Snyder Family 2016 - Person Sheet
NameEvelyn Marian Brown 
Birth8 Feb 1920, Burns, Harney Co., Oregon
FatherEmulus Roy Brown (1888-1975)
MotherBessie B. Brown (1897-1950)
Spouses
Birth21 Mar 1918, Iowa252
Birth Memoanother sources says born Indiana [Cal. Death Record]
Death4 Dec 1970, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
Death MemoIllness
BurialGreen Hills Memorial Park [Cemetery], Rancho Palos Verdes, California
Burial MemoCrescent Lawn area of Mreen Hills Memorial Park; Plot: Crescent Lawn - 415, A
OccupationScientist
EducationPh.D., Stanford, 1952
FatherDr. Henry Webster Bortner (1889-~1935)
MotherRuth Wysong (1891-1976)
Marriageabt 1943, Louisiana
ChildrenMartha A. “Marty” (~1958-)
Marriage14 Oct 1984, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California
Notes for Evelyn Marian Brown
92. . . lived in Everett, Washington in July of 1932 according to the obituary of Robert F. Brown, in the Kendrick Gazette, July 29, 1932
Evelyn Brown [e. june brown's sister] went to live with George and Marie (Brown) Jones sometime in the 30’s.
. . . resident of Banks, Oregon in Nov., 194397
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2794 Camden Rd.
Clearwater, Florida
33759
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1930 United States Federal Census about Evelyn M Brown
Name: Evelyn M Brown
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1920
Birthplace: Oregon
Race: White
Home in 1930:
Milton, Columbia, Oregon
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's Name: Eber Brown [actually her dad was Emulus Brown]
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Name: Marie M Brown
Mother's Birthplace:
Oregon
Neighbors:
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Household Members:
Name Age
Eber Brown 45
Marie M Brown 39
Donald W Brown 13
A Margaret Brown 12
Evelyn M Brown 10
Virginia M Brown 4 [4 8/12]
Evelyn Brown [e. june brown's sister] went to live with George and Marie (Brown) Jones sometime in the 30’s.
. . . resident of Banks, Oregon in Nov., 194397
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2794 Camden Rd.
Clearwater, Florida
33759
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1930 United States Federal Census about Evelyn M Brown
Name: Evelyn M Brown
Gender: Female
Birth Year: abt 1920
Birthplace: Oregon
Race: White
Home in 1930:
Milton, Columbia, Oregon
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Father's Name: Eber Brown [actually her dad was Emulus Brown]
Father's Birthplace: Maine
Mother's Name: Marie M Brown
Mother's Birthplace:
Oregon
Neighbors:
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Household Members:
Name Age
Eber Brown 45
Marie M Brown 39
Donald W Brown 13
A Margaret Brown 12
Evelyn M Brown 10
Virginia M Brown 4 [4 8/12]
Notes for Henry Webster “Bud” (Spouse 1)
252Lived in 1930 census: Everett, Snohomish Co., Washington
252Lived in 1920 census: Sultan, Snohomish Co., Washington
252U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Henry W Bortner
Birth Year: 1918
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Iowa
State: Washington
County or City: Snohomish
Enlistment Date: 17 Mar 1942
Enlistment State: Washington
Enlistment City: Seattle
Branch: Air Corps
Branch Code: Air Corps
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
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LT. HENRY BORTNER
ON EAST COAST
Henry W. Bortner
At Atlantic City
Atlantic City, N.J. Aug. 22.
--1st Lieut. Henry W. Bortner of Everett Wash., has reported to the AAF redistribution station No. 1 here after 14 months of service overseas in the European theater of war.
While overseas, Lieut. Bortner engaged in 40 combat missions. He wears the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters.
Before he leaves the redistribution station Lieut. Bortner will be examined and interviewed to determine where his overseas experience can best be utilized by the army airforces.
http://www.snohomishhistory.com/wwii/evwwii0422.jpg
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Henry Webster Bortner
Birth:
Mar. 21, 1918
Death:
Dec. 4, 1970
Inscription:
HENRY W. BORTNER
CALIFORNIA
1ST LT ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
MARCH 21, 1918
DEC 4, 1970
Burial:
Green Hills Memorial Park
Rancho Palos Verdes
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Crescent Lawn - 415, A
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Created by: personna
Record added: Apr 07, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 35612405
252Lived in 1920 census: Sultan, Snohomish Co., Washington
252U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Henry W Bortner
Birth Year: 1918
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Iowa
State: Washington
County or City: Snohomish
Enlistment Date: 17 Mar 1942
Enlistment State: Washington
Enlistment City: Seattle
Branch: Air Corps
Branch Code: Air Corps
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
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LT. HENRY BORTNER
ON EAST COAST
Henry W. Bortner
At Atlantic City
Atlantic City, N.J. Aug. 22.
--1st Lieut. Henry W. Bortner of Everett Wash., has reported to the AAF redistribution station No. 1 here after 14 months of service overseas in the European theater of war.
While overseas, Lieut. Bortner engaged in 40 combat missions. He wears the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with six oak leaf clusters.
Before he leaves the redistribution station Lieut. Bortner will be examined and interviewed to determine where his overseas experience can best be utilized by the army airforces.
http://www.snohomishhistory.com/wwii/evwwii0422.jpg
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Henry Webster Bortner
Birth:
Mar. 21, 1918
Death:
Dec. 4, 1970
Inscription:
HENRY W. BORTNER
CALIFORNIA
1ST LT ARMY AIR FORCES
WORLD WAR II
MARCH 21, 1918
DEC 4, 1970
Burial:
Green Hills Memorial Park
Rancho Palos Verdes
Los Angeles County
California, USA
Plot: Crescent Lawn - 415, A
Edit Virtual Cemetery info [?]
Created by: personna
Record added: Apr 07, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 35612405
Notes for Robert Wallace “Bob” (Spouse 2)
Epilogue | Robert Wallace Beckwith
Inventor Robert Beckwith thrived on the theoretical edge
Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:24pm
LARGO — Robert Beckwith, the owner of a successful electric company, was at home on the fringes of science.
RELATED NEWS/ARCHIVE
While his employees made devices for generators, he was trying to levitate a quarter. While they were listening to customers, he was driving rods in the ground, listening for earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.
The 125 employees of Beckwith Electric Co. don't mind if Mr. Beckwith, who died Oct. 25 at 90, lived on the theoretical edge. The 42-year-old company he started hasn't had layoffs in more than a decade.
He invented six of the products his company sells, including a 1990s precursor to the "smart grid" technology envisioned today.
"There was always an intensity in Bob," said engineer Drew Craig, 55. "He had these ideas, and these ideas burned in him."
Mr. Beckwith admired turn-of-the-century inventor Nikola Tesla, who introduced powering machinery with alternating current, a key component in the industrial revolution. He shared Tesla's fascination with magnetism and time travel, but couldn't get a magnetic coil to levitate a coin.
"The joke around the office was, maybe he should have used a dime instead of a quarter," said his son, Tom Beckwith, the company's chief executive.
Mr. Beckwith grew up in Kent, Ohio, an only child in a family with traceable roots to the Mayflower-era American colonies. He worked for General Electric before founding Beckwith Electric in 1967, which designs and manufactures devices for generators and transformers used by utility companies. A tornado destroyed the building in 1992, an event Mr. Beckwith calmly declared an "opportunity to rebuild."
He obtained 30 patents over the years, most of them for nuts-and-bolts methods of regulating electrical current. In recent years he was working on a way to predict earthquakes by measuring underground electrical vibrations. Mr. Beckwith had collected data that seemed to show a pattern between rumblings in the ground — as far away as the Pacific — and electrical signals received.
"We saw that we were getting vibrations that appeared to have some correlation to seismic events," Craig said. If the electrical field around the earth (discovered by Tesla) reacts to shifts in the earth, it could allow for advance warning for earthquakes, Mr. Beckwith believed.
Away from work, Mr. Beckwith and his second wife, Evelyn, enjoyed yearly trips to New Mexico, where he looked for Hopi art at an annual festival and in villages. The paintings he brought back hang on his office walls, interspersed with Mr. Beckwith's own artwork: including a drawing of an iron bridge that emerges from a mountainside and stretches across a gorge — until it stops in midair, suspended by a couple of balloons.
Andrew Meacham can be reached at (727) 892-2248 or ameacham@sptimes.com.
.Biography
Robert Wallace Beckwith
Born: July 25, 1919.
Died: Oct. 25, 2009.
Survivors: Wife, Evelyn Bortner-Beckwith; son, Tom, and his wife, Liddora; daughter, Barbara Anderson; step-children, Marty Orosz and Robert Bortner; three grandchildren; and four stepgrandchildren.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/inventor-r...retical-edge/1049445
Inventor Robert Beckwith thrived on the theoretical edge
Andrew Meacham, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 6:24pm
LARGO — Robert Beckwith, the owner of a successful electric company, was at home on the fringes of science.
RELATED NEWS/ARCHIVE
While his employees made devices for generators, he was trying to levitate a quarter. While they were listening to customers, he was driving rods in the ground, listening for earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean.
The 125 employees of Beckwith Electric Co. don't mind if Mr. Beckwith, who died Oct. 25 at 90, lived on the theoretical edge. The 42-year-old company he started hasn't had layoffs in more than a decade.
He invented six of the products his company sells, including a 1990s precursor to the "smart grid" technology envisioned today.
"There was always an intensity in Bob," said engineer Drew Craig, 55. "He had these ideas, and these ideas burned in him."
Mr. Beckwith admired turn-of-the-century inventor Nikola Tesla, who introduced powering machinery with alternating current, a key component in the industrial revolution. He shared Tesla's fascination with magnetism and time travel, but couldn't get a magnetic coil to levitate a coin.
"The joke around the office was, maybe he should have used a dime instead of a quarter," said his son, Tom Beckwith, the company's chief executive.
Mr. Beckwith grew up in Kent, Ohio, an only child in a family with traceable roots to the Mayflower-era American colonies. He worked for General Electric before founding Beckwith Electric in 1967, which designs and manufactures devices for generators and transformers used by utility companies. A tornado destroyed the building in 1992, an event Mr. Beckwith calmly declared an "opportunity to rebuild."
He obtained 30 patents over the years, most of them for nuts-and-bolts methods of regulating electrical current. In recent years he was working on a way to predict earthquakes by measuring underground electrical vibrations. Mr. Beckwith had collected data that seemed to show a pattern between rumblings in the ground — as far away as the Pacific — and electrical signals received.
"We saw that we were getting vibrations that appeared to have some correlation to seismic events," Craig said. If the electrical field around the earth (discovered by Tesla) reacts to shifts in the earth, it could allow for advance warning for earthquakes, Mr. Beckwith believed.
Away from work, Mr. Beckwith and his second wife, Evelyn, enjoyed yearly trips to New Mexico, where he looked for Hopi art at an annual festival and in villages. The paintings he brought back hang on his office walls, interspersed with Mr. Beckwith's own artwork: including a drawing of an iron bridge that emerges from a mountainside and stretches across a gorge — until it stops in midair, suspended by a couple of balloons.
Andrew Meacham can be reached at (727) 892-2248 or ameacham@sptimes.com.
.Biography
Robert Wallace Beckwith
Born: July 25, 1919.
Died: Oct. 25, 2009.
Survivors: Wife, Evelyn Bortner-Beckwith; son, Tom, and his wife, Liddora; daughter, Barbara Anderson; step-children, Marty Orosz and Robert Bortner; three grandchildren; and four stepgrandchildren.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/inventor-r...retical-edge/1049445