Bruno Albert Wiser

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• Imigration: 1877, Adelaide, South Australia; Official assisted passage passenger lists show arrival in South Australia on 23 Jan 1877 on the Herschel: Adolf (presumably Alfred) Wyser Emilie (presumably Emilia) Wyser Ida Wyser Marie Wyser Otto Wyser Bruno Wyser Elise (presumably Elisa) Wyser The voyage (sequence 77/6) apparently began in Hamburg.
• Residence: 1881, Adeliade, South Australia; From the Sands Directory; Address:
  Regent Street
  Adelaide, South Australia
• Residence: 1882, Adeliade, South Australia; Occupation in the South Australia Directory shown as tanner (page 32).; Address:
  Ifould Street
  Adelaide, South Australia
• Residence: 11 Apr 1882, Adeliade, South Australia; Residence as shown on son Bruno's birth record.; Address:
  Grenfell Street
  Hindmarsh Ward
  Adelaide, South Australia
• Occupation: 29 Sep 1884, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; Fanny Weyser's birth certificate shows Bruno Wyser is a Tanner.
• Residence: 29 Sep 1884, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; Occupation (in Sands Directory): Tanner; Address:
  14 Mitchell Street
  Glebe, NSW
  Australia
• Residence: 1886, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1886 Sands Directory: Tanner. Surname shown as Weiser; Address:
  Mayes Street
  Leichhardt
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Occupation: 20 May 1887, Glebe, N.S.W., Australia; On Ida Wiser's marriage certificate, Bruno is shown as a Carpenter.; Address:
  Franklyn Place
  Glebe, N.S.W.
  Australia
• Residence: 1888, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1888 Sands Directory: Tanner; Address:
  21 Bunn Street
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Residence: 1889, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1889 Sands Directory: Tanner. Surname spelled Wycer.; Address:
  183 Elizabeth Street
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Residence: 1890, Sydney, Australia; Occupation in 1890 Sands Directory: Tanner; Address:
  193 Elizabeth Street
  Sydney, NSW
  Australia
• Cremated: 9 Dec 1895, Crematory at Odd Fellows' Cemetery; Cremated (or "incinerated") at 3:00 PM on December 9, 1895. No autopsy performed. The ashes were received by Mrs E. Wyser on 29 Apr 1896.; : 54 y 9 mos; : Cancer

Notes:

According to Beat Hodler:

A Cousin of Bruno Wyser: Catharina Wyser (1826-1901): During many years, she ran the post-office in Niedergösgen. She wasn’t married. She wrote a very varied diary which is today an excellent historical source. In this diary, you find a lot of information about weather, politics, religion, prices, popular medicine and so on. There is also a poem which she dedicated to her cousin Bruno, when he left Switzerland in 1860. In this poem she remembers the good times they had spent together and she expresses also a blessing:

Dem Bruno Wyser ins Stammbuch bei seiner Abreise nach Amerika 1860:
Wenn auf dem Blatt nach langer Zeit
dein Aug einst sinnend ruhen bleibt
dann mög vor deinem Blick erscheinen
das Haus, umgeben von den Bäumen;
In dessen Schatten du einst spieltest
Nach der Scheibe mit der Armbrust zieltest,
Und manche liebe Ferienzeit
So sorglos dich mit uns erfreut

Du willst nun in die Fremde gehen
Wir werden lange dich nicht mehr sehn.
Möge nun in deinem Leben,
Gott viel Glück und Heil dir geben
Und dein guter Engel mit dir gehn

Translated (by Ingeborg Gowans) into English:

For Bruno Wyser : at his departure to America in 1860:

When, after many years, you will return to this page
and recall old times
may you remember the house nestled among the shadegiving trees,
where you used to play, trying bow and arrow,
where you spent many a day, enjoying carefree hours with us..

Now you are off to foreign lands
And we shall not see you anymore
May God grant you good health and wellbeing in your life
May your Guardian Angel walk before you.



According to Beat Hodler:

"I still don't know why Bruno actually travelled to Montevideo, but I guess that his emigration had something to do with the Bally enterprise. His family was related to the Bally family. Bally was at that time one of the very big European shoe producers. Around 1870, Bally tended to expand to South America, whith some difficulties at the beginning and quite a good success in the long run. In the 1870's Bruno Wyser returned to Niedergösgen, where he spent some years before emigrating again (as you know already). In 1873, Elisa Schönhals and Bruno Wyser had a child in Niedergösgen, whose godmother was Emilia Balli. (source: Kirchenbuch Niedergösgen).

Name:
Also known as Bruno Weyser and Bruno Wyser

Buried:
According to the Crematory records from the Odd Fellows' Cemetery (sheet 62), Bruno Wyser died from cancer on 7 Dec 1895 at Lane Hospital, San Francisco. His attending physician was L. C. Lane, and there was no autopsy. Bruno Wyser was 54 years 9 months old. His remains were received by the crematory on 9 Dec 1895 and were "incinerated" at 3:00 PM. The witness to the incineration was James W. Mallady. The arrangements were handled by Union Undertaking Company, and the ashes were "delivered to Mrs. Wyser 29 April 1896." She signed a receipt as "Mrs. E. Wyser, 31 Minna Street."

We have received the cremation record from the California Genealogical Society, with special thanks to Nancy Peterson.

Died:
Cause of death: Cancer. Died at the Lane Hospital in San Francisco, California, attended by Dr L C Lane (Levi C Lane).

Bruno married Elisa Schoenhals on 3 Feb 1869 (German-Evangelistic Church) in Montevideo, Uruguay. Elisa (daughter of Johannes Schoenhals and Elisabeth Christina Ringel) was born on 20 Mar 1841 in Simmersbach, Germany; died on 19 Jul 1910 in 573 Jones Street, Oakland, California; was buried on 20 Jul 1910 in Oakland Crematory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Newspaper Article: 28 Feb 1941, Sydney, Australia; Sydney Morning Herald Friday, 28 February 1941 FUNERALS BOYD. - The Relatives and Friends of Mr. TOM BOYD (Honolulu) are kindly invited to attend a Requiem Mass for the Repose of the Soul of his dearly beloved WIFE, Edith, which will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church, Darlinghurst, THIS FRIDAY, at 7 a.m. CHARLES KINSELA, PTY. LTD. A.F.D.A. A.F.D.A. = Australian Funeral Directors Association. Courtesy of Martin (melliget) at the Ships Nostalgia website: http://www.shipsnostalgia.com
• Biography: 26 Jul 2004; From an interview with Loretta Mary O'Berg (daughter of Gilbert Charles Burns) on 26 Jul 2004 - kindly provided by Cathy Key: "[The Wyser sisters] were Actresses dancing in Australia. Edith [Ida Alice Wyser Boyd - known as Aunt Edie] use to reminisce about their days in Australia. And how they were actresses I believe dancing in Australia. "Uncle Tom [Joseph Thompson Boyd] put her on a ship to Australia and she died in route. They brought her remains back to Hawaii. [Death certificate shows she was cremated in Australia, but ashes could have been returned to Hawaii.] "We lived in a cottage on their estate for about six months. Their house was a mansion. They had 200 dogs - Pekingese - they were all over the house. Aunt Edith had very long hair and she used to let me comb it. "Aunt Ida was very wealthy she had the money before she married Tom Boyd. Tom inherited her money but died shortly after her death. He left everything to the Masonic Order. He was not a nice man, he hated the sisters and didn't want any of the family around. He made the sisters feel very unwelcome and under any circumstance they were not allowed to stay. "Aunt Ida had a room full of beautiful dolls. Uncle Tom would not let me touch the dolls. One day Aunt Edith said go upstairs to the attic and I could chose a doll to have but not to let Uncle Tom know and take it home. "Gilbert [Gilbert Charles Burns] insisted she was trying to smuggle money out to him. Edith and Gilbert were very very close, Tom tried to keep them apart. Daddy wanted to crack the head but my mother wouldn't let him and she undid the stitching but there was no money in the doll."

Notes:

Died:
The information about Ida's death aboard the S.S. Mariposa was found in Helen Wilkinson's diary by Carolyn Wikinson.

According to Melliget on the www.shipsnostalgia.com website, who kindly searched the Sydney Morning Herald website for information about the arrival of the S.S. Mariposa in Australia: "Couldn't find a mention of the arrival of Mariposa back in Sydney unfortunately (shipping news may have been restricted by that stage) but did notice the following advertisement in the same issue:

SHIPPING
MATSON LINE
S.S. MARIPOSA, S.S. MONTEREY
TO AMERICA, via. Auckland, Suva, Pago
Pago, and Honolulu. Regular Monthly
sailings. Normal conditions."



New South Wales Death Certificate (issued 3 Mar 1941) indicates place of death at sea at Latitude 14° 48" S, Longitude 172° 15" W, late of Honolulu. Death from bronchopneumonia, myocarditis with heart failure, atherosclerosis, hypertension, chronic nephritis, arthritis deformans.

Father: Bruno Wyser - Occupation: Tanner
Mother: Eliza Schoenholz
Informant: Joseph Tom Boyd, widower
Married in Oakland, California
Married 26 years, no issue
Residence: 1554 Palolo Avenue, Honolulu, Hawaii
Cremated at Northern Suburbs Crematorium

Ida married Albert Widmer on 20 May 1887 in Glebe, Australia. Albert (son of Bonafentura Widmer and Babett Frischer) was born in CIRCA 1862 in Switzerland; died on 15 Nov 1910 in Sacramento, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Joseph Thompson Boyd. Joseph (son of John Alexander Bowman Boyd and Anna Holso [?]) was born on 24 Dec 1868 in Newtown, New South Wales, Australia; died on 26 Nov 1944 in Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 23 Mar 1961, 1923 West Street, Oakland, California; Last residence address per Certificate of Death.; : 90; Address:
  1923 West Street
  Oakland, California
  United States

Family/Spouse: James Edward Burns. James was born on 12 Feb 1867 in New Jersey ; died on 29 Jan 1959 in Oakland, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emilia married James William Wilkinson on 2 Jun 1895 in St. Andrews Cathedral, Honolulu, Hawaii. James (son of Joseph Wilkinson and Ann McGuire) was born on 24 Feb 1869 in 19 Lower Albion Street, Manchester, England; was christened on 07 Mar 1869 in St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Chapel, Granby Row, Manchester, Lancashire; died on 7 Jul 1909 in Oahu Insane Asylum, Honolulu, Hawaii; was buried in Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Note indicates "7 year old child of Bruno Wyser of Adelaide." Cause of death: diptheria.

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• Record ID Number: MH:I29

Notes:

Died:
Cause of death: cholerine (a mild form of diarrhoea occurring during epidemics of cholera)

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• Occupation: 1947; Occupation on death certificate shown as Machinist, United Engineering Company
• Social Security Number: 1947; 546-20-0706
• Physical Description: 02 Dec 1947; Death certificate indicates cause of death as pulmonary tuberculosis, far advanced (duration 2 years), with an old myocardial infarction and peptic ulcer.; : 64
• Cremated: 03 Dec 1947, California Crematory

Notes:

Name:
Certificate of Death shows names as William W. Wilson

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• Emigration: Abt 1895; Immigration to the United States, per the 1920 United States Census. Naturalised in 1910.
• Residence: 1907, Alameda, California; 1907 City Directory shows Fannie Wyser, a clerk at Hale Brothers, residing at 2901 Johnson Avenue, Alameda, California 94501; Address:
  2901 Johnson Avenue
  Alameda, California 94501
  United States
• Residence: 18 Sep 1918, Oakland, California; Address from James Wilkinson's World War II draft card. Registration Location: Alameda County, California; Roll: 1531223; Draft Board: 7.; Address:
  1621 41st Avenue
  Oakland, California
  United States

Notes:

Name:
On birth certificate first name is spelled Fanny

Fannie married John Nicholas Jurgensen in Jul 1910 in Marin County, California. John (son of Johann Caspar Scharmann) was born on 23 Dec 1887 in Hawaii; died on 24 Apr 1959 in Alameida County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Social Security Number: 576-18-9519
• Occupation: 21 Jun 1928; Bookkeeper

Notes:

Birth:
Birth certificate shows date of birth as 2 May 1887 (Monday).

Family/Spouse: William Arthur Roberts. William (son of Mary E) was born about 1886 in Colorado. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Loraine married Fred Storan Mann on 5 Dec 1914 in Oakland, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Record ID Number: MH:I186

Virginia married Charles Spalding Richardson on 1 Aug 1918 in Napa, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Biography: 26 Jul 2004; From an interview with Gilbert's daughter Loretta Mary O'Berg on 26 Jul 2004: Gilbert was really unusual, extremely intelligent but not very practical. Grandma Mary's sister Fay was in New York at the same time as Gilbert when he went to Columbia University in New York. He was interested in poetry and literature. He was so brilliant that the professor turned the class over to Gilbert to teach it, and he did. And of course he was a fine musician. He played with the San Francisco Symphony during the depression. He played the clarinet and then the saxophone. Also during the depression he worked the ships to the Orient: he played in the ships orchestra. He brought back interesting cravings from Hong Kong and Japan. He was quite the ladies' man, I guess you might even say boarding on a gigolo. He would always get some woman to take care of him. When he came back I guess he met my mother at that time. His Uncle Tom Boyd in Honolulu offered him a job in his mortuary. The stipulation was he would have to start from the very beginning from embalming. Gilbert was a pretty far out person but that was more than he could take, he lasted six months. It was too much, he couldn't handle it. Uncle Tom was awful, very sadistic, not a nice person. Gilbert gave up a fortune, he couldn't handle that. Then he played at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in the evenings. During the day he was also involved in a car dealership. He sold two cars to Mickey Rooney in one week. Mickey demolished two cars in one week, he had a body guard he was so wild. Gilbert would also smoke marijuana with all the stars that came over to the Islands: Errol Flynn, Cesar Romero. My mother should have been married to a farmer. She had all these beautiful evening gowns because she would go in the evenings and sit in the audience while he was playing at the Royal Hawaiian: in fact sometimes she would take me. In those days you could do that. It was in the ballroom at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, which was very beautiful, it was right on the beach. I would just curl up on the sand outside and sleep if I got tired. But most the time I enjoyed seeing all the ladies in their beautiful dresses, it was nice. This was not a happy marriage: my mother preferred to be in jeans and digging in the ground and making a home. Gilbert was not interested, he was interested in beautiful clothes and jewelry. In those days men wore a lot of jewelry, cuff links, chains and fancy watches. We went over in 1937 and came home in 1941. We caught one of the last ships out of Honolulu coming back to the mainland. Luckily, it took the roof off my school, It was a good thing we got out of there in time. Gilbert wasn't supposed to sail with us, he was supposed to go back [to work]. Detroit told him they were going to get one more shipment of cars and then the shipments would be cut off. We all knew that we were going to be attacked, but we didn't know when. Gilbert got so drunk on sailing day and passed out he ended up sailing home with us to San Francisco. We moved to Oakland with my grandmother Ready. Gilbert was classified 4F and he couldn't be drafted. Gilbert got a job in Richmond at Kaiser ship yards for awhile. Here he was: this sensitive poet doing meanly work. If you were classed 4F you had to do defense work. So then we moved south to Seal Beach. Both my parents got jobs at the airplane factory. My mother didn't have any math background but she ended up being a tool and die designer. They manufactured war planes. Gilbert got a job as a janitor and would come around and sweep up the piling at her desk, this was war. Gilbert played with Arty Shaw for awhile: his real love was music, Classical and Jazz, during this time period. After the war we came back to Oakland and we lived in grandma Mary's house on 57th Street, in East Oakland, we fixed it up. Gilbert really started drinking at this time. He was playing at night but he wasn't getting good jobs. My mother was working at Lurence's -- it used to be Safeways -- making ice cream. Things were really bad for the marriage. On the weekends, of course my mother worked all week and so it was only on the weekends for cleaning house and we had a farm in the backyard on 57th Street. Chickens, rabbits and ducks because you couldn't buy meat during this time, it was rare that you could get meat. A lot of people were raising animals in their backyards then. Gilbert would have nothing to do with them mother would have to kill, clean and cook them. There was always work on the weekends and Gilbert expected to be served a nice breakfast. Gilbert would say come on Loretta, my sister usually didn't join us because she was younger and wasn't interested in the beach. He invited mother too but she would say "If I go who is going to do all this work, mow the lawn, do the wash, clean the house?" She was left behind and I always felt guilty. We would always go to Lake Temascal to swim. Gilbert was fun, my mother wasn't. She always played the martyr. They ended up getting divorced. The Burns family wasn't happy about that. He was a spoiled brat. I think it was because he was the only son. He was smart: he knew how to work everybody. He had a such a strange sense of humor. When we first moved to Hawaii, there was a terrible depression in Hawaii. Jobs were very rare so what did he do? One day he put an ad in the paper: "Need 100 workers, please apply at (he gave an address)." 1,000 people came looking for a job and he stood there laughing. Yes, both my parents were Communists. They both joined the Communist Party. They were really into socialism. They were into unions, shared wealth, good things for humanity. I remember handing out the Daily Worker -- which was a Communist newspaper -- at the Alameda shipyard during WWII with my mother and father. My sister stayed with me for awhile, after my divorce. One day we decided to look him up and we found his number. I stayed in touch with Fay and Grandma. Grandma came to my home she could see that we were doing very well financially, so she didn't leave me any money but left Collette about $1,500.

Family/Spouse: Bernadette L. Reay. Bernadette (daughter of Charles Gunn Reay and Blanche Mary Tighe) was born on 20 Nov 1908 in San Francisco, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Social Security Number: 575-01-7045
• Residence: 03 Jun 1927, 2049 Kaaipu Avenue - Honolulu, Hawaii; Shirley Wilkinson's birth certificate shows address as 2049 Kaaipu Avenue. Kaaipu Avenue is located in Manoa Valley, near the Waiole Tea Room, but there is no house number 2049.; Address:
  2049 Kaaipu Avenue
  Honolulu, Hawaii

Notes:

From: fpao@saintlouishawaii.org Sent: 02 July 2003 18:56 To: craig@hmdp.com Subject: Re: Albert Joseph WILKINSON
Aloha, kaua e Craig: Records that I have going back so far are not complete. All I have are the following: Albert Wilkinson [09/03/1912 to 06/06/1913] Junior Year - Grade 11; Charles Wilkinson [09/05/1922 to 06/15/1923] Freshman Year - Grade 09; James Wilkinson [09/03/1912 to 06/19/1914] Junior & Senior Year, it would seem that he did graduate from Saint Louis College [name of school at that time]. There is a picture of James on his transcript; this means he graduated from St. Louis College. The records do not show the names of parents, birthdates, reason for leaving. They just indicate the information that I am sending to you.
Brother Franklin Pao Registrar Saint Louis School 3142 Waialae Avenue Honolulu, HI 968161579 www.SaintLouisHawaii.org

Albert married Helen Lucile King on 17 Nov 1925 in Church of the Crossroads. Helen (daughter of Max Zan Konig and Rachel Morris) was born on 10 Aug 1903 in Los Alamos, California; died on 10 Sep 1980 in Irvine, California; was buried in Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Toolmaker, Head of Double Seamer Dept. Hawaiian Pineapple Co.
• Residence: 1942, 4236 Carnation Place, Honolulu, Hawaii

Notes:

From: fpao@saintlouishawaii.org [mailto:fpao@saintlouishawaii.org] Sent: 02 July 2003 18:56To: craig@hmdp.comSubject: Re: Albert Joseph WILKINSONAloha, kaua e Craig: Records that I have going back so far are not complete. All I have are the following: Albert Wilkinson [09/03/1912 to 06/06/1913] Junior Year - Grade 11; Charles Wilkinson [09/05/1922 to 06/15/1923] Freshman Year - Grade 09; James Wilkinson [09/03/1912 to 06/19/1914] Junior & Senior Year, it would seem that he did graduate from Saint Louis College [name of school at that time]. There is a picture of James on his transcript; this means he graduated from St. Louis College. The records do not show the names of parents, birthdates, reason for leaving. They just indicate the information that I am sending to you.
Brother Franklin PaoRegistrarfpao@saintlouishawaii.org (808) 739-4729 Direct(808) 739-4853 Fax
Saint Louis School3142 Waialae AvenueHonolulu, HI 96816-1579www.SaintLouisHawaii.org

Name:
From an e-mail dated 25 Jun 2008 from Carolyn Wilkinson: "There certainly is confusion on the Jr. etc - Jim's Dad [born 1897] apparently was a Jr. but since his Dad died when he was so young he dropped the Jr. When my Jim was born [1927] he became a Jr. When our son was born Grandpa was still alive so he became JWW III - and of course when our grandson was born he became JWW IV."

Buried:
Sec. B, 196-B-2

James married Helen Kathryn (Katherine) Nelson on 11 May 1921 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Helen (daughter of Robert Nelson and Sophia K. Dinesen) was born on 17 Apr 1903 in Seattle, Washington; died on 26 Apr 1985 in Kaneohe, Hawaii; was buried on 02 May 1985 in Diamond Head Memorial Park, Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 20 Feb 1975, 41-107 Malolo Street, Waimanalo, Hawaii

Notes:

From: fpao@saintlouishawaii.org [mailto:fpao@saintlouishawaii.org] Sent: 02 July 2003 18:56To: craig@hmdp.comSubject: Re: Albert Joseph WILKINSONAloha, kaua e Craig: Records that I have going back so far are not complete. All I have are the following: Albert Wilkinson [09/03/1912 to 06/06/1913] Junior Year - Grade 11; Charles Wilkinson [09/05/1922 to 06/15/1923] Freshman Year - Grade 09; James Wilkinson [09/03/1912 to 06/19/1914] Junior & Senior Year, it would seem that he did graduate from Saint Louis College [name of school at that time]. There is a picture of James on his transcript; this means he graduated from St. Louis College. The records do not show the names of parents, birthdates, reason for leaving. They just indicate the information that I am sending to you.
Brother Franklin PaoRegistrarfpao@saintlouishawaii.org (808) 739-4729 Direct(808) 739-4853 Fax
Saint Louis School3142 Waialae AvenueHonolulu, HI 96816-1579www.SaintLouisHawaii.org

Charles married Sarah Helen Conceicao on 03 Feb 1934. Sarah was born on 13 Jul 1910 in Kaneohe, Hawaii; died on 15 Nov 2001 in Kaneohe, Hawaii; was buried in Hawaiian Memorial Park. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Biography: University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon; Artist and philosopher Jack Wilkinson, was born in Berkeley, California in 1913, and grew up in the Hawaiian Islands. He first came to the University of Oregon to study journalism but switched to an art major, and later served on the faculty in the Art Department from 1941-1968. In his first year teaching at the U of O, Wilkinson started one of the earliest Basic Design programs in the United States, and then became head of the Art Department in 1962. He also served as the head of the Art Department at Louisiana State University from 1968 until his death in 1974. Dave Foster, who was one of his earliest students and later his collegue, named the Wilkinson House, located at the Eugene Millrace, after the innovative painter and thinker Jack Wilkinson to honor his legend.
• Biography: Lithographer, painter. Born in Berkeley, CA on July 2, 1913. Wilkinson studied at the University of Oregon, CSFA under Maurice Sterne, and in Paris. During the 1930s he was a resident of San Francisco, and after 1941 taught at the University of Oregon and Lousiana State University. He died in East Hampton, NY in 1974. Exh: SFAA, 1937 (prize); CSFA, 1939 (solo); Portland Museum, 1945 (solo). In: SFMA; Burns (OR) Post Office. WWAA 1940-53; SS.
• Residence: 1951, Eugene, Oregon; Address:
  2525 Van Ness Street
  Eugene, Oregon 97403
  United States
• Biography: 1990; Jack Wilkinson was born in Berkeley, California in 1913, and raised in Hawaii, the son of a construction company owner. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Oregon from 1932 to 1935, initially pursuing a degree in jounalism but then entering the art program in order to learn how to illustrate an article he had written for the school newspaper. He then moved back to San Francisco to further his studies in art at the California School of Fine Arts from 1935 to 1937, studying principally with Maurice Sterne, eventually becoming an assistant and apprentice of Sterne along with fellow classmates Nell Sinton and Charles Voorhies. In 1937 he was awarded the J.D. Phelan Travelling Scholarship, which would allow him to travel extensively in Europe and view works in major art institutions overseas. At the same time, however, his mentor Maurice Sterne had asked him to be an assistant in his studio for a mural project for the Department of Justice. Consequently he was granted a postponement of travel in order to work with Sterne as well as improve his French prior to departure. Travelling to Chicago, New York, and then on the Europe in 1938, Wilkinson established a studio in Paris, which would become his base of operation when he subsequently journeyed to Italy, Germany, Holland and England. While in Paris, a romance blossomed between Wilkinson and fellow painter Una McCann, who also had a studio in Paris. With Europe on the verge of war, the two painters would return to San Francisco in late 1939. Wilkinson and McCann would marry the following year in California. Perhaps most notable of Wilkinson?s time in Paris was his conversion to the theories and approach to painting of Cezanne and to a lesser extent, Pissarro. Upon his return to San Francisco, Wilkinson entered and won a Treasury department competition for a Post Office mural to be installed in Burns, Oregon. His wife assisted him in completing the mural in the summer of 1941. Upon arrival in Burns to install the finished mural, they discovered that the dimensions they had been given were inaccurate, resulting in considerable on site rework. The mural currently hangs in the main court room in the Harney County Courthouse in Burns. Wilkinson and his wife then drove from Burns to Eugene, Oregon to visit friends. Upon their arrival in Eugene, they found that Lance Wood Hart, an assistant art professor at the university, had died [26 May 1941], and so they stayed in Eugene for the funeral. Wilkinson was then asked if he would be willing to cover Hart's classes for the term. This would be the start of Wilkinson's 37 year tenure with the school. His classes became legendary among his students. He established one of the earliest basic design classes in the United States and his intergration of philosophy, psychology, and mathematics into his classes offered his students an intriguing, broad and intellectual approach to art. While Wilkinson is perhaps best known as a teacher, he was quite talented as a painter, remaining quite active with his own art throughout his life. His earlier canvasses show an affinity for the human figure. Through the 1930s and 1940s, his work was expressionistic and compatible with predominant art concerns of the time. Toward the late 1940s onward, a more highly stylized and abstracted approach appeared, with canvasses executed with spontaneous, energetic and broad brushwork. Later works reveal an increasing interest in landscape painting. Throughout his career, he remained fascinated with mural painting as a venue to explore more complex and complicated themes. He would often paint over previous works many times as the act of painting seemed to hold a primacy above the final result, as well as a place to try out evolving concepts, no matter how successful or unsuccessful. For Wilkinson, painting above all seemed to be a journey of investigation and confirmation of the ideas that he was constantly visualizing and revising. Over the years, he continued to exhibit his work internationally as well as regionally. In 1962, Wilkinson became chair of the art department at University of Oregon. For a variety of reasons, many beyond his control, Wilkinson?s additional duties as the prime administrator for the department proved to be an increasingly untenable burden for him as the 1960s progressed culminating in his resignation from his position in Eugene and subsequent move to Louisianna State University to head up the art department there in 1968. While at LSU, he developed and artist-in-residence program and started an MFA program. Additionally, his teaching had an even more substantial impact upon art students from the more conservative South. He remained in his position at LSU until his death in 1974. A comprehensive retrospective of Wilkinson?s work was exhibited at the University of Oregon in 1990.

Notes:

Biography:
I have been provided with a copy of the death certificate for Lance W. Hart. It shows that he was born on 11 Nov 1891 in Aberdeen, Washington and died on 26 May 1941 at home (1831 University Street, Eugene, Oregon). The cause of death is shown as "hypertension cardio, duration 9 years; renal disease."

The death certificate indicates Hart was a professor at the University of Oregon. Father: Alfred W. Hart; Mother: Emily McClelland Gears (born Kentucky).

State of Oregon State File Number 282; Local Registrar Number 203.

Jack married Una McCann on 21 Sep 1940. Una (daughter of R. J. McCann and Marie Chapin) was born on 15 Feb 1913 in Redwood City, California; died on 6 Mar 2013 in Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: 21 Jun 1928; Secretary

Notes:

Name:
First name spelled Winnifred and Winifred on various documents. For example, Winnifred is used on death index and 1920 census report. I have used Winifred as that is spelling used on her birth certificate.

Winefred married Eugene Henry Schamber on 21 Dec 1928 in Central Union Church, Honolulu, Hawaii. Eugene (son of Emil Schamber and Matilda Frank) was born on 19 Dec 1900 in Eureka, McPherson County, South Dakota; died on 25 Jan 1983 in Ukiah, Mendocino County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: George Loughmiller Cress. George was born on 27 Dec 1912 in Napa, California; died on 11 Jul 1998 in Boulder Creek, California; was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Boulder Creek, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jack Lum. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Record ID Number: MH:I665

Barbara married Jack Edwin Cyree on 15 Apr 1946 in Phenix City, AL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Loretta married Carl Robert O'Berg [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Dick Lomax. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Address: 30 Dec 1948, 2233 Aloha Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96815; Shirley and John lived at 2233 Aloha Drive in Waikiki in late 1948 -- as shown by envelope addressed to them there.

Shirley married John Joseph Walsh on 5 Jun 1948 (Civil Ceremony) in Elko, Nevada. John (son of Dudley W. Walsh and Mary Catherine Vahey) was born on 14 Apr 1921 in Boston, MA; died on 6 Feb 1999 in Malvern, England; was buried on 29 Feb 2000 in National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alberta married Neil Eugene Moore [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
SECTION S - SITE 527

Virginia married Paul Emil Tognetti on 20 Sep 1946 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Paul (son of Joseph Antonio Tognetti and Beatrice Marta Maria Ferrini) was born on 02 Nov 1920 in King City, California; died on 23 Apr 2011 in Waipahu, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Name:
From an e-mail dated 25 Jun 2008 from Carolyn Wilkinson: "There certainly is confusion on the Jr. etc - Jim's Dad [born 1897] apparently was a Jr. but since his Dad died when he was so young he dropped the Jr. When my Jim was born [1927] he became a Jr. When our son was born Grandpa was still alive so he became JWW III - and of course when our grandson was born he became JWW IV."

James married Carolyn Ann Mickelsen on 27 Jun 1953 in Ft. Shafter Chapel, Honolulu, Hawaii. Carolyn (daughter of Arthur Emil Mickelsen and Carolyn Elizabeth Ray) was born on 28 Jan 1930 in San Antonio, Texas; died on 3 Mar 2023 in Kaneohe, Hawaii. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Delwin married Naomi Kaawa [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]