ILLINOIS

Census Reports

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UPDATED AS OF OCTOBER 25, 2022

 

ILLINOIS 1950 CENSUS

 

In the 1940 census and especially now in the 1950 Census, the handwriting on the sheets is a bit better. But now that people are using Ancestry and Family Search and putting their family trees up on the sites, and the sites themselves have much better search engines and send you to a whole bunch of info docs and records. I now can find a family sheet on about everyone and many on the wife’s side. When I first started doing this in the very early 1970s, all that was available to see was up to the 1900. There was no such thing as on-line and the computers then were the size of a locker room. I had to drive out to Waltham, Massachusetts to the U. S. Library, beg for a film real of the dates and State I wanted and then look at it through a visual device in a back dark room and literally go page to page, county to county and write the info down on paper with a pencil. At that time, really the most people doing genealogy were older women, mostly retired school teachers in their 70s and 80s, who would send you hand written trees and info and stuff that they had back a couple of generations. Once in a while I would get an actual typewritten document. Wow! Got much better in the 1990s. Now it is soooo easy to get info you didn’t think was possible. Back in the 70s I tried calling folks, and got a hold of several who had info. Now just an e-mail can bring in a ton of info. Anyway, really enjoy these censuses, and if you can add or correct, please let me know so I can help others.

 

 

EARL PUTNAM  Ellington, Adams County

He is 62 IL and a new wife Nellie 67 IL and still has his son Russell 38 IL with him on his farm. Earl Duncan Putnam is a son of William Henry Putnam and Margaret B. Duncan and was born here December 8, 1888 and will die in Quincy, Adams County May 29, 1872. He was single at home in 1910 and then in 1920 he is ‘missing’ but his son Russell is at home with his folks. In 1930 no one is on the face of the earth, mis-indexed but probably here. He is widowed here in 1940. New England family.

 

RUFUS B. (BENNETT) PUTNAM  Ellington, Adams County

He is 58 IL and his wife Sallie Ann Johnston is 61 IL. He is a farmer. Rufus Bennett is a son of William Henry Putnam and Margaret B. Duncan and was born here April 1, 1892 and will die here March 3, 1991. Sallie will last till June 1977. He has been here all his life, but like everyone in Ellington, their census page(s) were eaten by an alien or by an alligator. Massachusetts folks.

 

MARCELLUS PUTNAM  Houston, Adams County

He is a farmer 32 IL and his wife Alice Clark is 29 IL and they have Karen 8 IL, Bradley Lynn 5 IL and Terry 3 IL. He is a son of Amos Putman and Stella Vaughn and was born in Clayton Adams County  August 8, 1917 and has been there up to and in the 1940 census. He married Alice about 1941. He will die here January 9, 1991. Alice was born September 18, 1920 and will die in Golden, Adams County June 23, 2014.

 

FRANK C. PUTMAN  Quincy, Adams County

He is 38 AR and his wife May T. is 32 KS. He is a driver for a wholesale baking company. Can’t find him anywhere earlier.

 

ROY B. (BRIGGS) PUTNAM  Quincy, Adams County

He is 59 IL and his wife Veleda Carolyn Petrie is 58 IL and they Wilbur 15 IL. He is Leroy Briggs Putman, a son of Henry Francis Putman and Virginia Shackleford from Elkhorn, Brown County where he was born September 22, 1889. He married Velida April 12, 1911 in Brown County. They were in Elkhorn there in 1920 and in Chambersburg, Pike County in 1930. He is a farmer. He will die May 30, 1963 and is buried back in Versailles, Brown County. Velida is a daughter of Henry and Sarah Petrie and was born in Cooperstown, Brown County January 14, 1892 and will die in Mount Sterling, Brown County in February 1982. The son Glenn has a dual listing working for a Pelber family on their farm. Now …  This is a weird listing. On the sheet Roy’s name is scratched through with pencil. So maybe Veleda is living with  the following Robert.

 

ROBERT L. (LEE) PUTNAM  Quincy, Adams County

He is 25 IL and his wife Mary D. Savage is 22 NJ and they have Donald L. 3 IL and Robert L. Jr. 1 IL. He is an automotive mechanic. He and Mary were married back in Brown County January 24, 1946. He is a son of Leroy Briggs Putman and Veleda Carolyn Petri and was with them in 1940 in Cass County. His folks are next door now too. He was born May 8, 1924 in Brown County Illinois and will later die here in Quincy January 23, 2000. He enlisted in the Army April 8, 1943 and was a sergeant in the Army in WWII. Southern Putman family like everyone in Brown County.

 

MURRAY H. (HILLS) PUTMAN  Cooperstown, Brown County

He is 50 IL IL IL widowed and a farmer with his own farm. His wife Mary Elizabeth Kennedy has died. He is a son of Stephen Ellsworth Putman and Laura Ellen Hills. He was born December 31, 1899. He married Mary Kennedy on Christmas Day 1920. Mary was born August 25, 1900 and she died October 24, 1948 and Murray will die here September 18, 1959. Hmmm. Wonder if Murray Hills in California was named for him. Southern Putmans like everyone in the County.

 

MARGIE & HALCYON PUTMAN  Versailles, Brown County

Margie is 64 IL and single. Margery Ellen Putman was born April 30, 1885 and will die here July 10, 1959. Her sister Halcyon Gertrude Putman is 66 IL. Halcyon was born June 30, 1883 and will die here June 20, 1951. Halcyon never married. Margie married Philip Gray in 1907 and he died in 1919. She then married Frances Harper in 1922 and they got divorced. They are daughters of Stephen Ellsworth Putman and Laura Ellen Hills.

 

RUFUS E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Versailles, Brown County

He is 71 IL IL IL. His wife Louisa Covey is 76 IL and they have Edna L. 36 IL still at home. He is the son of Henry Francis Putman and Virginia Shackleford. He was born February 26, 1879. He married Louisa March 30, 1904. She was born in Cooperstown March 22, 1885 and will die here in Versailles June 19, 1951. He will be here till he dies April 26, 1954. He is a farmer and has been here since they were married. Southern Putman Family.

 

WAYNE E. (ELLSWORTH) PUTMAN  Versailles, Brown County

He is 24 IL and now married to Ella Mae Black 18 IL. He is a son of Murray Hills listed abovr and he was at home there in Cooperstown in 1940. Wayne was born here September 11, 1925 and will die in Schuyler County April 26, 2009. Ella was born here April 22, 1931 and will die here in Versailles August 20, 2010.

 

BESSIE J. PUTMAN  Mount Carroll, Carroll County

She is 64 IL and now widowed. She is still a rural school teacher out here. Bessie Ellicot was married to Ernest Tucker Putman here since 1920. Ernest was a son of John W. and Sarah Putnam (both from Canada) from Cherokee County Iowa. He was born there July 29, 1883. He was with his remarried mother here in Carroll County in 1900. He is a telegraph operator for the Milwaukee Railroad and was also in 1930. Bessie was born September 10, 1885 and will die in May 1963. His dad was a son of William Putnam and Rachel Scott. His dad was from Erie County Pennsylvania and then went into Canada and married his mom there and was in Rock Island County Illinois just over the border in 1860. New England family way back when.

 

JO C. PUTNAM  Virginia, Cass County

She is a great niece-in-law just born here in April living with Dennis and Lois Perry. Name is probably Joice. No clue to folks, but most folks here are Southern Putmans. She is listed as a granddaughter-in-law but spelling is clearly niece-in-law.

 

PATRICIA PUTNAM  Virginia, Cass County

She is 3 IL and ‘lodging’ with a family that partakes in a Home for Dependent Children. No clue as to the parents.

 

AVER W. PUTMAN  Chanute Air Force Base, Champaign County

He is 24 with no place of birth shown like everyone else on the page. Tried a search for Aver, Averil with, no luck at all.

 

HELENA PUTNAM  Champaign, Champaign County

She is 80 IL and widowed. Her brother Emil Schaede 68 IL is still with her as he was here in 1930. Also here is a nephew Ralph Putnam 34 IL and divorced. Ralph Jr. is a son of Ralph Putnam and Hattie Tuttle from Aurora, Kane County. Helena Schaede had been married to John Wesley Putnam since the very early 1900s. He died here October 1, 1933. He was a son of James Putman and Jane McCullum and was born in Fountain County Indiana June 13, 1875. His family came here in the 1890s. His grandfather Thomas Putnam came from Vermont to Indiana to here.

 

GEORGE L. PUTNAM  Compromise, Champaign County

He is 31 IL and his wife Laverne Neff is 29 IL. He is a tenant farmer. George is a son of Harm Putman and Antoinette ‘Nettie’ Erdwins. George ’Shorty’ Putnam was born June 25, 1918 and married Grace Laverne Neff on March 6, 1940 in Shelbyville, Kentucky. They lived in Vermilion County where he was with the Sheriff’s department and Putnam Brothers Corn Shelling plant and farmed in Armstrong. Vernie died January 13, 2006 and George died February 7, 2008 at age 89. This from his obituary. New England family Massachusetts to Champaign County

 

GEORGE E. (EDGAR) PUTNAM  Ogden, Champaign County

George is 57 IL and widowed as his wife Hilka Kate Loeschen has died here April 13, 1936. Still at home are Wilbert H. 28 IL, Donald V. 16 IL, and Eugene A. 15 IL. He is a tenant farmer. He is a son of Fred S. Putnam and Antje ‘Annie’ Behrens. Been here in Ogden since he was born July 27, 1892. He married Kate in Danville December 26, 1917. She was a daughter of William Harms Loeschen and Gertrude Osterbur and was born here in Ogden December 22, 1899. George will die in Potomac, Illinois August 26, 1973. New England line from Connecticut to Rhode Island briefly then out here.

 

MINERVA E. PUTNAM  Ogden, Champaign County

She is 63 IL single never married and is living with her mother Annie 84 GER who is now married to Grego Kienietz. Annie Behrens was married to Fred Putnam here. He died way back in 1897.

 

CHARLES PUTNAM  Rantoul, Champaign County

He is now 84 IL and is widowed and he retired from his coal company.  He is living with his married daughter Edith M. Little 59 IL and her husband Arthur P. Little. In 1910 he and his son Charles were in Des Moines County Iowa and he was 56 MA MA MA. He is Charles Messer Putnam the son of Nathan Putnam and Caroline Messer from Salem, Massachusetts. He was at home in 1860 and then with his widowed mother there in 1880. Then he married Martha Jane Lane in Massachusetts and they were in Brookline Massachusetts in 1900, and then came to Iowa. In 1910 he was widowed with her mother Antoinette Lane and his son Charles and they were in Burlington, Des Moines County Iowa. Can’t find him in 1920, but in 1930 and 1940 he and his son Charles were in Peoria, Illinois. Anyway, Charles was born in Salem, Massachusetts November 4, 1854 and I can’t find a death date yet.

 

WILLIAM J. (JAMES) PUTNAM  Urbana, Champaign County

He is 62 IL and his wife Nettie Smith is 59 IL. He is a professor at University of Illinois. He is a son of James Putnam and Emma Sarah Paine from Rosamond Christian County. His dad was born back in Berkshire County Massachusetts. William was born August 22, 1887 and will die here in January 1981. Nettie was born October 6, 1890 and will die here in Urbana in April 1986 a couple of years shy of 100.

 

JOHN H. (HAROLD) PUTMAN  Mattoon, Coles County

He is 53 IL and his second wife Florence Curran is 38 IL and they have Robert 16 IL. He is a son of James Warren Putman and Amanda E. Bell from Brown County. He was born May 8, 1896 and had married Florence Burroughs and then they were divorced. He was at home in 1930. Then he married Florence Curran December 1, 1931 and they were in Mount Sterling in 1940. He will die here February 9, 1982. Southern Putmans.

 

PAULINE S. PUTNUM  Burnham, Cook County

She is 19 and has a 1-year-old daughter Leslie Joan. I would assume she married a Putnam guy and then split. Best I can figure.

 

ADELAIDE B. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 70 NY widowed and keeping house for her married daughter Helen 49 IA an x-ray technician and her husband Dwight E. Danforth who is a buyer for a retail store. They have a daughter Mary E. Danforth 16 SD. She was in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1935 and here in Chicago in 1940. Adelaide Amelia Burleson was married to Edmund De Los Putnam in Osceola County Iowa in 1900 and in Sioux Falls, South Dakota in 1910 through 1930. He died there April 1, 1935. Adelaide was born in Vernon Center, New York April 17, 1872 and will die here in Chicago October 21, 1953. Her now married son Edmund Jr. is here in Chicago. Her husband Edmund was born in Green Lake County Wisconsin, a son of Herbert Langdon Putnam and Laura Calista Hale from Springfield, Vermont.

 

ALBERT H. (HARRY) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 44 born in Holland. He is single and a paper cutter at the Chicago Direction Publishing company. He is a son of Hendrick and Bernice Putnam and was married here to Bernice Kreiger here in 1930 so guess they got divorced. He was born in Omsford in the Netherlands (Holland) August 15, 1904 and will die in Kalamazoo, Michigan October 5, 1991. He arrived in America in 1923. He married Bernice Henrietta Kreiger in Valparaiso, Indiana July 20, 1929. She is a daughter of Fred Kreiger and Margaretha Elnora Dumpke and was born in Chicago February 17, 1911 and will die in Plainwell, Allegan County Michigan October 28, 1998. I have no idea as to his ‘given’ name, it wasn’t Putnam.

 

ALBERT PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 28 IL and never married. He is a chemistry professor at a university. Albert Charles Putman is a son of Jesse Raymond Putman and Clara Belle Jenkinson from here in Chicago where he was born May 5, 1922. He will die September 10, 2004 in Bensenville, DuPage County Illinois. Don’t think he ever married. His dad was a son of Edward Putman and Mary Alice Steward from Jasper County Indiana. He and Clara were there in 1920 and then here by 1922 when Albert was born. New York Dutch Family.

 

ALICE J. (JUANITA) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is Alice Jaunita Fassett 36 AR and widowed. She has Fathe J. 15 IL, Howard E. 13 IL and Jeremiah 12 IL. Her folks John Fassett 52 CA and Georgia Fassett 53 TX are with her. Took a chance and guessed she may have been married to Howard Putnam, son of Jeremiah Putnam here in Chicago based on the two son’s names. And BINGO! Found a death certificate for Howard Edward Putnam born September 10, 1910 and died January 12, 1938. Father Jeremiah, mother Bertha and his spouse’s name was J. Alice! New England family Massachusetts to New Jersey to here in Illinois.

 

ANNA K. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 61 KY KY KY and single. She is a sales agent in an insurance agency. She is Anna Katherine Putnam, daughter of Nathan Henry Putnam and Nancy Spaulding from Lebanon, Kentucky. She was here in 1930 and probably 1940, but not indexed. New England family way back when.

 

ANNIE PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is a Negro 53 LA and widowed.

 

BARBARA PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 76 IA and widowed. She has her widowed daughter Barbara Katherine Dunn 54 IA with her. The mom, Barbara Cummings, married Michael Thaddeus Putnam in Black Hawk County Iowa September 4, 1893 and they were there in 1900 and 1910. Both were widowed in Palm Beach, Florida in 1940. Not a clue as to why they came all the way up here from a nice retirement place like Fort Worth.

 

BARBARA A. (ANASTASIA) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 44 IL and divorced She lives with her divorced mother Emily Keslin 75 GERMANY. She was married to Robert M. Putnam in Danville, Vermilion County in 1949. Can’t find any Bobbie that would fit.

 

BERNARD J. (JAMES) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 31 IN and his wife Lillian M. Dzioslowski is 31 and they have Jacqueline 6 IL. He is a clerk at a post office. He is a son of Jesse Raymond Putman and Clara Belle Jenkinson and was born here May 27, 1919 and will die in Oak Lawn, Cook County September 22, 2014. Lillian was born March 29, 1918 and will die December 31, 2008. He was a PFC in the Army during WWII. His dad is a son of Edward Putman and Mary Alice Steward from Jasper County Indiana. Dutch family out of New York State.

 

CAROLINE PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 48 POLAND and widowed. She is a waitress in a restaurant. Beats me.

 

CARRIE E. (EMMA) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is 78 CAN single and boarding. She has a nephew Steven Comstack 3 IL. The California death index says she was born August 21, 1871 in Canada and will die in San Diego July 7, 1970. Anyway, she is a daughter of George Young Putman and Elizabeth Ann Dunn and was born in St. Catherine’s, Lincoln County Ontario. They were there in 1881. Elizabeth was widowed in Atchison, Kansas in 1895 and 1900 with Carrie. Carrie and her mom were here in Chicago in 1910 and 1920. Carrie was here in 1940. Her mom was 90 when she died and Carrie will be 99 when she dies. Good Genes for sure. This is a Dutch line going back into New York State.

 

CHARLES F. (FRANCIS) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 56 KY KY KY and his wife Helen S. is 53 ND SWED SWED. They have been married 23 years, and he is a salesman-agent for ladies’ dresses as he has been. He is the son of Nathan Henry Putnam and Nancy Spaulding from Lebanon, Kentucky and grandson of Joseph Whitney Putnam from Louisville. He was born in Lebanon, Kentucky November 30, 1896. They were in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania in 1930 and in San Francisco in 1935, and were in Chicago in 1942 when he registered for the draft. He will die in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in February 1960. New England family originally from Massachusetts.

 

CLARA PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is 55 IN and widowed. Clara Ponto has been married to Harry Charles Putman, son of William Alexander Putman and Belle Darnell from here. He was born August 1, 1888 and died here August 7, 1936. They were married here June 4, 1913. Clara was born in January 1885 in Indiana and will die here in Chicago November 21, 1955. Southern Putman family from Fulton County. William was a son of Hazeal Putman who was a son of William Putman and Alla Bridges who went from Fulton County to Arkansas with my gggrandfather Reding Putman.

 

CLAUDE PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 39 MS and his wife Lillie 24 MS and they have Bernice 9 MS. This is a Negro family. He works for the railroad.

 

DANIEL B. (BYRAM) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

Listed as William B., bad writing. He is Daniel B. 74 IL and living with his married sister Jennie. 68 IL and her husband Eugene Rogers 70 IL. He is a son of Edmund Putnam and Ardelia Shepard and was born April 14, 1876 and was at home with them in Vermilion County Illinois in 1900. He married Mary Edith from Indiana and they were in Seattle, Washington in 1910 then Daniel and Mary were in Kitsap County in 1920 and he was back in Seattle in 1930 and was single. They were all here in 1940. Says he’s married now, but haven’t seen Mary since 1920. He will die July 13, 1968 here in Rossville, Illinois. Mary is still in Washington and will die there in Eagle Harbor in 1962.

 

DELLA PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 74 WI and widowed. She has been here ages married to Joseph Putnam. He died here March 30, 1940. She lives with or next to her son Thomas Putnam. She is listed as head of household just as Thomas is. Della or Delia is a daughter of Michael Minnehan and Winifred Donahue and was born in Monroe, Green County Wisconsin September 4, 1874 and will die here in Chicago October 6, 1951. Her husband Joseph’s Illinois Death Index has him as being born in Louisville, Jefferson County Kentucky December 18, 1870 and he was a son of Nathan Putnam and Catherine McCoy and will died here April 2, 1940. Nathan Henry was a son of Dr. Joseph Whitney Putnam and I have him marrying Nancy Spaulding in Adair County Kentucky November 10, 1875. He must have either married Catherine very early in 1870 to have Joseph, named for his grandfather, in December or had Joseph out of wedlock. At any rate they weren’t together in 1875. Nathan was single in Taylor County Kentucky in 1870 and married to Nancy in Adair County in 1880. New England family though.

 

DONALD PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 25 NE and his wife Claire Zaetaut is 21 IL. They live with her folks Raymond and Barbara Zaetaut both born in Holland. Donald Eugene is a son of Charles Eugene Putnam and Gladys Anderson and was at home in Naper, Boyd County Nebraska in 1930 and 1940. Donald Eugene was born May 18, 1926 and will die August 4, 2004. New Englanders to New York then Michigan then Iowa and Nebraska.

 

DONALD C. (CHARLES) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 30 NY single and renting. Doesn’t have a job. He isa son of Leon Putman and Leone Parks and was at home with them in 1940 in Philadelphia Township, Jefferson County New York. He married Jane E. Bent in Southampton, Long Island, New York January 26, 1946. Something happened ‘cause she ain’t here now. He was born in Mexico, Oswego County New York March 21, 1921 and will die in Watertown Jefferson County December 24, 1997. He had a drinking party gong on to pre-celebrate Christmas and he had way too much to drink and didn’t make to greet Santa.

 

EDMUND D. (DELOS) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 39 SD and his wife Mary Elizabeth Jackman is 39 IL. They have Grace T. 8 IL, Edmund D. Jr. 5 IL and Timothy D. 2 IL. They have been married since 1935 when he was in Omaha, Nebraska and she was in Lake Forest a few miles north of here. He is a son of Edmund Delos Putnam and Adelaide Amelia Burleson from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Edmund Delos Junior was born January 31, 1911 and will die in Lake Forest, Illinois June 9, 1999. His wife Mary Elizabeth was born November 10, 1910 and will die in Lake Forest March 12, 2001. This is from their gravestone there. His dad died in Sioux Falls April 1, 1935 and his mom and sister are here in Chicago now too. He is an x-ray technician in private practice for dermatology. His dad was a doctor and surgeon.

 

EDWARD D. PUTMAN JR.  Chicago, Cook County

He is 25 TX and in a dormitory. He is a son of Edward D. Putman and Emma Blalock and was born in Houston, Texas and was at home there in 1940. His dad is a son of Silas B. Putman from Llano County, Texas. Southern Putmans from Union County South Carolina then Monroe County Kentucky and Hamilton County Tennessee to Texas. He was born in Houston April 14, 1924 and will die April 11, 1986 in Austin, Texas.

 

ELEANORE PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 30 IL and never married. She is a treasury clerk. I can’t find her in 1930 or 1940 under several spellings. There is an Esther age 21 in 1940 a daughter of Raymond Putman in Chicago.

 

ESTELLE PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is 39 MS and a separated Negro with Willa 20 MS, Latashia 19 MS and Maud 13 LA.

 

ETHEL PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is a Negro 53 MS and widowed. She was married to Joseph Putman, also a Negro in Hinds County Mississippi in 1920. Her maiden name was Ethel Bertha McGowan for what that’s worth.

 

FATHE J. & MORE PUTNAMS  Chicago, Cook County

Fathe is 16 IL and has 3 brothers with her: Howard A. 14 IL, Jerry (Jeremiah) 13 IL and Zane H. 4 IL. They live with their mother Alice Williams 37 AR who is or was married to a Williams guy. Alice Juanita Fassett was married to Howard Edward Putnam here in the early 1930s and he died in 1938 and Alice was widowed here in 1940 with the kids. Howard was a son of Jeremiah Putnam and Bertha Bijick from here. Jerry was a son of Jeremiah and Melvina Putnam from Rahway, New Jersey and the Sutton, Massachusetts before that.

 

FRANCES A. (ANN) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 52 MO, single and a nurse. She is lodging in a JMCA with well over 100 guys and gals all single. She was here in 1935 and 1940 and in Lancaster, Nebraska in 1930. She was a private nurse then too. She is a daughter of Henry Brown Putnam from Kentucky and Alice Ann Elkner from Missouri and was at home with then in Cedar County Missouri in 1900 at age 2. Henry died in 1905, and in 1910 and 1920, Anna and the kids were in Humansville, Polk County Missouri.

 

FRANK A. PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 33 TX and his wife Jeanne 30 TX. They are PITMANS.

 

FRED J. PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 25 SC single and a Negro. He was in Laurens County South Carolina in 1930 and 1940.

 

GEORGE A. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 55 MS and widowed. He is a Negro and a mail carrier for the U. S. Postal Service.

 

GEORGE G. (GLENN) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 55 IL and his wife Beatrice is 57 IL. He is a credit man for a copper and brass factory as he was in 1940. They were a few miles north in Waukegan, Lake County in 1930 and here in Chicago in 1920. He is George Glenn Putman a son of George B. Putman and Edith Elizabeth Cook and was born August 14, 1894 in Grant, Vermilion County and was there in 1900 and in Danville, Vermilion County in 1910 with his folks. He married Beatrice about 1917. They never had any children. He was born August 14, 1894. Beatrice was born May 30, 1892. Both died in Barry, Illinois in March 1973. Wonder if in a car accident. Anyway, this is part of the Southern Putman line out of Virginia to Kentucky to Champaign County Ohio then Fountain County Indiana and then here in the 1860s.

 

GEORGE T. (YAYLOR) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 67 IL and his wife Elizabeth Sabrina Van Hausen is 67 OH. They were married in Erie County Ohio November 23, 1904. He is a son of Frank Austin Putnam and Arabella Foss and was born here in October 1882 and will die in November 1958. Frank was a son of Benjamin Clayton Putnam and Elvira Whipple Dudley. He was born in Danvers, Massachusetts and then lived in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He was in Hyde Park, Illinois in 1880 and here in Chicago in 1890. He ran a dry goods store here in Chicago.

 

GLENN PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 23 IL and his wife Mary Ann Ulis is 21 IL and they have Cynthia 2 IL and Glenn William born in February. Glenn Wayne Putnam is a son of Johnathan Henry Putman and Hazel Loretta Guild. He was born February 22, 1927 in Harvey, Cook County and was there in 1930 and 1940. He will die in Kankakee County September 26, 2015. Mary Ann was born in Chicago February 25, 1929 and will die in Will County Illinois December 18, 1997. I wonder since their birthdays are 2 days apart if they celebrated all at once on February 24 every year. He isa heat treater at an auto parts factory.

 

HAROLD R. (RUSSELL) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 46 IL and his wife Ida Pohlmann is 47 IL. They were married October 17, 1925. They now have Judith 8 IL and a niece Harriet Welher 33 He is a welder and Ida is a book filler at a book printing shop. He is a son of Henry Putnam and May Ninemeyer from McLean County. His dad died and his mom married William Henderson and are still in Cropsey, McLean County where he was born. They were here in 1930 and 1940. Harold was born July 3, 1903 and will die here August 22, 1972. Ida was born November 30, 1902 and will die in Justice, Cook County April 17. 1998.

 

HARRY PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 68 IN and is widowed. He is night clerk in a hotel. He first shows up in 1900 in Porter County Indiana in 1900 with his mother Martha who was divorced at that point. His 1942 Draft Registration gives his birth date as August 14, 1881 in Valparaiso, Indiana. They weren’t around in 1880 so no idea of the husband. Then she and Harry were in Curry County New Mexico in 1910 and he was here by himself by 1930. Travel a lot it seems. His full name is Harrison George Putnam and his SS death card says he died in Chicago in October 1976. Rand Putnam figured his folks were Henry and Martha, his first wife, Putnam. Henry and wife 2 Henrietta Cowden were in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1920 and 1930. That Henry’s folks were Harrison and Christine Putnam from Wisconsin so his name makes sense.

 

HELEN V. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is Helen Peiffer Putnam 56 SD and widowed. She was here in 1935 and 1940. She is a sewing machine seamstress for the W.P.A. Now, if you look back at the 1930 here in Chicago there is William Hagey Putnam with a wife Helen 46 SD. In 1910 she was 25 years old living with her folks Michael and Louise Peiffer here in Chicago. Her folks are from Germany. William is currently in Denver, Colorado and says he is widowed. Guess he just kinda took off and left this gal.

 

HENRY PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 47 HOLLAND and a janitor. His wife Maria Kas is also 47 HOLLAND and they have Thomas 21 IL, Ann 20 IL, Joseph 18 IL and Geraldine 11 IL. They were here in 1930 and he was listed as Hendrick Putman born in the Netherlands. He is Hendricks Gerardus Jacobus Putman was born December 19, 1902 in Amersfoort, Utrecht Netherlands and will die July 18, 2005 in Monroe, Ohio. Certainly not one of the New Englanders.

 

HOLLIS D. (DWIGHT) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 44 MN MN MN. His wife Grace Phyllis Borchert is 38 MN. He is a superintendent of high demolition explosives for a construction company. Hollis is a son of Hollis Chester Putnam and Marguerite Edith Ayers from Sterns County Minnesota. He was born July 24, 1905 in St. Cloud, Sterns County. He was home there in 1910 and 1920 and married to Faith Roberta Estey here in 1930. Faith died October 11, 1942 and he married Grace Phyllis Borchert here in 1945. He will die back up in St. Cloud October 17, 1986. Grace was born in Faribault County Minnesota June 21, 1911 and will die is St. Cloud March 6, 1989. Dutch Putmans from Montgomery County New York to Minnesota in the 1840s.

 

IRA W. (WILLIAM) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 50 NC and single. He is in a Legion Hotel with about 10,000 others. He doesn’t have a job. Anyway, he is a son of Isaac Andrew Jackson Putman and Sallie Ann Higgins from Rutherford County and was there in 1940. Ira was born October 24, 1899 and will die in Mountain Home, Tennessee March 20, 1979. He never married. Southern Putmans of course.

 

ISABEL M. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 50 IL. Looks like the Isabel married to Thomas Putnam in Riverdale, Cook County in 1940. She was listed as Peggy in 1930 so the middle initial is probably Margaret. No clue to last name though.

 

JAMES A. (ALBERT) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 55 IL and owns a liquor store. His wife May Beskan is 40 IL and the have Joan 16 IL, Donna L. 5 IL. Her mother Mary Bleskan 60 Czechoslovakia is with them. He was here in 1930 with his first wife Ethelyn Maude Pinkly and I guess mis-indexed but here in 1940. He married Ethelyn August 10, 1918 and she died here February 7, 1938. He married May here May 1, 1942.  He is a son of James Putman and Mary French from here in Chicago. Dutch family out of New York.

 

JAMES N. PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is a lawyer 66 RUSSIA and his wife Grace is 60 IL. This is gotta be a writing mistake. Can’t find him or her anywhere in the prior stuff. Name just not Putman.

 

JANE PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 32 IL and single. She is secretary and chief of staff at Children’s Hospital. She is a daughter of Harry Trotwood Putnam and Margaret Truman and has been at home in Danville, Vermillion County up till now. Her dad died February 14, 1945 and that’s why Jane left home, I guess. Jane was born in Danville January 4, 1918 and will die May 23, 1978. She never married. This is a New England line. Andover, Massachusetts to Champaign County just north of here in Illinois by the 1870s.

 

JEFF PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 57 MS and his wife Leola is 44 GA and they have Bobby 19 IL. This is a Negro family.

 

JOHN W. PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 58 IA and works on the railroad. His wife Hattie is 53 MO. John is a son of Frank Putnam and Martha Saltzkorn. He was in Carroll County Illinois in 1900 and in Brown County South Dakota in 1910. Hattie was just married to him in Palo Alto County Iowa in 1930 but he was missing then. Don’t find in 1940.

 

LELAND PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 24 MI and his wife Nancy Jean Clark is 18 MI. He is a furniture constructor at a furniture factory. Nancy is a card sorter at a greeting card maker. Leland Demelville Putnam is a son of Otis Demelville Putnam and Vera Elizabeth Egeler and was at home with then in 1940 in Leelanau, Leelanau County Michigan. He was born in Leelanau County February 4, 1926 and will die in Zephyrhills, Florida February 6, 2002. He married Nancy in Traverse City, Michigan November 27, 1948. Nancy was born in Traverse City on Jun 27, 1931 and will die August 17, 1985 in Flint, Genesee County Michigan.

 

LESTER W. (WEED) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 56 IL and never married. He is a clerk for the railroad. He is a son of Lewis Weed Putnam and Annie Webber. He was born in Chicago August 25, 1893. He will die in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in April 1966. They were here from about 1895 till Lewis died here in 1923. Lewis was a son of Alfred D. Putnam of Brutus, Cayuga County New York. New England family from Massachusetts.

 

LILLIAN H. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 38 IN divorced and has John W. 15 IL and Charles R. 4 IN. They live with Charles and Goldie Chatman. Goldie and Lilly are sisters. No clue as to the Putnam who married her and then dumped her.

 

LOUISE B. PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is 81 WI and widowed and has her now married daughter Bess H. 41 IL and her husband Earl Launer 55 IL. They were here in 1930 as Louise 56 WI GER GER and Bessie 21 IL MO WI. Bessie is a clerk in a coal company. Louise B. Trader was married to Harry Putman from Colorado and he was a son of James Putman according to their marriage record in 1907. But I have no idea who Harry or James was. Louise also goes by Lizzie, and in 1920 was in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin with her dad Ferdinand Trader and had Bessie with her. They were in 1930 too.

 

MABEL PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 66 MI and widowed. She is Mabel O’Leary who married Morris R. Putnam in Chicago August 31, 1903. They moved to Detroit and then got divorce. I can’t find her in 1920 and Morris died in 1923. Mabel is in Chicago, Illinois in 1930 and there for the rest of her life. Since Morris had died, she lists herself as widowed in 1930 and on.

 

MABEL R. PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 49 IL and divorced and living in the Allerton Hotel. She was like this in 1935 and 1940. No ideas as to her ex and she wasn’t in the 1930 as a Putnam.

 

MARGARET PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

She is 39 IL and has a daughter Roberta J. 11 IL and is living with her widowed dad Robert Hertneck 72 GERMANY. Margaret Erna Hertneck was married to Lloyd Putman here in Chicago in 1940 and says she is still married, but Lloyd isn’t here with her. Lloyd Edgar Putman is a son of Jesse Ray Putman and Cara Belle Jenkinson and was born in Marion, Jasper County Indiana and was there with his folks in 1920 and then the family moved here to Chicago and were here in 1930. New York Dutch family. Margaret and Lloyd were here in Chicago in 1940. Margaret was born here in Chicago on  February 26, 1911 and will die March 4, 2002 in Largo, Florida. Lloyd will also die in Largo September 6, 1996 so they are still married and will be forever.

 

MILTON PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 36 MI and his wife Ann Osladacz is 25 IL and they have Joyce M. 10 IL, Barbara M. 8 IL and Darlene M. 3 IL. He now works as a printer of Tags. Ann does general office work at a cooking utensil manufacturer. He is a son of Jeremiah Putnam and Bertha Bijick from here in Chicago. He was born May 8, 1914 and will die in October of 1989. They were in Van Buren County Michigan in 1920 and he was with his widowed dad here in Chicago in 1939. Ann’s folks are from Russia. Her dad is John Osladacz and mom is Mary Zownirchak and they came over here from Zolotkowiche, Russia and landed in New York City November 3, 1907. Milton’s family is from New Jersey and then Massachusetts way back.

 

MILTON H. (HORACE) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 26 CO and his wife Agnes Victoria Vito 23 IL and they have Donald and Linda G., a pair of 1 year old twins born right here. He works in a grocery store. He is a son of Horace Blaine Putman and Ruby Merle Makever, and was at home in Hot Springs, Wyoming in 1930 and then in Union , Douglas County Nebraska in 1940. Southern Putman family, connected to mine back in South Carolina then Illinois.

 

NORCROSS W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 39 CAN, his wife Ruth Ann Vigorn 36 MN, and they have Joan A. 15 MN, David A. 13 MN and Judith 3 IL. He was in Elmwood, Cook County in 1940. He owns a traffic consulting business or something. He is a son of Silas Elmer Putnam and Florence Ellis and was born in Red Deer, Alberta Canada July 25, 1910 and was there in the 1911 census. He will die here in Chicago December28, 1995 after too much booze over the Christmas Holiday. Ruth Ann was born in Minnesota August 9, 1913 and will die in Chicago Heights November 12, 1986. His dad was a son of Pliny Dewey Putnam and Laura Williams. He was born in Wright County Minnesota. He was there through 1900 and then went up to Canada before 1910. They came back through North Dakota in 1914. By 1920 he was in Hennepin County Minnesota outside of Minneapolis and will be there the rest of his life. Norcross was there in Minneapolis in 1935. Pliny’s dad was from Vermont before heading west. New Englanders.

 

RAYMOND L. (LEWIS) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 62 MI, his wife Minnie Louisa Ostrowski is 57 GER. Her father Frederick Ostrowski 84 GER. Raymond Lewis Putman is a son of William Henry Putnam and Anna Hughes and was born in Jackson, Michigan November 1, 1887, and was at home there in 1900. By 1910 they were in Chicago and were still there in 1940. His dad died there in 1912. He married Minnie June 18, 1913. He will die November 27, 1951. Minnie was born in Germany September 13, 1892 and came to America in 1893. She will eventually go out to Phoenix, Arizona and will die there in April 1985 at age 92. Her dad was born May 18, 1865 and will die in Chicago January 31, 1956. His wife Augusta died in Chicago April 4, 1946.

 

RAYMOND F. (FREDERICK) PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 32 IL and his wife Mary Helen Gott is 30 IL and they have David R. 8 IL, Paul E. 6 IL and Mary H. 1 IL. He is a purchasing agent for an automobile parts store. He is a son of Raymond Lewis listed right above. He was at home with them here in 1940, and then married Mary August 31, 1940. He was born here August 10, 1917 and will die in Chandler, Maricopa County Arizona August 8, 2000. Mary was born August 16, 1919 and will also die in Chandler January 5, 2000. Since he died so soon after Mary did, it was probably of a broken heart. ☹

 

RICHARD PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is Richard Charles Putman 23 IL single and lives with his mom Victoria 43 IL who has remarried to Caslmir Sroka 61 Poland. They were all here in 1940 too. Victoria Kasprezycki had briefly married Chester Putman from here from 1926 till he died March 31, 1928. She and 3-year-old Richard were with her folks here in 1930. Chester is a son of Harry Charles Putman and Clara Ponto from here. Richard was born here in Chicago June 9, 1926 and will die January 15, 1990 here in Chicago. He never married. Southern Putmans from Fulton County.

 

RICHARD PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 40 IL and his wife Ellen K. Van Scyok is 41 IL. He is Byron Richard Putnam, a son of Frank Atkins Putnam and Helen Augusta Larson from Chicago he was born here August 26, 1909 and was here in 1935. They were in Platt County Illinois in the 1940 census. Ellen and her dad were in Champaign in 1935 so they got married in the late 1930s. He will die in Los Angeles April 6, 1986. His grandfather George was born up in Canada and his dad Joshua was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Family came down to Missouri in the 1860s.

 

ROBERT PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 29 MS and his wife Dorothy is 26 IL. He is a Negro. He is listed directly below the following Sherrill who is also a negro. Also, even though listed as Head and Wife they are also listed as being never married. Nice recording. 😊

 

ROBERT PUTMAN  Chicago, Cook County

He is 51 Latvia and his wife Lucille is 45 IL and they have Vivian 19 IL. He immigrated to America in 1910 and was naturalized in 1926. His original name was Robert Theodore Putnin and it was changed to Putman in the naturalization. Not one of ours.

 

SHERRILL  PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 3 IL and is living with her grandmother Eula Bradley 55 TN. Interesting, they said Sherrill is not only single but has never been married. How many 3-year-olds do they really think are married? 😊 Anyway, everyone on this listing is a Negro.

 

STEPHEN D. (DALE) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 21 IL and married to Marjorie Louise Sikma 18 IL. He is a finisher in a crank shaft forging company. He is a son of John Henry Putnam and Hazel Guild and was born in Harvey, Cook County January 14, 1929 and will die in Fort Lauderdale, Florida February 2, 2019. Marjorie was born in Chicago May 31, 1931 and will die in Fort Lauderdale June 15, 1922. They were married  here June 7, 1949.

 

VERONICA PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

She is 30 TN divorced and has a son Ronald 10 TN. Veronica Novella Kennedy married Lemuel Virgil Putman December 24, 1933 in Jackson County Alabama. They were divorced in 1943 and then remarried in Alabama July 6, 1946 and the divorced forever in 1949. They were in Huntland Township, Franklin County Tennessee in 1940. Not over yet. She will marry Lawrence Western June 7, 1950 in Crown Point, Indiana and then get divorced and marry a Nelson guy in 1955. Lem is on the Southern Putman line, a son of Forest Warren Putman and Nancy Jane Gifford from there. He was born November 18, 1902 in Huntland and will die in Bedford County Tennessee in April 1980. Veronica was born in Huntland May 3, 1919 and will pack it in and collapse May 21, 2006 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She will have had another husband, George Ernest Keen who will die in Murfreesboro March 31, 2005 according to a family tree on Ancestry. The son Ronald Virgil Putnam will die November 8, 1966 fighting in Vietnam, where he was a Captain in the U. S. Army.

 

WILLIAM G. (GEORGE) PUTNAM  Chicago, Cook County

He is 68 IL and his wife Melissa Golmar is 69 WI. He is a son of Judson Putnam and Christine Brening from Waukegan. He was born July 15, 1881. They were here in 1910 through 1940 with his dad Judson living with them. Judson was a son of Harrison and Mary Putnam from Waukegan. William is an electrical engineer with the electric company. Melissa was born September 15, 1880 and will die in Oak Lawn in March 1983. William will die here too on January 25, 1959. New England Putnams.

 

LESTER H. (HARVEY) PUTNAM  Des Plains, Cook County

He is 37 NC and his wife Virginia Doris Pearson is 34 CA and they have Carol 12 DC, Judith 8 IL and Sally 6 IL. He is an airways inspector at a Government Airfield. He is a son of George Cleveland Putman and Beulah Buchanan. They were married in 1911, and George died in a flu epidemic in 1918, and Beulah was widowed in Mitchell County, North Carolina with the kids in 1920. She married Walter Hensley in 1921 and they had a daughter Evelyn Hensley 8 NC there in 1930. They were here in 1940, but not indexed correctly. He registered for the draft in Chicago October 16, 1940 so they were here. He was born September 26, 1912 and will die May 23, 1977 in Thousand Oaks, Ventura County California.

 

WARNER C. (CHARLES) PUTNAM  Des Plains, Cook County

He is 64 CAN CAN CAN and his wife Bertha Walter is 66 IL. He is a traveling salesman for a hat manufacturer. He is a son of Charles Putnam and Rachel Ostrander from here in Chicago and Essex South, Ontario Canada before that. He was born there August 10, 1885 and will die in June 1963. They were in Chicago in 1930 and 1940. Dutch family originally from New York.

 

ROBERT J. (JAMES) PUTNAM  Dixmoor, Cook County

He is 39 IL and his wife BerniceTuggle 35 IL. They have Robert Junior 15 IL, Eugene R. 12 IL, Richard E. 10 IL, Sandra L. 9 IL, Sharon L. 8 IL, Glen 4 IL and Lynn, a son, 3 IL. He works in a steel mill fixing trucks. He is Robert James Putnam a son of Jonathan Henry Putnam and his first wife Jessie Stutters. He was born in Sangamon County May 11, 1911 and then his folks divorced and he moved up here to Harvey County with his dad and new mom Hazel Guild. Now they are divorced as well, and his dad is still here in town. He will die in Illinois April 25, 1975. New England line.

 

PAUL R. (ROYCE) PUTNAM  Dolton, Cook County

He is 28 Il and his wife June Kay Cerny is 25 IL and they have Donna Kathleen 2 IL. This is interesting and without info on Ancestry, I never would have found out anything. It gave the middle initial on the census but the middle name came from Ancestry. First Ancestry searches of censuses notes suggested records as it must google the person and get tidbits, lots of tidbits at time and certainly in Paul’s case. The sidebar gave his middle name and June’s last name. Best, it gave his folks as Karl Sobieski Putnam and Mabel Hemmingway Royce. Karl was a son of Rev. Glen Howard Putman and Mary Lewis from Grundy County Missouri. The Reverend Glen Howard Putman, was from Montgomery County New York. Dutch Pootman/Putman family.

 Then we get Paul being born in Chicago November 7, 1921 and dying March 4, 1983 in Dolton, Cook County. It shows Paul graduating at Thornton Township Harvey, Illinois. I have census for Karl in 1930 and 1940 but….Paul is never at home. Bless Ancestries heart as the show Paul living with his mom’s folks Frank and Jessie Royce in Santa Ana, California in 1930 and then in 1940 he is by his lonesome in Queens, New York where he is a Private First Class in the Army at Fort Totten. Says he was in Chicago in 1935, but I don’t have a census for 1935 ‘cause it doesn’t exist. Then t says he married June Catherine Cerny in Cook County March 9, 1946 after he got out of the Service. Also found that June was born in Chicago February 18, 1925 and will pack it in November 17, 2002. So, with Ancestry Paul went from unknown to pretty darn well known.

 

FLORENCE PUTNAM  Elmwood Park, Cook County

She is 80 IL single and lives with her widowed sister Jennie Fravor 84 IL. They are both daughters of Winthrop Davis Putnam and Jennie Barney from Chicago. Winthrop was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts September 18, 1837. He won the Medal of Honor in the Civil War for his action at Vicksburg, Mississippi on May 22, 1863. Florence was there with her folks in 1900 and then her dad died there January 15, 1907 and she was with her widowed mother in 1910. She was still single in Chicago in 1920, 1930 and here in 1940. New England family out of Southbridge, Massachusetts.

 

FREDERICK W. (WARREN) PUTNAM  Evanston, Cook County

He is Fred Junior 31 MN and his wife Helen Kathryn Prouse is 31 MN and they have James D. 2 IA and John F. 1 IL. He is a church minister and she has her hands tied up with the kids. He will be a Bishop in the Episcopal Church and will be till the year before he dies.  They were married in Minneapolis September 24, 1942. He is a son of Fred Warren Putnam and Margaret Hunting and was born in Minneapolis June 17, 1917 and will die in Edina Minnesota June 7, 2007. New England family from Massachusetts.

 

HAROLD R. (ROBERT) PUTNAM  Evanston, Cook County

He is 60 IL and widowed as he was in 1930. Harold was at home in 1920 with his wife Irene Unseld who died in the 1920s. Harold was born November 24, 1889 and will die here in August 1964. He owns a commercial cookie bakery. He is a son of William Jasper Putnam and Margaret Atkins from here. He was here with his  folks in 1930 and his widowed dad in 1940. His dad died here in 1944. Family is from New England to New York to here.

 

JESSE GORDON PUTNAM Evanston, Cook County

He is 20 AR single and boarding. He is Jesse 3rd a son of Jesse Gordon Putman Jr. and Bess Littlefield and was born in Fort Smith Arkansas December 18, 1930 and he will die in Plano Texas September 18, 2001. Line goes back to Barnet Putman in Virginia. Southern line of course.

 

JOSEPH W. (WARREN) PUTNAM  Evanston, Cook County

He is 48 NY and his second wife Sigrid Jacobson is 44. He is an electrical engineer. He is a son of Joseph Warren Putnam and Katherine Ellicott Brooks and was born in New York City September 18, 1901. His folks were just married there in 1899. His dad was born in Boston, a son of Uzziel Putnam and Adelaide Medora Woodbury from there. Joe Junior had married Margaret Irene Sutherland in East Orange, New Jersey February 3, 1928 and the two kids are with her. Something happened as they divorced in the early 1930s and he got the kids. Margaret married William Barron and now in 1940 they are in North Hempstead out at the wealthy end of Long Island in New York, and the kids are also listed there now in 1940. Joseph and Sigrid were married about 1938-1939 out here. Sigrid was born in New York December 30, 1905 and will die in Redwood City, San Mateo County California July 25, 1994. Joseph will die in Redwood City August 2, 1985. New England family.

 

LARRY R. (RICHARD) PUTNAM Evanston, Cook County

He is 12 IL and lives with his mother Cleo 33 IL who has remarried to Harold Boehie. Cleo Mae Crawford was married to Richard Putnam between 1935 and 1940 and divorced and with her folks here in 1940. Best guess is the lil Richar was a son of Otis Oscar Putnam in Peoria. He was at home with his folks there in 1940 at age 25 and Cleo was 23 at the time. Larry will change his last name to Boehie as that’s how it is in the records. He was born August 31, 1937 and will die September 5, 1996. That’s short life. I was born in 1937 five months before Larry and I’m doing fine now in 2022 and intend to live till at least 2047.

 

PAUL S. PUTMAN  Evanston, Cook County

He is 21 AR single and lodging. He is a son of Jesse Jordan Putman and Nellie Batson Whiteker and was at home in Fort Smith, Arkansas in 1930 and no clue as to where in 1940 after his dad died in 1933.

 

DONALD & STUART PUTNAM  Harvey, Cook County

Donald Lee Putnam is 24 IL and his wife Frances is 21 VA. His brother is Stuart Lane is 21 IL. They live with their mother Hazel 57 MO who has married Bernard G. Winter 72 GERMANY. Hazel L. Guild was married to John Henry Putnam here in 1920 and 1930. She was his second wife and they divorced in the 1930s. John will die here in 1965. Hazel and Bernie will split or something as Hazel will marry Charles McDermott here December 20, 1960. Hazel will die in Blue Island, Cook County in December 1970. Donald was born May 9, 1925 and will die in Arlington, Virginia June 16, 1960. Stuart was born January 14, 1929 and will die in Blue Island, Cook County February 5, 1986.

 

ROBERT PUTNAM  Harvey, Cook County

He is 15 IL and a grandson of Haynes and Frances Foote from Indiana. Good Luck. He’s not that old, so I tried calling him. He answered and said “No telemarketers!” and hung up. Oh well.

 

GEORGE W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Wilmette, New Trier Township, Cook County

He is 55 MN and his wife Mildred Jones is 55 PA and they have George W. 19 MN. He is a research engineer for a dairy equipment manufacturer. He is a son of George Hall Putnam and his first wife Della Sowden and was born in Minneapolis October 30, 1894. He was at home in 1910 and in 1917 when he registered for the draft he was in the Cadet Corps at the University of Minnesota. He and Mildred were in Chicago in 1930, and he was a researcher at a creamery then. He will die here in Evanston October 8, 1986. His dad’s father, George Whittemore Putnam was from Sutton, Massachusetts and came out to Minnesota in the 1850s.

 

MILTON PUTNAM  Niles, Cook County

He is 30 IL and his wife Ruby is 29 IL and they have Milton Junior 7 IL and Deborah born here in October 1949. He is president of a recording company. He looks to be Milton Tasker Putnam a son of Fred Albert Putnam and Wilma Smith and was at home in  Danville, Vermillion County in 1930 and 1940. Family came out here from Maine. I don’t know who Ruby is, but he will marry Belinda Richwood here February 5, 1951 and after she dies in 1972 out in Los Angeles, he will marry Miriam Joyce Simons.

 

WILTON E. (EUGENE) PUTNAM  Oak Lawn, Cook County

He is 44 IL and his wife Anna Genevieve Stove is 42 IL and they have Joanne 18 IL and Donald 13 IL. Wilton Eugene Putnam is a son of William George Putnam and Melissa E. Gollmar. His folks are also here in Chicago, Cook County and you can get more of the line there. His dad is an electrical engineer too. Wilton was born March 25, 1906 and will die here in Oak Lawn November 7, 1975. He married Anna December 17, 1929. They were in Chicago in 1930 and here in 1940. New Englanders.

 

SHERMAN PUTNAM  Oak Park, Cook County

He and his wife are listed as “not at home, out of town.” This would be Glenn Sherman Putnam and Helen Duncan. There were in Chicago in 1940 and that listing said he would die in “suburban Oak Park in November 1980.” So probably them. Family from Vermont to western Pennsylvania to out here.

 

KARL PUTNAM  Palatine, Cook County

He is 62 MO and his wife Leticia is 56 MN. Karl Sobieski Putnam is the son of Rev. Glen Howard Putman and Mary Lewis. He married Mabel Hemingway Royce December 26, 1911 in Johnson County Iowa and they were in Chicago in 1920 and they were in nearby Riverdale in 1930. Mabel died of tuberculosis October 23, 1935. Karl then married Leticia Mildred Wheeland, widow of Walter Leroy Wheeland in 1936 in Riverdale. He was born in Grundy County Missouri August 13, 1887. Trying to find out who Leticia is and all that. He is a civil engineer and now working on the city subway system. Dutch Putman family out of Montgomery County New York.

 

MARY l. PUTNAM  Palatine, Cook County

She is 84 OH and living with her married daughter Margaret Tharp 56 IA and her husband Harry Tharp. She is listed as ‘father-in-law’ but is Mary Lewis the widow of The Reverend Glen Howard Putman. Her son Karl is listed above. Dutch Putman family out of Montgomery County New York.

 

FRANK PUTNAM  Palos Park, Cook County

He is 65 IL IL IL and his wife Helen Larson is 63 IL. They have a nephew Neil 31 IL who was here with them in 1930 and 1940. He’s now a vice president at the Chicago City Bank. He is a son of George Malcolm Putnam and Sarah Josephine Roesch, and was born in East St. Louis, St. Clair County Illinois in January 1885. They have been here since the 1910. His dad was from Middlesex, Ontario Canada and the line goes back to Massachusetts.

 

SHERILL/SHIRLEY PUTNAM  Flat Rock, Crawford County

She is 11IN and lives with her grandparents John and Mary Steele born in Illinois. I can’t find a 1 year-old in either Indiana or Illinois that fits. The Steeles were here in 1900 then in Lawrence County through 1940.

 

MARK A. (ABRAHAM) PUTNAM  Hudsonville, Crawford County

He is 40 IL, his wife Mary Berry 39 IL and they have Elizabeth 13 IL, Joseph W. 11 IL, Norma S.10 IL and Marilyn. He is a son of Charles Wilmer Putnam and Clara V. Tanquary from Mt. Carmel. He was home there in 1920. Mark was born February 27, 1910 in Wabash County. He married Anna Wright in Lawrence County in August 1935. She was a daughter of George Henry Wright and Frances Alice Hershey and was born here May 5, 1912 and died in Palestine, Illinois March 15, 1948. Mark then married Mary Ethel Berry in Mt. Carmel February 19, 1949. She is a daughter of Stanley T. Berry and Maria Theresa Gray and was born December 24, 1910 in Mt. Carmel and will die in Robinson, Illinois in October 1999. Mark will die in Huntsville, Crawford County Illinois November 27, 2006. His dad died in 1933 and his widowed mom was in Wabash County as was Mark in 1940.

 

ELGER PUTMAN  DeKalb, DeKalb County

He is 20 IL single and lodging. He is Elger Douglas Putman Jr. son of Elger Sr. and Virginia Schmidt from here. He was born here October 15, 1929 and will die September 1, 2021. His folks are in Freemont, Lake County now. Dutch family from Montgomery County New York to Wisconsin down to here.

 

GUY C. (CECIL) PUTNAM  Clinton, DeWitt County

He is now 55 IL and his wife Ella Lucille Bishop is 55 OH. Guy was born here, a son of John Devales Putnam and Hanna Best. His dad was a son of Devales Putnam from Guilford County North Carolina. He was with his folks in 1910 and then was in Denver, Colorado with his brothers in 1920 and then married here in 1930. This is that late coming Putnam family that just poped up in Guilford County. Not the regular Southern branch.

 

RALPH M. (MASON) PUTNAM  Downers Grove, DuPage County

He is 51 PA NY NY and his wife Helen Charlotte Westerland is 48 NY. They have a daughter Janet 12 IL. He is a mechanical engineer for an electrical company. He is a son of William Putman and Bessie Mason (both born in New York) from Bradford, McKean County Pennsylvania. He was born August 28, 1897 and will die out in Mesa, Arizona December 8, 1963. He was at home in 1900, and the family wasn't listed in the 1910 census. He was single at the Erie Pennsylvania YMCA in 1920. They got married June 19, 1924 and were here in 1930 and 1940. Now, William his dad was a son of Joseph Putman and Jane Elise Brown and was born in Great Valley, Cattaraugus County New York and there in 1870. Joseph was a son of John Putman and Mary Ann Learn from there. New York Dutch family.

 

CLYDE J. (JONES) PUTNAM  Elmhurst, DuPage County

He is 36 MI and his wife Ardeth Veryl McCreedy is 35 MI and they have Sandra E. 8 IL. He is an ROTC military Instructor for the U. S. Army. In 1940 he was in Detroit Michigan and was a PFC in the Army then. He is a son of Jesse Putnam and Flora Estella Bird Rall and has been in Eaton County Michigan up through 1930. His dad Jesse is a son of Alpheus Putman and Amanda Inman. He was shown at home in 1880 in Sandusky County Ohio. He was single in Grand Rapids Kent County in 1900 and in Battle Creek Calhoun County in 1910. They were married here in 1920. Clyde was born June 14, 1913 in Battle Creek. He married Ardeth in Indiana September 2, 1939. He was a Master Sergeant in WWII and the Korean War. He will die in Hot Springs, Arkansas December 17, 1978. Ardeth was born in Tuscola County Michigan November 4, 1914 and will die in Harrisonburg, Virginia December 11, 1984 and be buried in Little Rock, Arkansas alongside Clyde. German family out of Pennsylvania.

 

KENNETH W. (WILLIS) PUTNAM  Elmhurst, DuPage County

He is 40 IL and his wife Helen Grace Scofield is 40 IA and they have Joyce Yvone 15 IL and Marlene P. 12 IL. He is a son of William George Putnam and Melissa Jane Gollmar and was born in Chicago January 5, 1910. He married Helen April 11, 1931 in Crown Point, Indiana. He will die in Tucson, Arizona January 3, 1989. New England line.

 

MABEL C. (CHARLOTTE) PUTNAM  Hinsdale,  DuPage County

She is 69 IL and she is still single and a stenographer at a law office. Her mom Elizabeth Putnam 78 IL is here as she was in 1940. Her folks are from Chicago and her dad is a son of Hollis Putman and Charlotte Lobdell. Dutch Putman family out of New York State.

 

LEONARD PUTNAM  Naperville, DuPage County

He is 31 MI and says married but no wife with him. He is a Protestant Minister and rooming with three other Ministers. Paul Wesley Putman in Owosso, Shiawassee County Michigan had a

21-year-old son Leonard with him at home in 1940. Gotta be him, but can’t prove. New York Dutch.

 

BYRON E. PUTMAN  Wheaton, DuPage County

He is 52 IA and his second wife Mary Voight is 47 IL. He works for power and light plant. He is a son of James C. Putman and Minnie B. Wilson and was born in Appanoose County Iowa July 27, 1897 and will die here in Wheaton April 16, 1972. Byron was married to Adelaide here in 1930. They were married in 1926 and something happened. He was still at home in Iowa in 1920 and married Adelaide here in 1926. Mary was born November 11, 1902 and will die here in Wheaton January 30, 1989. Southern Putman family that came out to Brown County, Illinois in the early 1800s.

 

ROSS PUTMAN  Bryant, Buckheart Township, Fulton County

He is 71 IL and widowed, but I have no clue as to who he married or if he really did. He is the master of the disappearing act. He is a son of William H. Putman and Sarah Frances Miller and was born in Fulton County July 17, 1878 and then was with his folks in Riley County Kansas in 1880. That is the last I have been able to find him till now. He was here in 1930 indexed as Patman and here spelled correctly in 1940.

 

FRED PUTMAN  Canton, Fulton County

He is 57 IL and his wife Beulah is 42 IL and they have Patricia S. 17 IL and N. Jane 15 IL from Beulah’s prior marriage. He is a barber. He was married to Marie in Canton in 1930 and ‘single’ in 1940. His 1942 Draft Registration says he has a wife Beulah then. He has been around since 1900, but was with his grandparents, Alexander and Rebecca Wilcox and I can’t figure his folks. He was 5 at the time and had a brother Marion who was 3. There is a birth certificate for Marion born in June 1896 and says his father is Alexander Maranville. I found a sheet for Fred and says his folks were William Putman and Lucinda Hensley. Their marriage record says they were married in Lewistown March 27, 1890. They split or something as she married Ambrose Green Sanders here May 6, 1900. Fred’s gravestone in Canton says born 1895 died 1951.

 

FLOYD PUTMAN  Canton, Fulton County

He is 41 IL IL IL and his wife Violet Vera Dilts is 39 IL and they now have Berneta 17 IL, Donald 15 IL, twins June 13 IL, Jean 13 IL, Dwayne 11 IL, Shirley R. 8 IL, Reta E. 6 IL and Helen A. 2 IL. One kid short of a baseball team. I am sure he’ll have more. He is a salesman at a furniture store. Floyd Erwin Putman is a son of John Marion Putman and his second wife Margaret Lavinia Fengel. He was born in Deerfield, Fulton County August 30, 1908 and will die here in Canton April 12, 1962. He married Violet down in Springfield October 24, 1929 and they were in Deerfield in 1930. Violet is a daughter of Charles Emory Dilts and Nora Margaret Parr and was born in Fiatt, Fulton County September 4, 1910 and will die in Canton February 3, 1995. Southern Putman Family like everyone in Fulton County. Putman Township in Fulton County was named after my greatgrandfather Reding Putman who was the first settler.

 

FLOYD F. (FOSKET) PUTMAN  Canton, Fulton County

He is 69 IL IL IL and an attorney at law. His wife Clara Edna Thompson is 67 IL. He is a son of Francis Marion Putman and Clara Sanders from here in Canton. He was born in Civer October 8, 1880. He graduated from University of Michigan Law School in 1904. He married Clara in 1909. She was born May 17, 1882. He served as a Major in the U. S. Army in France from March 26, 1917 till June 19, 1919. He won a Purple Heart. He will die here February 14, 1958. Clara will then move to Lincoln, Illinois and live with her married daughter Mary Elizabeth who married James Stewart in 1936. She will die there October 17, 1965. Southern Putman Family.

 

HARRISON PUTMAN  Canton, Fulton County

He is 72 IL IL IL and is a doctor/surgeon in his own practice here in Canton. His wife Nellie Hanlon is 67 IL. He is Harrison Christopher Putman, a son of Francis Marion Putman and Clara Sanders from here in Canton. He was born February 11, 1877 and will die July 20, 1963. He graduated Rush Medical School in Chicago. He married Nelle Hanlon in 1911. She was born December 15, 1882 and died December 12, 1963. Southern Putman Family coming down from Hazeal Putman.

 

LEWIS T. (THOMPSON) PUTMAN  Canton, Fulton County

He is 37 IL and his wife Marjorie A. Holt is 28 IA. Lewis is a son of the above Harrison Putman and was born here May 12, 1912 and will die in Peoria, Illinois September 3, 2000. Marjorie was born in Scott County Iowa April 7, 1922 and will die here in Peoria March 27, 1976.

 

OSCAR PUTMAN  Canton, Fulton County

He is 71 IL and lives with his brothers widowed wife Mary McBroom 72 IN on their farm. He is a son of James Harvey Putman and was born here February 17, 1879. He never married and will die here June 19, 1959. His dad James was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas September 11, 1839, but remained in Canton after his family returned back to Arkansas. He was here in 1940.

 

DAVID F. (FRANKLIN) PUTMAN  Cuba City, Putman Township, Fulton County

He is 45 IL and his wife Mary Mae Henderson is 42 IL and they have Beverly 12 IL. Her widowed mother Sarah Henderson 83 KS is still with them. He is a son of George Calloway Putman and Lillian DeWitt and was born here November 24, 1905. He and Mary were just married in Clinton, Versailles County Indiana in the 1930 census, and then back here by 1935. He works in a strip coal mine here and also in a coal mine when in Indiana. He was born here February 25, 1905 and will die here in Cuba March 15, 1960. Mary was born May 18, 1907 and will die in La Salle County, Illinois October 29, 1997. Southern Putmans.

 

LILLIAN PUTMAN  Cuba City, Putman Township, Fulton County

She is 72 IL and widowed as she was in 1940. Lillian Percilla DeWitt was married to George Calloway Putman here since the 1890s. They were married in Iowa September 30, 1896. He died here May 12, 1934. He was a son of John Marion Putman and Sarah Catherine Miller and was born in Calhoun County Iowa. His folks were originally from here and after they were married, they came back here. Lillian is a daughter of Barney DeWitt and Mary Matilda Stought and was born in Clinton County Iowa on July 22, 1878. She will die here in Cuba August 15, 1973 at age 95. Southern Putmans.

 

FRANKLIN E. (EUGENE) PUTMAN  Deerfield, Fulton County

He is 47 IL IL IL. His wife Margaret Harriet Stuckey is 48 IL and they have John Frederick 22 IL, Robert Franklin 20 IL, Gordon Andrew 18 IL, Harriet Ann 16 IL, Vivian Kay 15 IL, Charles Warner 14 IL, Maxine 13 IL, Helen Louise 11 IL and Dixie G. 3 IL. He is a son of John Marion Putman. He was born September 7, 1902 and married Margaret December 28, 1923. She was a daughter of Frederick Stuckey and Grace Blanche Churchill. She was born December 29, 1901 and will die in Canton Illinois July 3, 1958. Frank will die here July 18, 1976. They had 13 children. Southern Putman Family.

 

GLENN PUTMAN  Deerfield Township, Fulton County

He is 52 IL and his wife Anna Mary Norman is 52 IL and they Dean Glenn 18 IL and Phyllis 15 IL. Glenn Marion Putman is a son of John Marion Putman and the first child with his second wife Maggie Fengel. He was born October 8, 1897 and will die October 29, 1985. He married Anna Norman March 20, 1918. She was born February 14, 1898 and will die in Canton July 4, 1968 probably after marching too darn fast in the parade. Southern Putmans.

 

CARL T. (THOMAS) PUTMAN  Farmington, Fulton County

He is 45 IL and his wife Mary Ann Warner is 34 IL and they have Patricia A. 12 IL and Diana L. 8 IL. He is a son of John Marion Putman and Maggie Fengel from Fulton County. He was born April 16, 1905 and died March 23, 1967. He married Mary Ann Warner on November 30, 1926. Mary Ann was born in Peoria November 20, 1907 and will die there March 29, 1972. Carl will die in Farmington, Fulton County March 23, 1967. Southern Putman family South Carolina to Kentucky to Indiana to Fulton County. Little Tidbit of information. Putman Township in Fulton County is named for my ggggrandfather Reding Putman who is also Carl’s gggrandfather.

 

PUTMAN KIDS  Lewistown, Fulton County

We have Lyle Leonard Jr. 16 IL, James J. 9 IL, William C. 6 IL and Gene A. 5 IL. They are stepsons of Stephen and Vivian Johnson. Vivian Elizabeth Sexton 36 IL was married to Lyle Leonard Putman in Peoria in 1940. They divorced and then she married Steve and took the kids with her. Lyle Sr. was a son of James Harrison and Cynthia Putman from Canton, Fulton County.

 

MARION J. (JOHN) PUTMAN  Waterford, Fulton County

He is 53 IL and widowed. His married daughter Hazel Ryan 27 IL and her 4 kids are living with her. A couple of trees have him a son of Frederick Hoerner Putman and Katie Mary Shultzbaugh from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but he never shows up in any listing with them. He was born March 14, 1897 in Canton, Fulton County Illinois and died in Kenosha, Wisconsin in September 1955. He married Blanche Hardin January 24, 1917. He just pops up in Lewistown, Fulton County Illinois in 1900 with his brother Fred (Harrison Fred) and they were grandchildren of Alexander and Rebecca Wilcox. Confusing entry, but there was a Lucinda Saunders listed as stepdaughter. She was married to Ambrose Green Saunders 30 years older than she was. In 1930 Lucinda was there with Marion and listed as mother. Lucinda was born in Buckheart, Fulton County where several Putman families were, except none with a son William. A family sheet has his folks as William Putman and Lucinda Hensley who were married March 27, 1890. He would be on the Southern Putman line like most everyone in Fulton County. They are in Buckheart, Fulton County Illinois in 1920. They are in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1930 and 1940. Good Luck.

 

WALTER PUTMAN  Kewanee, Henry County

He is 61 IL IL IL. His new wife Judith Matilda Ericson is 47 IL. He now is a meat trimmer and packer He was married to Lillian Mae Smith up till now. She died April 26, 1944. Walter Emery Putman is a son of Charles Francis Putman and Cynthia Screeton and has been in Elmira, Stark County up till 1920 and then here in 1930. He was born September 2, 1888 and will die here in Kewanee August 21, 1967. He married Lillian April 10, 1918 in Stark County. Dutch family originally from New York State.

 

GERALDINE & LARRY PUTMAN  Orion, Henry County

This is really confusing. Geraldine is 2 IA and Larry 1 IA. They are listed as niece and nephew in laws. Next up the line is Shirley Ann Dye (nee Collins) 13 IA listed as sister-in-law under Paul and Dorothy Johnson. Dorothy is from Iowa as well, so I guess she was born Collins as well. Then Shirley Ann doesn’t actually marry Joel Dye till 1960. So …. She had the 2 Putmans I guess. Why she is listed as a Dye and are the two Putmans hers? Or were they on sale at the local SPCA???

 

EMMA M. (MABEL) PUTMAN  Aurora, Kane County

She is 75 IL and widowed as her husband Frederick S. Putman died here December 6, 1945. Fred was a son of Abraham Hanson and Harriet Putman and was born back in Ogle County in 1873. He came here with his folks in the 1890s, and married Emma here in 1894. Emma was born in 1874 and will die here January 15, 1959. Her daughter Mildred Martin and her husband Charles Martin were here with her in 1940 and they are now divorced so only Mildred 52 IL is here now. She was born July 27, 1897 and will die here in Aurora January 25, 1988. This is the Dutch Putman line out of New York State.

 

LULU M. (MABEL) PUTNAM  Aurora, Kane County

She is 69 NE and living with her married daughter Pearl 34 IL and her husband Wesley McKelvey 41 NY and a couple of their kids. Lulu Mabel Botts was married to Charles Henry Putnam I DeKalb County and then they divorced in 1944. Charles Henry was a son of Prentiss B. Putnam of Vermont and Sutton, Massachusetts before that. Lulu was born February 23, 1881 and will die in Oswego, Illinois in February 1974.

 

RALPH C. (CLARENCE) PUTNAM  Aurora, Kane County

He is a lawyer and is 69 IL. His wife Hattie Emmert Tuttle is 69 CAN. Ralph Clarence Putnam is son of Clarence Worthy Putnam and Sarah DeEtta Nash from here. He was born August 11, 1880 and will die here in Aurora October 2, 1954. He married Hattie October 3, 1911in Saranac Lake, New York. She was born in Nova Scotia August 1, 1876 and will die here too on July 1, 1966. Their son Ralph Junior is listed next. New England family.

 

RALPH C. (CLARENCE) PUTNAM JR.  Aurora, Kane County

He is 34 IL and his wife Jean Rita Larson. is 31 IL and they have Sandra L. 8 IL and Ralph C. 3rd 2 IL. He is writing script in a general law practice. His dad Ralph is a lawyer, so probably works for him. His folks are Ralph Clarence Putnam and Hattie Emmert Tuttle, listed above, and he was born here June 5, 1915 and will die here in Aurora September 9, 2009. He was at home with his folks single in 1940 so  got married about 1940-1941.

 

VERNER L. PUTNAM  Elburn, Kane County

He is 50 IL and his wife Edith Leona Marshall is 42 IL. He is a horse trainer for horse shows. He is a son of George Allen Putman and Nellie Kees from Brown County. He was born there May 2, 1898. He married Edith in Mason City, Illinois March 31, 1926. They were in Fort Worth Texas in the 1930. He was running a shoe store. He will die in Mountain Home, Baxter County Arkansas November 21, 1979. Edith is a daughter of Conrad Marshall and Emma Gunsten and was born in Middleton, Illinois March 24, 1908 and will die December 27, 1995 in Urbandale Iowa. Family comes out of Danvers, Massachusetts.

 

DYER C. (CARELTON) PUTNAM  St. Charles, Kane County

He is 44 IL and his wife Elizabeth Glendora Malin is 43 IL. He is a son of Dyer Claude Putnam and Roberta Eckbert Wise and they were at home with them in Rockford, Winnebago County in 1930 and 1940. Carleton is an insurance agent with his father’s agency. He was born here in St. Charles August 1, 1905and will die here December 18, 1963. His wife Elizabeth is a daughter of William D. Malin and Carrie Blanche Saunders and was born in Winnebago County September 18, 1906 and will die here in St. Charles in August 1970.

 

ARCHIE L. (LESTER) PUTNAM  Kankakee, Kankakee County

He is 37 IL and his wife Josephine Ninis is also 37 IL. He does glueing and clamping in a furniture factory. He is a son of Louis Putnam and Minnie E. Hoskins and was with the family in 1920 in Livingston County, Illinois. They were here in 1940. His remarried mother Minnie, now Minnie Davis, is listed below. She married Charles Davis in Livingston County May 4, 1935.

 

ARNIE W. (WWILBER) PUTNAM  Kankakee, Kankakee County

He is 41 IL and a brakeman for the railroad. His wife Frieda Ebeling. is 39 IL and they have Frieda Rae 15 IL, Wayne Arnie 13 IL and Nina J. 5 IL. They were married here April 29, 1933. He is a son of Reuben Putnam and Minnie Frederica Lange from here. He was born July 11, 1908 and was at home here in 1930 and here in 1939 and 1941. So was here in 1940 just mis-indexed.

 

ARTHUR T. PUTNAM  West Kankakee, Kankakee County

He is 33 IL and lives with his mother Minnie Hoskins 57 IL who has married Charles Davis. He was here with them in 1940. His folks were Louis Putnam and Minnie Hoskins in Forest, Livingston County. Roy below is his brother.

 

ROY H. (HARTMAN) PUTNAM  West Kankakee, Kankakee County

He is 36 IL and his wife Mary Lowie Toohy is 29 IL and they have Jack L. 13 IL. In 1920, Roy was with his folks Louis Putnam and Minnie Hoskins in Forest, Livingston County. In 1930 he was there with his uncle George Putnam. His dad was a son of Albro Putman and Sarah Jane White from McLean County. Roy and Mary were married here January 6, 1936. They were here in 1940 with her folks Lloyd and Priscilla Ponder from Illinois. Priscilla was married to a Toohey guy before and May’s name is Toohey. Roy is a bartender at a tavern. Roy was born April 19, 1913 and will die here February 25, 1987. Mary will make it till October 30, 2008. Massachusetts family.

 

KELSEY PUTNAM  Galesburg, Knox County

He is Kelsey Thomas Putnam 63 NE and his wife Vera Grace White is 58 IL. He is a son of Orlean Elhannah Putnam and Nellie Henderson. Orlean was a son of Ira J. Putnam and Rosanna Longnecker from Cass County Michigan. Kelsey was born in Holdrege, Nebraska August 7, 1886 and will die here August 24, 1961. He married Vera January 15, 1913. She was born October 4, 1891 in Henry County Illinois and will die February 10, 1947. Both are buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery here in Galesburg. Kelsey is a manager at a bulk oil plant.

 

BUDD PUTNAM  Gilson, Haw Creek Township, Knox County

He is 57 NE IL IL and is a farmer. His wife Inez Hazel Boyd is 57 IL and they have Theodore 16 IL. He is David Budd Putnam a son of Orlean Elhanna Putnam and Nellie Henderson. He was with his mom in 1900 through 1920 in Galesburg and she was still there in 1930 and Budd and the family were here in Haw Creek in 1930 and 1940. His mom Nellie Sophia Henderson was married to Orlean Elhana Putnam. She has been alone here with the kids since the 1900. She began stating she is divorced by 1920, and probably was when she decided to leave Orlean back in Texas in 1897 or 1898. Orlean was a son of Ira J. Putnam and Rosanna Longnecker from Cass County Michigan. He was single here in 1880, married Nellie here in Hendersonville March 11, 1884. He was in Alberta Canada in 1900 while Nellie and the kids were here. Anyway, Budd was born in Holdrege, Nebraska December 11, 1892 and will die here in Galesburg April 29, 1965. He married Inez January 29, 1920. She was a daughter of Roscoe Boyd and Sarah A. Heiney and was born in Huntingdon County Indiana August 11, 1892 and she will die here in Galesburg March 22, 1975. Then Orlean for some reason showed up here in Knox County and died here in Galesburg April 17, 1946. New England Line.

 

CLAUDE R. (ROBERT) PUTNAM  Haw Creek Township, Knox County

He is 24 IL and his wife Lila Vergene King is 25 IL and they have Richard A. 1 IL. He is an auto mechanic in a garage. He is a son of Budd David Putnam and Inez Hazel Boyd list just above. He was born here in Knox County July 21, 1925 and will die in Galesburg, Knox County October 26, 2005. Lila was born in 1924 and will die here in 1974.

 

THOMAS B. (BOYD) PUTNAM  Haw Creek Township, Knox County

He is 27 IL and his wife Velda Marie Hawarter is 26 IL and they have Sandra M. 3 IL. Tom is an electric welder in a steel prefabrication manufacturing plant. He is another son of Budd David Putnam and Inez Hazel Boyd list above. He was born here December 29, 1922 and will die here in Knox County April 17, 1999.

 

DANIEL F. (FREDERICK) PUTNAM Channel Lake, Lake County

He is 32 IL and his wife June Lorraine Oberg is 30 IL and they have Joan M. 8 IL who swears she has never been married. He is a clerk in the men’s department of a retail clothing store. He is a son of Frederick Montgomery Putnam and Alice Maud Murphy and was born in Chicago November 4, 1917 and was at home there in 1920, 1930 and 1940. He and Joan were married September 27, 1940. June is a daughter of George Gerhardt Oberg and Sadie Jane Wallace. She was born in Chicago October 3, 1919. Dan will die here September 6, 1989. Family goes back to John Cornelius Putnam in Monroe County New York to Nathan Putnam from Worcester Massachusetts to Isaac Putnam and Rachel Pratt from Sutton, Massachusetts to Isaac Putnam and Ann Fuller from Salem Village, now Danvers, Massachusetts etc. back to England.

 

NATHAN W. PUTNAM Deerfield, Lake County

He is 21 and stationed at Fort Sheridan, U. S. Army base. No indication of where he was born

but even as young as he is, he is divorced.

 

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IMOGENE PUTNAM  Highland Park, Lake County

She is 70 IL and widowed. Imogene Higgins was married to John Able Putnam as his second wife here since the later 1920. He was a son of Abel Adelbert Putnam and Abbie Anna Dudley and was born in Boston, Massachusetts. The family moved to Chicago in the 1870s and out to here by 1900.

 

SADIE PUTNAM  Highland Park, Lake County

She is 50 IL single and a music teacher. She lives with her divorced sister Catherine Stephenson 45 IL. They are daughters of George and Catherine Putnam from Chicago. They have been there since the late 1800s. Never have been able to pin George down. Spells name Putnam one year, Putman the next.

 

ALICE M. (MURPHY) PUTNAM Deerfield, Lake County

She is 69 IL and widowed. Alice Maud Murphy was married to Fred Montgomery Putnam in Chicago up until he died there July 12, 1945. New England line.

 

ELGER D. (DOUGLAS) PUTMAN  Freemont, Lake County

He is 46 WI and his wife Virginia Schmidt is 41 IL and they have Lucretia Olivia 18 IL. Their son Elger Douglas Jr. is in DeKalb County now. Elger Douglas Putman Sr. is a son of Alonzo Sylvester Putman and Lucretia Catherine Johnson and was born July 28, 1902 in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin and will die in Diamond Lake, Lake County July 2, 1965. Dutch family from Montgomery County New York.

 

CAPTAIN PUTNAM  La Salle, La Salle County

He is in the Army and is 40 IL. No first name given. I ran a search in the 1940 census for a guy age 30 IL and hit on eight. So … good luck. Just remember to salute when you find him and call him Sir!

 

WILLIS PUTNAM  Denison, Lawrence County

He is 43 IL, his wife Mildred Lucille Copple is 37 IL and they have Wilma 15 IL, Jack 13 IL, Jerry 11 IL , Wanda 10 IL and Norma 9 IL. He is a pumper on an oil well. Millie is a cook at a public school. Willis is a son of Ira Putnam and Nellie Borman and was born August 10, 1906 and will die in November 1964. His dad works in the oil fields as well. Mildred was born May 10, 1912 and will die in Illinois December 13, 1988. Line then goes back to Columbia County New York and Sutton, Massachusetts before that.

 

IRA PUTNAM  Sumner, Lawrence County

He is 77 IL a farmer and still widowed as he has been since 1910.  Also here are his daughter Margaret 47 IL, and his nephew Frank Putman 59 IL. All are patients in Cullison Nursing Home for the Aged. Ira is a son of Eber Putnam and Mary Elizabeth Ann King and was born here February 13, 1873. He married Nellie Borman in 1899 and they were here in 1900 and she died November 20, 1907. Eber was a son of Chesterfield Putnam and Elizabeth Baird from Wabash County. Line then goes back to Columbia County New York and Sutton, Massachusetts before that.

 

DORA PUTMAN  Ashton, Lee County

She is 71 IL and widowed. Dora Aschenbrenner was married to George Arthur Putman here from December 21, 1904 till he died here June 9, 1941. He was a son of William Putman and Elizabeth Swarner from here.  Dutch family out of Fulton County New York. Dora’s folks were both born in Germany. Dora was born June 29, 1878 after they got here and will die February 23, 1959 here in Ashton.

 

CHARLES PUTNAM  Dixon, Lee County

He is 68 IA and living in the Black Hawk Hotel. He and his now ex-wife Lulu Mabel Botts were divorced in 1944 up in Chicago where they were in 1940. He is a son of Henry Harrison Putnam and Cornelia Ann Chamberlain. He was born in Bedford, Taylor County Iowa July 23, 1881. His dad was born in Wardsboro, Vermont. Henry was a son of Prentiss B. Putnam of Vermont and Sutton, Massachusetts before that. They were in Du Page County in 1920 DeKalb County in 1930 and Brookfield, Cook County in 1935. Charles will die in Aurora, Kane County Illinois in April 1972.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Forest, Livingston County

He is 76 IL IL KS and his wife Myrtle is 48 IL. George has finished working and Myrtle is a waitress in a restaurant. George has been here since 1900. They were married here July 22, 1920. Myrtle was born August 31, 1890 and will die April 25, 1963. George was born in McLean County September 7, 1874 and will die August 5, 1951. George is a son of Albro Philander Putnam and Sarah Jane White from McLean County. Albro was a son of David Putnam (2172) of Fitchburg, Massachusetts and moved to Rhode Island and then Connecticut.

 

MOYN T. PUTNAM  Forest, Livingston County

He is 38 IL and his wife Jessie M. Wells is 34 IL and they have Shirley 13 IL. He isa son of George and Myrtle listed above. He and Jessie and Shirley were living with them here in 1940. Moyn was born in McLean County January 12, 1912 and will die here in Forest September 9, 1974. Jessie was born January 30, 1915 in Ford County, Illinois and is a daughter of Samuel Houston and Adeline Elizabeth wells. She will die back in Piper City, Ford County where she was born on January 20, 1995

 

JOHN S. (STERLING) PUTNAM  Rooks Creek, Livingston County

He is 92 IL NY NY and widowed. His wife Catherine Schilling died December 24, 1914. John Sterling Putnam is a son of Aaron Putnam and Sarah Tenney. He was born here in February 1858, and his folks were from Clinton County New York and Vermont before that. He will die in a nursing home in Pontiac, Livingston County on May 19, 1953.

 

EVERETT PUTMAN  Lincoln, Logan, County

He is 40 IL and his wife Isabella Manker is 39 IL. He is John Everett Putman a son of Amos O. Putman and Stella Vaughn from Brown County. He was born there April 28, 1909 and married Isabel Adams County May 29, 1929 and they were living with his folks in 1930. They were in Clayton, Adams County Illinois in 1950. Everett will die September 11, 1987. Amos is a son of John William Putman and Hannah Jane Abers in Brown County. Everett is a meat cutter in a food plant, Isabella isa meat wrapper there too. Southern Putmans.

 

CLYDE S. (SCHAEDE) PUTNAM  Decatur, Macon County

He is listed 46 IL he was born January 3, 1904. His wife Ella Green Miller is listed 44 KY born February 6, 1905. They were married December 5, 1931 in Fountain County Indiana. They have Clyde Junior 16 IL and Georgia S. 8 IL. He is a son of John W. Putnam and Helena Schaede from Champaign County where he was born. He and the folks were in Champaign County in 1930 and He and Ella were there in 1940. He is now a laborer in some product company. He will die in Decatur, Illinois January 17, 1986. His dad is a son of John and Jane Putnam from Vermilion County Illinois and Fountain County Indiana before that. New Englanders from Vermont

 

LUCILLE PUTMAN  Decatur, Macon County

She is 36 IL and has Helen 17 IA and Fred 15 IL. Says she is divorced and in the same house she was in 1935. Can’t find her in 1930 so no ideas yet. She was here in 1940 with 2 girls, Betty 10 IL and Joann 8 IL. Now in 1950 she is here but has 2 different kids. Have fun with this ole gal.

 

NELLIE PUTNAM  Decatur, Macon County

She is 62 IL and widowed. She is a janitress and cleaning woman in an office building. She has her son James 40 IL who is a machine operator in a manufacturing plant. Nellie Foster was married to Frederick Harry Putnam her since 1910. He died July 1, 1945. Nellie was born April 14, 1888 and will die here in Decatur in March 1971. His death certificate states his father was Ward Putnam and his mother was Margaret Pritz and he was born in Syracuse, Onondaga County New York. Probably New York Dutch.

 

PEARL PUTNAM  Decatur, Macon County

She is 59 IA and now widowed. Pearl Holcomb was married to George Putnam here. He just pops up here in 1910 married and everything. According to his tombstone he was born June 27, 1884. His death certificate states his father was Ward Putnam and his mother was Margaret Pritz and he was born in Syracuse, Onondaga County New York. Can’t find them though. There was a Ward Putnam in Cicero, Onondaga County near Syracuse in 1880. He was single age 21 and in 1870 was in De Witt, Onondaga County living with Alanson and Sophia Putman his folks. Must be him and if so, they are on the New York Dutch Putman line. He is a city fireman. He died

 here January 7, 1944.

 

WILLARD A. PUTNAM  Decatur, Macon County

He is 40 IL and never married. He works in a tavern. He is a son of George Putnam and Pearl Holcomb from here in Decatur. He was at home in 1910 through 1940. He was born in 1909 and will die in 1965.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  Bunker Hill, Macoupin County

He is 85 NH widowed, and a patient in a large hospital or asylum or something. He was married to Lillie Pretz in 1940 in Jacksonville, Morgan County. George was born February 23, 1865 and will die there in 1953. Lillie was earlier married to a Pretz so that’s not her maiden name. She was born in 1867 and died in Morgan County in 1943. George is a son of George Augustus Putnam and Fannie Maria Wells of Yarmouth, Cumberland County Maine. His dad was a minister originally from Massachusetts.

 

BESSIE PUTNAM  Girard, Macoupin County

She is 63 IL and widowed now. Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Keen was married to Frank Alfred Putnam who was a son of William H. Putnam and Miriam King from Wabash County. They were there up till 1920 and were in Bridgeport, Lawrence County in 1930 and 1940. married Bessie there on March 29, 1903. Frank died there January 11, 1949. She is a daughter of Ancil Marion Keen and Alma Jackson and was born January 10, 1887 and will die in Bridgeport in April 1974.

 

IRA PUTMAN  Namoki Township, Madison County

He is 60 MO divorced and has his widowed mother Lydia Putnam 81 MO with him. He is a freight car inspector for the railroad. He is a son of William Absolam Putnam and Lydia Jane Moseley from Calloway County Missouri. The family was in Fayetteville Arkansas in 1910 and then here in 1920. The folks moved back to Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was single here with them in 1920 and was briefly married and divorced by 1900, so wasn’t married that long. He was born in Calloway County September 12, 1889 and will die in Arkansas January 30, 1972 and buried

there in Fayetteville, Arkansas in the National Cemetery as he served in WWI. He is on the Southern line out of Guilford County North Carolina.

 

FRANK PUTMAN  ST. Jacob, Madison County

He is 72 IL and has his widowed sister Clara McMichael 62 IL with him. He isa son of Hiram Putman and Lavinia Noblett and was born here January 28, 1878 and will die here May 5, 1956. Clara Bell was born March 11, 1888. Southern Putman family from Williamson County Tennessee then South Carolina and Virginia.

 

GEORGE W. PUTNAM  Centralia, Marion County

He is 39 IL and his wife Aline Edna Berkshire is 38 IL and they have Frank R. 18 IL, Elizabeth Georgiene 15 IL and Judd L. 4 IL. Her widowed mom Alice J. Berkshire 64 IL is with them. He is an oil field foreman now. He is a son of Frank Alfred Putnam and Elizabeth Keene and was born in Wabash County April 14, 1910. Edna is a daughter of Charles Elston Berkshire and Alice Jane Irwin and was born March 2, 1912 and will die in Denton, Texas October 12, 1988. George will die in Grapevine, Tarrant County Texas November 17, 2003. A family sheet had this info plus he lived in Hobbs, New Mexico in 1958 and in Denton, Texas in 1993 died in Texas but will be buried in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He has been working in the oil fields up till now and most likely that is what will take him south into Texas and Oklahoma. Family is from back in New England.

 

WARREN PUTNAM  Wenona, Evans Township, Marshall County

He is an agricultural teacher at East Lynn public high school here. He is 35 IN and his wife Alice Johnson is 36 IL and they have Merritt 10 IL. Warren Henry Putnam is a son of Henry William Putnam and Julia Hazel Foley and was born in Butler, Vermilion County September 17, 1914 and was there up through 1935. He will die August 26, 1976 and be buried in Iroquois County Illinois.

 

LEON PUTNAM  Bushnell, McDonough County

He is 49 IL IL IL and owns a grocery store. His wife Vada Ellen Weber is 49 IL. He is a son of George Allen Putman and Nellie Kees of Brown County. He was home there with his widowed mother in 1910 and then out in Moline, Rock Island County with his brother Vernon in 1920 and then here married in 1930 and 1940. Leon was born April 27, 1901 and will die in Peoria in July 1976. Vada was born July 14, 1899 and will die in Peoria November 24, 1975. Southern Putman family from Kentucky.

 

CLIFFORD PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

He is 39 IL and has a daughter Yvonne 13 IL. He says he is married. He was married here in 1940 with a wife Murial Marske who he married November 4, 1939. She’s with her brother I think listed shortly. and won’t die till June 1986 and she and Cliff were still married then. He is a son of Claude Clay Putnam and Harriet Marvin from here. Clifford was born December 24, 1910 and will die in Capron, Illinois in July 1987. New York Dutch family.

 

HARRIET A. PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

She is 82 MI and now widowed since her husband Claude died here August 13, 1943. Harriet Marvin has been married here to Claude Clay Putnam for ages. New York Dutch line. Her son Elmer 47 IL and widowed is here with her.

 

LOREN PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

He is 57 WI and his wife Elizabeth Tredup is 53 GERMANY. They were married in 1925 and were here in 1930. Loren Benjamin Putman is a son of George Washington Putman and Leora DeLine from here in Harvard and Linn, Wisconsin before that. He was born in Fontana, Wisconsin in 1894. He briefly married Pearl Krischke and had a daughter and split in 1918. He is an exterior building painter. Elizabeth is a sewer in a dress factory.

 

MARY J. PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

She is 18 IL and listed as a daughter of Vera Justie 36 IL and widowed. In 1940 she is 8 years old living with her folks Russell Eugene Putnam and Elizabeth Gilcrest here in Harvard. Eugene is a son of Oliver Lewis Putnam listed below.

 

MONROE L. (LAKE) PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

He is 42 IL and his wife Virginia Alice Preston is 39 IA. They now have Patti 6 IL, Monroe Jr. 4 IL and Robert 1 IL. He owns a novelty store. He is a son of Oliver Lewis Putnam and Mary Crumb who are here in town. He was born here December 19, 1907 and will die here January 5, 1988. Virginia was born May 21, 1911 and will die here August 10, 1994. They will be here all their lives. Dutch Line from New York State.

 

MURIAL PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

She is 33 IL and listed as a wife of Fred Marske 27 who is actually her brother. She is currently married to Clifford Putnam listed above. Just taking a brake I guess.

 

OLIVER L. (LEWIS) PUTNAM  Harvard, Chemung Township, McHenry County

He is 78 NY and his wife Mary Estella Crumb is 73 WI. He is an antique dealer with his antique shop. He was here in 1900 with his widowed mother Kate. There is a birth record stating Oliver was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County New York May 18, 1873 and his father was Mr. Putnam and mother Kate Parr. I looked in the 1880 census in Canajoharie County and found This Listing: “ He may be the guy here single in 1870, but the age is off. Obviously just married in the past decade. The age is perfect for Kate who is 64 NY in 1900. The writing was bad in the 1880 and I thought it said Albert, but it’s Oliver and he was 7 NY in 1880 and 27 NY in 1900 so that’s his family and obviously Dutch Pootmans coming from Montgomery County New York where they first started there in America in the later 1660s.

 

HARRY A. (ANSON) PUTNAM  Nunda, McHenry County

He is 73 MI and his wife Anna J. Merker is 74 IL. Hey were married in Milwaukee, Wisconsin August 21, 1898. They were then in Chicago in the 1900 census. He is a son of James W. Putnam and Minnie A. Scott and was born May 2, 1877 in Flint, Genesee County Michigan and was at home there in 1880. Anna is a daughter of Henry Merker Jr. and Mary Englehardt and was born July 28, 1875. He and Anna were in Stamford, Connecticut in 1910 where he was a telegraph operator. He was living in the Bronx, New York when he registered for the draft in 1917. They were in the Bronx in the 1920 and 1930 census. Can’t find in 1940. Harry will die in Pistakee, McHenry County Illinois January 12, 1957. Anna will die there May 27, 1950. They are both buried in Woodland Cemetery in McHenry. New England line.

 

WILLIS M.  (MCDOWELL) PUTNAM  Bloomington, McLean County

He is 53 IL IL IL and is a fireworks salesman. His wife Ruth Merrifield is 49 IL. He is a son of Lee Francis Putnam and Carrie McDowell from Champaign. He and Ruth were at home there in 1920 and then here in 1930 and 1940. His uncle Frank Edgerton Putnam was here since 1910 and his widow Kittie is still nearby. Willis was born October 22, 1897 and will die here in Bloomington in March 1973. He married Ruth in Champaign County October 27, 1917. Ruth was born July 15, 1900 and will die here December 6, 1996.

 

DALE PUTMAN  Normal, McLean County

He is 42 IL and married to Ruth Irene Messer 24 IL and the now have John 15 IL, Marie 14 IL and Karl 13 IL. Dale Wilson Putman is a son of Ernest Wentworth Putman and Cora Elizabeth Wilson from Ross, Vermillion County. He was born there September 23, 1907, and will die in Bloomington, Illinois January 26, 1976. He married Ruth n Bloomington October 15, 1933. Ruth was born January 8, 1908 here in McLean County and will also die in Bloomington November2, 2002. He was home in Ross in 1920 and then was briefly in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1940, then back up here. Southern Putman family.

 

JEAN PUTNAM  Normal, McLean County

She is 20 KY single and director of a City Playground and lodging. Looks like Russell Eugene Putnam’s daughter from McHenry County. In 1940 she was listed as Betty J. 10 KY so if Jean is her middle name, she fits like no one else in 1940 does.

 

JESSE H. PUTNAM  Litchfield, Montgomery County

He is 45 IL and his wife Thelma Lessman is 40 IL and they have Susan T. 5 IL. Thelma’s mother Flora Lessman 73 IL is with them. Jess and Thelma got married October 13, 1943 in Madison County. He is a son of George Charles Putnam and Mary Louisa Gregg and was born here April 1, 1904.  He had been with his widowed mom here in Litchfield in 1940. He will die in Tarrant County Texas July 22, 1991. Thelma was born here January 17, 1910 and will die here May 15, 1987. Both are buried here in Litchfield.

 

GLEN D. (DALE) PUTNAM  Meredosia, Morgan County

He is 27 IL and his wife Marion Battefeld is 26 IL. Glen is a son of Leroy Briggs Putman and Veleda Petrie from Brown County Illinois where he was born January 28, 1922. They were in Pike County in 1930 and Cass County in 1940. Glen will die right here June 9, 1990. Marion was born as a belated Christmas present on December 28, 1922, and will die here April 17, 2000. Southern Putman family.

 

LEOLA PUTNAM  Jacksonville, Morgan County

She is 35 IL and an patient in the Jacksonville State Hospital for the Insane. Leola Virginia Maye Putman is a daughter of Roy Briggs Putman and Velenda Petrie from Elkhorn, Brown County. She was born there December 20, 1915 and will die February 6, 1967. She was in a similar hospital in Adams County in 1930. She was here in 1940.

 

MARGARET PUTMAN  Jacksonville, Morgan County

Margaret Gordon is now 57 IL and widowed as her husband Charles Calvin Putman had died here March 11, 1929. She has her married but separated daughter Dolores 25 IL and her daughter Carolyn Walker 7 IL. They were in Scott County in 1940. Charles was a son of Henry Francis Putman and Virginia Shackleford of Brown County Illinois and was born there March 22, 1886. Southern Putman family Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois.

 

ROBERT H. PUTNAM  Mount Morris, Ogle County

He is 25 IL and his wife Lois M. Hiteman is 20 IL and they live with her widowed mom Pearl Hiteman 48 IL. He washes cars in an auto garage. Pearl was married to Harvey Herbert Hiteman for what that’s worth. Then as to Bob. In 1940 Gene/Charles Putnam of Rockford, Winnebago County had a son Robert 15 IL and doesn’t have him now. But …. Can’t figure out the guy who calls himself Gene one year and Charles the next.

 

JOHN G. (GALE) PUTNAM  Oregon Township, Ogle County

He is 27 IL and his wife Janet Ilene Bollinger is 25 IL and they have Anne 4 IL and Susan 2 IL. He is a son of John Ferson Putnam and Ada Gale from here. He was born right here March 20, 1923 and will die here as well October 11, 2007. Janet was born right here July 18, 1924 and will die December 4, 2012 in Mount Morris Ogle County. His dad is a son of David Edgerton Putnam and Susan Ramsey from Columbus, Franklin County Ohio. John is on the New England line that went from Massachusetts to Marietta Ohio with General Rufus Putnam and basically established the State of Ohio.

 

AUSTIN C. (CLARK) PUTNAM  Peoria, Peoria County

He is 33 IL and now married to Dorothy Mae Hall 24 IL and they have April M. 3 IL. He is a salesman for an oil company. He is a son of Harold Lyford Putnam and Marge Belle Clark from here. Harold is a son of Austin Herbert Putnam and Ida Mae Lyford from Danvers, Massachusetts.

 

HARRISON PUTMAN  Peoria, Peoria County

He is 32 IL and his wife Mary Louise ‘Marilou’ Neumayer is 29 IA and they have Mary Kay 2 MN and Christopher (Harrison Christopher III) 1 MN. Mary’s sister Katherine Neumayer 22 NE is with them. He is Harrison Christopher Putman Jr, a son of Harrison Sr. and Nellie Hanlon from Canton, Fulton County. He was at home with then in 1920 through 1940. He was born August 11, 1917 in Canton and will die here in Peoria March 17, 1970. Southern Putman Family coming down from Hazeal Putman.

 

LEONARD L. (LYLE) PUTMAN  Peoria, Peoria County

He is 38 IL and his wife Wanda M. is 24 IL and they have Patricia M. 2 IL and Susan M. 1 IL. In 1930 he is living with his mother Cynthia who has married Charles Johnson. She was married to James Harrison Putman in Canton, Fulton County in 1920. Leonard was here in 1940 with his wife Vivian Elizabeth Sexton 27 IL and Leonard Jr. 6 IL. Wanda is a new wife. Vivian and young Leonard took off. His full name is Lyle Leonard Putman. He was born in Canton, Fulton County April 9, 1912 and will die May 27, 1973 here in Peoria. Haven’t figured his dad James out yet. In 1910, he was listed in Canton as a nephew of John Westerfield. Southern Putmans at any rate.

 

OTIS O. (OSCAR) PUTNAM  Peoria, Peoria County

He is 59 IL US US. He says he is married, but Sylvia Ellis isn’t around as she has been. He is an automobile salesman as he was here in 1930 and 1940 with Sylvia and kids. He is a son of John Devales Putnam from Clinton, DeWitt County. He was born there June 11, 1890. He was there married in 1920 and here in 1930. He was born in Clinton June 11, 1890 and will die in Sullivan, Moultrie County Illinois in September 1977. He uses the spelling Putnum in about half his census and other reports. Putnam family out of Guilford County North Carolina.

 

ROBERT C. (CLYDE) PUTNAM  Peoria, Peoria County

He is 31 SD single and his wife Virginia Ringens is 34 IL and they have a son Mark 1 IL. He is a carpenter for a contractor. He is the son of Clyde Chester Putnam and Ruth Booker. In 1920 he was in Mitchell, Davison County South Dakota. He was born in Bismark, North Dakota June 12, 1918 and will die February 26, 2000 in Houston, Texas. The folks were from Taylor County Iowa then were in South Dakota and then got divorced in 1924. I don’t find him or his mom in 1930 and his dad had married Helen Wenzel and was in Pennsylvania where he died in 1949. His mother Ruth was in Marshall County South Dakota in 1940. Clyde says he was single in Douglas County South Dakota in 1935 and he was single here in 1940. He married Virginia Marie Ringens August 3, 1940. New England family from Vermont and Massachusetts before that.

 

PEARL PUTNAM  Derry, Pike County

Pearl Arthur Putnam is 56 IL IL OH and his wife Priscilla E. Dolbeare is 55 IL. They have Jeanne 19 IL and a granddaughter Barbara J. 4/12 IL. They have been here before 1920 and ever since. He is a son of James M. Putman and June Farley from Brown County. He was born July 13, 1893 and died August 14, 1971. He married Priscilla Eliza Dolbeare on April 14, 1915. They have been here since the 1890s. Priscilla is a daughter of Christopher and Belle Dolebeare and was born December 4, 1894 and will die here August 14, 1970. He will die here in Pike County August 14, 1971. Southern Putman family.

 

WILLIAM H. (HAZEAL) PUTMAN  Bowling Township, Rock Island County

He is 44 IL and his wife Evalena Cressey is 43 IA. He is a son of Charles Frederick Putman and Naomi Alice Clark. He was born in Brown County August 22, 1895. Evalena married Clark Dale Smith here in Bowling December 19, 1917 and they were in the 1930 and then split. She and Bill are here forever. He will die here April 28, 1975. Eva was born in Iowa February 2, 1897 and will die here in January 1987. Her obituary was dated January 17, 1987. Southern Putman family Virginia to Kentucky to Illinois.

 

RICHARD PUTMAN  Hampton, Rock Island County

He is 5 IL and a foster son with Hiram and Dorothy Power. No ideas at all as to his folks. Dorothy might be the mom, but the he would be a step son. Think they were just nice enough to help him off the lawn in front of Town Hall. 😊

 

IMOGINE PUTNAM  Moline, Rock Island County

She is 40 IL and now divorced. She is in the tailoring business. She didn’t exist in America in 1940 so no clues at all as to what Putnam dude she played with for a year or two. There were no stray Putnams around here at about age 30 back in 1940.

 

MARK L. (LEANDER) PUTNAM  Moline, Rock Island County

He is 52 KS and his wife Lela Lucille Dilling is 51 IL and they have Joan Lucille 17 IL. He is a personal director for a farm implement company. Mark is a son of Charles Ellsworth Putnam and Ida McGee and was born April 12, 1898 in Richmond, Kansas. He married Lela May 1, 1926 in Chicago and they were in Berwyn, Cook County Illinois in 1930 and not indexed in 1940. He signed his draft card in 1942 while living in Summit, New Jersey. He will die in Fredonia, New York May 20, 1990. Lela was born in St. Joseph, Champaign County Illinois May 13, 1898 and will die in Fort Wayne Indiana very soon on November 30, 1950. She will be buried though in Urbana, Champaign County Illinois.

 

PAUL A. (ARTHUR) PUTNAM  Moline, Rock Island County

He is 40 NE, his wife Leona Schaecher 40 SD and they have Joyce Ann 16 NE, Patricia Irene 13 NE and Paul William 10 NE and James J. 1 IL. He is a crane operator in a coal and gravel retail site. Paul Arthur Putnam is a son of John William Putnam and Irene Dolan and was born in Columbus, Platte County Nebraska November 18, 1909, and has been there through 1935 at land in Cook County Nebraska in 1940.t. He will eventually die in Moline, Illinois December 21, 1983. He married Leona here on November 22, 1932. She is a daughter of Frank Schaecher and Anna Luetkenhaus and was born in Cross Plains, South Dakota April 11, 1910 and will die in Moline, Illinois April 13, 1982. Another source says she died the same day but in Bettendorf, Iowa. New York Dutch.

 

RALPH PUTMAN  Moline, Rock Island County

He is 38 ND and his wife Irene Elizabeth Carlin is 33 IL and they have Terry 12 IL and Cheryl A. 4 IL. Ralph Edward Putman is a son of Edward Putman and Ellen Rachel Partlow and was born in Kensal, Stutsman County North Dakota July 7, 1912. His folks were married in James, North Dakota December 2, 1911. Now gets interesting. He really isn’t a Putman except that was a name his dad changed to. Ralph was in Stutsman County through 1925 and then the family was in Winchester, Norman County Minnesota in 1930. Then the family moved over here in the mid 1930s and were here by 1935. A relative says that on July 28, 1937 in Moline, Illinois Ed shot and killed his wife and then shot and killed himself. There was a note she was shot by her husband, Ed Putnam, who then shot himself. He had been drinking. Ellen had a restraining order saying he was not to come near the house because he had been abusive in the past. He broke in through the basement and shot her. I don’t know his folks except their names were Matthew W. Bakkala and Lyti Bakkala from Finland. I found his WWI Draft Registration card. It states he was born in Watertown, Codington County, South Dakota on November 15, 1888. At the time he was 28 so the card was filed in 1917 and he then lived in Kensal, North Dakota. He had a farm in Kensal, Stutsman County with a wife and one son. They were in the North Dakota 1915 and 1925 Censuses. I can’t find them in 1920 yet. Ralph was born July 6, 1912 and will die here in Moline, Illinois June 2, 1988. He married Irene August 29, 1936 in Galesburg, Knox County Illinois. She was born in Moline January 28, 1917 and will die here November 28, 2004.

 

ARLO C. (CLIFFORD) PUTNAM  Rock Island, Rock Island County

He is 47 KS and his wife Violet Eaton is 42 MO and they have Barbara D. 15 CA and Daniel E. 1 IL. He is a radio repair guy. He is a son of Charles Ellsworth Putnam and Ida Medova McGee. His dad was a son of Leander Putnam and Martha Emorette Pike of Vermont. Leander is a son of Jacob Putnam and Polly Worth and is number 1124 in Eben Putnam's books. Arlo was born in Franklin County Kansas January 9, 1902 and will die here in Rock Island in 1973.

 

RAY L. (RAYMOND LEROY) PUTNAM  Rock Island City, Rock Island County

Raymond Leroy Putnam is 28 ND, his new wife Marjorie Velma Townsend 46 IA, and he now has a stepson Kent Townsend Murdock 24 IL from her prior marriage to Leonard Murdock. He is a torch cutter/burner for a wholesale Iron Company. Interesting. He was born Raymond Lee Mahar June 5, 1911. His mother died in 1918 and he and a brother, Severn Buster, were then adopted by Harry Arthur Putnam and Rosella Goodroad. Ray must have been around the folks in Oneida County Wisconsin as his brother Sever Buster was with Harry and Ella in Sugar Camp, Oneida County Wisconsin in 1930. Raymond states they were in Sioux City, Woodbury County Iowa in 1935. He was here in 1940 with his first wife Thelma Irene Sapp.

 

ROSS G. (GRIFFITH) PUTNAM  Eldorado, Saline County

He is 66 IL and his wife Katherine Milligan is 63 IL. Ross owns a watch repairing jewelry store here in town. Ross is a son of William H. Putnam and Miriam W. King and was born in Wabash County March 11, 1983. He served in the Army in the Spanish American War in the Philippine Islands from 1901-1903. In 1904 he graduated from the St. Louis Watchmaking School and then married Kate September 1, 1907. Kate is a daughter of William J. Milligan and Jane Elizabeth Courter and was born in Wabash County October 28, 1886. Ross will retire from his jewelry business December 31, 1941 and his son William will take over. Ross has been President of the Board of Education and will next serve one term as mayor of Eldorado. Ross will die here in May 1967, and I don’t have a death date for Kate yet. Family comes from Howard Putnam in Salem, Massachusetts to Eber Putnam from Delaware County New York to Wabash County here in Southeastern Illinois just a little north of Saline County where Ross is now. His son William is listed next.

 

WILLIAM H. (HOWARD) PUTNAM  Eldorado, Saline County

He is 36 IL and his wife Helen Mae Milburn is 35 IL and they have Billy Milburn 11 IL and Ross Eric 5 IL. He and Helen were married in Hawaii June 20, 1933. More fun than Reno for a quickie. He is a son of Ross Griffith Putnam and Katherine ‘Kate’ Milligan, and was born here September 30, 1913 and will die in Harrisburg, Saline County February 15, 2005. He was at home with them here in 1920 and 1930 and married here in 1940. Helen was born in Wabash County March 8, 1914 and will die here in Galatia, Saline County February 19, 2003. He is a jeweler at his dad’s jewelry store. His dad retired and William took over the business January 1, 1942. Family comes from Howard Putnam in Salem, Massachusetts to Eber Putnam from Delaware County New York to Wabash County here in Southeastern Illinois just a little north of Saline County where Ross is now.

 

EUGENE PUTNAM  Grandview, Sangamon County

He is 31 IL and his wife Mildred Frances Johnston is 30 MI and they have Mary Anne 3 IL and Cynthia 2 IL. Eugene Otis Putnam is a son of Otis Oscar and Sylvia Ellis from Peoria. He was home there in 1940. His dad Otis is a son of John Devales Putnam from Clinton, DeWitt County. He was born there June 11, 1890. He was there married in 1920 and here in 1930. Putnam family out of Guilford County North Carolina.

 

PUTNAM KIDS  Springfield, Sangamon County

These are kids of Ray Vincent Putnam and Wilma Jane Jackson from here, see the 1940 census. Ray died August 29, 1944, and Wilma 35 IL has now married Elmer Baggerly 33 IL. These are the Putnams listed as step kids: William Ray 16 IL, Donald Lee 14 IL, Joan R. 12 IL and Rae Jean 5 IL. Wilma was born in Roodhouse, Greene County in 1914 and will die in Springfield in 1971.

 

CLIFFORD PUTMAN  Springfield, Sangamon County

He is 38 IL and married to Pauline Rayhill 37 IL and they live with her brother and sister James 39 IL and Ruth 38 IL Rayhill. They were in Jacksonville, Morgan County in 1940. I can’t find him earlier or anything on Ancestry. But if you look back to John Putnam in Belle Prairie, Livingston County in 1920 you will see his daughter Ollie had married a Bowman and had a son Clifford Bowman age 6 IL. I could guess this is him and his name was changed to Putnam. Only a guess though. His wife works in the State School for the Deaf. In 1930 there was a Jennie Putnam age 38 IL then who was a cook at the State School for the Deaf. She was a daughter of Charles Francis Putnam in Stark County. Might be a connection. Ancestry has nothing at all.

 

ROY O. PUTNAM  Springfield, Sangamon County

He is 40 IL and his wife Eunice D. is 33 AR. He is Route man for a wholesale company and she is payroll clerk at a shoe factory. They are here in 1955 and he is a broker then. But … can’t find him in 1930 and 1940 and Ancestry can’t either. But … in 1920 I find a 9-year-old Roy as a son of George Charles Putnam and Mary Louise Gregg in Litchfield, Montgomery County Illinois. In 1910 they have Roy O. just born. BINGO!!! Then I find Mary in Litchfield in 1940 and widowed as George died there in 1920. But still no Roy. He probably was out playing banjo somewhere and has been out of touch till now. Dutch line out of Upper New York State.

 

MAMIE PUTNAM  Rushville, Schuyler County

She is 65 IL and white and single. She is a housekeeper for a Dyson Family. Can’t find any Mamie in 1930 or 1940.

 

CAROLE L. (LOU) PUTNAM  Belleville, St. Clair County

She is 15 IL and lives with her mother Dorothy 40 IL and her new husband Edwin Chubb 39 KS. Dorothy Louise Runtz was married to Herschel Putnam here in East St. Louis in 1930 and 1940. Herschel will have two more wives as time goes on. Family out of Massachusetts.

 

PHILLIP PUTNAM  Belleville, St. Clair County

He is 32 MI and his wife Helen Parks is 34 MI and they have George born in June in Michigan.  They were married in Lucas, Ohio July 3, 1939 and in Defiance, Ohio in the 1940 census. His occupation says he is a Clerical in a seat spring factory. Phillip Edgar Putnam is a son of Archie Joseph Putnam and Stella Evans from Jackson, Michigan and was there through 1930 and 1935 then in Defiance, Ohio in 1940. Archie is a son of Charles Putnam and Christina Storms. Phillip was born in Jackson, Michigan August 22, 1917 and will die in Bradenton, Florida May 13, 2006. Family is from New Hampshire and came out to Michigan in the 1840s.

 

GEORGE PUTNAM  East St. Louis, St. Clair County

He is 64 IL single and living with his widowed sister Maude E. Green 63 IL. He is a sausage maker in a meat packing plant. They are kids of George Malcolm Putnam and Sarah Roesch from here. His dad is a son of George and Ophra Putnam from Dorchester, Middlesex County Canada and Massachusetts before that.

 

HARRY F. (FLOYD) PUTNAM SR.  East St. Louis, St. Clair County

He is 55 IL and his wife Jeanette Basche 50 IL. He is the chief clerk at a wholesale packing  company. He is a son of George Malcolm Putnam and Sarah Roesch. His dad died here July 11, 1933 and his mom Sarah just died here December 28, 1939 Harry was born here September 14, 1894 and will die here in March 1978. His dad was born in Canada, but the family was from Massachusetts before that

 

HARRY F. (FLOYD) PUTNAM JR.  East St. Louis, St. Clair County

He is 32 IL and his wife Maxine Rose Flack is 29 IL and they have Sandra Kay 3 IL. He is a stock buyer for a meat packing plant. He is a son of Harry Floyd Senior and Jeanetta Basche from here and listed above. Harry was born here December 6, 1917 and will die in Greenwood, Indiana July 5, 2011. Maxine is a daughter of Max and Stella Flack and was born right here October 15, 1920 and will die in Indianapolis December 28, 2005.

 

VICTOR J. (JOHN) PUTNAM  East St. Louis, St. Clair County

He is 56 IL IL IL. His wife Opal Fern Keyser is 47 MO. They have Lillian Fern 26 IL, Marion L. 23 IL, Robert 21 IL and then their 2 wives Imogene 18 IL and Dolores 18 IL and then a grandson Marion born in June. No clue as to which husband they belong with as all listed in a row. There is also Charles 9 IL listed as Vic’s son. He is the son of John Anderson Putnam, son of Uzziel Franklin Putnam. His widowed mother Ruth Ellen Holmes was in Dupo, St. Clair County in 1920. He married Opal there July 28, 1920. Victor was born October 7, 1893 and will die in Dupo, Illinois August 15, 1987. Opal was born in Monroe, Missouri June 27, 1902 and will die July 5, 1970 in Centerville, St. Clair County.

 

WILL PUTMAN  Toulon, Stark County

He is 63 IL IL IL divorced and works odd jobs now. He is George William Putman a son Charles Frances Putman and Harriet Screeton from here in Stark County. He was born August 6, 1886 and will die here October 13, 1964. He married Ella Carlson here in Wyoming, Stark County on March 27, 1913. They were divorced here in 1935 and 1940. Dutch family originally from New York.

 

ALMA E. (ETHEL) PUTMAN  Wyoming, Stark County

She is 54 OH and now widowed. She has her youngest daughter Shirley L. 14 IL and they live with their married daughter Edna Lorene 28 IL and her husband Garland Jackson and two daughters. Alma Ethel Boyd was married to Roy Putman here up through 1940. He was an insurance agent and a son of Charles Francis Putman and Harriet Cynthia Screeton and had been in Stark County up till 1920 and then in Henry County in 1930 briefly and back here by 1935. He was born in Stark County August 12, 1892 and will die in McDonough County January 3, 1970. Alma was born August 23, 1895 and will die in Peoria March 5, 1983. He was on the New York Dutch line. They had a son Warren Thomas Putman who is the Warren Putman I have been talking about and to for years and years. He is the one that did all the great work on the Dutch line and lots of work on the New England line as well. He moved to Peoria and get married there to Mildred Lyons in 1951. Later they moved out to Rio Linda, California. After Mildred died in the 1990s, Warren moved back to Peoria. I flew out there to see him about 1998 and it was great. His sight was about gone and he had stopped doing genealogy. Then he married a gal named Anne and moved south, and I lost touch. Then in January 2006, I got an e-mail from his granddaughter who had stumbled on my web site and called Warren and then wrote me that he was in Athens, Georgia. I called him and it was the same enthusiastic guy I knew. He was 78, all sorts of physical problems but still having a great time. He is back in the Peoria Heights area as of 2012, but not doing that great and died a year later. He was a huge help back then solving problem on the Dutch line as he had done all sorts of research.

 

WALTER E. (EDWARD) PUTNAM  Sugar Loaf, St. Clair County

He is 65 IL MA IL and his third wife Bertha is 61 IL. His married daughter Sue is 38 KY and her husband Carl Haynes is 34 MO and they have Michael 1 and Carl just born. He was widowed in East St. Louis in 1930, they were married sometime in the 1930s and were there in 1940. He is a retired Sanitary Engineer. In 1942 his draft registration still has Bertha as the wife and they are then in Sugar Loaf, St. Clair County. His second wife Harriet Bradley who he married in January 1916 died in 1928. The daughter Sue was with his first wife Goldie Gabbert who he married October 5, 1907. He is a son of James Putnam and Emma Sarah Paine from Christian County and was born there March 10, 1885. He will die here April 1, 1956. New England family out of Hinsdale, Berkshire County Massachusetts.

 

ARCHIBALD W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Freeport, Stephenson County

He is now 60 IL and his wife Cora C. Cowan is 59 IL. They were married in Chicago April 2, 1913, and the kids are all gone now. He is a son of Walter and Emma Putnam from here. He was born here July 21, 1889 and was here through the 1910. He then headed North and married Cora in Chicago April 2, 1913. They were in Chicago when he registered for the draft in 1917. Then I guess he was in New Jersey maybe to see his grandparents or maybe stationed there for WWI. In 1920 though they were in Detroit Michigan and that’s where he first used the name William. He is a Parcel Post clerk at the post office. He was a mail carrier in 1930 and 1940. Cora was born in Chicago January 7, 1891 and will die here in Freeport in February 1972. Archie will die here in April 1955. This line back to New Jersey to Vermont and Massachusetts.

 

KATHRYN PUTNAM  Freeport, Stephenson County

She is 36 KS and divorced and has Joyce Ann 15 KS with her. They live with Lela Ocker 34 WI and she is listed as ‘partner.’ Kathryn is a public-school teacher. Kathryn Badger was married to John Andrew Putnam Jr. in Chase County Kansas in 1940. Kathryn was born in Eureka, Kansas December 14, 1913 and will die here in Hazel Crest, Cook County on September 15, 2007. She married John in Emporia, Kansas August 19, 1933. They were divorced in 1940-1941 as John married Wilma Gene Sutton back there January 30, 1942. The Putnam part was from New England.

 

MARGARET AGNES PUTNAM  Freeport, Stephenson County

She is 65 IRE-FREE and widowed. She does alterations in a department store. Still at home is Alice 44 IL. Alice works in an insurance underwriter’s office. Margaret Agnes Cavanaugh was married to Frank Garfied Putnam who died here November 26, 1938. He was a son of Walter Miles Putnam and Mahalia Brown from here. His dad was from Essex County New Jersey. This was a family that came from Massachusetts to New Jersey very early on. Margaret is a daughter of John Kavanaugh and Anastasia Woodman and was born in Coolasnagtha, County Carlow, Southern Ireland March 18, 1888. She will die in Vermilion County in February 1976.

 

W. (WALTER) T. PUTNAM  Freeport, Stephenson County

He is 83 IL and his wife Emma Weik is 83 IL. He is a son of Walter Miles Putnam and Mahalia Curtis Brown and was born here in 1867. He married Emma in 1888. They have been here ever since.  His dad was from Essex County New Jersey. This was a family that came from Massachusetts to New Jersey very early on.

 

FRANK G. (GARFIELD) PUTNAM  Harlem, Stephenson County

He is 40 IL and his wife Leona Kirk Nesbit is 41 IL. They have Nancy A. 10 IL, Martha S. 7 IL and Frank L. 5 IL. He is frank Junior, son of Frank Garfield Putnam and Margaret Agnes Cavanaugh and was born in Freeport March 2, 1910 and will die in Freeport November 7, 1956. Leona was born in Freeport July 24, 1909 and will die in Tempe, Arizona May 15, 2008. He has been in Freeport up through 1935 and now is a clerk in a drugstore here. New England family out of New Jersey.

 

MITCHELL W. (WAYNE) PUTMAN  Creve Coeur, Tazewell County

He is 32 IL and his wife Ruth Arlene Williams is 19 IL and they have Karen L 2 IL and Colleen A. born in September 1949. He is a welder in a tractor factory. He married Ruth in Stark County June 28, 1946. They will split or divorce as he will marry Maudie Marie Fobar in Peoria January 12, 1956. Ruth will take these 2 kids and Mike will have 4 daughters with Maudie. Mike is a son of Raymond Putman and Alma Ethel Boyd. He was born October 6, 1917 in Elmira and will die in Wyoming, Illinois May 30, 2010. He was single in 1940 living with his folks in Wyoming, Stark County. New York Dutch line.

 

WILLARD PUTNAM  Fondulac, Tazewell County

He is 34 IL and his wife Hazel is 27 WI. In 1930, Ray and Alma Putnam in Kewanee, Henry County had a Willard 14 that is probably this guy here. Neither Ray nor Willard was around in 1940. So ….?

 

JAMES D. (DOWNING) PUTNAM  Washington Township, Tazewell County

He is 40 IL and his wife Jane Dickinson 36 IL. They were married right here December 27, 1938 and were here in 1940. They have Patricia Ann 7 IL and Janice I. 4 IL. James Downing Putnam III is a son of James Downing Putnam Jr. and Eva McLaughlin. He was born in Peoria August 31, 1909 and will die here in Washington August 4, 1998. He is a life insurance salesman and she is a clerk in a book store. They were in Peoria in 1935. They were here in 1940. Jane was born December 16, 1913 and will die here in Washington Township January 17, 1999. Family goes back to Minnesota to Lynn, Massachusetts.

 

PUTNAMS & PUTMANS  Vermilion County

This is a County in the middle of Illinois on the Indiana border. Champaign County Illinois abuts on the west and Vermillion County Indiana on the east. This County has one and the one in Indiana has two. There are two separate New England lines here. One coming over from Champaign County and one over from Indiana and New York before that, and both came from Massachusetts earlier. Then the Southern Putman family came from Virginia to Kentucky and then split. One family went into Champaign County Ohio and then Clark County Ohio and then over here. Another went into Illinois and here. In several towns, especially in the Ross and Grant and Danville areas both lines of families are in them together. Gotta be careful sorting them out.

 

CARL D. (DONOVAN) PUTNAM  Danville, Vermilion County

He is 43 IL and his wife Gladys Dragoo is 42 IL and they have a couple of nephews Robert Preston 19 IL and William Preston 18 IL now listed as sons. He is a dairy salesman. He is a son of Simeon King Putnam and Sarah Courtner from Wabash County. He was there in 1920 and came up here with his brother Harry, I guess. They were both here in Danville in 1930 and 1940. Carl was born April 16, 1905 and will die in Farmington, Illinois in March 1967. He will have a second wife Mary who was born December 29, 1914 and will die in Farmington in June 1987.

 

DOROTHY A. (ANN) PUTNAM  Danville, Vermilion County

She is 45 IL and widowed. She still has Gordon K. 14 IL, John K. 13 IL and Arthur Ross 10 IL. Dorothy Ann Streiben was married to Percy Putnam here in 1930 and 1940. He was a son of Simeon King Putnam and Sarah Louise Courter from Wabash County. He was at home there through 1920 and then here in 1930. He was born in Mt. Carmel, Wabash County. He died here in Danville June 21, 1941 while working on a 75-car freight train a mile south of Danville. The freight engine was hit head on by a New York Central passenger train that was empty at the time. The impact was so strong that the freight engine exploded and the crew of four were all killed instantly. Dorothy is a daughter of Chester Arthur Streibin and Nettie Florence Tibbetts and was born here in Danville December 17, 1904 and will die out west in San Bernardino, California November 30, 1922. His brother Lester has moved over here and is a brakeman for the railroad too. New England line from Sutton, Massachusetts to Delaware County, New York to here.

 

FRED R. (RENARD) PUTMAN  Danville, Vermilion County

He is 59 IL, Helen Alice Shockley his wife 54 MO. They were married here in Danville July 5, 1913. They were in 1920 in Iroquois County in 1930 and here in Danville in 1940. He is a salesman in a furniture store. Fred Renard Putman is a son of John Henry Putman and Eva Kate Renard. He was born in Henning, Vermilion County July 26, 1890 and will die here in December 1964. Helen was born in Woodville, Missouri August 22, 1894. They were in La Porte, Indiana when he registered for the draft in 1942. Southern Putman family. Virginia to Kentucky to Champaign County, Ohio then to this east-central part of Illinois.

 

HUGH W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Danville, Vermilion County

He is 61 IL and is now married to Rosa Lee Bass 47 KY. He is a son of Simeon King Putnam and Sarah Louise Courter from Lancaster, Wabash County. Hugh was single in Danville in 1920 and I don’t find him in 1930. He was in the U.S. National Home for Disabled Soldiers in Danville from July 5, 1932 to January 6, 1933. The record says he was in WWI in 1918 and had injuries to his right foot and left ear. He was married to Rosa at that time. She was previously married to a Cary guy. He is a conductor for the railroad like his brothers Lester and George here in town. Hugh was born in Wabash County March 10, 1889 and will die April 3, 1981.

 

LESTER M. (MAYO) PUTNAM  Danville, Vermilion County

He is 50 IL IL IL and his wife Ida E. Stewart is 47 KY. He is a conductor for the steam railroad. They have Ida Juanita 22 IL, and Mary Lou 15 IL. Also here is their son Robert Michael 21 IL and his wife Barbara Ann Zimmer 21 IL and their son Michael Robert Jr. 1 IL. Lester Mayo Putnam is a son of Simeon King Putnam and Sarah Louise Courter from Lancaster, Wabash County. He was born there January 12, 1900 and was at home there in 1910, missing in 1920 and married there in 1930 and 1935. His brother Harry has moved over here and is a brakeman for the railroad too. New England line from Sutton, Massachusetts to Delaware County, New York to here.

 

MARGARET PUTNAM  Danville, Vermillion County

She is 52 IL and widowed. Margaret N. Truman was married to Harry Trotwood Putnam here in 1920 and was here till he died. Margaret is a practical nurse in a private house. Margaret was born March 18, 1888 and will die here in Danville February 2, 1976. Harry was a son of George William Putnam and Florinda Calhoun Kirkpatrick from Ogden, Champaign County Illinois. He was there in 1910 and here since 1920. Harry was born December 21, 1887 and died in Danville February 14, 1945. This is a New England line. Andover, Massachusetts to Champaign County, Illinois in the 1870s.

 

RAYMOND C. (CARL) PUTNAM  Danville, Vermilion County

He is a feed salesman for livestock. He is 23 IL and his wife Helen M. Cook is 22 IL and they have Sherry R. born in December 1949. He is a son of Harry Percy Putnam and Dorothy Ann Streiben and was at home here in 1930 and 1940. New England line from Sutton, Massachusetts to Delaware County, New York to here.

 

WALTER E. (EARL) PUTNAM  Danville, Vermilion County

He is 67 IL and his wife Vera L. Cheney is 59 IN. Also here is Vera’s widowed mother Minnie Cheney 79 IL as they did in 1940. Minnie Cheney will die here June 6, 1956. Walt and Vera were in Livingston County in 1920 and here in 1930 and 1940. He is a son of George William Putnam and Florida Calhoun Kirkpatrick from Champaign County. He was born in Penfield, Champaign County Illinois February 2, 1883. He will die here March 31, 1951. He married Vera here in Danville December 14, 1911. Vera is a daughter of John Edgar Cheney and Minnie Belle Hall and was born December 24, 1889 in West Lebanon, Warren County and will die here in Danville in August 1981.

 

GEORGE EDWARD PUTNAM  Grant, Vermillion County

He is listed as Ted instead of Ed, I guess. He is 34 IL and his wife Juanita Marie Melin is 21 IN and they have William E. 1 IL. He is a farmer here and has been at home in 1930 with his folks Henry William Putnam and Julia Hazel Foley from Butler Township, East Lynn. George Edward was born January 26, 1916 in East Lynn and will die in Hoopeston November 6, 2003. He married Juanita in Crown Point, Indiana January 7, 1939. Juanita was born July 19, 1918 and will also die in Hoopeston May 30, 2011. Family out of Massachusetts to Rhode Island to Champaign County Illinois.

 

CASSA E. PUTMAN  Henning, South Ross Township, Vermilion County

Cassandra Elizabeth Putman is 64 IL and still single as she will be forever. She is a clerk at the post office here. She is a daughter of John Henry Putman and Eva Kate Renard from here. She was born November 1, 1885 and will die here in January 1968. Southern Putman.

 

ERNEST W. (WENTWORTH) PUTMAN  Henning, Vermilion County

He is 74 IL and a well driller with his own company.  His wife, Cora Wilson, is 78 IL. He was born October 5, 1875 and will die March 8, 1961. He married Cora Elizabeth Wilson on June 26, 1894. Cora was born June 15, 1872 and will die January 3, 1968. He was raised by Joseph Putman and Elizabeth Slusser from here, but is actually an out of wedlock son of their oldest daughter Mary Ellen Putman and probably a Wentworth fella. He and Cora were married here June 26, 1894 and have been here ever since.

 

FOREST L. (LEE) PUTMAN  Henning, Vermilion County

He is 44 IL IL IL and is now an aircraft inspector at an Air Force Base. His wife Mary Magdaline Carter is 42 IL and they have Patricia 14 IL. He is a son of Ernest Wentworth Putman and Cora Elizabeth Wilson from Ross, Vermilion County. He was born in Henning, Vermilion County May 6, 1905 and married Mary November 20, 1926. He will die in Danville February 14, 1982. Mary is the daughter of William O. Carter and Gertrude Gahen. She was born October 10, 1907, and will die in Hemming May 29, 1998. Southern Putman family that came down from Clark County Ohio.

 

HENRY W. (WILLIAM) PUTMAN  Hoopeston, Vermilion County

He is 61 IL, Julia Hazel Foley his wife, is 60 IL. He owns his farm. Their daughter Pauline 33 IL is still at home. Their now divorced daughter Margaret Lynch is 30 IL and has John Lynch 2 IL with her. He is a son of Fred Putnam and Anna Behrens from Ogden, Champaign County. He was born in Royal, Champaign County December 15, 1888 and will die in Hoopeston, Vermilion County November 21, 1975. Julia was born January 20, 1890 and will die in Hoopeston November 21, 1974. Then, the son George Edward was born January 26, 1916 in East Lynn, Vermilion County and will die in Hoopeston November 6, 2003. He married Juanita in Crown Point, Indiana January 7, 1939. Juanita was born July 19, 1918 and will also die in Hoopeston May 30, 2011.

 

HARM PUTNAM  Pilot Township, Vermilion County

He is a farmer 59 IL IL IL and his wife Antoinette ‘Nettie’ Erdwin is 56 IL. They have Bernice 19 IL. He is a son of Fred Putnam and Anna Behrens from Ogden, Champaign County. He was born July 22, 1891 and will die here in Danville September 24 1976. He married Antoinette March 5, 1913.  She was born in 1893 and will die here in 1960. They have been here since 1920. Bernice will marry Marvin Poyner in a bit. Family was out of Massachusetts then Rhode Island then Champaign County Illinois.

 

ORVILLE F. (FREDERICK) PUTNAM  Pilot Township, Vermilion County

He is 27 IL and has a farm with his dad Harm listed right above. His wife Catherine Lavonne Smith is 21 IL. They were just married in Champaign County on March 5, 1950. He was born December 28, 1922 and will die October 24, 1995 in Loda, Iroquois County, Illinois. Lavonne was born in Potomac, Vermillion County May 31, 1928 and will die in Paxton, Ford County December 8, 2012.

 

ROY H. (HENRY) PUTNAM  Pilot Township, Vermilion County

He is 36 IL and his wife Alta Welshire 35 KY and they have Fred 13 IL, Phyllis 12 IL, Shirley Ann 6 IL and Paula Jean 1 IL. He is a grain farmer. He and Alta were married April 8, 1935. He is a son of Harm Putnam and Nettie Erdwins from Pilot Township where he was in 1920 and 1930. He and Alta were married April 8, 1935. He was born there January 11, 1914 and will die in Potomac, Vermilion County October 15, 1996. Alta was born February 14, 1915 and will die January 20, 2014. He and Alta are buried in Royal, Champaign County.

 

CARROLL A. (ALFRED) PUTNAM  Bellmont, Wabash County

He is 44 IL IL IL. His wife Frankie G. Milburn is 41 IL. He is the son of David Zolley Putnam and Catherine Elper from here in Wabash County. His widowed mom is listed next. He was born in Kitchen’s Bridge, Wabash County November 6, 1905 and will die in Sarasota, Florida August 21, 1988. He married Frankie May 10, 1928. She was born in Wabash July 15, 1907 and will die here October 6, 1987. New England line Massachusetts to New York to here.

 

CATHERINE PUTNAM  Bellmont, Wabash County

She is 70 IL and still widowed. Catherine Epler is the widow of David Zolley Putnam. They were married here October 25, 1887. They have been here since then until he died here February 2, 1918. Kate was born here in Wabash County February 3, 1870 and will die here June 30, 1962 at age 92.

 

BEN PUTMAN  Mt. Carmel, Wabash County

He is 76 IL and separated. In 1949, there was a Benjamin Putnam 65 KY here with a wife and daughter. Gotta be the same guy, but can’t find him any earlier than the 1940. There was a Ben Putnam born in Kentucky here in Mt. Carmel in the 1850 and up and he was here in 1900 and 1910 but he never shows a son that this Ben eould fit.

 

DORIS PUTMAN  Mt. Carmel, Wabash County

She is 26 IL and divorced. She is Doris Gawthorp and married a Daniel Putman. She was at home with her folks in Salem, Edwards County Illinois in 1940 age 16. No clue as to who Danny Boy was.

 

KARL F. (FREDERICK) PUTNAM  Mt. Carmel, Wabash County

He is 71 IL, and his wife Frances Johnson is 65 IL and Anne Elizabeth 41 IL. He is a cashier at a bank. He is a son of Samuel Putnam and Agatha Weinbach from here. Karl was born March 28, 1879 and married Fannie October 24, 1905. Line goes back to Samuel Putnam and Relief Chaffee in Columbia County New York to Howard Putnam and Hannah Green in Sutton, Massachusetts.

 

LEO A. (ALFRED) PUTNAM  Mt. Carmel, Wabash County

He is 45 IL and his wife Nova Waggoner is 43 IL. He is a pumper in an oil field. Leo Alfred Putnam is a son of Frank Alfred Putnam and Bessie Keene from Wabash County. He was born there May 18, 1904 and will die here January 27, 1981. Nova was born November 3, 1906 and will die here November 22, 1985. They were in Lawrence County in 1930. New England family from Howard Putnam of Sutton, Massachusetts to Eber Putnam who went to New York State and then to Wabash County in the early 1800s.

 

WILLIAM A. (ALFRED) PUTNAM  Mt. Carmel, Wabash County

He is 64 IL and married to Nancy Jane Boger 63 IL. William Alfred Putnam is a son of Lafayette Franklin Putnam and Clara Barker from here. Willie was born here December 1, 1885 and will die here February 18, 1956. His wife Marie Johnson died here in January 1938. He married Nancy sometimes in the 1940s. She will make it till August 30, 1961.

 

CLIFFORD C.  (COURTER) PUTNAM  Lancaster, Wabash County

He is 41 IL, and his wife Gladys Irene Cunningham is 43 IL. Clifford is a son of Simeon King Putnam and Sarah Louise Courtner from here. Simeon died here November 21, 1925 and Sarah will die here March 3, 1950. He was born here October 8, 1908 and will die in Vincennes, Indiana January 2, 1998. He is a brakeman for the railroad and will remain with them till he retires. Gladys was born here in Wabash County August 3, 1906 and will die right here June 15, 2000. Family goes back to Sutton, Massachusetts before heading out here.

 

LESTER D. (DODGE) PUTNAM  Grayville, White County

He is 64 IL and his wife Eveline Buchanan is 63 IL. Lester Dodge Putnam is a son of Alfred George  Putnam and Lenora Angeline ‘Nora’ Shearer from Wabash County. Lester was born February 25, 1886 in Belmont, Wabash County and will die January 13, 1966. They have been here in Grayville in 1930 and in Mason County in 1940. He is a civil engineer for some conservation group or company or…

 

ALPHEUS H. (HENRY) PUTMAN  Sterling, Whiteside County

He is 56 IL IL IL and his wife is Iva Messer 54 NC. They have Patricia 19 IL and Shirley 14 IL. He is a punch press operator. Alpheus is a son of Jacob Abraham Putman and Nancy Elizabeth Ford. New York Dutch like everyone in Ogle County and that would be why he spells his name Putman. He was born August 19, 1891 and died January 6, 1958. Iva was born September 25, 1895 and will die May 5, 1987.They got married January 11, 1915. They were in Mount Morris, Ogle County in 1930. His dad died and then Nancy married Joseph Wilson and they were in Grand Decatur Township, Ogle County in 1900 and then using the last name Putman in 1910 and till he moved out on his own in the 1920s. His mom died in 1929 and his stepdad in 1930.

 

ARCHIE W. (WILLIAM) PUTNAM  Sterling, Whiteside County

He is 32 NJ and his wife Dorothy Roskam is 27 IL and they have Susan 6 TX and Marilee 2 IL. Archie manages a retail shoe store and Dorothy sells shoes there. Archibald William Putnam Jr. is a son of Archibald William Putnam and Cora Cecil Cowan and was at home in Freeport, Stephenson County Illinois in 1930 and 1940. He married Dorothy in Freeport and that’s where his dad was born. Archie Junior was born in Newark, New Jersey March 4, 1918. His dad’s father Walter Miles Putnam was from Newark, maybe visiting there or something. By 1920 they were in Detroit and then in Freeport by 1930 and there in 1940. Dorothy was born in Freeport June 20, 1922 and will die in Aurora, Kane County Illinois October 17, 1977. Archie will die in Lawrenceville, Georgia December 2, 2005. Family from Salem Massachusetts to Worcester Massachusetts to New Jersey in the early 1800s.

 

JAMES M. (MILTON) PUTNAM  Ingalls Park, Will County

He is 65 WI CAN WI and his wife Villa C. Brossard is 58 MI. He is retired.  They were in Winnebago County in 1930 and 1940. James is a son of James Putnam and Lydia Dulcia Wheeler from Grant County Wisconsin. He was born there June 18, 1883. He was in Grant County Wisconsin in 1900 and in Detroit, Michigan in 1920 He will die in December 1954 in Grundy County, Illinois. The grandfather William came from Pennsylvania to New York into Canada. Think New Englanders, but can’t get back any further than that.

 

MICHAEL PUTNAM  Joliet, Will County

He is 80 WI and his second wife Amelia Farhart is 67 IL. He is Thaddeus Michael Putnam, a son of James Putman from Canada and Lydia Dulcia Wheeler. He was born in Brown County Wisconsin and was home with the folks in 1880. They were in Buena Vista County Iowa in 1900. I don’t find them in 1920, but Barbara is ‘widowed’ in Cowley County Kansas in 1930. Guess they divorced or he snuck out of town one night. He won’t die till 1956 and Amelia will in 1955.

 

FRED PUTNAM  Lockport, Will County

He is 36 IL married and locked up in the Illinois State Penitentiary. Looks to be Fred Harry Putnam Jr. from Decatur, Macon County. He was home there in 1930 at age 16 but gone somewhere in 1940 and now here.

 

CARLTON PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is 41 WI and his wife Mary Jeanette Pohl is 38 WI and they have John Daniel 14 WI, Gerald 10 IL and Katherine 5 IL. Also here is his widowed father Daniel Putnam 77 WI and her dad John Pohl 67 WI. He is a janitor in an office building. Carlton Ryer Putnam is a son of Daniel Chamberlain Putnam and Lillian Julia Ryer from Rock County Wisconsin. He was born there in Avalon May 24, 1908 and was with the family in Bradford, Rock County through the 1930 census. He came down here and married Jeanette here on September 26, 1931. She was born in Beloit, Rock County Wisconsin February 10, 1912 and will die in Loves Park, Winnebago County May 3, 1984. Carlton will die here in Rockford November 18, 1978. His dad was born in Avalon, Rock County Wisconsin March 6, 1873 and will die here in Rockford August 5, 1952. Daniel’s dad Jesse Putnam was from Newberry, Vermont and came to Wisconsin in 1847 and was a farmer and director of the school board in Bradford, Rock County. Carlton’s son John Daniel Putnam was born here September 15, 1935 and will die in Las Vegas, Nevada May 3, 2003.

 

DAVID S. (SHERMAN) PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is 24 IL and his wife Mary E. Moran is 26 IL. They have Cynthia A. 2 IL and Linda S. 1 IL. They are living with her folks Thomas and Anna Moran. She was born here April 19, 1924. They were married here July 20, 1946. He is a son of Orrin Sherman and Madeline Tongue and was born right here June 26, 1925 and will be here till he dies January 11, 2009.

 

DYER C. (CLAUDE) PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is 72 MI MI IL and a retired manager of a fire insurance agency. His wife Rubetta ‘Ruby’ Eckbert Wise is also 72 IL. He is a son of Dyer Conger and Catherine Jane Enoch. He was born September 30, 1878 in Douglas, Allegan County Michigan. He is shown at home there in the 1880 census. Family is from Oswego County New York and Preston, Connecticut before that. They were here in 1920. Dyer will die here December 30, 1950. Ruby was born December 25, 1878 and will die here March 26, 1981 at age 102.

 

ELDON V. (VERNON) PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is a bolt and screw maker 47 IL and his new wife Sally M. 39 IA They have Lyle B. 4 MI. He was married to Harriet Hose in 1940 and they had 3 kids in their teens. His ex-wife Harriet is listed below. Both say they are widowed. He is the son of Roy Putnam and May Hoover. Roy was a son of Charles A. Putman and Adelia Wells from Johnstown Wisconsin. Eldon was born here March 23, 1902 and was at home in 1910. His dad died November 30, 1912. In 1920 Eldon was in the U.S. Navy at their Training Station in Lake County, Illinois. That’s the Naval Air Station in Glenview where we were living from 1941 till 1944 when we moved to Connecticut. They used to have a big Flying Model Airplane Show there every Summer. Just a tidbit of info. Anyway, also by 1920 his mother May had married Frank Wells and she and some of the kids were here. They were here in 1930. He will die here in Rockford December 22, 1981. New England family from Vermont.

 

GENE PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is 50 IL and his wife Nellie 46 KY and they have Barbara 15 IL He was here in 1930 and listed as Charles Putnam with Nellie and their two oldest kids. ‘Gene’ and the family were here in 1940. He still operates a movie theater. No clues as to who his folks were.

 

HARRIET PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

She is 47 WI and boarding. She says she is widowed, but she has been married to Eldon Putnam listed above. They split and he has a new wife now. Harriet is a ‘matron’ at a city school. She’s not widowed at all, just explaining why she is all alone except at the local bars where she has dozens of guys attached to her.

 

KATHERINE PUTMAN  Rockford, Winnebago County

She is 79 IL and widowed. She has a maid Alma Robins 69 IL with her. Katherine Minzinger had been married to Jay Edward Putman here in Rockford. He died here April 24, 1938. She was widowed here in 1940. Jay was a son of Jay Putman and Lucy Barnes from Ogle County where he was born in September 1867. This family is on the Dutch Putman line out of Montgomery County in New York State.

 

ROY C. (CLARK) PUTMAN  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is 60 NE PA GER and is a tool salesman. His wife Hermina Wilhelmina Johanna Dammann is 62 IA GER GER and they still have Miriam 40 IA at home. Also here is Cynthia Stone 7 IL listed as a granddaughter. He is a son of Homer L. Putman and Katy Frank from Johnson County Iowa. He was born December 7, 1889 in Lincoln, Nebraska and will die here in Rockford in October 1972. They were in Muscatine, Iowa in 1910, and have been here since 1920. Hermina was born October 10, 1887 and will die here in April 1976. Roy is a grandson of William Clark Putman and Sarah Frances Harding out of Cayuga County New York. Dutch Putman family.

 

WALTER PUTNAM  Rockford, Winnebago County

He is 40 IL and finally out of prison. In 1930 he was locked up in the Winnebago County Jail. And in 1935 and 1940 he was an inmate at the Illinois State Penitentiary. Just has trouble staying out of trouble. He is a son of Ray Putnam and May Hoover from Winnebago County and Vermont before that Walter was born in Rockford, Winnebago County December 22, 1909 and will die there in Rockland October 2, 1992. He says he is divorced, but I can’t find any reference to him being married and to whom.

 

LEON A. (ALLEN) PUTMAN  Eureka, Woodford County

He is Leon Junior 24 IL and his wife Sarah Joan Wiggins 23 IL and they have Jeffrey L. 2 IL and Jo Carol 1 IL. They were married in Topeka, Kansas July 19, 1947. He is a school bus driver. He is a son of Leon A. Putman and Vada Ellen Weber and was at home in McDonough County in 1940. He was born August 6, 1925 and will die in Mesa, Arizona May 29, 2002. Sarah was born February 3, 1927.His dad Leon is a son of George Allen Putman and Nellie Kees of Brown County Illinois. Southern Putman family from Kentucky back to South Carolina.

 

LESTER PUTNAM  Minonk, Woodford County

He is 31 WI and his wife Dora is 27 IL and they have Jimmy Joe 3 IN. He is an inspector in a tractor parts factory. He is Lester Orville Putnam a son of George Clinton Putnam and Cora Amanda Fink from Oshkosh, Winnebago County Michigan. He was born in Oshkosh May 29, 1918. He was with his divorced mother there in 1940. He will die here in Minonk October 22, 1987. Family is out of Winchester, New Hampshire then Lewis County New York then out here. New Englanders.

 

PAUL PUTMAN  Minonk, Woodford County

He is 24 IL and his wife Josephine Bohlander is 25 IL and they have James 5 IL and Robert 2 IL. They were married April 16, 1944 in El Paso, Illinois.He is a son of Glenn Putman and Anna Mary Norman and was a home in 1940 in Deerfield , Fulton County. His dad Glenn Marion Putman is a son of John Marion Putman and the first child with his second wife Maggie Fengel. He was born October 8, 1897 and will die October 29, 1985. He married Anna Norman March 20, 1918. She was born February 14, 1898 and will die in Canton July 4, 1968. Paul was born in Fulton County October 8, 1925 and will die March 7, 2002 in Danville, Vermillion County. Josephine was born February 6 1925 in Vermillion County and will die in Cook County October 8, 2006. Southern Putman family.

 

CHARLES M. (MESSER) PUTNAM  Spring Bay, Woodford County

He is 49 MA and his wife Caroline Darby is 56 IA. He owns a coal business. He is a son of Charles Messer Senior and Martha Jane Lane. In 1930 and 1940 both he and his folks were in Peoria where his dad owned a coal company as well. Charles and Caroline were married there November 20, 1926. Charles was born June 13, 1900 and will die back in Peoria in December 1983. Caroline was born February 6, 1883 and will die in Peoria May 11, 1968. They were in Peoria in 1930 and 1940. New Englanders from Massachusetts.