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Note: es until Grandpa began his career in the PO in1904 and Uncle Frank went into the grocery business. Grandpa was leaderof the church choir, a tenor, an elder of the church and superintendantof the SS of Hope Presbyterian church. Uncle Frank sang with himsometimes.
I have a copy of his movement order when he joined the AmericanExpeditionary Forces, YMCA. He was ordered to proceed to Brest, journeyto bae completed by July 4. 1911
!Grandpa was a sweet little guy with a beautiful voice, He sang inchurch
choirs and in men's choruses all over Watertown. He and his youngbrother and his mother had moved to Watertown. I don't know whether anyof the rest of the family moved including his father who seems to havebeen a bit of a drunk.
!He was crazy about his wife and his children and grandchildren, had an
inquiring mind and was very religious and active in the PresbyterianChurch.
!Sometime in the 1930's a disease struck him. It was diagnosed asMultiple
Sclerosis but it sounds like Huntington's Disease to me. His brother,George, had it also. It left him unable to walk without staggering orfalling and he found it difficult to talk and swallow. They retired himat work but he kept busy in his big garden as long as he could.
!He had worked at the New York Air Brakes in Watertown when he first gotmarried and then he worked at the Post Office until he retired. At theend of WW1 he was sent to Europe representing the YMCA in putting onprograms for the soldiers still there, kind of a pre-USO.
Note: He and Uncle Frank moved from Utica to Watertown in 1897. They bothworked at the Ny Air Brak
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