Elijah was my Reding Putman’s brother and both were sons of Daniel Putman from South Carolina. Southern Putman Family.

 

ORVAL L. (ORVILLE LACY) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 42 NE and his wife Roberta Brown is 53 TN. He is a plumber and they were here in 1930. He is a son of Isaac Franklin Putnam and Mary Alice Merritt from Dixon County Nebraska. He was born there April 22, 1896 and at home through the 1920. He will be here in Los Angeles till he dies March 24, 1946. Isaacճ dad Charles Franklin Putnam was from Cavendish, Windsor County Vermont.

 

PAUL PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is Leslie Paul Putnam and is 28 MT and his wife Betty Ann Phillips is 24 NE. He is a musician in an entertainment nightclub. He is a son of Leslie Ray Putnam and Neva Vey Smith and was born in Helena, Montana January 19, 1912.  He was in Mitchell, Davison County South Dakota in 1920, Manhattan, Riley County Kansas in 1925, Fairfield, Jefferson County Iowa in 1930, Spokane, Washington in 1930 and then married Betty December 25, 1938. Betty will die May 21, 1948. He will later marry Frances Smith January 19, 1952 in San Francisco. He will die sometime in San Francisco and he will die in Gold Beach, Curry County Oregon April 29, 1987. Family came from Vermont to Iowa to Colorado and Paul out to here.

 

PAUL A. (ALBERT) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 33 SD, his wife Hazel Elizabeth Deeg is 32 SD and they have Patricia P. 13 SD and Rebecca 9 SD. Her folks William Henry Deeg 65 CAN and Jennie Pearl Hatfield Deeg 61 IA are with them. He is a superintendent of a waterproofing or something. He is a son of Hezekiah I. Putnam and Nancy Bondurant from Fall River County South Dakota. His dad was killed in a sawmill accident there in 1913 and his mom has remarried. Paul was born there July 28, 1906. Hazel and he were married July 31, 1926. In Rapid City, Pennington County South Dakota. They were in Hot Springs, Fall River County in 1930 and in Rapid City in 1935. Hazel was born in Lakeside, Meade County South Dakota March 22, 1908 and will die somewhere in California June 30, 2012. Paul will die in San Bernardino County January 11, 1972. His grandfather Jay Samuel Putnam was a son of Hezekiah Putnam who was a son of Nathan Putnam, number 2206 and his first wife Martha Williams of Colesville, Broome County New York and Fairfield, Connecticut before that. Hezekiah Senior died in South Dakota in 1893. New Englanders.

 

PHILLIP M. (MERRILL) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 41 MA, his wife Lillian 38 MA and they have a son Gayle R. 2 CA and Madge 5/12 CA. He is a lath operator in a general machine shop. They were in Newark, New Jersey in 1935. He is a son of David Abbott Putnam and Alice Thornton Merrill from Danvers, Massachusetts where he was born. He was at home there in 1900 and then his folks came out here and were in Riverside, Riverside County in 1910 and 1920. His folks are there in 1930 and Phil was away. His dad is the son of Nathan Tapley Putnam, son of John Putnam (2204). 

 

PINK PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 45 TX TX TX and widowed, said divorced in 1930. She is an electrical machine mechanic for the W.P.A. and was in 1930 here too. Just can’t figure her out.

 

RALPH PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 56 KS widowed and lodging. He is a painter at an automobile paint shop. He is a son of Reding Putman and Dorothea White from Washington County Arkansas in 1871 (a grandson of my Reding Putman) and then in Rice County Kansas by 1880, and in Lamar County Texas in 1900 and Runnels County Texas by 1910 with his wife Gertrude. In 1930 he and Gertrude were in McCulloch County Texas. Then he was here in 1935. He was born April 22, 1882 in Coffeeville, Kansas and will die in Fort Worth, Texas of a heart attack on March 20, 1974. He was still in Los Angeles when he got his social security card in the 1950s. Southern Putmans South Carolina to Illinois to Kansas.

 

RAMONA PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 16 CA. She is a student at the El Retiro Juvenile Court School at the Buckner Sanitarium. She was in Torrance in 1935. She is also listed here in Los Angeles with her widowed mother Lenna Litaker.

 

RAY C. (CLAY) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 40 OK, his wife Margaret Kelley 36 OK and their son Roy C.15 OK. He is a miner here. Best I can figure his real name is Hazeal Putman a son of Elijah Putman and his third wife Mary Jane Russell. Here is basically what I have. Hazeal Putman born July 13, 1899 in Oklahoma. His name was listed as Hazel in 1905, 1910 and 1930 and as Ray in 1920. In 1930 he has been married for 7 years to Pearl Kelley, born in Kansas in 1902, and they have a son Roy Clay 5 OK. Then I found a California death certificate. The death certificate reads that his name is Abraham H. (Hazeal) Putman and he was born in Oklahoma July 13, 1899 and died in Los Angeles January 10, 1964. Gives his social security number and the fact his mother's maiden name was (indeed) Russell. Then it gets interesting. There is another certificate there for Toots R. Putman with identical stats.  A relative said he saw an article in a Miami, Oklahoma newspaper about Mary Jane moving to Arizona with the T. R. Putmans in the mid 1930s. So I guess he used a nickname. Remember he used Ray as his name in the 1920 census. Same guy though. Then we find Pearl sued for divorce and Roy Clay stayed with his dad. Clay went to Stanford and became a writer, married Maureen Gothlin and died in San Francisco in 1984. In 1940 he again uses the name Ray C. Putman and is married to Margaret from Oklahoma and the son Roy C. is then 15 OK and lives with them. Roy was a 2nd Lieutenant in WWII and gives his mother’s name as Kelley, so that’s who Pearl was. He was born October 16, 1924 and will die in Dan Francisco February 12, 1984. Southern Putman line. Elijah was born in Fulton County Illinois in 1841. His grandfather, Elijah, was a brother of my Reding Putman. From Illinois back to Indiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia to England in 1646.

 

RICARDO W. PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 3 CA, his mother Otilia Putnam is 26 CA and divorced, and they live with her also divorced sister Ruby Berard 25 CA. Good Luck.

 

RICHARD A. PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 39 MO and his wife Elizabeth M. Is 51 RI (probably 31). He was here in 1935 and she was in Long Beach, so recently married. He is a building carpenter. Can’t find him before this. Even tried age 59 (handwriting thing) but no luck. Maybe or maybe not a Putman.

 

ROBERT PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 22 MT and his wife Theo Mae Adams is 20 MT. He is an electrician working in construction. Robert is a son of Glenn George Putman and Nellie Juanita Shafer from Kalispell, Flathead County Montana. He was born there July 20, 1918. Glenn is a son of Omar Putman, grandson of Green Marion Putman from Freemont County Iowa. Robert just married Theo May Adams on October 6, 1939. She was born July 21, 1919 and will die October 22, 2005. Robert will die February 5, 2007 both in Kalispell. They are also listed back in Kalispell now living with Theoճ folks Jesse and Ila Mae Adams. Southern Putman family goes back to Elijah Putman in Fulton County Illinois to Daniel Putman from South Carolina and Barnet from North Carolina and Virginia.

 

ROBERT PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

le is 5 WA and a lodger with Edward and Katherine Cornselissino and their two daughters from Minnesota. They say Robert was right here in 1935.

 

ROLLAND PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 40 NE and his wife Frances A. O’Connell is 40 MI. He is an automobile salesman and Frances is a private secretary for a sparkling water company. He is Rolland Delos Putnam a son of Fred Elmer Putnam and Bertha Louise Palmer and was born in Scribner, Dodge County Nebraska April 9, 1899 and he will die here in Los Angeles April 22, 1948. He has been with his folks in Redlands in 1910 and 1920 and married here in 1930 with Frances. New England family in Nebraska from Wisconsin then back to New York to Massachusetts.

 

RUFUS F. (FRANKLIN) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 70 OH single and lodging in the St. Moritz Hotel He was in Washington DC in 1935. He is a son of William Davis Putnam and Emma Jane Blake and was born in Marietta, Washington County Ohio May 6, 1869. He was in Harmar, Washington County in 1880 and then in Washington DC by 1890 and there through 1936. He never married and was in the Department of the Interior. He moved to Washington in the 1880s with his sister Katie and they lived with their motherճ sister Kate Blake. He was a clerk with the U.S. Government all his life. His line goes back to General Rufus Putnam from Massachusetts who fought in the Revolution and was a main Founder of the State of Ohio right after the Revolution. This Rufus was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He will die here in Los Angeles April 13, 1955.

 

SADIE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

She is 65 MI and now widowed. Her married daughter Nellie 32 CA and husband Burt Collins 31 AR are living with her. Sadie Wrigglesworth was married to Harry K. Putnam in Oakland in 1910 through 1930. He was a son of Albert Sumner (3439) and Susan Leach from Lowell Massachusetts and then out here in the 1840s. Sadie was born April 7, 1874 in Michigan and will die here July 29, 1949. The death certificate lists her maiden name as Wrigglesworth and her mother’s maiden name as Ames. New England line.

 

THEODORE PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 28 WA, his wife De Eta 34 NE and they have two lodgers. He is a son of George William Putnam and Della Margaret Maye. He was born in Spokane, Washington in about 1911. His brother Woodrow is here in town too. He is a salesman for dairy products. New England family out of Connecticut.

 

THOMAS PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 35 TX and his wife Agnes is 31 MO. He is a meat cutter in a retail meat market and Agnes is a waitress in a caf. They were here in 1935. In 1930 there was a Thomas Putman age 24 NE single and boarding who may be the same Tom. Can’t find anyone that fits anywhere.

 

THORINGTON C. (CALDWELL) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 28 CA single and renting next door to his folks Benjamin Risley Putnam and Wilella Thorington and he is an artist at a motion picture studio. He was born in Exeter, Tulare County where his dad grew citrus fruits on October 14, 1911. He will die January 26, 2001 in Berkeley, California and be buried in the Oakdale Memorial Gardens in Davenport, Iowa. There is a picture f his headstone and it says CMDR Thorington Putnam so he may well have made a career or something in the Navy or Air Force. Don’t think he ever married. His dad is a son of Charles Edwin Putnam from Davenport, Iowa. He was born there December 29, 1871, and will die in Los Angeles County February 7, 1946. His folks live next door and are listed separately above. New England Family.

 

TRACY W. (WALLACE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 28 MO single and lodging. He is a bookkeeper in a wholesale shoe company. He was in Louisville, Kentucky in 1935. He is a son of Harry Albert Putnam and Leta Wallace and was born in Paris, Monroe County Missouri January 16, 1912. He was in Dunklin County in 1920, Maple wood, St. Louis County in 1930 and Louisville, Kentucky in 1935. He will enlist in the Army here on February 13, 1942. He will marry Bernice Mae McCarty and they are in Austin, Texas in the 1950s. Then they are in Laverne California in 1979. She was born in Nebraska August 22, 1912 and will die in San Marcus, San Diego County June 19, 1994. Tracy will die in Pensacola, Florida November 20, 2001. New Englanders from Vermont to Cass County Michigan to all over the West.

 

W. C. (WARREN CHARLES) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 46 NY and his sister Nell M. 58 NY. He is a son of Charles Putnam and Julia Harrington and was born April 9, 1893 and was at home in 1900 in Glens Falls, Warren County New York and in 1910 in Altamont, Franklin County New York. He was still single in 1932 in Los Angeles and I don’t think he ever married. He will die in Los Angeles May 17, 1966.

 

WARREN E. (EMMETT) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 38 IN and is living in a hotel. Says he is married, but Mary’s not around. He is a son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Aldora Stoops. He was born in Fort Wayne Indiana January 1, 1902 and will die in Seal Beach, Orange County September 28, 1977. He married Mary Alva Palm October 15, 1926 and they were in Alhambra in 1930. Ah, see the next listing.

 

WARREN E. (EMMETT) PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

Just found another entry and the whole gang is here in this one. He is 38 IN and his wife Mary Alva Palm 32 CA, and they have Colleen 11 CA and Kathleen 8 CA. She is a public school teacher and he is a milkman at a dairy. He is a son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Aldora Stoops. He was born in Fort Wayne Indiana January 1, 1902 and will die in Seal Beach, Orange County September 28, 1977. He married Mary Alva Palm October 15, 1926 and they were in Alhambra in 1930. Mary is a daughter of Frederick Theodore Palm and Anna Lorena Chester and was born in Byron, Contra Costa County California April 19, 1907 and will die in Encinitas, San Diego County June 15, 1995. New England family from New Hampshire.

 

WAYNE E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 32 MN WY MN and a bus driver for transportation. Jeanette G. his wife is 29 MN and they have Peggy J. 10 ND, William W. 8 ND, Patrick S. 4 CA and Bonnie Jean 3 CA. He is a son of William Edward Putnam and Lillian Collins from Traverse County Minnesota where he was born February 27, 1908 and then Enderlin, Ransom County, North Dakota where he was through the 1930 with Jeanette. His dad William was a son of Walter E. Putnam and Mary Eva True from Grafton County New Hampshire and then Traverse County Minnesota. He was born April 14, 1886 in Wyoming and died in Enderlin January 25, 1938.

 

WILBUR PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 26 IL single and lodging in a hotel. He works in a paint factory. He was in Chicago in 1935. There is a death index that says he was born in Illinois June 12, 1914 and will die in Las Vegas, Nevada July 16, 1982. There is also a California Marriage record that he married Lorraine E. Sinclair in Los Angeles September 19, 1979. He was 65 she was 71 years old. Still no clue to his folks, even if he had any. His middle initial is J (middle name James) on both these records. He was here in 1930 with his widowed grandmother Olive Schadler. He will join the Navy July 28, 1942 and get out on May 25, 1945.

 

WILFORD PUTMAN  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 39 UT, his second wife Flora Elvera Bracken is 39 UT and they have Kenneth 18 UT, Keith 16 UT and Betty Lou 14 UT. He manufactures venetian blinds in a company. He is a son of William Lee Putman and his first wife Annie Gange and was born in Salt Lake City, Utah July 19, 1902 and will die May 1, 1960 in Long Beach, California. He will have 3 wives just like his dad. He married Martha Clara Charlesworth February 26, 1921. They divorced a couple of years later and he was single in El Paso, Texas in 1930. He married Flora Elvera Bracken in in San Diego in 1931 and they were in Hawthorne, California then in Los Angeles in 1940. He joined the Navy in 1941, and they were divorced in 1944. He then married Lucille Ruth Hill in 1948 or so and died in Long Beach July 5, 1960. His dad was a Mormon and the line goes back to Linn County Missouri to Indiana to Kentucky and then Virginia.

 

WILLIAM PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 31 CA and his wife Anna Evelyn Smith is 32 CA. He is an instructor at the State University here. That would be UCLA. He is William Clement Putnam a son of Benjamin Risley Putnam and Wilella Thorington and was born in Exeter, Tulare County May 21, 1908 and he will die here in Los Angeles March 16, 1963. His wife Evelyn was born in San Francisco February 19, 1908 and will July 20, 1998 but I am not sure where. Billճ dad is a son of Charles Edwin Putnam and Mary Louisa Duncan from Davenport, Iowa and then Illinois and Saratoga Springs, New York before that. He was born there December 29, 1871, and will die in Los Angeles County February 7, 1946. New England family.

 

WILLIAM H. (HAMMOND) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 44 MA, his wife Theresa Dumensic is 23 PA and they have William 2 CA. He was here in 1935 and Theresa was in Pittsburgh in 1935 so they were recently married. William is a son of William Hammond Putnam and Carrie Hamilton and he was born in Holyoke, Hampton County Massachusetts April 8, 1896 and was with them in Worcester, Worcester County Massachusetts in 1900, and in the Bronx in New York 1910. He will die here in Los Angeles May 20, 1974. His dad was a son of Nathan Bond Putnam and Isabelle Pierce Hammond from Orange, Franklin County Massachusetts. Now, back to William Junior. Best I can figure his main hobby was marrying women. He married Alice Porter in Dalton, Berkshire County Massachusetts April 3, 1912 at age 17. He was back with his folks in 1920 in Medfield, Norfolk County listed as single. Can’t find him in 1930. Then he just took off to the other coast and married Theresa about 1937. Heck he probably married someone else in between. He will marry Elizabeth King in Los Angeles on August 27, 1947

 

WILLIAM J. (JENNINGS) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 49 TX, his wife Cora 47 TX and they have Charles 26 TX and Roger S. 16 TX. Okay, this is a tad confusing. According to his death certificate he a son of Thomas Putnam and Jeanette Rosenthaler and was born in Austin, Texas June 21, 1891. He will die October 2, 1956 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Marlin, Falls County Texas. His residence at the time is in Mirando City, Webb County Texas. He is buried in Franklin, Robertson County Texas. Now he first shows up in 1900 in Bartlett, Bell County Texas living as a boarder with John 61 GA and Ruth Singleton. He had two brothers, Roger and Carlos who in 1900 are living with John 35 TN and Martha Singleton in Austin, Texas. This John is a son of the John that has Willie. Their mom Jeanette died in the late 1890s and Thomas is widowed in Austin in 1900 till he died there July 24, 1922. Tom is the next confusing one. Thomas lists both parents as being born in England in the 1900 census. He looks to be the son of Isaiah and Eliza Putnam from England. They were in Richland County Ohio in 1860. Thomas was born in 1863 and I don’t find them in 1870 so can’t prove anything. But they were the only English couple in Ohio at the time. He married Jeanette Rosenthaller from Switzerland around 1893 and had Roger and Carl and then she died. Since Willie was born in 1891, Jeanette may not really be his mom. Just don’t know.

 

WOODROW G. (GEORGE) PUTNAM  Los Angeles, Los Angeles County

He is 25 WA, his wife Susan Elizabeth Kellogg is 25 ENGLAND and they have William Charles 7/12 CA. He is a salesman for a wholesale soup company. They were here in 1935. He is a son of George William Putnam and Della Margaret Maye. He was born in Spokane, Washington May 16, 1914 and will die in Fullerton, Orange County California April 13, 2011. He married Susan June 11, 1938. She is a daughter of Josiah Kellogg and Susan Elizabeth Bignell, and was born August 23, 1914 in London, England, and she will die in Fullerton also but on July 21, 2011. New England line out of Connecticut to New York to Minnesota to the Wild West.

 

GERTRUDE PUTNAM  Arcadia, Monrovia, Los Angeles County

She is 35 IL widowed and lodging with a Gehring family from Michigan. She is a stenographer for a petroleum Company. She was in Los Angeles in 1935. In 1930 she was married to Marion Leroy Putnam in Osborn, Maricopa County New Mexico. He died there in Phoenix, Maricopa April 18, 1903. Marion was a son of Perry Putman from Jackson County Michigan. His mother Ina was from Indiana. The family was in Steuben, Indiana in 1910, and he was back in Branch County Michigan in 1920 with his widowed mother.

 

CORRIDON H. (HUMBOLDT) PUTNAM  Azusa, Monrovia, Los Angeles County

He is 74 NV MA IL and is a retired mining engineer. His second wife Anna Marie Arnold is 65 MI. He is a son of William Putnam and Louise M. Williams, both from Illinois. He was born in Nevada October 1, 1865 and was with his folks in Carson City, Nevada in 1870. He has been here in California since 1900. He was with his first wife Nettie Lenore Anderson in San Jose in 1900. They got divorced and he married Anna in 1906. They moved over here to Los Angeles. He will die here September 4, 1947. Anna was born in Michigan July 6, 1875 and will die here July 31, 1945. New England Line.

 

GEORGE W. (WATSON) PUTNAM  Azusa, Monrovia, Los Angeles County

He is 81 IL NY NY and retired. His wife Martha W. Smallwood is 77 MO. He is a son of Harrison Putnam from Lake County Illinois. He was married to Martha in Salt Lake City Utah from the 1890s through the 1920 census and here in 1930. They were married in 1885. He will die here December 24, 1942 and Martha on April 7, 1943.

 

C. (CHARLES) HARRY PUTNAM  Monrovia, Los Angeles County

He is 47 OH OH OH and a maintenance man at a County flood control dam. His wife Merle Irene Dalton is 45 MO and they have Charles Harlan 24 CA and Elizabeth Janet 18 CA. They were in Los Angles in 1920 and 1930. He is a son of Oliver Kimball and Ida Putnam from Orange County. He was born back in Xenia, Greene County Ohio January 12, 1894. Merle is a daughter of Robert C. Dalton and Martha Van Eaton and was born in Benton County Missouri June 11, 1894 and will die here March 19, 1961. Harry will die in Los Angeles February 16, 1959. Family from Grafton, Worcester County Massachusetts to Greene County Ohio to Santa Anna, Orange County California in the mid 1880s.

 

HARRISON A. (ALBERT) PUTNAM  Monrovia, Los Angeles County

He is 63 OH NH OH. His wife Ruth Evans is 48 IL and her widowed mother Pauline Evans 71 IL is here. He was born in Ohio February 15, 1877 and will die here October 27, 1968. They were in Inglewood in 1910 and here in 1920 and 1930. He is a physician in his own practice. Harrison is a son of Daniel Proctor Putnam and Anna Rice from Croydon New Hampshire then Bureau County Illinois then Ohio and then Iowa. His dad was here in 1910 and they were all in Adair County Missouri in 1900. New Englanders.

 

MARIAN PUTNAM  Monrovia, Los Angeles County

She is 37 single and a nurse at the Rural Rest Home. She is Marian Iva Putnam a daughter of Frank Everett Putnam and Myrtle Alice Palmer from Crete, Saline County Nebraska where she was born in 1902. She has been at home there up till now. I don’t have a death date, but she will be buried in the Oaklawn Cemetery in Oakland, Pottawattamie County Iowa.

 

ETHEL M. PUTNAM  Montebello, Los Angeles County

She is 57 ID and says she is married. She is living with her widowed daughter Helen Ruth Riggins 39 KS IA ID as she was in 1930. Ethel Mary Hunnell was married to John Leroy Putnam who was in Los Angeles in 1930. Haven’t found him yet in 1940. He is a son of John Putnam and Emma Woodruff, and was at home with his folks in Marion County Iowa in 1880. They were in Portland Oregon in 1910 and then in San Bernardino California in 1920 and then Los Angeles. He married Ethel in Des Moines, Iowa January 31, 1900 and then they divorced. Ethel is a daughter of Spencer Frederick Hunnell and Mary Amanda McNeill and was born in Des Moines August 5, 1882 and she will die here May 10, 1958.

 

NELLIE PUTNAM  Montebello, Los Angeles County

She is 57 MN widowed and a housekeeper for a Napier family. She was in Park Rapids, Hubbard County Minnesota in 1930 and 1935. Nellie Longworth was the second and last wife of Frank Ernest Putnam. He was a son of Kitterage Putnam and was born in Kane County Illinois in 1859 and was there in 1860. In 1880 he was in Lac qui Parle County with his dad. In 1900 he and his first wife Maggie Houck were in Grant County South Dakota. They were back Minnesota in 1910. Maggie died November 9, 1917 and Frank was widowed in Lac qui Parle County in 1920. He married Nellie Mabel Longworth June 19, 1920 in Madison, Minnesota. She was born November 17, 1883 in Nassau, Minnesota. She first married Michael Scully February 26, 1906 and he died January 10, 1917. She will die August 1, 1962 in San Diego County California. She and Frank were in Hubbard, Minnesota from the time they were married till he died and she came out here. He was a farmer and died March 24, 1934 in Hubbard. New Englanders.

 

ALICE PUTMAN  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

She is 78 IL NY VT and single. She is living with her widowed sister Judith Fairfax-Scott 84 IL. Both are daughters of William Brower Garrison Putman and Martha Elkins from Montgomery County New York, then Schuyler County Illinois. Her dad and sister were here in 1900 and Alice was in Chicago then. She was here with her sister in 1920 and 1930. Alice will die here February 19, 1941 and Judith on December 15, 1948. Dutch family from New York State.

 

ALLEN PUTMAN  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 39 MT TX TX. His wife Edith J. Folsum is 39 WA and they have Maynard Basil 16 WA and Lanelda 15 WA. He is a son of Abner Earle Putman and Martha Louise Hickson from Kendall County Texas, and grandson of William Putman and Adeline Gipson. He was born in Terry, Custer County Montana July 23, 1897. He was born Pinkney Allen Putman, but didn’t really like it. He was listed as Pinkney in 1900 in Custer County Montana with his folks and in 1910 with his mom. He was there by himself in 1920. He then changed his name to Percy and moved to Coleville, Washington and married Edith there in 1922 and then they came down here. Right now he is a chauffeur for a private family as he was in 1930. He’ll be here till he dies March 27, 1971. Edith was born in Lincoln County Washington February 1, 1901 and will die in San Luis Obispo County California October 31, 1994. Southern Putman family from Texas back to Tennessee and North Carolina before that.

 

BURLEIGH PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 59 LA NH NH and is a super estate of a private estate. I guess they meant superintendent of sorts. His wife Katherine Agnes Staples is now 56 MS and the kids are all moved out now. His folks were Joseph Watson Putnam and Helen Elise Peabody from Washington County Vermont. His dad was a railroad engineer and later traveled to Mississippi and then Louisiana. He was born in New Orleans January 17, 1880, was in Chicago in 1900. Then he married Katherine in Pascagoula, Mississippi August 21, 1907. Then they were here in 1920 and 1930, and his mother was here in 1920. He will die here in Pasadena April 25, 1944. Katherine is a daughter of Frederick Staples and Laura Katherine Lewis and was born in Gautier, Jackson County Mississippi October 6, 1883 and will die here in Pasadena November 3, 1958. And no, her daddy didn’t start Staples Office Supply Stores, that was a guy out in Framingham, Massachusetts in the middle 1980s, forget what his name was.

 

ETHEL PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

She is 63 LA and still single. She is living with a cousin Agnes Nelson. She is a daughter of Joseph Watson Putnam and Helen Elise Peabody from Washington County Vermont. His dad was a railroad engineer and later traveled to Mississippi and then Louisiana. She was born in New Orleans like her brother Burleigh listed above. She was born January 16, 1874 and will die here in Pasadena November 3, 1943. She is a Christian Science Practitioner in her own private practice. I knew a guy when I was in prep school whose dad was a Practitioner. The kid came down with a brain tumor and like any Christian Scientist, they would not let him see a regular doctor or be operated on and he died couple of months later. God does not necessarily heal everyone.

 

GRANT PUTMAN  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 73 MI MI MI and now a retired carpenter and builder. His wife Rosetta Graham is 61 MI. He is a son of George Lewis Putnam and Mary Hazen, and was born in Novi, Oakland County Michigan February 11, 1867, and was still there in 1920. They were in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County in 1930 and are still listed there as well right now. He will be around until he dies October 22, 1961 at age 96. Rosetta is a daughter of John Graham and Ellen McAugharn and was born in Farmington, Oakland County Michigan October 27, 1878 and will die in Huntington Park May 7, 1950. The line goes back through Michigan to New York to Connecticut (Cornelius Putnam) to Massachusetts.

 

HAROLD A. (ADRIAN) PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 38 IA IA MO and is now a practical nurse at the Pasadena Womanճ hospital. Alma Sophia Schickley his wife is 39 KY, Edward A. 17 TN born September 12, 1922, Harold 15 KY, Donald 13 KS and Charles 11 NE. Alma is a cook at a private house. Harold is a son of Adrian Eric Putnam and Bertha Phillips from Pottawattamie County Iowa. He was born there October 9, 1901 and will die in Los Angeles County November 13, 1986. He was in Iowa in 1900 and 1910 and out East someplace in 1920. In 1930 they were in Crete, Saline County Nebraska and then in Lumpkin County Georgia in 1935. He married Alma in 1921 in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. She was born April 8, 1901 and will die in Los Angeles County May 10, 1987. The son Edward Adrian was born in Tennessee September 12, 1922 and will die in Rock Springs, Wyoming in August 1984. He will marry Ruth Leona Lehman in Reno, Nevada April 15, 1954. The son Harold was born September 7, 1924 and will die in Lincoln, Nebraska May 3, 1994. The son Donald was born November 14, 1926 in Kansas City and will die August 16, 2018 in Cornelius, Mecklenburg County North Carolina. The son Charles was born March 10, 1929 in Crete, Nebraska and will die in Springfield Missouri May 13, 1997. New England Family Adrian Putnam in Iowa to James Rufus in Indiana to Howard Putnam from Sutton, Worcester County Massachusetts.

 

JESSIE PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

She is 48 NY and widowed. She has William 9 NY, Elizabeth 7 NY and her brother Arthur W. Wright 43 NH. She was last in Westchester County NY. Jessie Florence Wright was married to Raymond Fowle Putnam in Reading, Middlesex County Massachusetts in 1930. She was married to a Cummings guy before she married Raymond in 1928. They are divorced. Raymond is in North Reading, Massachusetts in 1940 with his widowed mother Minnie.

 

JOHN A. (ASA) PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 72 VT VT VT and an engineer with the railroad. His wife Celia Austina Ploss is 70 AUSTRIA and they have Asa C. 24 CA. He is a son of Samuel Grow Putnam and Priscilla Corliss Pattee from Rutland, Vermont. He was born there February 9, 1869. His dad died there in 1888. He and Celia were in Schenectady County New York in 1900, and were here in Los Angeles in 1920 and 1930. He will die in San Bernardino August 11, 1951. Celia is a daughter of Antoine Ploss and Eva Maria Geipel and was born in Asch, Lienz Austria/Hungary and will die in Los Angeles September 12, 1942.

 

JOSEPH PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 25 CA, his new wife Priscilla Athene Carroll is 23 NE and they have Susan Jo 1 CA. Joseph Watson Putnam is a son of Burleigh Putnam and Katherine Agnes Staples and was here with his folks in 1920 and 1930. They are still in town. `His dadճ folks were Joseph Watson Putnam and Helen Elise Peabody from Washington County Vermont. Joe was born here in Pasadena February 6, 1915 and will die in Costa Mesa, Orange County November 25, 1987. He does clerical work for an airplane manufacturing company. Priscilla is a daughter of Wayne Thomas Carroll and Hazel Athene Johnson and was born in Pawnee City, Nebraska September 22, 1916 and will die in Costa Mesa June 4, 1986. They will have a son Joseph William in 1941 and then Wayne Carroll in 1945.

 

KIRK M. (MILLS) PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 70 KS MA NH. His wife Martha Ellis is 70 WI. He is a son of Robert Wiley Putnam and Julia Ann Bagley and was born in Leavenworth, Kansas February 12, 1870. They were married in Milwaukee County Wisconsin in 1895, and were there in 1900 and in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1920. Then they were in Burbank here in Los Angeles County in 1930 and back in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1935. He will die here April 4, 1953. Martha is a daughter of Edward and Agnes Ellis and was born in Illinois about 1869 and was in Dakota Territory (before they were States) by 1880 then Milwaukee by 1910 where they were married. His dad was a son of John Putnam and Sabrina Wiley from Lowell Massachusetts.

 

LAWRENCE PUTMAN  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 42 MT TX TX and his wife Ruth is 47 ME and they have June E. 15 CA and Phyllis 13 CA. He is a chauffeur like he was here in 1930. He is a son of Abner Earl Putman and Martha Louise Hickson from Kendall County Texas, and grandson of William Putman and Adeline Gipson from Tennessee and then Texas. He was here in 1920 and 1930 and with his folks in Custer County Montana before that. He was born November 23, 1897. He married Ruth Evangeline Hunt May 14, 1918. She was a daughter of Harold Hunt and Dorcas Carville and was born in Maine November 29, 1892. He will die in Los Angeles September 7, 1953. Ruth will die in Pasadena December 16, 1965.  Southern Putman family Union County South Carolina to Bedford County Tennessee to St. Clair County Alabama then out to Texas where his great grandfather fought in the Texas War of Independence from Mexico in 1836 then settled in Gonzales County Texas.

 

MARY C. (CHRISTINA) PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

She is 82 NY NY VT single and lodging with a Peckham family. She was a private tutor when she was in town in 1920 and 1930. She is a daughter of Edwin Putman and Christina Washburn. She was born in Ellington, Chautauqua County New York September 4, 1858 and will die here May 31, 1945. She was lodging here in 1920 and 1930. New England family.

 

RAYMOND PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 43 OK and his wife Ida 40 CA. She has a son Allen Sharp 20 CA from her prior marriage. Raymond Maxwell Putnam is a son of Chester W. Putnam Jr. and Katie Cronin and was born December 28, 1896 in Woods County Oklahoma and will die in Josephine, Oregon August 15, 1974. Chester’s folks were Chester W. Putnam and Caroline Thompson out of Allegany County New York and his folks Ebenezer Putnam and Philena McNeal were from Danvers, Massachusetts.

 

TABER PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 34 MA and his wife Genevieve is 25 IL. He is a free lancer in public relations and she is a waitress. He is Taber Jones Putnam born in Massachusetts (Sutton, Worcester County I think) December 11, 1905 and will die in Phoenix Arizona January 14, 1971. In 1920 he was in the Navy in Pensacola, Florida and also I think is the Taber J. Putnam shown in 1930 in San Anselmo, Marin County California. Still no idea who he is.

 

WALTER PUTNAM  Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 62 LA VT VT and his wife Katherine Lois Scobey is 61 IL. He is a civil engineer for the City. He is a son of Joseph Watson Putnam and Helen Elise Peabody originally from Albany, Washington County Vermont. Joseph was a son of the Rev. George Putnam and Clarissa Watson. The family moved to Mississippi and then to Louisiana as his dad was with the railroad. Helen was widowed by 1900 and she and the kids were in Chicago. He and Katherine were in Sandusky County Ohio in 1910. His brother Burleigh is still in Pasadena now too. Walter was born October 26, 1877 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi and will die here in Pasadena November 13, 1952. Katherine is a daughter of Madison Crandall Scobey and Agnes Iona Bensley and was born in Chicago January 12, 1879 and will die here in Pasadena August 19, 1975.

 

FRED PUTNAM  South Pasadena, Los Angeles County

He is 81 NH CT NH and his wife Rose Osborne is 71 CA and his widowed brother Arthur Putnam is 85 NH. Fred came out here in the late 1800s married Rose and then went back to Brattleboro, Vermont where they were in 1900 through 1920. He retired and came back out here and was in Long Beach in 1930. Fred Watson Putnam is a son of Edwin Lombard Putnam and Emeline A. Wright. He was born in Hinsdale, Sullivan County New Hampshire January 24, 1859 and will die in Pasadena, Los Angeles County California January 9, 1948. His brother Arthur married Ina Lucy Bement in Vermont September 26, 1883 and they were in Cheshire County New Hampshire in 1900, Hood River County Oregon in 1910. Ina is alive and well back in Brattleboro and won’t die there until July 18, 1943. By 1920 Arthur and his new wife Nellie Austin were in Los Angeles and there in 1930 too. Arthur was last in Tulare County California. He will die here November 12, 1954.

 

ALICE E. (ELDORA) PUTNAM  Pomona, Los Angeles County

She is 78 IN widowed and has her son Raymond 47 IN. Alice Stoops was married to Joseph Squire Putnam here in 1930. He was a son of George K. Putnam and Elizabeth Blankenship from Wabash County Indiana where he was born January 11, 1853. He just died here in Pomona October 16, 1939. His dad was a son of Joseph Putnam (#1943) and Sarah Shattuck of Lyndeborough New Hampshire. Alice was also born in Wabash County Indiana October 18, 1862 and will die here January 8, 1942. Then as to Raymond; He is an adopted son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Stoops. Raymond actually was a son of Josephճ daughter Ethel who died in 1907. His birth name was Tyner, but was changed to Putnam when adopted. He was married here in 1929 to Cloma Jessie Llewellyn. They got divorced and Cloma and their daughter are here in town. She admits to being divorced, he says he is just a single guy. New England line that goes back through Joseph Putnam and Sarah Shattuck of Lyndeborough New Hampshire.

 

CLOMA PUTNAM  Pomona, Los Angeles County

She is 32 MO divorced and has a daughter Camille 8 CA. Cloma Jessie Llewellyn was married to Raymond Putnam in 1929 and they were here in 1930.  He is an adopted son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Stoops from Wabash County Indiana. See his motherճ listing above. Raymond actually was a son of Josephճ daughter Ethel. She had married Ovid Riley Tyner, split up I guess and died in 1907. Raymond was adopted afterwards. Cloma was born in Missouri June 17, 1905 and will die in San Diego June 20, 1965. Raymond, her ex, is back living with his widowed mom Alice here in town.

 

FRED B. (BENJAMIN) PUTNAM  Outside Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 57 IA and his wife Minnie Soesbe Hesaload is 56 IA. His dad Marshall Putnam has moved out here in the last couple of years after selling his citrus grove back in San Dimas where he was in 1930. Fred was born in Greene, Butler County Iowa March 25, 1883. He married Minnie in Charles City, Iowa April 7, 1903. She is a daughter of William Wesley Hesaload and Elizabeth Angelene Bodenhofer and was born in Greene June 28, 1883 and will die in Pomona February 7, 1960. Fred will die in Pomona July 16, 1957. He is a son of Marshall Danforth Putnam and Elizabeth Sneath from Cass County Michigan and then Pottawattamie County Iowa and then here. The roots go back to Illinois to Vermont and to Massachusetts.

           

LEROY PUTNAM  Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 47 IN IN IN and a foreman in a creamery. His wife Geneva Arnold is 48 IN and they have Arnold 21 IN. Her widowed mother Ella Arnold is 72 IN. He is a son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Stoops from Wabash County Indiana. He was born there April 24, 1892 and had been there all his life up till he was out here in 1930. Geneva is a daughter of John F. Arnold and Ella F. Adams and was born in Wabash County June 30, 1892 and she will die here in Pomona December 28, 1968. Leroy will die in San Bernardino County January 18, 1983. His widowed mother is listed earlier. New England family from New Hampshire and Massachusetts before that.

 

MARSHALL PUTNAM  Outside Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 86 MI NY NY. His wife, the third one, Ella (Cole) Deems is 76 PA. He was a citrus farmer and owned his farm in La Verne, Los Angeles County up till about 1937. He sold the farm and has retired here will his son and grandsons. Marshall Danforth is a son of Marshall is a son of Benjamin Franklin Putnam and Alma Stone Johnson. He was born in La Grange, Cass County Michigan on March 12, 1854. He was in Winnebago County Illinois then Pottawattamie County Iowa in 1900and then here by 1910. His line goes back from Benjamin to Uzziel Putnam and Mary Trask from New York, via Vermont and then Massachusetts before that. Ella is his third wife. They were married here in the early 1920s. He will be here till he dies in 1943.

 

PAUL H. (HERBERT) PUTNAM  Outside Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 31 IA and his wife Mary C. Holzer is 30 IA and they have Frederick P. 2 CA. He is a box line operator at a citrus packinghouse. He lives next door to his folks Fred and Minnie Putnam who own a citrus farm where he works. He was born October 3, 1908 in Greene, Butler County Iowa and will die in Pomona February 5, 1998. He married Mary in Pomona April 21, 1935. New Englanders.

 

THOMAS PUTNAM  Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 35 KS and his wife Doris is 33 WA. He is a laborer at an ice plant and was in Salina, Saline County Kansas in 1935. Doris is a service observer at the telephone company and was here in 1935. Obviously married recently. Thomas Harrison ԂobՠPutnam is a son of Edward Rawson Putnam and Helen Josephine Mullen and was born in Terra Cotta, Kansas December 28, 1904 and will die back in Salina, Kansas November 7, 1971. His dad is a son of Harrison Kimball Putnam and Henrietta Crippen from here. He was born when the family was back in Worcester Massachusetts. Harrison was a son of Jasper Wheeler Putnam (#3105) and Mary Kimball, and was born in Grafton, Massachusetts March 22, 1830. They had been in Xenia, Ohio in the 1850s and 1860s, returned to Worcester, Massachusetts for a spell and then came out here about 1878. They are in Greeley, Saline County Kansas in 1915.

 

TRUMAN G. (GUY) PUTNAM  Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 36 IN, his new wife Mable Dickins is 31 IN and they have Barbara 11 IN and Sharon L. 1 CA. Truman is a son of William Henry Putnam and Fern ‘Dora’ Flickinger from Indianapolis, Marion County Indiana. He was born there November 22, 1903 and will die here in Pomona November 8, 1957. He had first married Leona Valentine Yawman back there and they came out here in 1930. She died here in Pomona May 24, 1937. He then married Mable about 1938-1939. She was born in Marion County Indiana October 23, 1908 and will die here November 10, 1987. Like the rest of the family, his folks are here in Pomona as they were in 1930. New England line that goes back through Joseph Putnam and Sarah Shattuck of Lyndeborough New Hampshire.

 

WILLIAM H. (HENRY) PUTNAM  Pomona, Los Angeles County

He is 57 IN and a car salesman. His wife Fern Cora Flickinger is 44 IN. He is yet another son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Eldora Stoops from Wabash County Indiana. He was born there November 21, 1882, and had been there all his life up till he was out here with all the family in 1930. Their son Truman is married here in town now too. He will die in in Los Angeles January 23, 1965. Fern was born in Indiana in 1895 and will die back there in Marion, Indiana March 14, 1981. New England line that goes back through Joseph Putnam and Sarah Shattuck of Lyndeborough New Hampshire.

 

GEORGE E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County

George is 48 CA.  His wife Iris LaDonna Cariker is 41 OK.  They have Paul Stanley 21 CA, Ruth l. 14 CA and Barbara Jane 9 IRAQ. He is an oil field driller and his son Paul is a driller’s helper. He is the son of John Drury Putnam and Louisa Murphy and was with the family in nearby Riverside County in 1900 and in Fresno County in 1910. He works on an oil drilling rig for Standard Oil. He has been back and forth to the Middle East several times beginning in 1917. In 1930 the whole family was in Baghdad, Iraq. The last trip over there was in 1935. They then lived in St. George Utah in the late 1930s. The got divorced February 2, 1943, and he remarried on the next day to Viva Jones. She had been previously married to Henry Covington. They were in St. George, Utah. George was born September 30, 1891 in Tulare California and will die in Escondido California on October 27, 1959. Iris was born in Oklahoma July 31, 1898 and will die in Riverside County May 28, 1963. Viva Jones is a daughter of Thomas Lynwood Jones and Katie Jensen. She was born in Alberta, Canada December 23, 1904 and will die August 26, 1999 in Cedar City, Iron County Utah. This is a family out of Sutton, Massachusetts to Knox County Indiana to Seneca County New York to Illinois and out her in the 1870s. New Englanders from the Far Coast.

 

NAOMIE PUTMAN  Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County

She is 62 AR and widowed. She was in Santa Cruz in 1935. Nannie Beatrice Sanford was married to Joseph M. Putman in Quay County New Mexico in 1910 and 1920. Joseph died in Los Angeles October 14, 1926.

 

PERRY S. (STEPHEN) PUTNAM  San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 37 MI MI CAN and is a barber in a barber shop of all places. His wife Dora Caroline Scobey is 38 KS, and they have Perry Jr. 11 CA. He is a son of Stephen Benjamin Putnam and Myrtle Cahill from Allegan County Michigan. He was born there March 12, 1903, and there  in 1910 and 1920. He married Carol in 1927. They were in San Antonio, Los Angeles County (not Texas) in 1930. He will die in Lancaster, Los Angeles County (not Pennsylvania) July 19, 1947. Carol is a daughter of John and Alice Scobey and was born in Kansas November 17, 1902 and will die in Butte California November 21, 1978. New England family.

 

SIDNEY PUTMAN  San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 62 ENG and his wife Alice E. 60 MD. Says they were in the same house in 1935. He is a private painting contractor. Good luck.

 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PUTNAM  Bell, San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 31 OR single and owns his house. He raises pansies. Actually a couple of other people on the street are doing the same thing. He is a son of Daniel Reading Putman and Ida Jane Brawley and was born March 10, 1909 when the family was in Yamhill County Oregon. He was there in 1910 and 1920. Not sure where in 1930, but his widowed dad and brother William were in Maywood, Los Angeles County in 1930 and Ben says he was there in 1935 before coming here. He will die in Los Angeles County California January 25, 1974. His dad was a son of James Daniel Putman from Fulton County Illinois. James was a brother of my great great grandfather Reding Putman. Southern Putman Family out of South Carolina and Virginia.

 

GRANT PUTMAN  Huntington Park, San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He and his wife Rosetta Graham are listed here without stats and living with their daughter Zadah 28 MI and her husband Wesley G. Leonhart 29 KS. He is listed also back in his home in Pasadena. He is a son of George Lewis Putnam and Mary Hazen, and was born in Novi, Oakland County Michigan February 11, 1867, and was still there in 1920. They were in Huntington Park, Los Angeles County in 1930. He will be around until he dies October 22, 1961 at age 96. Rosetta is a daughter of John Graham and Ellen McAugharn and was born in Farmington, Oakland County Michigan October 27, 1878 and will die in Huntington Park May 7, 1950. The line goes back through Michigan to New York to Connecticut (Cornelius Putnam) to Massachusetts.

 

ARTHUR PUTMAN  South Gate Township, San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 32 OH, Louise 31 OH ad they have James 6 CA and Robert 2 CA. He is a tire maker at Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. He is a son of Forest and Madge Putman from Concord, Ross County Ohio. He was there in 1910 and 1920 and single here in 1930. This is the other German family out of Pennsylvania and then Hampshire County Virginia which is in West Virginia after the Civil War.

 

BERNARD M. PUTMAN  South Gate Township, San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 28 CO, his wife Margaret 23 NE and they have Kenneth J. 1 CA. He is a clerk at the Firestone Rubber Company. He is a son of Clayborn Scott Putman and Minnie Hanson and was born in Colorado in 1911, with his folks in Salem, Nebraska in 1920 and in Swan, Deuel County Nebraska in 1930 and then Lincoln Nebraska before coming out here. Southern Putman family out of Brown County Illinois and Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

CLAYTON PUTNAM  South Gate, San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 32 MI, his wife Dora Gertrude Van Valkenburg is 27 KS and has her widowed mother Nellie Van Valkenburg 68 IN and her divorced brother George Van Valkenburg 31 KS with her. Clayton is a plumber with a plumbing contractor and her brother George is a plumber’s helper. Dora is a laborer at a pottery factory. Clayton Grant Putnam is a son of Grant Putnam and Rosetta Graham and was born May 4, 1907 in Novi, Oakland County Michigan and he will die in Texas City, Galveston County Texas January 23, 1968. Dora is a daughter of George Russell Van Valkenburg and Netti Esther Brooks and was born in Kansas May 3, 1912 and will die in Lakewood, Los Angeles County December 17, 1994. She will marry someone with last name Umbach as that is the name on her death record. Clayton’s folks are in Pasadena now in 1940. New England family going back to Connecticut and then Massachusetts.

 

JOSEPH PUTNAM  South Gate, San Antonio, Los Angeles County

He is 38 CA and his wife Nola Elvira Busby 40 LA with a daughter Sybil Newcomer 20 LA from her previous marriage. He is now a dispatcher at an oil refinery. He is a son of James Randolph Putman and his first wife Mildred Parsons from San Diego County and then Orange County after his mother died. Southern Putmans descended from Madison DeKalb Putman from Texas. He was with his folks in 1910 and 1920 and single in Los Angeles in 1930 and 1935. He was born April 11, 1901 and will die in Banning, Riverside County September 2, 1974. Nola is a daughter of Nathaniel Miles Busby and Julia Elvira Dupriest and was born in Calcasieu Parish Louisiana December 1, 1999 and will die November 16, 1895 in San Jacinto, Riverside County.

 

ADELBERT PUTNAM  San Fernando, Los Angeles County

He is 34 SD and his wife Ethel is 26 WA. He manages a bottling company. He is a son of Marion Hartley Putnam and Sarah Jane ‘Sadie’ Armstrong and was born Sanborn County South Dakota March 8, 1906 and will die March 7, 1991 in Glendale, Los Angeles County. He was with his folks in South Dakota in 1910 and Abilene, Caddo County Oklahoma in 1920 and was in Pasadena in 1935. I don’t have Ethel’s name but he will later marry Lacarrcha Litinsky. She was born in Canada in 1921 and came south into the U.S. August 24, 1951 so he married her after then. Adelbert’s dad was a son of James Rufus Putnam from Iowa and then back to Rufus Putnam who came from New England to Indiana in the early 1800s.

 

FRANK PUTNAM  San Gabriel, Los Angeles County

He is 44 TX and recently married to Mary 30 IN. He is a personnel officer at a national bank and Mary is a music teacher with her own business. He is Frank Bishop Putnam a son of Arthur Burch Putnam and Edith Mary Bishop. They were married in El Paso, Texas September 20, 1893. Arthur died there September 12, 1908. Edith and the kids were in El Paso in 1910, and then moved out here in 1912. Frank was born in El Paso December 27, 1895, a late Christmas present. He has been single with his widowed mom up through 1935. He will die in Los Angeles October 25, 1962. His dad Arthur was a son of George William Putnam and Helen Burch from Jefferson County New York. This is a Dutch family from New York.

 

HARRY D. (DELOSS) PUTNAM  San Jose, Los Angeles County

He is 52 IA and his wife Mabel Anna Miller is 52 IA. He is a rancher-owner of a citrus grove like he was in La Verne in 1930. May be the same one. They were in Los Angeles in 1920 and La Verne, Los Angeles County in 1930. He is the youngest son of Marshall Danforth Putnam and Elizabeth Jane Sneath who were in Los Angeles. Marshall is here in San Jose now with wife three Ella Cole. Harry was born in Pottawattamie County Iowa on November 15, 1887. His dad was from Cass County Michigan and the line goes back through New York to Vermont to Massachusetts. Mabel is a daughter of James Miller and Mary Jane Martin and was born in Greene, Butler County Iowa December 23, 1887 and will die here August 16, 1966. Harry will die here August 19, 1974. New England English line.

 

WAYNE W. (WESLEY) PUTNAM  San Jose, Los Angeles County

He is 29 IA and his wife Alice Gertrude Logan 32 MO and they have Joyce A. 8 CA and Robert David 5 CA. He is a son of Frederick Benjamin Putnam and Minnie Soesbe Hesaload and was at home with them in Los Angeles in 1910, San Jose in 1920 and Pomona in 1930. He was born in Greene, Butler County Iowa April 13, 1910 and married Alice in Yuma, Arizona February 14, 1930. Alice was born in Ozark, Christian County Missouri December 26, 1907 and will die February 16, 1989 in Upland, California. Wayne will die in Ontario, San Bernardino County February 20, 1972. His dad is a son of Marshall Danforth Putnam and Elizabeth Sneath from Cass County Michigan and then Pottawattamie County Iowa and then here. The roots go back to Illinois to Vermont and to Massachusetts.

 

PHILIP B. (BAYARD) PUTNAM  San Marino, Los Angeles County

He is 43 VT NH CA and a manager of a life insurance office. He has been married 21 years to Julia Lafevre Askins 44 NY NY NY. They have Charles Smith 19 CA, Phillip B. Jr. 17 VT and Barbara J. 15 CA. He is a son of Fred Watson Putnam and Rose Osborne from Hinsdale, New Hampshire and then Brattleboro, Vermont. He was at home in Vermont in 1910 and then in Detroit, Michigan in 1920 just married to Julia. He was born in Brattleboro October 10, 1896 and will die in Seattle, Washington in 1988. They were in Long Beach, Los Angeles County in 1930.

 

CHARLES PUTMAN  Santa Monica, Los Angeles County

He is 81 IL IL OH and widowed as he was in 1930. He is with his daughter Ester 55 IA and her husband Harry C. Hensley 57 MO. He is a son of Hazeal Putman and Lydia Ann Miller from Fulton County Illinois. He was born there March 10, 1859. He married Lois Morgan in 1881 and she died in 1910.They were in Linn County Iowa in 1910 and he was there with a new wife Winifred Johnson in 1920. The daughter was listed as Essie in earlier entries, and the name is probably Esther. Southern Putman family out of Illinois from South Carolina.

 

JAMES PUTMAN  Santa Monica, Los Angeles County

He is 28 MO, his wife Josephine is 25 MO and they have a daughter Frances S. 3 CA. He is a bus driver for the City. He is a son of James F. Putman and Lillian Duffy and a grandson of Jeremiah Michael Putman and America Jane Mannes from McNairy County Tennessee. James was born August 13, 1911 in Holt County Missouri and then was with his folks in Vaughn, Cascade County Montana in 1920 then his dad died and his mother and fur kids were in Clay, Holt County Missouri in 1930 and he was in Maitland, Holt County in 1935. Josephine was in Skidmore, Nodaway County Missouri in 1935. Then they married and came out here. James will die in Los Angeles June 10, 1968. His widowed mom is up in Oregon now. Southern Putman Family out of Tennessee then back to North Carolina and Virginia.

 

ROBERT PUTNAM  Santa Monica, Los Angeles County

He is 46 NY, single and boarding. He is a salesman in a liquor store. He was in Venice, Los Angeles County in 1935. In 1930 he was a merchant seaman stationed in Bayonne, New Jersey. According to his death record he was born in New York April 21, 1893 and will die in Los Angeles January 15, 1971. Can’t find him earlier.

 

TORRANCE O. (ORVILLE) PUTNAM  Santa Monica, Los Angeles County

He is 34 KS, his wife Angeline 28 TX and they have Roy Oakden 13 CA from Angeline’s first marriage. He is a son of Emmet Orville Putnam and Flora Gilmore and was born in Great Bend, Barton County Kansas July 23, 1906. He will die here in Los Angeles December 15, 1947. He was in Reno, Kansas in 1920 with his mother who has remarried to Frank Williams and I don’t find them in 1930. He was in Los Angeles in 1935 and probably there in 1930 as two of his brothers were. His dad is a son of William Ford Putman and Ida Kenyon from Oklahoma and Ohio before that. Line goes back then to Vermont and then Massachusetts.

 

WILLIAM O. (OTIS) PUTMAN  Torrance, Los Angeles County

He is 47 IL as is his wife Marie Elizabeth 47 IL. He works in a steel mill as he did here in 1930. He is a son of Barnet Putman and Della Brayfield from Perry County Illinois.  He was born there August 19, 1892. They have been here since 1917. He will die here December 14, 1961. The line goes back to Laban Putman from South Carolina. Southern Putmans.

 

HOMER R. (RALPH) PUTNAM  Whittier, Los Angeles County

He is 49 IN, his wife Winona Edith Jackson is 49 IN and they have a daughter Rosalind L. 27 CAN and a grandson Ralph E. Scherfey 12 CA. He is a son of Joseph Squire Putnam and Alice Stoops from Wabash County Indiana. He was born there October 20, 1888 and at home there in 1900. They were briefly in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada from about 1908, and were there in the 1911 census with Rosalind and Horace and Margaret. They were in Deer Lodge Montana in 1920 and will be in Glendale in 1960. He will die there February 4, 1968. Winona was born January 17, 1889 in Indiana and will die April 5, 1976 in Daly City, San Mateo County. The daughter Rosalind Louise was born in Canada June 23, 1911 and will marry Leroy Anton Merget. They are in Glendale in 1951 and she will die there October 12, 1982 and LeRoy will die there October 8, 1987. Homer’s grandfather George Putnam was from New Hampshire.

 

JAMES PUTMAN  Whittier, Los Angeles County

He is 69 CA and lodging. Says he is married, but not any more. He was married to the Jessie here in town in 1930. She says they are divorced which is probably right. James Randolph Putman is a son of Madison DeKalb Putman and Louisa Casner from San Diego County. He was married there in 1900 to 1920 to Mildred Parsons. He was born March 6, 1872 and will die here December 10 1948. Southern Putman family South Carolina to Tennessee to Texas and here.

 

JESSIE PUTMAN  Whittier, Los Angeles County

She is 56 KS and divorced with her two kids Virginia 16 CA and Erline or Daphine 14 CA. She was the second wife of James Randolph Putman and was in Brea, Orange County with him in 1930 with these kids.

 

MADISON PUTMAN  Whittier, Los Angeles County

He is 36 CA, his wife Doris Estella Davenport is 28 CA and they have Beverly 9 CA. He works on W.P.A. road construction. Madison DeKalb Putman is a son of John Edward Putman and Myrtle Bell Bay and was born in Los Angeles County May 20, 1904 and was with the family in Escondido, San Diego County in 1920 and 1930. He married Doris in Santa Ana April 30, 1930. She was born in Riverside County October 24, 1910 and will die here in Whittier June 18, 1994. Madison will die here also on May 20, 1967. His grandfather Madison DeKalb Putman was from Llano County Texas. The line goes back Texas to Alabama, South Carolina to Virginia and then England. Southern Putman line.

 

MARY E. PUTNAM  Whittier, Los Angeles County

She is 71 CA and now widowed. Mary Elmyra Samis was married to Mark Putnam here in 1885 and he died April 26, 1935. He was a son of Thomas Howard Putnam and Hannah Farley and he was born here July 18, 1862 and had a ranch. Guess it was sold as Mary is renting a house now. His folks go back to Illinois and their folks, Daniel Green and Elizabeth Putnam, back to New York and then Massachusetts. Mary was born in Chico, Butte County California May 15, 1868 and will die here July 7, 1951. She is a daughter of Daniel H. Samis and Mary C. Shafer.

 

PAUL K. (KENNETH) PUTNAM  Whittier, Los Angeles County

He is 35 KS and his wife Thelma I. Parsons 28 CA. He is a roustabout in the oil fields. They were here in 1930 and in Santa Monica in 1935. He is a son of George William Putman and Anna Matilda Rudy from Smith County Kansas. He was born there in Gaylord November 30, 1904 and will die here June 9, 1982. Thelma is a daughter of Jesse Lawrence Parsons and Cora Minerva Canup and was born in Cucamonga, San Bernardino County California August 1, 1912. She will die in Boise, Idaho February 4, 1960. New England family in Kansas and before that Minnesota then Vermont and out of Massachusetts way back.

 

EVERETT PUTMAN  Township 2, Madera County

He is 30 AR, his wife Ruby Marie Nicholson is 20 AR and they have Earl Edward 5 AR. He drives a tractor on a cotton farm. Everett Earl is a son of William Franklin Putman and Laura Chapel from Waveland, Yell County Arkansas. He was in Richland, Yell County in 1930 and married Ruby Marie there in 1931. Everett was born December 9, 1909 and will die February 6, 1970 in Chowchilla, Madera County. His folks were from Washington County Arkansas, but went briefly to Texas and then back to Yell County. Line goes back to William Putman in Washington County, a brother of my Reding Putman. Southern Putmans South Carolina to Indiana to Illinois and down to Arkansas.

 

HOWARD PUTMAN  San Rafael, Marin County

He is 32 WI divorced and a prisoner in San Quentin State Prison. He was in Los Angeles in 1935. He is Howard Le Roy a son of Roy Putman and Lena Brandt and was born in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin September 17, 1907. He was with his folks in 1910 and 1920 and in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone in 1930. No idea who his wife was and why in Prison. He will get out and marry Alice May Muth January 5, 1957 and die back in Janesville, Rock County Wisconsin July 5, 1974. Alice will go back there with him and die there December 6, 1983. This is a Dutch family out of Montgomery County, New York.

 

JOHN M. (MELVIN) PUTNAM  San Rafael, Marin County

He is 68 CA UN TN and his wife Amelia Brown is 62 CA. They have Lois A. (Amelia) 20 CA. He owns a printing company He is a son of Azro Carlton Putnam and his second wife Harriett Glenn. Azro was born in New Hampshire, lived in Illinois and married Harriet in Knoxville, Tennessee August 23, 1866 after serving in the Civil War. Moved out here in the 1870s, but I have never found Azro or John till 1910. John was born in Monterey December 16, 1871 and was single here in 1910. He married Amelia here in San Rafael June 3, 1912. He will be here until he dies February 25, 1971 at age 99. Amelia will go till February 24, 1975 when she is 97. Lois will marry Robert Western here in 1946. New England family.

 

GLEN PUTMAN  Dos Palos, Merced County

He is 28 OK, his wife Catherine 28 TX and they have Glen 1 CA. He is a bookkeeper in a real estate office. He is Glen Worth Putman a son of Glen Worth Putman and Ida Lou Manning and grandson of Joseph Worth Putman and Nancy Jane Neal. He was born in Jackson County Oklahoma October 13 1911 and he will die in Shafter, Kern County California November 7, 1976. Line goes back to Ezekiel Putman in Georgia to Barnet Putman in South Carolina and back to North Carolina and Virginia. Southern Putman family of course.

 

HELEN G. PUTNAM  Alturas, Modoc County

She is 28 CA living in the Hotel Modoc and also is a chambermaid there. She says she is married but no husband here. She was in Aberdeen, South Dakota in 1935. No ideas as to husband or her maiden name.

 

MAGGIE PUTMAN  Alisal, Monterey County

She is 65 GA widowed and living with her married daughter Levada 33 TX and her husband Courtney Corbin 48 KS. Good Luck.

 

ALICE PUTNAM  Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County

She is 49 NY NY NY single and an accountant. She is living with her sister Grace 57 NY and husband William Landers 58 CA. They were out of New York by the 1900 or at least I can’t find them. They were all 3 in Mono County in 1910, Carmel in 1920 and were here in 1930. Found a death record for Grace. She was born April 7, 1883 and died here June 7, 1940. Said her motherճ last name was Fagon. Tried searching and still no luck.

 

DON PUTNAM  Pajero, Monterey County

He is 18 MO single and living as a cousin with John and Henrietta Quinn. He is a truck driver carrying building materials. He is a son of Charles Aaron Putnam and Sarah Columbus Bragg and was at home with them in Findley, Douglas County Missouri in 1930. His folks got divorced and Sarah and a couple of other kids are still back there. He is married in Riley County Kansas in 1950 New England family.

 

WILLIAM PUTMAN  Salinas, Monterey County

He is 40 TX, his wife Irene 38 TX and there is a James Putman 68 TN listed as father-in-law. I can’t figure them out.

 

BRIAN S. (SPENCER) PUTMAN  Calistoga, Napa County

He is 11 CA and living with his mother Elizabeth Spencer 29 CA who was married to Harvey Brian Putman but now is married to Cyril Simic 38 NE. Her ex, Harvey, is a son of James Lawrence Putman and Mary Jane Putman from Brown County Illinois. He was born in California on December 23, 1896, and will die here May 6, 1970. James was a son of Daniel Webster Putman and Louisa Perry. He is on the Southern Putman Line out of Virginia and then Kentucky. Mary Jane ‘Jennie’ is a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Margaret Kees, and was born in Brown County June 14, 1861. Henry was on the line of the other William Putman/Putnam of Brown County. The son Bryan was born October 9, 1928 and will die in Clearlake, California April 28, 2007.

 

RAYMOND PUTNAM  Napa, Napa County

He is 26 CA single and living in and working at the State Veterans Home and Hospital as an attendant. Raymond Myron Putnam is a son of Francis M. Putnam and Any Husband. He was born in Stockton June 21, 1912 and will die here in Napa April 27, 1968. I don’t find him earlier and the last time is see his dad was in 1910 when he was single in Schenectady, New York and home with his folks in 1900 in Orange, Schuyler County New York.

 

EMERALD C. (COLE) PUTNAM  St. Helena, Napa County

Yes that is his name and he is now 37 OR NY TX. His wife Ruth Inez Jetton is 35 TX. They have been married 14 years, and he works as a dishwasher in the State Sanitarium. He is a son of Herbert Eugene Putnam and Stella Cole. He was born in Milton, Oregon April 1, 1902 and the family has been in Walla Walla County Washington in 1910 and 1920. He and Ruth were back in Milton, Oregon in 1930 and then here in 1935. He married Ruth in 1926. She is a daughter of James H. Jetton and Anna Pearl Blackwelder and was born in Jones County Texas December 15, 1904 and will die in Rathdrum, Idaho November 26, 1992. Emerald will die in Rathdrum April 30, 1994. New England family Worcester, Massachusetts to New York then Illinois then out here.

 

MARGARET E. PUTNAM  St. Helena, Napa County

She is now 82 NY now says divorced rather than widowed as she has been in the past 20 years. Honesty pays off. Margaret Bogart was married to Alfred Eugene Putnam and was in Santa Barbara County in 1900 and 1910. Don’t find her in 1920 and she was in Lodi, San Joaquin County in 1930. Alford is in Los Angeles as he was in 1930 and still says he is married. Yeh right. This was a New England line coming out to Bureau County Illinois from New York and then Massachusetts. Margaret is a daughter of Peter Bogart and Frances Gilbert and was born in Utica, New York December 19, 1856 and will hang in out here till July 3, 1944 when she dies in Sonoma. Now it gets interesting, Maggie is living with James and Pearl Jetton who are the folks of Ruth Jetton who is married to Emerald Putnam here in town. I can’t figure any relationship to the Jettons or close to Emerald either.

 

CALVIN PUTMAN  Fullerton, Orange County

He is 33 AR and his wife Aretha Roseland is 31 AR. They were just married in Benton County Arkansas in 1927 and here in 1930. He was an oil field worker, but now works in a department store as a service manager. Retha was born in Arkansas April 22, 1908 and will die here in Fullerton January 7, 1992. They never had any children, and he will be here until he dies April 25, 1983. He is a son of John Jahu Putman and Mary Ann Lee from Benton County Arkansas. John was a son of William Lester Putman. Southern Putman Family out of Tennessee and South Carolina before that.

 

HARVEY PUTMAN  La Habra, Orange County

He is 32 OK, his wife Hattie Mable Shackelford is 31 OK and they have Harold D. 7 OK and Jerry Dale 5 OK. He works in a nursery. Harvey Otis is a son of George Washington Putman and Mary Jane Cole from Jackson County Alabama, then McKinney, Texas and then Jefferson County Oklahoma where he was born June 29, 1907. He married Hattie September 2, 1927. They were in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1930 and in Stephens County Oklahoma In 1935. She was born in Oklahoma September 2, 1908 and will die in Riverside County California May 27, 1998. Harvey will die in Kingman, Mohave County Oklahoma September 9, 1991. His brother John is in town now too.

 

J. R. (JOHN RICHARD) PUTMAN  La Habra, Orange County

He is 28 OK, his wife Lee Quay Martin is 26 OK and they have Lois Marie 5 OK. Also here is his married sister Alice Beatrice 24 OK and her husband Clinton Sloan 24 OK and their daughters Mary and Bobbie Jean. John is a son of George Washington Putman and Mary Jane Cole from Jackson County Alabama, then McKinney, Texas and then Jefferson County Oklahoma where John was born March 14, 1912. He married Lee Quay there in 1932. She is a daughter of Ruben Martinand Effie May Taylor. She was born in Ada, Oklahoma April 6, 1914 and will die in Lancaster, Los Angeles County January 20, 2009. John will die there too but on June 5, 1970. His brother Harvey is in town now too. Then, the daughter Lois was born November 6, 1934 and married Donald Eugene Givens. She has done a great amount of family research. She is still going strong on the Putman Family now in 2014.

 

JESSE J. (JACKSON) PUTMAN  La Habra, Orange County

He is 41 TX, his wife Lorene L. is 21 TX and they have Jimmie W. 3 OK and Eddie E. 1 CA. He lives next to his younger brother Harvey and works in the same nursery that he does. He is a son of George Washington Putman and Mary Jane Cole from Jackson County Alabama, then McKinney, Texas and then Oklahoma. Jake was born January 10, 1899 in Denton County Texas. He was in Grayson, Jefferson County Oklahoma with his wife Rose Hunter who he had married in 1922. They had no kids, and now he has a new wife that he must have married about 1934 as they were here in Texas in 1935. He will die in Carbon Hill, Walker County Alabama in May1975.

 

CHARLES R. (ROLAND) PUTNAM  Newport Beach, Orange County

He is 11 CA and is obviously single and living with his mother Alice 29 WA and her new husband Don Pederson. They have Theodore Pederson 8 CA so they got married around 1931. In 1930 Alice was here divorced and living with her widowed mother Grace Wycoff. Alice Barkley Wycoff was briefly married to Horace Roland Putnam from July 5, 1926 till about 1928. He was in Colorado in 1930 and married Geraldine Johnson there and be back here in El Monte, Los Angeles County now in 1940. Horace came down from Saskatchewan, Canada and his line goes back to Montana to Indiana to New Hampshire. New Englanders. Alice was born in Port Townsend, Washington August 25, 1909 and will die in Canyonville, Douglas County Oregon August 21, 1988. By then and earlier she must have divorced again and was using her maiden name up in Oregon. Young Charles was born here in Newport Beach August 17, 1928 and will die in Galveston County Texas October 13, 1990. From 1945 till 1956 he was a professional body builder and went under the name Eric Pederson. There are pictures on a family group sheet. In 1947 he was voted most muscular in the Mr. America contest and in the Mr. California contest he was the overall winner and second for the entire West Coast.

 

MARTIN PUTNAM  Newport Beach, Orange County

He is 35 ID, his wife Ellen Ruth Smith 39 CO and they have Billie R. Ritter 17 CA and Evelyn L. Ritter 14 CA from her prior marriage and Marjorie 9 CA from their marriage. He is working in the oil fields. They just pop up in Whittier, Los Angeles County in 1930. Couldn’t find him earlier. Here is another case that ancestry.com solved for me. There was one family sheet on him and that was enough. His full name is Clifford Martin Putman and he was listed as Clifford in 1910 in Nez Pierce County Idaho and 1920 in Stevens County Washington as a stepson of Marion and Nora Harmon. That wasn’t even a lot of help till I found the family sheet. Okay, here we go. He is a son of Isaac Bennett Putman and Nora Elizabeth Welch. He was born July 29, 1905 in Kamiah, Idaho County Idaho. They were married March 22, 1902. Then his folks divorced about 1908 and in 1910 he was actually listed in the census as Clifford Harmon. He will die in San Bernardino County June 16, 1946. Ellen is a daughter of George Buchannan Smith and Clara Ellen Peer and was born in Pueblo, Colorado June 22, 1900 and will die in Lakewood, Los Angeles County February 4, 1985. Then his dad Isaac was a son of David Hazeal Putman and Catherine May Lemaster and was born in Linn County Oregon December 31, 1870 and died in Bellingham, Washington October 9, 1937. He married Nora in 1902 got divorced about 1908, and married Rachel Susanna Smith. His dad David Hazeal was a son of Daniel Bennett Putman from Fulton County Illinois. Dan was a brother of my great great grandfather Reding Putman. Southern Putmans from Virginia to South Carolina to Illinois.

 

IDA V. (VAN EATON)  PUTNAM  Orange City, Orange County

She is now 74 OH and widowed as she has been. Ida Virginia Van Eaton was married to Oliver Kimball Putnam here in 1900 and has been widowed ever since he died here in 1916. Oliver was a son of Charles Henry Putnam and Adeline Sargent of Xenia, Ohio. Charles was a son of Jasper Wheeler Putnam (3105) and Mary Kimball, originally from Grafton, Massachusetts.

 

EDWARD A. PUTMAN  Santa Ana, Orange County

He is 44 MI MI MI single and a salesman in a retail department store. He is with his mother Maggie Niver 62 MI and divorced. Maggie was married to Edward Herbert Putman in Crawford County Michigan. Young Edward was married to Katherine Cooper in Shiawassee County Michigan in 1920. They must have gotten divorced as she was back there with the kids in 1930. Ed and his mother were here in 1930. He was single and she was on her second marriage to Elijah Carlisle. Her maiden name is Howse so I don’t know where the name Niver came from. Maybe a third hubby. Ed was born in Shiawassee County Michigan March 1, 1896 and he will die soon in Los Angeles on April 12, 1941. Dutch family originally from New York State.

 

ETHEL PUTNAM  Santa Ana, Orange County

She 59 UT and widowed. Her son Desmond is 20 UT. They were here in 1935, but in 1930 Ethel Eliza Birkinshaw was married to Adelbert Putnam in Los Angeles. Adelbert Carl Putnam is a son of Alfred Putnam and Josephine Toponee. He was with the family in Bountiful Utah in 1880 and in Salt Lake City after that through 1920. His dad was a son of Horatio Gates Putnam from Oxford County Maine. He went to Canada where he married and then came down to Utah. Adelbert was born March 30, 1877 in Miriam, Ontario Canada and died in Los Angeles August 31, 1937. They were all there in Los Angeles in 1930. Ethel is a daughter of William Birkinshaw and Zillah Greensmith and was born in Salt Lake City, Utah December 2, 1880 and will die here in Santa Ana January 8, 1954. Their son Desmond Ronald was born in Salt Lake City January 3, 1920 and will die here in Orange County October 29, 1973. New England family out of Maine.

 

GIRARD P. (PORTER) PUTNAM  Santa Ana, Orange County

He is 78 IL and his wife Caroline H. Gerstenberger is 74 IL. He is a son of Samuel Porter Putnam and Minerva Brock and was born in Mason County Illinois in January 1862 and then in Lincoln, Lancaster County Nebraska where they were in 1900 and up through 1930. His dad Sam was a son of Samuel Putnam (1752) and Hannah Kimball from Worcester County Massachusetts and then out to Chautauqua County New York where this Sam was born November 9, 1821. Girard is a musician in an orchestra here.

 

JOYCE C. (CALVIN) PUTNAM  Seal Beach, Orange County

He is 47 NE US US and is a plumber with his own plumbing supply shop. His wife Isabelle Harriet Reese is 42 CA and they have Elwin R. (Reese) 19 CA and Joyce I. 18 CA. The young Joyce is a gal. He is a son of Albert Edward Putnam and Emeline Babcock from Colfax County Nebraska where he was born September 21, 1892 and then Canada, Minnesota and finally Redlands, San Bernardino County. Albert was a son of Thomas Worthy Putnam from New York and New England before that. Calvin married Isabelle in San Diego May 5, 1918. Isabelle is a daughter of George Reese and Jennie Noble and was born August 12, 1897 in San Bernardino and will die in Long Beach July 4, 1973. Calvin will die here in Seal Beach on November 26, 1956.

 

SCOTT J. (JEREMIAH) PUTMAM  Auburn, Placer County

He is 16 IL single and living with his mother Ellemerie Rebecca Scott 43 IN and his stepfather Joseph Morgan 43 CA. He was in Kane County Illinois in 1935. His dad was Ira Jeremiah Putnam a son of Jeremiah Downer Putnam and Ida Barnes. Scott was born here October 28, 1923. His dad died in 1926 and his mom remarried in 1927. He was listed with them in 1930. He will marry Lorraine Oreno and they will live later in Humbolt County Nevada where he will die January 7, 2017.

 

ARTHUR W. (WHEELER) PUTNAM  Roseville, Placer County

He is 45 WA NY IL and a machinist for the Southern Pacific Railway as he was in 1930. His wife Ola May McDaniel is 40 IA and they have Yvonne 7 CA. He is a son of Myers Putman and Frances Wheeler from Everett Washington. He was born August 5, 1894 in King County Washington. He married Ola about 1932. She is a daughter of Charles E. McDaniel and Sarah Josephine Carman and was born in Sidney, Iowa August 15, 1899 and will die in Sacramento, Sacramento County November 30, 1967. Arthur will die in Fair Oaks, Sacramento County December 21, 1980. Dutch family from New York.

 

GERTRUDE PUTNAM  Banning, Riverside County

She is 68 PA widowed and was in Los Angeles in 1935.

 

JOHN D. (DEWITT) PUTNAM  Perris Township, March Field U. S. Air Base, Riverside County

He is 18 TX single and a mechanic in the Air Corps base here. He was in Nacogdoches, Louisiana in 1935. He is a son of Cecil Dewitt Putnam and Willie Mae Bullen. He was born in Dallas, Texas September 26, 1921 and was there with his folks in 1930. Dutch family from Whiteside County Illinois and Montgomery County New York before that.

 

ARTHUR C. PUTMAN  Riverside, Riverside County

He is 55 NY NY NY and is an electrical engineer with the power company. His wife Adelaide E. Hills is 49 NY and they have Donald F. 25 CA and Barbara J. 1 CA. They were here in 1920 and 1930. He is a son of Osgood Le Forest Putnam and Frances Cornelia Hitchcock from Madison County New York as shown there in 1900. He was born in Onondaga County February 10, 1885. He will die here in Riverside July 7, 1984. Dutch family from New York State.

 

NATHAN T. (TAPLEY) PUTNAM  Riverside, Riverside County

He is 51 MA MA MA and is an engineer with the electric power company. His wife Beatrice Isabelle ‘Betty’ Sargeant is 34 NV and they have Natalie 8 CA and her twin Norma 8 CA. He is a son of William Tapley Putnam and Lalia Woodbury from Danvers Massachusetts. He and his folks and his grandparents were all here from the early 1900s. He is also listed by himself at the Tetley Hotel here in Riverside. Maybe having some marital problems or something.

 

SHIRLEY G. PUTNAM  Riverside, Riverside County

She is 17 CA single and a niece of Arthur and Mildred Henry. She was here in 1935 and I can’t find in 1930. There is a California Birth Index that she was born July 6, 1922 in Riverside County and her motherճ maiden name was Ecklin. Father’s last name obviously was Putnam if that helps. Her daddy could be a son of David Albert Putnam who has been here in Riverside a long time. Could be Philip Merrill Putnam or Earle Wilbur Putman, or anyone wandering through this neck of the woods.

 

NORA M. PUTNAM  West Riverside, Riverside County

She is 47 OK IN IN and single and works in a cannery. She is a daughter of Daniel R. Putnam and Ida Jane Brawley. They were in Oklahoma then Polk County Missouri in 1900 and then Washington. I get them in Yamhill County Oregon in 1910 and Crook County Oregon in 1920. Nora and her sister Nellie were here in 1930. Southern Putman family going back to my great great grandfather Reding Putman in Fulton County Illinois and then back to Indiana to Kentucky to South Carolina to Virginia and England.

 

FRED B. (BALDWIN) PUTNAM  Georgiana, Sacramento County

He is 44 MN single and lodging. He is a hired man on a big ranch and says he was in Stockton in 1935. He is a son of Gordon Winslow Putnam and Karen ‘Karrie’ Bensen and was born in Stewart, Winona County on March 4, 1894 and will die in Sacramento May 23, 1983. Don’t think he ever married. When he registers for the draft in a couple of years he will be living in Solano.

 

BARBARA K. PUTNAM  Sacramento, Sacramento County

She is 43 CA and now widowed. She has George A. Junior 21 CA and William 17 CA at home still. Barbara Knauer was married to George Alfred Putnam here in 1920 and in San Francisco in 1930. George was a son of George P. Putman from Massachusetts and Florence Martin from Maine. Barbara is a daughter of John F, Knauer and Minnie Dietrich and was born in Sacramento August 22, 1896 and will die here in Sacramento May 7, 1947.

 

FLOYD F. (FRANKLIN) PUTNAM  Sacramento, Sacramento County

He is 39 IA IA IA and his wife Lena Hilda Lindgren is 37 WA SWED SWED. He is an insurance salesman. They were just married one year in 1930 when they were in Eureka, Humboldt County. He is a son of Frederick O. Putnam and Alva Augusta Hanson from Linn County Iowa in 1880 and 1900, 1910 in Whitman County Washington and then Benewah County Idaho in 1920. He was born in Iowa July 22, 1901 and will die in Sacramento March 15, 1984. New England family.

 

JESSE G. PUTNAM  Sacramento, Sacramento County

He is 63 NY and has his wife Emma Lydia Zyssett 59 NY with him. They were married in Oakland in 1923. We haven't been able to find Jesse in the 1920 or 1930

 

MARY JANE PUTNAM  Sacramento, Sacramento County

She is 99 MA single and lodging in same place as she was in 1935. She is a daughter of William Thomas Putnam and Susan Briggs from Sharon, Mass. and then Hookset, New Hampshire. This is the ‘other’ New England Family. She was in Yolo County in 1880 and in Rough and Ready, Nevada County in 1900. Then here in Sacramento ever since.

 

NANNIE PUTNAM  Sacramento, Sacramento County

She is 81 OH widowed and living with her widowed daughter Mildred Peeler 51 OH. Nanny Hughes was married to Prucius Wallace Putnam here in 1930. He was a son of Prucius Putnam and Emeline Hazeltine and was born in Waukesha County Wisconsin. He was home in 1850 and 1860 and in Weld County Colorado in 1880 and 1900 and Morgan County Colorado in 1910. He was originally married to Mary Asenath Rose who died in Douglas County Colorado September 15, 1917. New England family from Windsor County Vermont and Hillsborough County New Hampshire and Essex County Massachusetts before that.

 

GEORGE J. PUTNAM  Hollister, San Benito County

He is 61 OR and his wife Catherine 60 CA. His death certificate says he was born in Oregon August 24, 1878 and will die here in San Benito November 30, 1958. His mother’s name was Gates. He first shows up right here single in 1900 and married to Kate in 1910 and living near Clark Putnam from New York in both years. But Clark was in Oregon in 1880. I would guess a connection but he wasn’t shown anywhere in the 1880 censuses. But he is near Clark here in several censuses. Clark was New York Dutch and died here in 1926.

 

BARBARA PUTNAM  Atolia, San Bernardino County

She is 26 CAN living alone but says she is married and was in El Dorado County in 1935. Then there is this next separate listing.

 

LAWRENCE E. PUTNAM  Atolia, San Bernardino County

He is 40 IL married and lodging by himself. He is a mining engineer. Bingo, gotta be Barbie’s hubby. The listing is Larence E. Puttman, but he is Lawrence Edmond Putnam a son of Daniel Bryan and Mary Edith Putnam from Rossville, Vermilion County Illinois. He was born there July 26, 1899, there in 1900 and in Seattle, Washington in 1910 through 1920. In 1930 he was single in Portland, Oregon and then in Georgetown, El Dorado County California in 1935 just like Barbara listed above. According to his death index he will die October 15, 1972 and be living back in Seattle Washington.

 

GUY PUTNAM  Bloomington, San Bernardino County

He is 32 CA, his wife Mary Margaret Hawkins 27 NE and they have Billie 9 CA, Ursula 3 CA and Charles W. 1 CA. He is a son of Charles Edward Putnam and Winifred Belle Blackman and was born here in Redlands, California. They were here in Los Angeles in 1920. Guy was born July 12, 1907 in Riverside County and will die in San Bernardino County June 27, 1947. Margaret is wife number two, they were married June 7, 1935 in Riverside, California. Billie is with his first wife Bernice Lee Easterly who he was with in Los Angeles in 1920.

 

HORATIO POTNAN  Colton, San Bernardino County

He pops up but since I can’t find him and spelling not right, probably not a Putnam. He is listed 62 NY, his wife Florence 58 NY and he is a preacher.

 

WINNIE PUTNAM  Fontana, San Bernardino County

She is 57 MO and widowed. Winifred Blackman was married to Charles Edward Putnam in Los Angeles in 1920 and she was widowed there in 1930 and here by 1935. Charles was a son of John Day Putnam and Catherine Lovell. The line goes straight back to General Israel Putnam from Connecticut. Winnie is a craft teacher for the W.P.A. here. She is a daughter of Squire Grant Blackman and Virginia Alcorn. She was born in Missouri August 9, 1882 and will die here March 2, 1942.

 

LESTER R. (RICHARD) PUTMAN  Ontario, San Bernardino County

He is 82 MI and widowed. He is a son of William R. Putman and Martha Jane Smith and was born August 2, 1857 in Leroy, Ingham County Michigan. He married Katherine ‘Kate’ Pollock back there September 24, 1881. They were in Story County Iowa and then came out here and she died in Los Angeles in 1917 and he was widowed there in 1920 and in 1930. Dutch family out of Herkimer County New York State.

 

ALBERT L. or J. PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

He is 71 (probably 56) TX, his wife Stella Owens 61 (probably 46) IL and they have Dorothy 18 CA. Middle name may be John according to a tree on Ancestry. His death record states he was born March 18, 1869 in Texas and died April 28, 1945 in Redlands, San Bernardino County. Found a sheet on Dorothy Adelle Putnam born January 24, 1922 and died here in Redlands in September of 1978, but no parents listed. Then I find them in San Bernardino in 1930 indexed Putmar and listed as Albert L. 46 TX, his wife Stella 35 IL and Dorothy 8 CA. Those ages are more realistic, but still can’t find any earlier. Stella Owen’s find a grave has her folks as Owen Owens and Martha Andrews and she was born January 18, 1879 and died July 17, 1953 in Redlands. I think a lot of this poor writing was done by guys who wanted to look real dumb in order to avoid being drafted into WWII.

 

CLYDE A. (ALBERT) PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

He is 47 NE WI MA and his wife Olive Wyman is 45 PA. They now have Wayne W. 22 PA, Edgar W. 20 CA, and Clyde A. 16 CA. He is a son of Willis Eugene Putnam and Grace Lewis from here. He was born in Scribner, Dodge County Nebraska March 20, 1893 and will die here April 29, 1952. I guess he was out in Pennsylvania in the teens and married Olive June 30, 1914 and had Wayne there. Maybe getting out of the army after WWI. He was married here in 1920 and 1930. Olive is a daughter of Samuel Elbarger Wyman and Amanda Jane Wagner and was born in Rimersburg, Pennsylvania July 10, 1894. He runs a grocery store with his brother Harold. New England family.

 

E. A. (ELIZABETH ANN)  PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

She is 88 PA and widowed as she has been since 1908. Her now widowed son Lloyd Raymond Putnam 57 OR is back with her. He operates a retail gasoline station. We called them ‘Service Stations’ back then. Elizabeth Hutchinson was married to Charles Frederick Putnam Jr. here from the 1880s through the early 1900s and has been widowed here ever since. Charles father was a son of Joseph Washington Putnam and Susan Hall of Lexington, Kentucky and then Stow, Massachusetts before that. Elizabeth was born in Pennsylvania February 22, 1852 and will die here in Redlands August 25, 1942. Her son Lloyd Raymond was born in Oregon December 10, 1881 and will die in Los Angeles County March 26, 1955. He married Elizabeth Ann Prout who died in 1924 in Superior, Arizona where they were living while he was working an ore mine there in the 1917 to 1927 time period. New Englanders.

 

FRED E. (ELMER) PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

He is 78 MN NY NY and his wife Bertha Louise Palmer 71 NE OH IL. He is a son of Thomas Worthy Putnam and Lucretia Towne. He was in Dodge County Nebraska through 1900 and then here with his brothers in 1910. They were here in 1920 and 1930. He has a Fruit Grove Ranch. They have been married 38 years. Fred was born September 8, 1861 and will die here June 5, 1948. Bertha was born in 1868 and will die here in 1950. Their son Roland is married now in Los Angeles. New England family in Wisconsin then back to New York to Massachusetts.

 

GRACE PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

She is 68 MA and widowed. Grace Lewis was married to Willis Emery Putnam who died here in 1922. Willis was a son of Thomas Worthy Putnam and Lucretia Towne. He was born in Wisconsin and his folks came out of New York and Massachusetts before that. Willis was born September 6, 1857 and died here January 24, 1922. Grace was born in Springfield, Massachusetts July 10, 1871 and will die here in Redlands January 13, 1962.

 

HAROLD W. (WORTHY) PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

He is 51 ND MN MA (ND WI MA) and his wife Laura Lucy Sargent is 51 NH. He is a son of Willis Eugene Putnam and Grace Julia Lewis from here. He was married here in 1920 too. He is a retail grocer. Harold was born in Sturgis, Meade County South Dakota March 23, 1889 and will die here in Redlands on July 24, 1983. Laura is a daughter of Charles Henry Sargent and Martha Ann Clark and was born in Nashua, New Hampshire March 23, 1889 and will die here in Redlands October 31, 1972. New England line that goes back though North Dakota to Wisconsin to New York and Massachusetts.

 

RAYMOND PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

He is 27 CA, his wife Pearl Lydia Anderson is 28 CA and they have Karen 11/12 CA. Raymond Willis Putnam is a son of Harold Worthy Putnam and Laura Lucy Sargent and was born here in Redlands August 27, 1912 and will die here December 22, 1989. He married Pearl here April 21, 1937. She is a daughter of Peder Kristian Anderson and Mathilda Kamilla Hansen both from Denmark. She was born in East Highland, San Bernardino County October 12, 1911 and will die here in Redlands November 23, 2002. Ray works in the Putnam Brothers Market, a grocery store owned by his dad Harold and his uncle Clyde. There is a picture on a family tree. The store was in a converted Phillips 66 gas station and still had a pump outside in front. This is a New England family out of Winchester, Massachusetts to Chautauqua County New York to Wisconsin to California.

 

ROBERT S. (SARGENT) PUTNAM  Redlands, San Bernardino County

He is 24 CA and his wife Virginia Pearl Demaree is 24. He is a high school teacher and she is a church organist. He is a son of Harold Worthy Putnam and Laura Sargent and was born in San Bernardino September 29, 1915. He married Virginia June 12, 1938. She is a daughter of Roy Tilford Demaree and Margaret J. Mackensie and was born in Dinuba, Tulare County July 14, 1915 and will die in Riverside, Riverside County on October 17, 2010. Robert will die in Moreno Valley, Riverside County November 5, 2007. New England line that goes back though North Dakota to Wisconsin to New York and Massachusetts.

 

CHARLES PUTNAM  Coronado, San Diego County

He is 70 MA and widowed. He has 2 daughters with him Marley Putnam 29 NY and Julia A. Huntington 28 NY and her daughter Cornelia 6 NY. He is a retired physician and they are in Oxford Tent City at the Coronado State Hospital. He has been in New York City practicing medicine since 1900 and was there in 1935. He is a son of George Putnam (3155) and Harriet Lowell from Canton, Norfolk County Massachusetts. He was born in Ponkapog, Massachusetts July 17, 1869. He married Angelica Talcott Rathbone in New York City December 26, 1899. They divorced I think, and she died there January 13, 1940. He must be out here on some medical mission. He will be back in New York and will marry Margaret Krueder in Bedford, New York March 2, 1946. He will die in New York City April 19, 1962.

 

ESSA PUTNAM  Coronado, San Diego County

She is 48 KS widowed and a servant to the Sharp family. She was married to Wade M. Putnam in Oceanside, San Diego County in 1930. He was a son of Lester Richard Putman and Katherine Ann Pollack from Story County Iowa. He was born there in September 1885. His folks are from Michigan, their folks from New York. Dutch Family.

 

PAUL A. (ALBERT) PUTNAM  Coronado, San Diego County

He is 36 MI and his wife Virginia Miley is 32 VA and they have Peggy Hamilton 10 CA, Carol Field 8 CA and Michelle 5 FL. He is now a Captain in the U. S. Marine Corps. He joined the Marines in 1926. He is a son of Alfred Emory Putnam and Alice Stannard McNeil from Washtenaw County Michigan. The family was in Iowa in 1910, and the family was in Washington County Iowa in 1920 and 1930. He was stationed here in 1930 as a lieutenant and then stationed in Pensacola, Florida in 1935 and then Puerto Rico in the late 1930s. In the Muster Role, he will be a major by December 1940 and in Marine Bombing Squadron Two. He was taken as a prisoner by the Japs on Wake Island. He was returned after the War. He was born in Milan, Michigan June 16, 1903 and will die in Fairfax, Virginia May 21, 1982. Virginia was born July 25, 1907 in Virginia and will die in Arizona July 31, 2002. The daughter Peggy Hamilton was born October 12, 1929 and will die in Arizona June 11, 2007. Carol Field was born in San Diego June 2, 1931 and will marry Walter John Shuddle, and later die in Phoenix, Arizona December 12, 2012. New England family Massachusetts to New York to Michigan.

 

CALEB F. (FOWLER) PUTNAM (JR.)  El Cajon, San Diego County

He is 52 CO NY NY and his wife Frances J. Geraci is 39 ITALY. He is a fruit picker, she a waitress. They have Caleb F. (3rd) 19 CA and Mitchell B. 14 CA. He is a son of Caleb Fowler Putnam and Mary Helmer from Freemont County Colorado. His folks are from New York and his grandparents from Vermont. Caleb Jr. was born December 28, 1887 and will die January 12, 1960, Frances was born May 15, 1901 and will die here November 27, 1961. The son Mitchell was born September 14, 1925 and will die February 1, 1984. Caleb the third was born April 14, 1921 and will die out here in October 2008.

 

LILLA R. PUTNAM  El Cajon, San Diego County

She is 58 MA and widowed. She owns her home. She says she was last in Quincy, Massachusetts, and by golly she was there from the early 1900s. Lillian R. Wyman married Clarence W. Putnam in Haverhill, Massachusetts January 18, 1902. Gave her folks as John E. Wyman and Jennie N. Pepper from Cambridge, Massachusetts. Clarence was a son of Milon G. Putnam and Jennie L. Welch from Lisbon, Grafton County New Hampshire. Milon’s folks were John C. Putnam and Mehitable Jane Weston from Lisbon. He was in the Navy in the Philippines in 1900. Then he and Lilla were in Quincy where he worked in the shipyards until he died. I lived in Hingham, Massachusetts one town away from Quincy and the shipyards that still existed when I was there from 1968 till 1988. Think they are pretty much gone now. During WWII here were also shipyard in Hingham and by the time I got there the shipyards were kinda abandoned with a few businesses and a few stores. Each building had a number and Building 19 was a big outlet kinda place when I got there and had closeouts, all sorts of stuff, even foods. It grew and eventually moved down by Route 3 in South Hingham in a shopping center. It closed around 2000 and the whole area now is the Derby Street Mall. The old Hingham Shipyard is totally renovated with shops, trendy restaurants and all. See, in a tad over a half-century things totally can reverse themselves

 

ROBERT I. (ISRAEL) PUTNAM  El Cajon, San Diego County

He is 33 FL and divorced as he was in 1930 back in Oklahoma City. He is an automobile mechanic in the Army at Fort Rosecrans. He is a son of Eugene Mercer Putnam and Laura and was born in De Soto County Florida May 23, 1907 and was there in 1910 and with the family in Atlanta, Georgia in 1920 and Oklahoma City in 1930. He will die here in California November 10, 1972. His dad is a son of Jesse Mercer Putnam and Zena Lofton from Calhoun County Georgia. Line goes back to Henry Putnam from Medford, Massachusetts who came down to South Carolina during the Revolution and his ship ran aground and he stayed there and then went to Georgia where Putnam County was named for him as an early settler and his cousin General Israel Putnam of Revolutionary War fame.

 

W. M. (WILTON LEAVENS) PUTNAM  El Cajon, San Diego County

He is 55 CO and his wife Ethelwyn Humphrey is 56 MA. He owns his own ranch and says they were here in 1935. Pretty sure he is a son of Burton Balch Putnam and Clara H. Leavens from Greeley Colorado. Burton was a son of Leslie Lincoln Putnam from Waukesha County Wisconsin. Family was out of Vermont before that. He was single in Los Angeles in 1930. Wilton was born September 28, 1884 in Greeley, Colorado and will die April 6, 1967 in San Diego, California. Ethelwyn was born in Massachusetts February 11, 1880 and will die in San Diego October 21, 1964.

 

WILLIAM M. PUTNAM  El Cajon, San Diego County

He is 63 NY NY NY and is an inmate in the Edgemoor County Poor Farm. He was single in National City in 1920 and an inmate here in 1930. He looks to be the son of David and Henrietta Putnam from Albany New York as shown there in the 1880.

 

LENA PUTNAM  Escondido, San Diego County

She is 51 AZ and widowed. Her daughter Corrine 17 CA is with her. Magdalene Mendeval was married to David Franklin Putman in Ramona, San Diego County in 1930.They were married about 1920 and were in Patagonia, Arizona in 1920 and then here in Ramona in 1930. He was a son of Madison DeKalb Putman Jr. and Louisa Jane Casner from here. He was born here in San Diego County June 6, 1876 and will die next year on August 5, 1931. Southern Putman family VA > SC > AL > TX > CA.

 

FRANK PUTNAM  La Mesa, San Diego County

He is 35 OR and his wife Corrine is 56 KS. Age is obviously off for one or the other. Can’t ever find them under ages 25, 35, 55, 66, 85 86.

 

FANNIE PUTMAN  Ramona, San Diego County

Fannie Bell Pepper is 62 TX and widowed. She was right here in 1930 married to John Joseph Putnam born in Michigan September 26, 1867. I can’t find him before. I guessed he was a son of Ira Joseph Putnam and Rosanna Longnecher from Cass County Michigan. Only reason I know her is that there is a death record and tombstone in Ramona where she died October 27, 1950. She was born in Texas March 7, 1878. Also found a death certificate for Joseph born September 26, 1867 in Michigan and died in Los Angeles December 28, 1940. So Fannie isn’t widowed just abandoned it seems. The most important thing on the certificate was that it stated his mother’s name was Longnecher. BINGO! He is indeed Ira’s kid. New England Family out of Vermont before Michigan.

 

ADA PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 54 MO and widowed. She has Oscar 33 KS and Sara 24 CA at home and her widowed sister Effie Cowen 74 WI is here too. Ada Theodosia Gardner was the third wife of Silas Putnam and they were here in 1930. He was a son of Silas and Sarah Putnam from Leavenworth Kansas. His dad was from Chester Vermont and then came into Lenawee County Michigan and then here.

 

ADA A. PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 81 WI and widowed. She is living with her widowed daughter Beatrice Swain 55 CO WI WI. Ada A. Bull is the widow of Leslie Lincoln Putnam who died in Greeley City Colorado March 15, 1888. She was widowed there in 1900 and here with her daughter ever since. Leslie was a son of Prucius Putnam and Emeline Haseltine from Big Bend, Wisconsin where he was born June 9, 1858. He and Ada were married January 1, 1881. Ada was born in Merrimack, Wisconsin July 24, 1858 and will die here in San Diego February 4, 1942. Beatrice was born in Colorado December 12, 1883 and married Frank Swain about 1908. She will die here in San Diego May 31, 1963. New England family.

 

ALFRED F. (FOWLER) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 58 CO NY NY. He is boarding with a Kimball family. He was married to Ella Isherwood. They were here in 1920 and were in Teller County Colorado in 1910 and he was in Freemont County before that. But they were living separately in 1930 as they are now. They both said they were married in 1930 and still say that today, but I doubt it. He is a son of Caleb Fowler Putman and Mary E. Helmer from Freemont County. Caleb was a son of William Putnam and his second wife Abigail Fowler of German Flats, Herkimer County New York and Vermont before that. He was born July 17, 1881 and will die here in San Diego July 10, 1951. Now in 1940 Ella and their married daughter Laura are here in town as they have been. His dad Caleb Fowler Putnam is here in town still at age 86 NY and his brother James is living in the same hotel. New Englander.

 

ALICE A. (AMELIA) PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 78 CA widowed and has her grandson Stephen Bartlett 18 CA. She is Alice Amelia Sanderson the ex-wife (divorced not widowed) of Clarence Benson Putman from Colusa County. They were in Los Angeles in 1900 and separated in 1910 when both were in San Francisco. She was in Humboldt County in 1920 and San Bernardino County in 1930. Clarence was a doctor and a son of Francis Marion Putman from Linn County Missouri and then Colusa County California. Clarence died in Napa County August 4, 1918. Earlier the family was from Indiana then back to Kentucky and then Virginia. Southern Putman family.

 

ANNIE R. (RUHANNA) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 72 NY NY NY and single. Her single sister Amy 68 VT NY NY is still living with her. They were all here in 1920 with their folks Elbert Harrison Putnam and Thetis Bishop who have died in the 1930s. Annie, Amy and their other single sister Irene were here in 1930. From 1880 till 1910 they were all in Bennington, Vermont. The family was originally from Vermont but moved to Essex County New York. Elbert got homesick I guess and returned to Vermont in the 1870s. New Englanders.

 

ARTHUR C. PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 42 NE US US and his wife Thelma Lavinia Bianchini is 42 CA. He was a chief Boatswain Mate in the U. S. Navy in 1930 but is now a painter in an aircraft manufacturing plant. He is the son of Willis Emery Putman and Suzanne Day Manger. He was born in Omaha May 30, 1897, and was there in 1900. His dad died in 1909 and he was in Okanogan County Washington with his widowed mother in 1910. In 1920 he was listed in the Military Census and was in the Navy at sea on the USS Doyers. He and Thelma were married here in April 1921. Thelma is a daughter of Eugenio Bianchini and Louisa Luigia Bizzini and was born in San Simeon, California December 8, 895 and will die in San Luis Obispo, California November 23, 1984. Arthur will die here in San Diego July 19, 1977. Dutch family originally from Montgomery County in New York State.

 

CALEB F. (FOWLER) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 86 NY NY NY and widowed. He was married to Mary Helmer and was in Freemont County Colorado from the 1890s till the 1920s and then here widowed in 1930. Several of his children are in this area. He is a son of William Putnam and his second wife Abigail Fowler of German Flats, Herkimer County New York. William’s folks were Alfred and Sophia Putnam from Vermont. He was born in Saratoga County New York August 11, 1853 and will die here in San Diego January 13, 1944 at age 90. His son Alfred is here in town and his son James is here in the same hotel now, probably in the same room but names are separated by 2 other ones.  His other son Caleb Jr. is in El Cajon, San Diego County now a well. New Englanders.

 

CLAIRE PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 41 IL and has Georgia 7 UT, Patricia 4 IL. She was in Salt Lake City in 1935 and says she is married. She is Clair Winifred Lapean and married George Alfred Putnam in Colorado April 11, 1931. They have since gotten divorced. George was in Los Angeles in 1930 married to Mary Edna Johnson. Don’t know where he is now in 1940.

 

CLARENCE PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 23 NC single and lodging in a boarding house or hotel. He doesn’t have a job and says he was right here in 1935. He is Clarence B. Putnam a son of William Oren Putnam and Fannie Eaker from Shelby, Cleveland County North Carolina. His dad was a son of David Clarence Putman and Corrine Sally Roberts, and his grandfather was David Carson Putman and Sarah Ann Roberts all from Shelby. He was born there December 1, 1916 and will eventually die in Dallas, Texas July 19, 1998. He will join the Navy out here and will marry Elizabeth May Vaughan out here in Mission Hills, San Diego County November 29, 1942. A relative said that Elizabeth was still hanging in there as of 2013. Southern Putman Family.

 

ELLA PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 54 CO and her married daughter Laura Ver Mehr 33 CO and husband Stuart Ver Mehr 52 CA are with her. She says she is married but Alfred isn’t around as he has been. Ella G. Isherwood married Alfred Fowler Putnam in Freemont County Colorado about 1903 or 1904. They were in Teller County Colorado in 1910 and then down here in San Diego by 1920 and were here in 1930. He is a son of Caleb Fowler Putman and Mary E. Helmer from Freemont County. Caleb was a son of William Putnam and his second wife Abigail Fowler of German Flats, Herkimer County New York and Vermont before that. He was born July 17, 1881 and will die here in San Diego July 10, 1951. Ella was born in Freemont County Colorado June 9, 1985 and will die here in San Diego September 6, 1961. Her father William Isherwood was born in England. In April 1854.  Right now Alfred is alive and well boarding with a Kimball family here in San Diego and he too says he is married. They must have gotten a divorce as in 1942 she is then listed by herself in the San Diego City Directory.

 

ERNEST E. (EDWIN) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 59 NH MA NH. His wife Julia May Clapp is 62 NH and their son Alton Hale Putnam is 26 CT. He is an automobile salesman. He is a son of Albro Hale Putnam and Ellen Jane Russell from Hillsborough County New Hampshire. He was born November 22, 1880. The family was in Wilton New Hampshire in 1870 and Brookline New Hampshire in 1880. They then moved to Townsend, Massachusetts in the early 1880s and his dad died there April 22, 1883. Ernest married Gertrude Jane Nichols in the late 1890s and they were in Westminster, Massachusetts in 1900. They then got divorced. He and Julia were in Athol in 1910 and Danvers, Massachusetts in 1920. Gertrude was in Townsend, Massachusetts in 1910 and was there with her mother in 1920. Ernest will die in San Diego February 16, 1968. Julia was born in Montague, Franklin County Massachusetts February 25, 1878 will die here December 23, 1970. Alton was born January 28, 1914 and will die in San Diego October 19, 1985.

 

GAYLE PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 37 OK and says married, but her name is crossed off. His second wife Naomi McCoin is back in Oklahoma City. He is Gayle Carey Putman/Putnam a son of Emile Burch Putman and Lillian L. King and was born October 10, 1902 in Shawnee, Pottawatomie County Oklahoma. He was there through 1920. He then married Pearl Lambert about 1921 and they were divorced in 1924. In 1930 she was in El Reno, Oklahoma with their son Billie and Gayle is married to Naomi McCoin and they are in Oklahoma City in 1930. He had her name on this census sheet but a line was through it but she is back in Oklahoma. He will soon marry Mildred Bernice Ballard. He will die in El Paso, Texas April 13, 1964. Mildred is 15 years younger than him and she will die in Garland, Dallas County Texas August 15, 2002. This line goes back to Calhoun County Alabama to Tennessee to Union County South Carolina and to Virginia. Southern Putmans.

 

HERBERT (HUBERT) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 48 CA a salesman for cosmetics. His wife Bessie M. is 40 LA. Looks like Hubert Latimer Putnam who was with his widowed mother Dorilla in San Jose in 1930. Don’t find him earlier so no clue as to his dad.

                                                                                                                         

IRA D. (DWIGHT) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 57 MO, his wife Ellen Lillian McCurdy 43 UT, and they have Ira D. 20 UT, Wanda E. 16 UT, William Jerome 13 CA and Ted E. 3 CA. He is a bond salesman. They were here in 1930 and he is a stockbroker then. He is a son of Leroy Putnam and Naomi Griffin and was born May 25, 1880 in Mercer County Missouri and will die in San Diego February 13, 1951. He first married Alice Dunn in Pueblo, Colorado April 16, 1900. Divorced I guess and he married Ellen in Iowa August 24, 1918. Grandparents were Luther Putman and Lucy Ann Ewell from Madison County New York. New York Dutch family.

 

ISABELLA PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 65 SCOTLAND and now widowed. Isabella Grieve OՎeil was married to George Israel Putnam who was son of Daniel S. Putnam and Elizabeth Jones of Charlestown, New Hampshire and then Ulster County New York where George was born April 4, 1860. He graduated from West Point in the early 1880s. He married Maud Labaree in Vermont June 12, 1887. She died July 6, 1888. He then married Cora Stowell November 5, 1896. His dad died in 1891, and they all returned to Charlestown where Cora died March 8, 1903. He married Isabelle in Vermont July 10, 1906. They were in Charlestown in 1910 and here in 1920 and 1930. Isabella is a daughter of Bernard O’Neil and Jane Grieve and was born January 17, 1875 in Brechin, Forfar County Scotland and will die here in San Diego January 21, 1973 at age 98.

 

IVAN PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 29 OH, his wife Maxine Shelburn is 25 CA and they have Jeanine 4 CA and Kathleen 1 CA. Max’s widowed dad Ed Shelburn 63 KY is with them. Ivan Markwood Putman is a son of Elder Willis Putman and Arlene Mary Gaier and was born in Liberty, Van Wert County Ohio March 13, 1910 and will die here in San Diego September 28, 1961. German Putman family, like everyone in Van Wert County Ohio. His grandfather Peter came out of Somerset County Pennsylvania and his folks named Andrew Boutemont or Buedman out of Rohrbach, Germany.

 

JAMES PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 31 NY, his wife Ruth Bowers 24 OK and her brother J. C. Bowers 22 AR. Too may James that might fit. Can’t guess.

 

JAMES PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 48 MO PA MN and his wife Ruby May is 43 IN. He has a dry cleaning establishment and his wife works there with him. They were here in 1930. I can’t figure him out. He originally married Elma Frances Hoover September 8, 1919 and they were in Chicago in 1920 and then divorced in 1922. His death card reads that he is James Baker Putnam born February 2, 1892 in Missouri and died in San Diego January 26, 1955. There is also a death card for Ruby May Putnam born in Indiana February 4, 1897 and died in San Diego December 20, 1979.   

 

JAMES B. (BIRNEY) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 45 CO single and living in the same hotel or boarding house as his father Caleb Fowler Putnam who I have listed earlier. James is a son of Caleb Fowler Putnam and Mary Helmer and was born in Freemont County Colorado September 18, 1894 and will die here in San Diego March 11, 1945. He was married to Ruby here in the late 1920s through 1937 though not indexed that I can find except in San Diego Street Directories.

 

JAMES D. (DIXON) PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 21 TX single and lodging in a hotel. He is a truck driver. He was last in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a son of William Wesley Putman and Willie Belle Duke from Navarro County Texas. Southern Putmans North Carolina to Alabama to Tennessee to Texas.

 

JAMES M. McCURRY) PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 53 MO and now divorced. He is a son of William M. Putman and Cornelia Wilson and was born in Gentry County Missouri November 1, 1886. He was with the family there then in Denver, Colorado from about 1902 thru the 1910. He married Vera in Salt Lake City, Utah July 24, 1913 and they were in Los Angeles by 1914. They were there in 1920. They were divorced and I don’t find them in 1930. In the early 1930s till now he has been here in San Diego by himself. He will die in Solano, California November 3, 1963. He was a Sergeant in WWI and is buried in the Golden Gate National Cemetery in Bruno, California. Now, his dad was a son of Elijah Putman and Matilda Kenton and was born in Ohio and then went to Brown County Illinois with the other families that came from Virginia to Kentucky. Southern Putmans, of course.

 

LEWIS D. (DEXTER) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 38 VA, his wife Carrollee Graham is 33 SC and they have Margaret C. 9 VA, Barbara A. 7 VA, Lewis D. 2 FL and Robert W. 1 CA. Lewis Dexter Junior is a son of Lewis Dexter Putnam and Alice L. Foster. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia October 19, 1901 and ten was with the family in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1920 and St. Petersburg, Florida in 1930. He is currently an airplane mechanic in the U.S. Navy. He will be stationed at Pearl Harbor when the Japs hit it on December 7, 1941. He’ll survive and return to Pinellas County Florida and die in St. Petersburg in 1982. This is a New England family going back to Benjamin Putnam from Massachusetts who was in Savannah, Georgia in the mid 1780s.

 

LOUIE W. (WATKINS) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 53 IL ME MO. His wife Elvira M. Stoddart is 51 WI and they have a niece Joan Prince 9 IL. He was a Captain in the U. S. Marines and may still be. They were in Vallejo, Solano County in 1930. He is a son of Edgar Waler Putnam and Mary McLeod from Ogden, Champaign County Illinois. He was born there February 17, 1887 and will die in San Diego June 18, 1973. Elvira was born in Milwaukee July 2, 1886 and will also die in San Diego but on January 17, 1966. Family was originally from Massachusetts.

 

MARGARET PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

She is 62 MN widowed and lodging. She was here widowed in 1930, but I can’t find her earlier. In the Minnesota 1905 Census she or someone about the same age was married to Israel Putnam and they had a son Harold born in 1900, but I can’t find them in 1900 and no other ideas. Hollis Putnam had a wife Margaret Ayers this same age, but they are still in St. Cloud, Minnesota now and were in 1930.

 

PAUL PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 37 TX and his wife Anna Whitfield Knox is also 37 TX. He is a son of Marcus Green Putnam and Annie Weaver and was born in Hill County Texas November 19, 1901. He and Anna were married in Jones County Texas December 9, 1934 and were here in San Diego, California by 1935. Anna is a daughter of Lawrence Seymour Knox and Roberta Whitfield White and was born in Hill County Texas April 5, 1900 and will die in Lubbock, Texas May 30 1989. Paul joined the U. S. Navy in 1923 and is a metal worker for them. He will die in action in the Pacific on November 15, 1942. He will be buried in the Laurel Land Memorial Park for the Military in Dallas Texas. Southern Putman family going back to Martin Putman in Marshall County Alabama and then back to Thomas Putman in North Carolina and then Virginia and England.

 

ROBERT L. PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 39 WI single and is a sergeant and a section leader in the U.S.M.C and was stationed here in 1935 too. Can’t find him earlier. Maybe went under his middle name. Or maybe not a Putnam at all.

 

ROSS PUTMAN  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 44 KS KS PA and is a pharmacist in a drug store that he owns and has since the 1920s. His wife Alice May Glenn is 41 MO. He is Silas Ross Putnam son of Silas A. Putnam and Emma Courtney. His grandfather Silas R. Putnam was from Cheshire County Vermont who went to Michigan in the 1840s and to Leavenworth, Kansas in the 1850s. They were in Leavenworth Kansas through 1910. His folks were here in 1920, and Ross was in Maricopa County Arizona. He married Alice in the 1920s and they were here in 1930. He was born in Leavenworth October 26, 1895 and will die here in La Jolla November 17, 1968. Alice was born in Kansas in January 1897 and will die back there in Houlton, Kansas October 3, 1975. New Englanders out of Vermont.

 

RUFUS E. (ESTELL) PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is 60 TN TN TN now widowed and living alone He is a mechanic doing odd jobs. He is a son of Walter Scott Putman and Eliza Jackson from Franklin County Tennessee. He was born there July 13, 1879, and was with the family in the1880. By 1900 the family was in Arlington, Tarrant County Texas. He was single there in 1900. In 1910 he was there married to Mattie Harrison. It was the second marriage for both. So he married a Jessie (I think) who died in 1902 and then Mattie in 1909. Mattie was here in San Diego in 1920 and is divorced from Rufus. He was single here in 1930. He will die here in San Diego December 12, 1956, and be taken back to Arlington and be buried there. Southern Putman family.

 

THEO PUTNAM  San Diego, San Diego County

He is listed 27 SD single and lodging. He is a hosiery salesman and was in Norfolk, Madison County Nebraska in 1935. But No! This is a gal Theo Helene Putnam a daughter of Peter Putnam and Julia Runkle from Valley, Tripp County South Dakota and yes, Theo and her folks were indeed in Norfolk, Madison County Nebraska in 1935. Theo was born September 29, 1912 in Dallas, Gregory County South Dakota and will die in Las Vegas, Nevada September 11, 2008. She will marry Leroy Bud Colver in Yuma, Arizona June 28, 1942. Leroy was born March 3, 1921 in Chase County Nebraska and will die in Bullhead City, Arizona in 1973. Family is from Vermont.

 

JOHN E. (EDWARD) PUTMAN  Vista, San Diego County

He is 70 CA and his wife Myrtle Bell Bay 64 MO. He is a son of Madison DeKalb Putman and Louisa Casner from Llano County Texas and then out here right after the Civil War. Southern Putman family from South Carolina to Texas to out here. He was born in Hatfield Creek, California on June 9, 1869. He married Myrtle Bell Bay on May 5, 1895 in Perris, Riverside County California. Myrtle was born in Springfield, Missouri March 17, 1876 and will die in San Diego November 4, 1952. He was a miner, a farmer, a barber and now a rancher. They were in Escondido in 1930. He will die in San Diego on December 30, 1948.

 

BERNICE PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 24 NE single and lodging. She is a cosmetician and was here in 1935. Bernice Dolores Putnam is a daughter of John W. Putnam and Irene Dolan and was born in Columbus, Platte County Nebraska March 2, 1916 and was there with her folks in 1920 and 1930. She will soon marry John Lindberg here. He is a son of John Henry and Bernice Lindberg and was born in San Francisco November 19, 1909 and will die here May 1, 1980. Bernice will die in South Lake Tahoe February 15, 2009. Her line goes back to William Clark Putman and Sarah Harding who came to Nebraska in the 1870s from Cayuga County New York. Dutch Putman family from Montgomery County New York.

 

BERNICE L. PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 23 KS single and lodging. She is not working and was in Denver, Colorado in 1935. She pops up at age 3 ½ (born in Oklahoma) as a niece of Albert C. Putman and Eve Christine Howell in Sand Creek, Norton County Kansas in 1920. I figure she was a daughter of his brother Alpheus who wasn’t around in 1920 and his widow Ida May Kensler was in Wichita, Kansas with her folks. Bernice was still in Norton, but with her widowed grandmother Amanda Louise Davis who was the widow of William P. Putman. They were the folks of both Albert and Alpheus. William was a son of Jacob Putman, and was born April 11, 1855 in Scott County Iowa and died there in Norton on February 28, 1927. Amanda was born in Indiana September 17, 1866 and died there January 20, 1934. I don’t have any more info on Bernice. Dutch Putman family out of Montgomery County New York a while back.

 

BESS PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 41 SD and widowed and a saleslady at a retail store. She is living with her widowed mother Belle B. Smith 67 ID, her divorced sister Marie Holmes 38 SD and her son David Holmes 14 SD. She had married C. L. Putnam here May 15, 1924. That would be Clifford Luther Putnam a son of Fred Luther Putnam and Ida Blanchard from Centerville, Turner County South Dakota. He was born there June 15, 1896 and was single in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County South Dakota in 1920. Don’t know when he died but it was before 1930, as he never appears again anywhere. Bess, her mom and sister were all in Sioux Falls in 1935.

 

BUDFORD PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 25 MI, his wife Thelma Liebers is 21 CA and they have Maureen 2 CA. She is a seaman on a steamship and says they were here in 1935. He is a son of Benjamin Putman who was a son of William Barzell Putman and Percy Sherwood from Osceola County Michigan. Budford was born in Lake Rosa, Michigan in 1914. In 1920 he is with his then divorced mother Anna Christensen living with her dad in Tillamook, Oregon. Found a little info on the daughter Maureen Anne. She gives her mother’s name as Liebers and she was born January 2, 1938. She will marry Clarence O. Grant here on November 14, 1959.

 

CHARLES G. PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 58 CA NY NY and his wife Helen Cobb is 53 AZ. He is a selling agent for hardware. They are living in the El Camino Apartments. They were here in 1920 and 1930. He is a son of Alfred E. Putnam and Margaret Bogart from Santa Barbara County. His dad was from Utica New York and was a district attorney in Santa Barbara. New England family.

 

CHRISTINA PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 32 NE single and a maid in the house of Benjamin and Alma Kraus. She is a daughter of George Francis Putman and Minnie Lydia Geyer. Her family moved monthly I think. This is a Southern Putman family from North Carolina to Alabama to Tennessee to Arkansas to Missouri to Kansas. Her dad was born in Tennessee and will die in Oregon. As to Christina, she was in Nebraska in 1908, Montrose County Colorado in 1910, Lawrence, Kansas in 1915, New Orleans 1920, and Phoenix, Oregon in 1930. Said enough is enough and was here in 1935 and may stay here forever this is the latest I have on her.

 

CLARICE PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is Clarice ԃlaraՠStrelke 42 WI and divorced. She has Joseph 13 CA, Patricia 8 CA and Jaclyn 6 CA. Says they were in the same house here in 1935. Found a birth index for Joseph Peter Putnam born in Oxnard, Ventura County June 14, 1927. His mother’s name was Strelke. He will die in San Diego June 13, 2010. Likewise Patricia Anne was born January 20, 1932 and mom was a Strekle. Then I found a family sheet and I hit pay dirt! Jacqueline Ann Putnam was born November 22, 1920 in San Francisco and will die over in Oceanview, Hawaii July 20, 2002. And ɨer parents were Joseph Peter Putnam and Clara Strelke. Joseph peter was born November 6, 1888 in Bremen, Muhlenberg County Kentucky, and will die in Livermore, Alameda County January 30, 1963. He married Clara May 21, 1921 in Orange County. Clara is a daughter of Peter Raymond Strelke and Annie Hanson and was born August 17, 1897 and will die in Mountain View, Santa Clara County July 3, 1972. Now the fun starts. Anyone from Muhlenberg County would be part of my Southern Putman Group. Sure enough he is a son of Jesse Miles Putman and Nannie Hendricks from Muhlenberg County and then Tennessee before that and then back to Hiram Putman son of Jabel Putman from Union County South Carolina. Yep, Southern Putman. Found that he joined the Army on August 22, 1910 as a private and was in San Francisco by 1910. He was a cook when he married Clarice. He had chronic something and was admitted to the U. S. Home for Disabled Soldiers in 1924. Guess that caused the marriage not to work out. He was discharged May 8, 1945 and the reason was ҅expiration’ of Funds. Oh Well.

 

DAVID S. (SMITH) PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 41 IL single and lodging. There are a bunch of people here and most, including Dave, have employment listed as laborer-relief. Anyway, he is a son of Elmer Clark Putman and Ada May Smith and was born in Ayers, Champaign County Illinois May 4, 1899. He was there in 1900 and then in Warren, Indiana in 1910 and Logan County Ohio in 1920. He married Florence Adeline Krock there in 1921. They had two sons. He left her with the two kids in 1926. She was also 3 months pregnant. She then decided to have an abortion and she died of septicemia from that in 1926. I don’t find him in 1930 but he says he was here in 1935 so may have been in 1930 too. Southern Putman Family out of Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

DOROTHY PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 50 IL MN IL and single. Her widowed mother Amy Cornelia Burtis 76 IL is with her as she was in 1920 and 1930. She is a secretary in a school. Amy was married to Albert Putnam in Cicero Cook County Illinois in 1900 and Oak Park Cook County in 1910. They went to Colorado and Albert died there in 1919. Amy will die in 1945 and be buried along with Albert and his mother in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County Colorado. She and Dorothy were in Palo Alto in 1920 and 1930. Dorothy was born in Oak Park, Cook County Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, February 16, 1890. Dorothy will die in Santa Clara December 21, 1970 and will also be buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Jefferson County Colorado. Albert’s line goes back to Massachusetts.

 

EMILY PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 63 NY and widowed and has her daughter Emily 29 CA with her. Emily McCoy was married to Victor Elbridge Putnam here in 1930. He was a son of Alonzo Putnam and Christina Fenner from Chautauqua County New York. The folks were divorced by the 1870. His mother had him out here in the 1900. He was married here in the 1910 and 1920. Family is from New England originally. Victor died here May 11, 1938. Emily is a daughter of Albert McCoy and Amy Sortore and was born in Salamanca, Cattaraugus County New York May 7, 1877 and will die here in San Francisco July 7, 1940. Young Emily Christine was born here January 31, 1911. She will never marry and will die here February 3, 1987.

 

EMMA PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 77 WI and widowed. She is living with her married daughter Edith Grahams 54 KS and husband Earl Grahams 60 OH. Emma Klienfeld was the wife of Mark Putnam and they were in Kansas since the 1880s and in Topeka, Kansas in 1910. He died before 1920 when Emma was widowed and with Edith and Earl in Seattle, Washington then Portland, Oregon in 1930, Sacramento in 1935 and now here. Earl is a Railway Express Agent and I guess got assigned all over the West. Then, Mark was the son of Jonathan Putnam and Frances Browner and was born in Sangamon County Illinois in August 1859. Line goes back through Jonathan Putnam of Delaware County New York to Jeremiah Putnam out of Connecticut to Aaron Putnam of Danvers, Massachusetts.

 

FRANK L. (LEWIS) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 49 WY, his wife Inez 45 IL and his widowed brother Edmond is 52 WY and his mother Margaret ԍaggieՠHelen Cashin is 75 NY. Maggie was married to Louis Napoleon Putnam in Red Canyon, Uinta County Wyoming from the mid 1880s through the 1900 census and then in Utah by 1910. His dad Louis was a son of Orrin Putnam and Sophia Huntington of Bethany, Genesee County, New York. Line goes back through Peter Putnam to Vermont then Danvers, Massachusetts. Anyway, Frank was born July 11, 1891 in Evanston, Wyoming and will die here in San Fran March 25, 1959. Edmond was born in Canyon, Wyoming August 1, 1888 and will die in Napa County September 24, 1962. Heir mom Maggie is a daughter of John Cashin and Jane Kennedy and was born in Winfield, Queens, New York February 4, 1864 and will die in Riverside County California June 13, 1953.

 

GEORGE L. (LINCOLN) PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

George is listed as 66 MA. He is a Christian Science Practitioner. His wife, Rosalie Belle Estes, is 66 MA. He is a son of David Putnam and Cecilia Fogg from Boston. He and Rosalie were in New York City with his widowed mother in 1900 and then out here by 1910 and forever. He was born in Malden, Massachusetts February 19, 1874. He will die in Los Angeles County June 21, 1955. Rosalie is a daughter of William Estes and Abigail B. Perry and was born in Massachusetts October 1, 1869 and will also die in Los Angeles County but on October 26, 1958.

                                                                                 

GLENN PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 50 IL NV IL living in a hotel and says he is married but his latest wife Freida Koehler isn’t around like she was in 1930. She is wife two. He was married to Lela Poe in the 1912-1917 time period. They had a daughter Minty who is with her grandparents here in San Francisco now. Glen was a radio entertainer, but now is a bartender. Glen Hume Putnam is a son of Corriden Putnam. They were divorced and his mother Nettie Anderson Putnam later married Frank Richardson. I think Glenճ wife Frieda was Frankճ daughter from his first marriage. He was with them in San Jose in 1900 and then they were in Los Angeles in 1910, but Glenn was someplace else, probably up here. Glen will marry a third time later to Minnie Wheeler. Glen was born in Sycamore, Illinois January 7, 1890 and will die here in San Francisco September 4, 1961. This is a New England family out of Illinois.

 

GLORIA PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 32 CA and living in the Hotel Willard. Says she is married but there are no other Putnam/Putman guys in the building. Wishful thinking, I guess. Maybe using a false name to avoid discovery by the FBI from whom she is hiding.

 

GRACE B. (BELLE) PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 40 CA single and a clerk at a bank. She is a daughter of George Abraham Putman and Grace Bracket from Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County. She was here in 1930. Dutch family out of New York State.

 

HELEN PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 28 CA single and lodging. She is a secretary at the National Relations Board and was in San Diego in 1935. She is a daughter of Alfred Fowler Putnam and Ella Isherwood from San Diego. She was born there April 29, 1911 and was there up to the last couple of years. New England family out of Vermont a bunch of years ago.

 

IKE (ISAAC) R. PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 69 NY NY NY and runs a butcher shop. His wife May Anna Schirmer is 66 CA and Florence J. is now 35 CA. They were in Solano County in 1900 and here since 1910. He is a son of Isaac Putman and Mary Platt from Cayuga County New York. He was born there April 1, 1871 and will die here later this year on September 8, 1940. He married May in September 1899 here in San Francisco. Dutch family out of Tribes Hill, Montgomery County New York State.

 

JACK PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 41 OH and his wife Sadie 44 OH. Can’t find them before this. Tried her, Jack, John and more. Should have also tried Pitman, Patman and Nutman.

 

JAMES B. (BERT) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 45 CA, his wife Anna M. is 47 CA and her son from her first marriage William J. Collins Jr. 21 CA is still with them. They were married a year and were in Dunsmuir, Siskiyou County in 1930. He was a telegraph operator then and now is with the United States Treasury Department as a traffic manager. They were in Sacramento in 1935. He is James Albert Putnam son of James Ajax Putnam and Mamie Jessie Wilcox from Tulare County. He was home there in 1900 at age 4. He was born in Porterville, Tulare County January 22, 1896 and will die in 1944 in Ocean County New Jersey. I don’t have Anne’s maiden name just the married name of Collins. She was born January 22, 1894 and will die in Porterville in 1968.

 

JAMES W. (WAINRIGHT) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 67 IL and an inmate at the Laguna Honda Home Infirmary for the Helpless. He was here in 1935 too. He was single in Yellow Medicine County Minnesota in 1900 and then in Penryn, Placer County California in 1910, Auberry, Fresno County in 1920 and in San Francisco in 1930, 1935 and 1940. According to the San Francisco Death Index he is a son of James Putman (born VT) and Anna Oakes (born PA) and was born in Rockford, Illinois September 1, 1872. He will die here in a few weeks on April 3, 1940.

 

LEE B. PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 60 SCOTLAND single and lodging in a hotel. Says his last residence was in New York. Good Luck.

 

LUCY C. (CHASE) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 81 NY ME NY and has two of her sisters here too. Lucy Chase was married to Osgood Putnam here in 1920 and was widowed here in 1930. She s a daughter of Rufus Chase and Julia Ritter and was born in New York City January 9, 1959 and will die here in San Francisco March 31, 1956 at age 97. Israel Osgood Putnam was a son of Samuel Osgood Putnam and Elizabeth Nobel Whitney from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Family came out here in the 1840s.

 

LUTHER L. (LEE) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 53 CA MA OH. His wife Mattie Mira Jackson is 54 SD and they have Betty L. 16 CA still at home. He is a radio announcer. He suddenly appears in 1895 in Franklin County Kansas at age 8 CA and a nephew of Herbert and Emma Baldwin. He is still there in 1900. His mother Ivy had married Albert Baldwin before marrying Charles Putnam. I don’t find him/them in 1910. He and Mattie were in Sonoma County in 1920 and 1930. A Family Group Sheet states his mother was Ivy Adams and no daddy listed. He was born January 11, 1887 and will die October 27, 1966 in Grass Valley, Nevada County California. Mattie is a daughter of Duke Wellington Jackson and Hattie Kendrick and was born in Miner, South Dakota August 23, 1885 and will die in San Francisco October 11, 1965. They were married August 5, 1907 in Los Angeles. Then I tried to find a sheet on Ivy. She was born in Ohio April 18, 1851 and married Albert Baldwin June 22, 1871 in Coles County Illinois and lived in Champaign County Illinois in 1880. It shows she was married to Charles Putnam from Massachusetts when she had Luther. His folks were Henry Locke Putnam and Mary Jane Cochran from Massachusetts to out here. His line is Luther L. > Charles S. > Henry L. > Joseph > Billings > Henry > Eleazer > John > John.

 

MARVEL R. (RAGETH) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 27 MN, his wife Florence Elizabeth Fink is 26 CA and they have Marlene 1 CA. He is a son of Charles C. Putnam and Amelia Rageth and was born in Breckenridge, Minnesota May 27, 1912. He was baptized Corigan Marvel Putnam on March 30, 1913 in Fargo, North Dakota with parents Charles C. and Amelia L. Putnam. I cannot figure his dad out yet. In 1930 he was in the Navy and stationed in San Diego. His widowed mom was in Lodi, San Joaquin County in 1930 and is still there now in 1940. He will die in Sacramento December 24, 2002. He married Elizabeth in Lodi June 25, 1936. Florence is a daughter of Herman Johann Fink and Otille Doering and was born in Stockton, San Joaquin County and will die in Lodi May 21, 1993. They will get divorced as in about 1965 Marvel will marry Laura Van Horn and she will also die in Sacramento in February 2012.

 

MAUDIE PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 39 TX and divorced. She was here in 1930 listed as ҳ2 TX and divorced after 7 years of marriage.ӠStill no ideas.

 

MERLE PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 41 OR OR OR and his third wife Alice is 32 MO. He was married to a Myrtle in 1926 and they were here in 1930. He was married earlier to Cleda McFarland back in Oregon in 1920. She must have died as he had their son Robert Merle with him in 1930. He was an automobile salesman, but now is an owner/manager. He is Merle Otis a son of Robert Marion Putman and Myrtle Maud Southwick from Marion County Oregon. Family goes back to Henry County Missouri then to Tennessee and North Carolina. Southern Putmans.

 

MINTIE PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 27 CA divorced and living with her also divorced mother Lela Hart 47 KS. She was here in 1935 with her mom. She wasn’t married here in 1930 so no ideas yet on her ex.

 

NINA C. (CAMPBELL) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

She is 51 NE and divorced. Says she was here in 1935 but I can’t find her. Further down the page she has a son William Mason Putnam 21 CA single and living with her. So I started searching for William Mason and Bingo! Found this in 1920: WILLIAM M. (MASON) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County  He is listed as 40 CA.  His wife Pansy is 30 NE. Their son, William Mason Jr., is 1 year & 4 months CA. He is a son of Adam Putnam from Nova Scotia and Mary Ann Johnston and was born in Eureka, Humboldt County. He was at home there in 1900. Mason was born August 18, 1879 and will die in San Diego July 12, 1972. He will be here in 1930 with a new wife Vera. The son William Mason Junior will be with his grandparents, the Schultzes, in Eureka in 1930. Nina was Pansy Campbell back then. And also William Senior and Vera Strange his second wife are here in town now too.

 

ROBERT PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 21 TX single and an apprentice in industrial design. He is in a hotel. He is Robert G. Putnam Jr. a son of Robert G. Putnam and Laura Helgheim and was in Enatia, King County with his folks in 1930 and in Montana in 1920. Line goes back to Minnesota to Massachusetts and then Maine.

 

ROBERT H. PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is now 74 MA and his wife Ella B. 60 CA. He is the son of David Putnam (number 2881, a son of David Putnam (1288) and Orpha Scales) and Cecilia Elizabeth Fogg. They were here in 1920 and his folks were with them. I don’t find Robert in 1930 but he will be here till he dies May 19, 1941. New Englanders from Boston, Massachusetts.

 

ROBERT M. (MERLE) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 20 OR and a soldier in the Army stationed at Fort Winfield Scott. Robert Merle is a son of Merle Putman and Cleda McFarland from Marion County. He was 5 months old and with them in the 1920. By 1926 his dad had re-married and was in San Francisco with a new wife. Robert was also listed there with his dad in 1930. Also, in 1930 he was back in Marion County Oregon living in a foster home and is here now. Merle was a son of Robert Marion Putman and Myrtle Maud Southwick out of Henry County Missouri. Southern Putman Family.

 

RUFUS PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is a Negro 58 GA and married to Dornie 42 GA.

 

WILLIAM J. (JAMES) PUTMAN  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 35 MN, and his wife May E. 36 CA and they have Joan 13 CA and Jack 9 CA. Found his California Death Index and got his middle name. He was born December 1, 1904 in Minnesota and will die in Sonoma June 9, 1991. His mother’s name was Murray. Found him in Duluth in 1905. Here is my listing for that: CLEM PUTMAN Duluth, St. Louis County. Clement is a fireman 32 MI CAN CAN and his wife Agnes Murray is 26 MN ENG NY. They have Francis Joseph 1 MN and William James 6/12/MN. I can’t find him in Michigan or anywhere before this. State records have him being married first to Agnes Murray who died here in the County March 30, 1908. They had two sons Francis Joseph born October 23, 1903 and William James born December 1, 1904. He is in St. Louis County in 1930 with a new wife Emma Hartinth Johnson, but I can’t find him between now and then.

 

WILLIAM M. (MASON) PUTNAM  San Francisco, San Francisco County

He is 60 CA CAN CA. His wife Vera Strangr is 58 CO. He is an accountant with the gas company. He is a son of Adam Putnam from Nova Scotia and Mary Ann Johnston and was born in Humboldt County. He was at home there in 1900 and married to Pansy Campbell here in 1920. The girl Pansy is the divorced girl Nina C. listed earlier. Mason was born August 18, 1879 and will die in La Jolla, San Diego County on July 12, 1972. Vera was born August 28, 1879 and will also die in San Diego County January 9, 1975. Both are into their 90s then, not bad!

 

EDWIN A. PUTNAM  Elliot, San Joaquin County

He is 74 CA VT MA and widowed as he was here in 1930. Also here is his son Laurence E. 47 CA, his wife Marian 40 CAN and their two children Marilla 15 CA and Lawrence E. 10 CA. Edwin was married to Georgia Hackett in 1920 and has been here since the 1890s. He is a son of Joseph Putnam and Mary Ann Fletcher from Massachusetts. He was born January 1, 1866 (maybe just a guess) and will die here in San Joaquin June 15, 1944. I don’t have any more info on Georgia other than she was born in August 1866.

 

AMELIA PUTNAM  Lodi, San Joaquin County

She is 53 WI SWIT SWIT and widowed. Her also widowed mother Elsa Rageth 80 SWITZERLAND is with her as she was in 1930. I couldn’t figure her out when doing the 1930 censuses. But when doing the 1940 census, much more info was available on Ancestry and Family Search. So, Amelia Rageth was married to Charles Corgan/Corrigan Putnam in Aberdeen, Brown County South Dakota April 1, 1910. They were in the City Directory of Fargo, North Dakota in 1910 and still in 1915. In 1917 Charles is living by himself in Fargo, and in 1919 he has a new wife Bessie Olvida Johnson and they are in the 1920 census in Fargo. In 1930 Charles and Bessie are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They will get divorced and in 1940 Bessie and their son Charles are still in Cedar Rapids. Charles in 1940 is in West Union, Fayette County Iowa with yet another wife Cora. He will die in West Union in April 1942. But with all this I still can’t figure out who Charles folks are. Anyway, getting back to Amelia. She is a daughter of Caspar Rageth and Elspeth Bardill, both born in Switzerland. She was born in Wisconsin March 18, 1887 and will die in Sacramento in 1978. She and Charles had a son Marvel Rageth Putnam born in Breckenridge, Minnesota May 27, 1912. He was baptized Corigan Marvel Putnam on March 30, 1913 in Fargo, North Dakota with parents Charles C. and Amelia L. Putnam. In 1930 he was in the U. S. Navy in San Diego, but was back here in Lodi in 1935 and now is married to Florence Elizabeth Fink in San Francisco now in 1940.

 

MARGARET S. (ST. CLAIR) PUTNAM  Lodi, San Joaquin County

She is 43 CA single. She is a chemistry teacher in the public schools and renting. She was here in 1930 living with her widowed mother Margaret. Margaret Bogart was married to Alfred E. Putnam and was in Santa Barbara County in 1900 and 1910. I don’t find them in 1920, but this young Margaret is living with her brother Charles in San Francisco in 1920. Margaret was born July 18, 1886 and will die in Napa August 10, 1987. She never married, same as most public schoolteachers.

 

MAY PUTNAM  Lodi, San Joaquin County

She is 70 IL and widowed and lodging. Priscilla Mae Stevens had been married to George C. Putman here in 1920. George was a son of Dewitt Clinton Putnam from Wayne County New York. Line then goes back to Connecticut.

 

PRISCILLA MAE PUTNAM  Lodi, San Joaquin County

She is 70 IL and widowed and lodging. Priscilla Mae Stevens had been married to George C. Putman here in 1920. This is a dual listing at different address.

 

H. D. (HARVEY DEKALB) PUTMAN  Stockton, San Joaquin County

He is 54 CA widowed and an inmate at the Stockton State Hospital for the Insane. His wife Deltah Llano Billingsley has died in Hermosa Beach February 7, 1925. She was a cousin her mother was Rachel Olivia Putman from Texas. He will be here till he dies on May 4, 1963. He is a son of Madison DeKalb Putman Jr. and Louisa Casner from Llano Texas and then San Diego County California. Southern Putmans.

 

PAUL PUTNAM  Tulare Township, San Joaquin County

He is 40 ND, his wife Freda Marie Backhaus is 31 ND and they have Duane 11 SD, Yvonne 10 SD, Wanda 7 SD, Paula5 SD and Mary Lu 2 ND. He is a machinist in a machine shop. Paul Homer Putnam is a son of Clifford Orlando Putnam and Helen Maude Robinson and was born in Linton, Emmons County North Dakota September 5, 1899 and will die in Pittsburg, Contra Costa County November 4, 1965. Freda is a daughter of George Heinrich Christian Backhaus and Christina Meister and was born in Emmons County August 30, 1908 and will die in Antioch, Contra Costa County March 2, 1987. Her dad is from Neidersachsen, Germany and came over in 1885 and her mom is from Glueckstal, Odessa Russia and came over in 1888. Paulճ folks are simpler. His dad is from Wisconsin and his dad from Vermont. New Englanders.

 

REGINALD PUTNAM  Tulare, San Joaquin County

He is 67 CA ME ME. He is married to Elsie Pauline 55 CA and had been for a year back in 1930. They still have Dorothy G. McNamara 28 CA from Elsie’s first marriage. Dorothy says she is widowed now. He is a son of Stillman Putman and Nellie Ingraham from San Francisco. He was married to Grace Pearl Reams in Kings County in 1900 and in Contra Costa in 1910 and 1920. Must have split or something. He was married to Elsie here in 1929 and in the 1930 census. He was born January 5, 1973 and will die here in Tulare February 16, 1947. Reggie’s folks were from Maine. New England family.

 

WILLIAM PUTNAM  San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo County

He is 23 MO single and lodging. He is a claims agent for the State Division of Unemployment. He was in Los Angeles in 1930 with his mother Mayme. Mayme or Myra Bridewell is married to Harry Morancy Putnam. They had been in Carthage, Missouri up till 1920. Don’t know where Harry was in 1930, but they are together in Inglewood now in 1940. Harry is a son of William Henry Harrison Putnam and Melvina Lynde. His dad used the nickname Morancy, hence his middle name. He was born April 15, 1876 in Jo Daviess County Illinois and then was with the folks in Carthage, Jasper County Missouri in 1880, 1900 and 1910. Anyway, William was born in Carthage February 16, 1917 and will die in Sonoma County November 22, 1989. New England family.

 

ISRAEL PUTNAM  Templeton, San Luis Obispo County

He is 81 IA KY IL and widowed. His sister Lida Putnam 74 IL is living with him now. He owned a machine shop in 1930, but is retired now. He was married to Laura Crumb here in 1920. She died in 1928 and he was widowed here in 1930. He is a son of Robert Putman and Elizabeth Drutz from Jasper County Iowa. He was born there May 16, 1858 and will die here in Templeton July 10, 1943. Southern Putman Family, line goes back to my great great grandfather Reding Putman in Fulton County Illinois and then back to South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and England.

 

RALPH A. (ARTHUR) PUTNAM  Atherton, San Mateo County

He is 50 WI and his new wife Doris Willard is 33 CAN and her brother Harry Willard 37 CAN is with them. He is an assistant manager in a fertilizing plant and Harry is a laborer there. He is a son of Fred Ellsworth Putnam and Luella Babb from Richland County Wisconsin. He was there in 1900 and 1910. I don’t find him in 1920 but he was married to Neta Haskins about 1913. He was widowed in Los Angeles in 1930. Neta didn’t die till 1980 so really, he was divorced probably by 1920 as they just had one daughter born in 1914. His folks were in Stanislaus County California in 1920 however. Anyway, Ralph was born August 23, 1889 and will die in Stanislaus County March 20, 1959. The family is from Vermont and then Massachusetts. New Englanders

 

OSWALD PUTMAN  Burlingame, San Mateo County

He is 44 CA MO CA and his wife Mary Elizabeth O’Connell is 43 CA and they have Lawrence 20 CA, Jack 18 CA, Betty E. 16 CA and Margaret 12 CA. Omar Oswald is a son of Herman Ross Putman and Mary Ann McConnell from Colusa County. He was born there September 26, 1893 and married Mary November 17, 1918. His dad died there in 1925 and was running the grocery store that his father Francis Marion Putman started. In 1930 Oswald and the gang were there in Colusa and he listed his occupation as a merchant of a creamery. Part of the same store that his brother Victor was running. He owns and operates his own grocery store Putmanճ Food Market now here in town. He will die here March 31, 1982, Mary was born February 9, 1895 and will die here July 26, 1975. The family was from Missouri and Indiana before that then Kentucky and back to Virginia. Southern Putman Family.

 

BLAINE PUTNAM  Daly City, San Mateo County

He is 19 WA single and lodging. He is a clerk at a retail hardware dealer. He is a son of Claude Elmer Putnam here in town and was with them in Los Angeles in 1930. Blaine Wesley Putnam was born in Seattle, Washington May 24, 1920 and will die May 1, 2005 in Los Altos, Santa Clara County. He will marry somebody September 30, 1950 in Santa Clara County. A family sheet just says ‘private.’

 

CLAUDE E. (ELMER) PUTNAM  Daly City, San Mateo County

He is 59 OH US US. His wife Mary Eugenia Maxwell is 55 TX. They have Gerald Winfred 22 MT, Mildred L. 18 WA and Beatrice L. 15 CA. He has been with the railroad for the past 20 years and the kids were born all over the place. He now is a house painter. He was first married to Edna Mary Holloway who died March 24, 1926 in Miami, Ohio. They were in Portland Oregon in 1910 and in King County Washington in 1920. He married May and they were in Los Angeles in 1930. He was born December 9, 1880 and will die in Alameda County November 1, 1979. Mary was born in Texas February 15, 1885 and will die in San Mateo County August 8, 1841. There are several family sheets on him saying his folks were Henry Putnam and Nancy Hackett. I find a Henry Putnam and Nancy Stewart in 1880 in Fulton County Ohio who are probably them.

 

IRVIN A. (AYLETTE) PUTMAN  Redwood City, San Mateo County

He is 44 MO MO MO and his wife Lois Catherine Kelso is 34 IA (MO in 1930). They were married in Missouri October 3, 1925. He is a salesman for an oil company. He is a son of William Marion Putman and Frances Atkins from Linn County Missouri and was with the folks in 1900 and 1910 in Sullivan County Missouri. In 1930 he and Lois were in Trenton, New Jersey and in 1935 in Vineland, New Jersey working as a salesman for an oil Company, probably Standard Oil of New Jersey, ESSO. Southern Putman family. Irvin was born November 19, 1895 in Sullivan County Missouri and will die November 16, 1960 in Chillicothe, Livingston County Missouri. Lois was born in Chariton County Missouri September 29, 1905 and will die in Alamogordo, New Mexico May 12, 1988.

 

LESLIE W. (WESLEY) PUTMAN  South San Francisco, San Mateo County

He is 37 ND, his wife Helen McKerlie is 38 WA and they have Harold 12 CA and Edward 11/12 CA. He is a checker in a meat packing house. He is a son of Samuel Wesley Putman and Villetta Bryning. His dad was a son of Samuel Putman from Fauquier County Virginia who went to Gilmer County West Virginia where Samuel was born January 17, 1869. The family moved to Audrain County Missouri and he married Villetta there August 17, 1892 and they moved to North Dakota a year or two later. Thatճ where Leslie was born in Egeland, Towner County North Dakota March 9, 1902. Then it gets interesting. He married Nellie Pauline Bryning April 27, 1923. She died September 25, 1935 and he married Helen McKerlie October 5, 1938. They had Harold Eugene, Edward Dwayne, Robert Dean Putman. She will die July 4, 1950 and he will marry Ruby Koth September 6, 1954. She will die in Egeland July 26, 1954. He will die in Wentachee, Chelan County Washington November 21, 1994. Southern Putman family from Virginia.

 

GILES PUTMAN  San Bruno, San Mateo County

He is 35 NE, his wife Opal Zinc 32 NE and they have Jon 11/12 CA. They were in St. Louis in 1935. He is an aircraft maintenance foreman for the airlines. He is Giles Arnold Putman, a son of Virgil Putman and Ida Mae Livingston from Box Butte, Nebraska. Virgil is a son of Daniel Thomas Putman and Jeanette Roundey from Davis County Iowa. They were in San Gabriel, Los Angeles County in 1930 just married 2 years. Southern Putman family from Dais County Iowa back to Fulton County Illinois and then back to Kentucky, South Carolina and Virginia.

 

MARTIN H. (HARVEY) PUTMAN  San Mateo, San Mateo County

He is 29 CA single and is an orderly at the Community Hospital and lives there. He is a son of Harvey DeKalb Putman and Delta Llano Billingsley and was at home in El Segundo, Los Angeles County in 1920, in Oakdale, Stanislaus County in 1930 and was in Modesto, Stanislaus County in 1935. He was born September 4, 1910. He will marry Mildred Berndt on June 6, 1941. He will die February 17, 1966 in San Bruno, San Mateo County California. Southern Putman family South Carolina to Alabama to Llano County Texas to the San Diego neck of the woods out here. His grandfather Madison DeKalb Putman led a wagon train/cattle drive out here after the Civil War. They left had Texas in 1867 or early 1868 with some 2000 head of longhorns and arrived on Christmas Day, 1868. They arrived with all the people, but only 600 of the cattle.

 

CHARLES PUTMAN  Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County

He is 47 CA IL DC. His wife Rachelle Roxalene Walters is 48 WV and they have Barbara L. 23 CA, Mary Ellen 19 CA, Charles Jr. 16 CA and Carolyn R. 15 CA. He is an engineer for an oil company. He is Charles Crawford Putman a son of Frederick Singleton Putman and Mary Elizabeth Whitcomb from Brown County Illinois. He was born July 17, 1892 and will die in Santa Barbara September 1, 1960. He married Rachelle in Los Angeles June 10, 1914. She is a daughter of James Madison Waters and Florence Elle Clarke and was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia January 5, 1892 and will die here in Santa Barbara November 28, 1981. The family moved out here in the late 1880s and everyone will be here the rest of their lives. His dad will die in Los Angeles February 19, 1942 and Mary Elizabeth August 21, 1947. Southern Putman family out of Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

LOUIS (LEWIS) A. PUTNAM  Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara County

He is 78 MI and his widowed daughter Laurine Elder 45 MI with him. Lewis is a son of William Putnam and his first wife Abby Styles. He was born in Calhoun County Michigan July 9, 1862. He was in Jackson County in 1870 and back in Calhoun County by 1880. He married Florence I. Phelps in Calhoun County February 23, 1881. They were in Detroit, Michigan in 1900. They got divorced in the early 1900s. Florence was in Detroit in 1910 by herself. I don’t find Lewis in 1910 or 1920, but he is in Los Angeles in 1930. He will die here in Santa Barbara December 19, 1942. Lewis’ dad William was a son of Cornelius Putnam and Bridgit Nevins who went out to Calhoun County Michigan in the 1830s. Line then goes back to Massachusetts.

 

O. A. (ONIE ANNETTE) PUTMAN  Campbell, Santa Clara County

She is 66 CA and still says she is married. She married Frank Oliver Putnam in 1891 and they were together in 1900. I don’t find them in 1910 but in 1920 she was by herself in San Francisco in 1920 and her husband was in Sacramento at the time. She was here in 1930, and said she was married like she does now, but still no Frank. He was a son of Royal Porter Putnam and Mary Jane Packard from Porterville, Tulare County. He will die here in Santa Clara in 1947 and Onie will die here as well on August 23, 1950. New England family.

 

BILLIE DOUGLAS PUTNAM  Fremont, Santa Clara County

He is 3 AR obviously single and a nephew living with Norman Lonon 34 AR and his mommy Emma Lonon 60 AR.

 

KENNETH PUTNAM  Mountain View, Santa Clara County

He is 27 SD single and living with his married sister Leona Thompson 33 SD and her husband Millard Thompson 32 ND. He is a son of Abram Putnam and Georgietta Prisby from Lawrence County South Dakota. Kenneth was born in Lead, Lawrence County January 29, 1913 and was there up till the last couple of years. He will die here in Mountain View, Santa Clara County on December 27, 1996. His dad Abram is a son of Joseph Putnam and Mary Jane Norton from Cass County, Michigan and then out here to Davidson County where Abram was born in 1876. New England family

 

DANIEL S. (STEPHEN) PUTNAM  Palo Alto, Santa Clara County

He is 61 MO, his wife Edna Benson 50 WY and their daughter Jane 13 OR. He is a salesman of hospital supplies. He is a son of Albert E. Putnam and Missouri Belle Doughty. He was at home in DeKalb County Missouri in 1880. Albert was a son of Daniel Porter Putnam (2142) from Willsboro, Essex County New York and Vermont before that. Daniel was in Palo Pinto County Texas in 1900 and in the Navy in the Philippines in 1910. In 1920 he was single up in San Francisco and then married Edna about 1925 and they were in Portland, Oregon in 1930 and here by 1935. Daniel was born in Maysville, Missouri July 30, 1878 and will die in San Francisco July 29, 1958. Edna is a daughter of Willard Benson and Hettie Leona Smith and was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming May 23, 1889 and will die October 24, 1972 in Rocklin, Placer County California where their daughter Jane will be living.

 

FRANK I. (ISRAEL) PUTNAM JR.  Palo Alto, Santa Clara County

He is 24 SD, his wife Frances Louise Goff 24 IL and they have Reed P. 1 CA. He is a son of Frank Israel Putnam and Gertrude Reed and was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota September 15, 1915 and will die in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County July 28, 1996. Fran is a daughter of Alonzo Joy Goff and Frances Bradbury and was born in Robinson, Crawford County Illinois January 26, 1916 and will die in Prescott, Arizona March 29, 2003. They were both in Monmouth, Warren County Illinois in 1935 where they were married. His folks are in town as they were in 1930. New England family out of Vermont.

 

WALDO D. (DICKINSON) PUTNAM  Palo Alto, Santa Clara County

He is 79 MA MA MA and his wife Ella Eileen Kivlon is 61 NJ and they have Robert W. 21 CA who is a librarian in a public library. Waldo is a traveling salesman for a hardware and door company. They were in Glendale, Los Angeles County in 1930, in Chicago Illinois in 1920 and Boston in 1900. He is the son of William Mason Putnam (2904) and Sabra Emeline Dickinson from Northbridge, Worcester County Massachusetts and then Boston. He was born in Northbridge, Mass. October 14, 1860. He was single in Boston in 1880 with his widowed dad and in Northbridge with both folks in 1870. He married Minnie Howard March 16, 1885, she died and then he married Agnes Fottler September 7, 1903 in Boston. Not sure when/where he married Ella. She was born May 17, 1885 and will die here in Palo Alto August 18, 1942. He will die in Los Angeles September 7, 1963 at almost age 103.

 

WALTER B. (BENNETT) PUTNAM  Palo Alto, Santa Clara County

He is 23 AR and his wife Geneva Farris is 23 OK. They were in Oklahoma in 1935, he in Tulsa, she in Oklahoma City. He is a pilot and lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. He is a son of Walter Franklin Putman and Ada Keers and was born in Fort Smith, Sebastian County Arkansas August 27, 1916 and will die in Fort Walton Beach, Florida October 12, 2010. Geneva will die there April 18, 1991. Southern Putman family going back to Walter and his dad George Washington to Zachariah Putman and Cunis Bledsoe from Dade County Missouri back to Williamson County Tennessee and South Carolina way back.

 

MYRTLE PUTNAM  Redwood, Santa Clara County

She is 33 CA and has a son Jack Joseph 10 CA. Mary Philomena Smith was married to Joseph Cashin Putnam in Eden, Alameda County in 1930 and they were living with her folks. She says she is widowed, as Joseph died in Napa February 29, 1940. She will marry and divorce two more times. Joseph is/was a son of Louis Napoleon Putnam and Margaret ‘Maggie’ Helen Cashin and was born in Bear River County, Wyoming March 25, 1901. Louis was in Unita County Wyoming in 1900 and then Salt Lake City, Utah in 1910. Maggie was widowed in Santa Clara in 1930. Louis was a son of Orrin Putnam and Sophia Huntington of Bethany, Genesee County, New York. New Englanders.

 

BERTHA PUTNAM  Saratoga, Santa Clara County

She is 67 MN and married as she has said since 1900. Her married daughter Lois Denton 34 CA and husband Harold Denton 35 CA are with her. Bertha Louise Wallace is married to Tarrant Putnam who is in the Agnew State Hospital for the Insane and he has been off and on since before 1900. They have been apart but love each other and say they are married and doing the best they can. Tarrant is listed shortly and that entry has his line and all. Bertha is a daughter of John S. Wallace and Bertha l. Hawley and was born in Winnebago City, Minnesota April 25, 1873 and will die here in Saratoga August 4, 1944.

 

BELLE PUTNAM  San Jose, Santa Clara County

She is 45 CA divorced and a housekeeper. She was in Los Angeles in 1935. Can’t find her in 1930 though.

 

DOROTHY PUTNAM  San Jose, Santa Clara County

She is 26 NE and widowed. She is a music teacher out of her home. She owns the house where they/she were living in 1935 and maybe earlier. Can’t find in 1930 so no luck on her hubby.

 

FRANK PUTNAM  San Jose, Santa Clara County

He is 69 CA married but his wife Onie isn’t around. He is living with his married daughter Vaudine Sanders 45 CA and her husband R. W. Sanders 46 WI. Vaudine was living in San Francisco with just her mom Onie Wilson in 1920. Folks were separated then and as far back as 1910. And in 1930 and now they still are living separately by their lonesomes here in Santa Clara County. Since both are still married it is probably a great marriage as they don’t hardly ever bother each other. Anyway, Frank Oliver is a son of Royal Porter Putnam and Mary Jane Packard. He was born in Tulare County April 10, 1871. His sorta wife Onie Annette Wilson is a daughter of Francis Marion Wilson and Martha Jane Berry and was born in Kern County California September 13, 1873 and will die here in Campbell, Santa Clara County, where she is now, on August 23, 1950. Frank will die here in San Jose October 8, 1947.New England line that came out from New Hampshire through Pennsylvania to the Other Coast in the 1870s.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  San Jose, Santa Clara County

He is 52 VT and his wife Anna Elizabeth Frappier is 51 VT and they have Howard John 24 VT, Frances Cordelia17 VT and Barbara 11 VT. He is a building carpenter as is his son Howard. Anna is a maid in a private house. They were in Wallingford, Rutland County Vermont in 1930 and 1935. George Henry Putnam is a son of John Charles Putnam and Cordelia Catman and was home in Pittsford, Rutland County in 1900 and in the Army at Fort Milne in New York in 1910. I don’t find them in 1920, but were around Wallingford. He was born February 20, 1888 and will die in Santa Clara County March 6, 1957. Anna is a daughter of Raphael Joseph Frappier and Delphina Anna Goddin and was born September 25, 1888 and will die in Santa Clara County August 8, 1980. They were married in West Rutland December 24, 1912. The son Howard John was born July 1, 1916 and will die in Santa Cruz County California April 10, 1961. Howard will marry Margaret Elizabeth Hinckley. The daughter Frances will marry William Ernest Reese, eat Reeses Pieces till she dies April 6, 2009. This is a family that came down to here from Canada in the 1840s, George Putnam and Rosella Porro or Porreau. Think they came from New England before, but just not certain.

 

LAEL PUTMAN  San Jose, Santa Clara County

She is 22 MT single, lodging and a clerk in a department store library. She is a daughter of James Albert Putman and Marcia Goldie Briscoe and was born December 13, 1917 while the family was briefly in Montana between Kansas and Washington. She was with the family there in Montesano, Washington in 1920 and then in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County. She is also listed there with her folks now. She will marry Stephen Cappannari and they are in San Francisco by 1948 and then they will live in Nashville Tennessee. They are in Burlington, North Carolina in 1992 and she will die there September 24, 2005. Southern Putman family from Brown County Illinois and then Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

JACK PUTNAM  Santa Clara, Santa Clara County

He is 25 WA and his wife Beth 24 CA. He is a salesman for an oil company and Beth is a clerk in a department store. He was in Seattle, Washington and she in San Jose in 1935. He is a son of William B. Putnam and Flora Jane Tremaine and was born in Seattle December 3, 1916. He was with his folks in 1920 then his mom died and he was with his grandmother Jane Tremaine in 1930. His dad is a son of William and Angie Putnam from Peoria Illinois, and grandson of Nathan Putnam and Nancy Trull of New Hampshire and then Ontario County, New York and then Erie County, Pennsylvania.

 

TARRANT PUTNAM  Santa Clara, Santa Clara County

He is 68 MN and now an ԩnmateռ/span> at the Agnew State Insane Asylum Hospital. He is a son of Tarrant Putnam and Antoinette Johnson from Waseca, Minnesota. He and his wife Bertha L. Wallace were here in Santa Clara County in 1900 and he was a patient here in this hospital then. He was born in Minnesota January 22, 1872 and will die here July 25, 1950.

 

EMMA PUTMAN  Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County

She is 50 CA and divorced. She has two Freitas kids from an even earlier marriage. Can’t find her married to a Putman anywhere in 1930.

 

EUGENE R. PUTNAM  Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County

He is 68 IL and his wife Garnett Elizabeth Payne 62 VA. He is a son of George Vincent Putnam and Susan Louise Burke and was born in Sangamon County Illinois March 6, 1872. His folks died in 1898 and he and his brother Guy moved East. He married Garnett in Virginia in 1896 and they were in Falls Church, Virginia in 1900, Wheaton, Maryland in 1910 and Denver Colorado after that. They were here in 1935

 

JAMES A. (ALBERT) PUTNAM  Watsonville, Santa Cruz County

He is 55 KS IL IL and is a carpenter. His wife Marcia Goldie Briscoe is 53 WA and they have Hubert 26 WA and a daughter Lael or Tael 21 MT. Huber’s wife Sally (Sarah Geraldine Goodwin 24 CA and their daughter Beverly 4 CA are here too. Hubert is a riveter on a road construction project. He always went by the name Bert Putman. He is a son of Jeremiah and Catherine Putnam and was born in Mitchell County Kansas in December 1883. He was then in Montesano Washington as were his folks in 1910 and 1920. Goldie is a daughter of Burr P. Briscoe and Edith Scammon and was born in Washington in January 1887 and will die in Santa Rosa, California in April 1969. In 1920 he and Goldie are in Grays Harbor, Washington and then here in Watsonville in 1930. This is a Southern Putman family out of Brown County Illinois and Kentucky and Virginia before that.

 

KENNETH PUTNAM  Watsonville, Santa Cruz County

He is 31 CA, his wife Vivian I. Ceschi is 27 CA and they have Kenneth 6 CA and Kay Louise 4 CA. He is a laborer on a road construction crew. He is a son of Charles Gordon Putnam and Lillian Cecilia Burke and was born in about 1910. His folks were here in 1930 and Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County before that. His dad is a son of Ralph Winslow Putnam and Mary Jane Davidson from San Luis Obispo and Wayne County New York before that and New Hampshire before that. New Englanders.

 

LILLIAN PUTNAM  Watsonville, Santa Cruz County

She is 50 CA and a cook in the hospital. Says she is married but Charles still isn’t around. She still has Ralph 28 CA at home. Ralph is a maintenance man at the hospital where she works. Lillian Cecilia Burke was married to Charles Gordon Putnam in San Louis Obispo County in 1920 and was here without him in 1930. He is a traveling salesman and is presently in Los Angeles by himself and says he is widowed. Said he was divorced in 1930. Charles is a son of Ralph Winslow Putnam from New York and New England before that.

 

WILIAM H. (HENRY) PUTNAM  Liberty, Siskiyou County

He is 76 CA single and owns his house. Most expensive in the area. Anyway, he is a miner at the gold mine here. He is a son of John Henry Putman and Elizabeth Shuey. He was born in Alameda County California September 20, 1863, and then the family moved to Columbia County Washington. He was in Snohomish County Washington in 1900 and here in 1920 and 1930. He will die here in Liberty October 14, 1949. Dutch family from New York State.

 

HELEN M. PUTNAM  Silveyville, Solano County

She is 77 CA and widowed as she has been since 1920. Helen Matilda Culver is the widow of Isaac Lewis Putman who died here in 1913. They were here from the 1800s. She was born December 29, 1862 and will die here March 28, 1942. Dutch family from New York State.

 

LEO J. (JAMES) PUTNAM  Vallejo, Solano County

He is 50 WI WI WI and a machinist now. His wife Ethel Calvert Knapp is 46 CA and they have Betty Lee 16 CA. They were in San Francisco just married in 1920 and still up through 1935. He is the son of John Hassan Putnam and Cassie Carver from Green County Wisconsin. He was born there May 10, 1889 and was at home there in 1900. Ethel was born in Fresno September 22, 1893 and will die in San Francisco July 25, 1952. They were in San Francisco 1920 through 1935 and are in Vallejo, Solano County in 1940. Leo will die September 1, 1956 in San Mateo County. German family out of Pennsylvania and then Ohio.

 

CAROLYN PUTNAM  Healdsburg, Sonoma County

She is 52 NY widowed and renting. Says she was in Minnesota in 1935, but I can’t find her there in 1930.

 

MABEL C. PUTNAM  Petaluma, Sonoma County

She is 54 CA widowed and boarding. Mabel Celeste Black was married to John Wesley Putnam here on June 25, 1902. They were here in 1910. She was widowed here in 1920. She is a public-school teacher. John was a son of Thomas Crowe Putnam from Nova Scotia. Family was originally from New England.

 

RUTHERFORD PUTNAM  Petaluma, Sonoma County

He is 30 CA CA CA and his wife Helen Dumont is also 30 CA. He is a son of John Wesley Putnam and Mabel Celeste Black from here. He is lodging and an auto parts salesman, and Helen is a public-school teacher. He was born here in Petaluma Aril 7, 1909 and will die here August 11, 1983. Helen was born May 4, 1909 in Alameda and will die here July 2, 1984. She is a daughter of John Dumont and Winifred Campbell.

 

OTIS PUTNAM  Santa Rosa, Sonoma County

He is 30 CA MO CA  and he has a new wife Mona 31 OK who has 3 kids from her first marriage. Marvelle Davis 9 CA, Joyce Davis 8 CA and Norma Jean Davis 6 CA. He works on a dairy farm. He is a son of Houston Harrison Putman and Nellie May Smith. He was born Modoc County April 9, 1910 and will die here in Sonoma County February 23, 1966. His dad is a son of Zachariah Putman and Cunis or Eunice Bledsoe in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. He was born back in Dade County Missouri. The family moved to Oklahoma in 1889. Southern family from Williamson County Tennessee and then Union County South Carolina before that.

 

DAN PUTNAM  Ceres, Stanislaus County

He is 52 IA and his wife Maude Van Winkle is 53 IA. He is Daniel Ransom Putnam a son of Frank Harrison Putnam and his first wife Ida Langdon. Ida’s dad was named Ransom Langdon so that’s where his middle name came from. Frank was a son of Harrison Putnam (#2790) and Clementine Permelia Lovering from Bureau County Illinois. Dan and Maude were in Fort Dodge, Webster County Iowa in 1920 and Peoria, Illinois in 1930. New England family.

 

ERNEST L. PUTMAN  Modesto, Stanislaus County

He is 50 WA NY KY and operates a furniture store that his father started. His brother James is in town and runs it with him. His wife Emma L. Stanley is 50 KS and they have Stanley L. 23 CA, Donald 19 CA, Marjorie E. 18 CA and James L. 11 CA. They were in Washington through 1910 and here in 1920 and 1930. He is a son of James Riley Putman and his first of several wives Sarah Thomas Neafus from Kittitas County Washington. Dutch family from New York State.

 

JOSEPH PUTMAN  Modesto, Stanislaus County

He is 68 MI single and lodging. He says he was here in 1935, but I can’t find him any earlier in Michigan or anywhere.

 

WILLIAM H. (HIRAM) PUTNAM  Modesto, Stanislaus County

He is 46 CA CA CA and a trucker of sand and gravel. His wife Ethel Mae Newkirk is 44 CA and they have Wilda P. 19 CA. His folks are here now too. William Henry Seward Putnam 79 CA and Maude Wilkins Messenger 71 CA who were in Yolo County in 1930. William was born March 16, 1894 in Calaveras County and will die here in Modesto June 22, 1979. He and Ethel were married in Yolo County in 1920 and here in 1930. She is a daughter of George Franklin Newkirk and Mae Irene Phillips and was born July 20, 1895 in Madera County and will die here April 12, 1993. His dad is a son of Joseph Putnam and Mary Ann Fletcher out of Ludlow, Vermont. He was born in California April 6, 1862 and will die here in Stanislaus County very soon on April 17, 1940. Maud is a daughter of Hiram Ashley Messenger and was born July 6, 1867 and will die here March 19, 1958 at age 90. New Englanders.

 

PETER F. (FRED) PUTNAM  Turlock, Stanislaus County

He is 54 WI single and a farmer. His widowed dad Fred Ellsworth Putnam 78 WI is here now as his wife Ella Bobb died in the 1920s. Peter was born April 5, 1886 in Wisconsin and came out here with his folks around 1915. He will actually get married. He’ll marry Emma Lillian Alta Floch in 1949. He’ll die here in Modesto March 26, 1976. Emma is currently married to James Hildreth and has since about 1905. He will die here June 6, 1948 and she’ll marry Peter after that. His dad Fred was is a son of George Washington Putnam and Martha Brewer. He was born August 17, 1861 and will die here February 26, 1943. He was at home in 1880 in Marshall, Richland County Wisconsin and married to Ella J. Bobb there in 1900 and 1910. They were all here in 1920. New England family from Vermont then back to Massachusetts.

 

GROVER C. (CLEVELAND) PUTMAN  Bute, Sutter County

He is 46 CA IL IL and owns a farm. His wife Ruth Evelyn Keeler is 39 OK. They have Donald Clifton 17 CA, Harold L. 16 CA, Jane C. 14 CA, James G. 12 CA, Hazel Edith 10 CA, Ruth E. 8 CA and Jack F. 5 CA. He is a son of James Lawrence Putman and Mary Jane Putman from Brown County Illinois. Grover was born in California April 3, 1893. He married Ruth Keeler in Marysville, Yuba County California in 1921. He will die in Sutter County on January 20, 1957. Ruth was born in Oklahoma December 8, 1901 and will die here in Sutter County May 22, 1994. James was a son of Daniel Webster Putman and Louisa Perry. He is on the Southern Putman Line out of Virginia and then Kentucky. Mary Jane ‘Jennie’ is a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Margaret Kees, and was born in Brown County June 14, 1861. Henry was on the line of the ‘other’ William Putman/Putnam of Brown County.

 

GLENN PUTNAM  Sutter, Sutter County

He is 24 CO and his wife Dorothy 24 NE. He works on a farm. They were married recently as she was still in Nebraska in 1935. He is a son of William Layton Putnam and Nora Edna Donaldson. He was born September 27, 1915 when the folks were in Colorado over from Rock County Nebraska. His dad died in Craig, Moffat County Colorado May 8, 1916 and he and his mom and siblings were back in Brown County Nebraska and his dad was buried there. They were there in 1920 and in Hot Springs, Fall County South Dakota in 1930. Glenn was here in Sutter County in 1935. He will die in Olivehurst, Yuba County California August 6, 1994. His dad was a son of John H. Putman and Sarah Brinkerhoff in Rock County. John was a son of William Putman and Hannah Waters from Clinton County Michigan. Dutch family from New York State.

 

HARVEY B. (BRIAN) PUTMAN  Sutter, Sutter County

He is 43 CA IL IL and now ‘widowed.’ His wife Elizabeth Spencer were here in 1930 and are now divorced. He is a son of James Lawrence Putman and Mary Jane Putman from Brown County Illinois. He was born in California on December 23, 1896, and will die here May 6, 1970. Elizabeth is now married to Cyril Simic in Napa County in 1940 and has young Brian with her. James was a son of Daniel Webster Putman and Louisa Perry. He is on the Southern Putman Line out of Virginia and then Kentucky. Mary Jane Ԋennieՠis a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Margaret Kees, and was born in Brown County June 14, 1861. Henry was on the line of the ԏtherՠWilliam Putman/Putnam of Brown County.

 

JAMES PUTMAN  Sutter, Sutter County

He is 39 CA IL IL and a salesman with an oil company. His wife Theresa Perry is 37 CA and they have Stanley James 12 CA. He was born in Sutter, California December 17, 1900. He married Theresa Perry in 1922 in Sacramento, California. He is James Lawrence Putman Jr., another son of James Lawrence and Mary Jane Putman from Brown County Illinois. Theresa was born March 8, 1903 and will die April 19, 1996. James will die here July 3, 1996. Southern Putman family.

 

EVERETT, ORIN & NED PUTMAN  Sutter, Sutter County

They are living with their mother Margaret 39 CA and her new husband Frank Welter 44 CA. They are kids of Clarence Lawrence Putman and Margaret Evelyn Harris from here. Everett Leroy is 19 CA, Orin Neal 17 CA and Edward Lawrence ‘Ted’ 15 CA. Clarence Lawrence Putman was a son of James Lawrence Putman and Mary Jane Putman from Brown County Illinois. Clarence was born in California on March 7, 1898, and he died December 11, 1928 here in Sutter. James was a son of Daniel Webster Putman and Louisa Perry. He is on the Southern Putman Line out of Virginia and then Kentucky. Mary Jane ‘Jennie’ is a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Margaret Kees, and was born in Brown County June 14, 1861. Henry was on the line of the ’other’ William Putman/Putnam of Brown County.

 

ISRAEL L. (LEWIS) PUTNAM  Yuba City, Sutter County

He is 59 KS US US and manages an auto park. His wife new wife Elise Louise Peterson is 45 CA and they have Peter 4 CA. She also has Eleanor Willoughby 21 CA and Ralph Willoughby 16 CA from her earlier marriage. They were married in Washoe County, Nevada May 1, 1935. He had earlier married Winifred Genevieve Banschbach in 1921 and they were here together in 1930. She is now still in town living by herself and say she is a widow. She teaches music out of her home, mostly piano I would guess. She’ll be here in Yuba till she dies October 1, 1964. He is a son of Henry Clay Putnam and Amanda Webster from Clay County Kansas. They were in Spokane Washington in 1900. Israel was in Grant County Washington in 1910, Montana in 1920. Line goes back to Washington County Ohio and then Massachusetts. He is descended from the General Israel Putnam. He was born January 8, 1881, and will be in California until he dies in October 1964.

 

MARY J. PUTMAN  Yuba City, Sutter County

She is 78 IL IL IL and widowed as she was in 1930. She lives with her widowed son-in-law John Cecil Wood 52 CA. He was married to her daughter Margaret here in 1930. Mary Jane Putman is the widow of James Lawrence Putman who died here July 9, 1924. Jennie will die in Alameda County July 26, 1944. She is a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Margaret Kees, and was born in Brown County June 14, 1861. Henry was on the line of the ’other’ William Putman/Putnam of Brown County. They were married October 18, 1883. James was a son of Daniel Putman and Louisa Perry from Brown County Illinois on the Southern Putman line.

 

WINIFRED PUTNAM  Yuba City, Sutter County

She is 58 IL and widowed, living by herself. She is a music teacher operating out of her home. Winifred Genevieve Banschbach married Israel Putnam here in town in 1921. They were here in 1930 then divorced. He is still in town with a new wife Elise Peterson. Winnie’s death certificate says she was born in Illinois June 23, 1881 and will die here in Yuba October 1, 1864. She says her mother’s maiden name was Roebling.

 

ALFRED B. (BEVERLEY) PUTNAM  Dinuba, Tulare County

He is 29 CA, his wife Helen Charlotte Mason is 31 CA and they have Lyle W. 2 CA. He sells gasoline tank trucks. He is a son of George William Putnam and Katherine Isabel McKersie and was born here in Tulare County July 5, 1910 and was with his folks in Fresno in 1910 through 1930. His folks are out here in Orosi, Tulare County now. Alfred will die in Kings County October 19, 1955. Helen is a daughter of Wilbur Mason and Bertha Eichenberger and was born in Fresno County November 22, 1908 and will die there January 10, 1985. Alfred’s dad is a son of Robert Alexander Putman and Theodora Ann Mariah Shackleford from Brown County Illinois. Southern Putman family Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois to way out here about 1903 along with his folks.

 

CINDA J. PUTNAM  Dinuba, Tulare County

She is 63 IL IL AR. She is still single and boarding. She is a nurse with a private family. She was here with her married sister Florence in 1920. She is a daughter of Henry Francis Putman and Virginia Shackleford from Brown County Illinois. She was born January 15, 1877, and will die here February 14, 1947 and be buried back in Mt. Sterling, Brown County Illinois. Southern Putman family.

 

SUMNER  PUTNAM  Dinuba, Tulare County

He is 61 MO MA MO and a farmer. His wife Agnes Pollock is 50 MO. They have Jack 18 CA. They were in Los Angeles County in 1910 and in Tulare County in 1920 with his dad Jerome Putnam. Then in Fresno County in 1930 and back in Tulare County by 1935. Sumner was born September 12, 1878 and will die here January 24, 1967. Agnes was born June 16, 1889 and will die July 23, 1949. They were married back in Putnam County Missouri August 19, 1908. Jerome was a son of Dexter and Ruby Putnam from Putnam County Missouri and Sutton, Worcester County Massachusetts before that. Jerome went back to York, Putnam County Missouri and died there January 23, 1931 at age 87. New Englanders.

 

JOHN F. (FREDERICK) PUTMAN  Orosi, Tulare County

He is 61 IL and his wife Lillian Blanche Miller is 57 IN. He is a son of Robert Alexander Putnam and Theodora Shackleford from Brown County Illinois. He was born December 6, 1878 in Hershman, Brown County. He married Lillian Blanche Miller April 12, 1906. They were here in 1920 and earlier. I don’t find them in 1930 but they are here. He will die here January 21, 1958, Blanche in 1970. Southern Putmans Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois and then out here.

 

GEORGE W. (WILLIAM) PUTMAN  Orosi, Tulare County

He is 59 IL IL AR and owns a citrus farm. His wife Katherine Isabel McKenzie is 53 SCOTLAND. He is a son of Robert Alexander Putman from Brown County Illinois. They were in Tulare County in 1910, and Fresno County in 1920 and 1930. He was born November 15, 1881 and will die June 28, 1951 here in Tulare County. Katherine was born in Scotland September 11, 1886 and will die in Dinuba, Tulare County November 28, 1977. Their son Alfred was with them up through 1930 and is married in Dinuba now.

 

EMORY O. (ORIGEN) PUTNAM  Porterville, Tulare County

He is 40 CA and his wife Martha Faye Copple is 38 OK. He is a son of James Ajax Putnam here. He was born here October 28, 1899 and will die in Oakdale, Stanislaus County February 27, 1971. Martha was born in Oklahoma May 2, 1901 and will die in Tulare April 16, 1983.

 

JAMES A. (AJAX) PUTNAM  Porterville, Tulare County

He is 77 PA PA PA and still farming. His wife Mammie Wilcox is 70 CA and they have Richard James 16 CA an adopted grandson at home. Their son Emery was married to Faye Copple and they adopted Richard and then divorced. James has been here for ages. He is a son of Perley Porter Putnam and Martha Ellen Marvin from Tioga County Pennsylvania. New Englanders from Salem Village Massachusetts before that. James was born January 29, 1863 in Covington, Pennsylvania and will die here in Porterville January 20, 1944. Mamie was born here in Porterville July 12, 1869 and will die here November 28, 1958.

 

MARVIN E. (EMERSON) PUTNAM  Porterville, Tulare County

He is 36 CA CA CA and is a farmer now. His wife Emilie Augusta Stevens is 35 CA. They were just married here in 1930 and they now have a daughter Royal E. 9 CA and James E. 5 CA. Also here is a cousin-in-law Harold Demasters 25 CA. Marvin was a graduate of the Eagle Flying School in 1929.  He was quite proud of his over 30 hours of flight experience in a Curtis OX-5, Water-cooled single engine bi-plane of World War I vintage.  However, raising a family forced his feet back on the ground. They farmed in the Porterville area, and settled in Success Valley, in 1939, having purchased the Brough homestead. They were forced to sacrifice their home in 1956 for the construction of the Success Dam, and then made their home high above the west side of the lake for the next 20 years. This was from an old newspaper thing. He is a son of James Ajax Putnam and Mammie Jessie Wilcox from here. He was born in Porterville July 27, 1902 and will die here in Porterville September 15, 1933. Emilie is a daughter of Lester V. Stevens and Elizabeth Adeline Jenkins and was born August 24, 1905 in Los Angles County, and will die here in Porterville in July 1993. New Englanders out of Massachusetts.

 

ROYAL F. (FREDERICK) PUTNAM  Porterville, Tulare County

He is 48 CA PA CA and is citrus packer. His new wife Doris Mae Small is 32 CA. He was born December 28, 1891 here in Porterville and he’ll be around until he dies September 4, 1978 in Stockton, San Joaquin County. He is a son of James Ajax Putnam and Mammie Jessie Wilcox from here and lives next door to them. He married Esther Victoria Benedict in 1911 and she was with him in 1920 and 1930. Guess they got divorced, as she won’t die until November 10, 1967. Doris was born August 2, 1907 and will die in Contra Costa County California October 11, 1941. He will marry Denzil Blanche Fry here February 27, 1945. New Englanders.

 

VICTOR PUTMAN  Porterville, Tulare County

He is 19 AR and his wife Lillie is 18 AR. He works on a far. They are both from Yell County Arkansas. Victor Debs is a son of Franklin Montgomery Putman and Josie Evelyn Underwood and grandson of Joseph Henry Putman and Missouri Evans all from Yell County. They will have five kids, stay here a while and then move to Alabama where he is in 2005. Southern Putman family South Carolina to Tennessee to Arkansas.

 

KENNETH PUTMAN  Tipton, Tulare County

He is 43 AR, his wife Grace 42 MO and his stepson Doyle Phipps is 18 OK. They were married recently as he was back in Van Buren, Crawford County Arkansas and Grace was in Dewey County Oklahoma In 1935. He is a son of Bennett Franklin Putman and Cordelia Ezra Benton and was born May 29, 1897. In 1920 he was married to Eliza Moses and they had 5 kids. In 1930 he is widowed in Van Buren and now he has a new wife, Grace. He will die in Van Buren, Arkansas June 2, 1986.

 

CLARENCE R. (RANDOLPH) PUTNAM  Tulare, Tulare County

He is 45 KS IL KS. His wife Rose Agnes Stewlow is 47 MN. They have been married 20 years and have Roger H. 15 CA and Darlene Betty Jean 8 CA. He is a barber with a barbershop. He is Clarence Randolph Putman, son of James Edward Putman and Myrtle Hicks. He was born in New Salem, Kansas February 6, 1895, and will die here in Tulare March 21, 1978. He was in Crowley County Kansas in 1900 and then Elbert County Colorado by 1910. Then Oakland, Alameda County in 1930 and here in Tulare County in 1935 and 1940. Rose is a daughter of John August Stewlow and Wilhelmina Augusta Priebe and was born March 16, 1891 in Wells, Minnesota, and will die May 14, 1955. This is a German family out of Maryland.

 

IRA B. (BLOSSOM) PUTNAM  Visalia, Tulare County

He is 57 CA MA CA and owns his own very big farm. His wife Etta Jane Francis is 50 CA. He is a son of Joseph Fletcher Putnam and Elizabeth Potter and was born here. His dad is from Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

LLOYD FLETCHER PUTNAM  Visalia, Tulare County

He is 27 CA, his new wife Dorothy Ada Dougherty is 25 CA and they have Barbara Ann 1 CA. He is a son of Ira Blossom Putnam and Etta Jane Frances from here. He was born May 3, 1912 in Los Angeles and married Dorothy May 21, 1937. He will die in Jackson, Amador County October 23, 2000. Dorothy is a daughter of John Edwin Dougherty and Ada Richmal Heap from Yolo. Dorothy was born November 2, 1914 and will die August 24, 1987. Family is out of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

EUGENE C. (CROTHERS) PUTNAM  Camarillo, Ventura County

He is 35 IA OH IA and his wife Dolores Bradbury is 27 OK and they have Helen 4 CA, Roger 3 CA and Eugenia 2 CA. He is a policeman now. He is a son of Horace Putnam and Louise Magdfrau from Henry County Iowa. He was born there February 12, 1905 in Jackson, Henry County. He will die here in Ventura County August 7, 1968. He was single here in 1930. His dad was from Ohio, and his grandfather was from Connecticut. Dolores is a daughter of Grover Bradbury and Maud Bradford and was born February 24 1913 in Whitbread, Garvin County Oklahoma and will die here in Camarillo March 17, 1984.

 

RODNEY J. (JAY) PUTNAM  San Buenaventura, Ventura County

He is 53 CA NY MD and his wife Ella Noreen Ormsby is 52 CA. They live with her folks George and Lydia Ormsby. He is a son of DeWitt Clinton Putman and Rebecca Ann Townsend from Wayne County New York. He was born in Petaluma, Sonoma County October 29, 1877 and will die February 8, 1950 here in Ventura County. Ella is a daughter of George Walter Ormsby and Lydia Lucetta Sackett and was also born in Petaluma March 8, 1878 and will die in Ventura June 2, 1969. New England line back through Tolland County Connecticut to Sutton, Massachusetts.

 

JOE PUTNAM  Grafton, Yolo County

He is 58 IL single boarding and a farm laborer. He is a son of Edwin Putnam and Julietta Lawrence and was born in Whiteside County Illinois in October 1881 and was at home in 1900 in Lynn, Missouri in St Louis in 1920 and here in 1935. Edwin was a son of Jeremy Putnam (1174) from Vermont and then Michigan. Joe will die here in Yolo July 14, 1950. New Englanders.

 

PERLEY P. (PORTER) PUTNAM  Wheatland, Yuba County

He is 79 PA and his wife Ella Virginia Williamson 77 CA. They were last in Colusa County. Ella is a daughter of Augustus Williamson and Martha Vonlear and was born in Porterville, Tulare County February 5, 1863 and will die later this year on November 5, 1940. Perley will marry Sarah Jane ‘Sallie’ Scaff in 1941 and then die here himself February 4, 1946. Sallie is a daughter of George Fox Scaff and Susan Frances Boatwright. She was born in Missouri February 25, 1861 and will die in Santa Cruz February 2, 1956. He was born November 24, 1861 in Covington, Pennsylvania. He is a son of Perley Porter Putnam and Martha Ellen Marvin from Tioga County Pennsylvania. New England Family out of Massachusetts then Pennsylvania and Texas and he came out here.