[PW] 19th century bodybuilder?/more?

[David Anderson]

  Allen,

  The 1930 Census for Redlands, California, reveals a couple of other 
details. He claims to have an English born father and an Italian born 
mother, and to have been born in Italy, and immigrated in 1870. Does this 
make him a more complex man or more forgetful? And to have no occupation. 
The householder is the president of a life and fire insurance company, along 
with wife and two servants! Living at 757 Crescent Avenue.

  I could probably find a California death record for Kathleen. Do you want 
me to try?

  I think you should try a southern california genealogical list for the 
death record, and pay for the search.

  David


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  From: <AllenAmet at aol.com>
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  Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 8:23 AM
  Subject: Re: [PW] 19th century bodybuilder?/more?


  > Hi,
  >
  >   Thanks for the additional details on this interesting character. His 
1900
  > Census in Niles, Mich claims that he was born in England in Oct 1855 and 
came
  > to the US in 1865 - but there is no record of that trans-Atlantic 
passage.
  >
  >  He married Kathleen Ives in 1892. No children apparent.
  >
  >  An interesting puzzle develops in the Calif Death Index, where there is 
a
  > 'Leonide Leonidas Keatinghe' (not born in US), dying in Sept 1945 in Los
  > Angeles.
  >
  >  That last name there almost seems like a typo (or two words compressed: 
um,
  > blended?) - does anyone have access to a Los Angeles City Directory (or 
Death
  > Cert) for that period to see if this fellow (Keating/he) is a 'real' 
person?
  > His birth month is right, but not the birth year. Either way, he seems 
to have
  > lived a long time. He has been apprenticed as a child to a circus 
(bareback
  > rider), and after breaking his spine, developed his physical fitness 
program.
  > The sole voice recording seems to date from ca. 1904.
  >
  > Thanks!
  >
  > Allen
  >
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