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Note: n Milburn, Nebraska, where he operated a repair shop with his brother Earl for a year before settling in Arnold, Nebraska, in 1923. He soon bought the Arnold Battery Station and worked there until the new garage he built was ready in 1933. He had a Plymouth dealership at the same place. By 1954 his son, Robert, had bought the business from him.
His daughter Coralie remembers him as a stern father. He kept the children on very strict allowances. If they needed more money he would ask how much; than he would lay out some job which would pay about that amount. he would inspect the work and pay them when it was satisfactorily done. There were always jobs that needed doing; some had to be done without pay. He taught them not to be dependent, but Coralie tells of the time he spent helping her master the lessons for her high school physics course. He always tried to be fair to his children. what he did for one, he wanted to do for each of the others.
A story goes that he was once talking to a customer who was dickering for a new car. He was looking at Chevrolets and at Oliver's Plymouths. he came in and said, "The fellow over at the Chevy dealer says I'll get 25 miles a gallon on that Chevy." Oliver's response was, "I could tell you that about the Plymouth too; but it isn't true, and it isn't true about the Chevy either." He sold the Plymouth.
His daughter Pauline remembers hearing him tell about hiking and riding freight trains in the early days to see his brother Earl in South Dakota, where they lived on turnips, which he didn't like, and in a dug-out, which was like a cave. She also mentions that after the day's work was done he always read before going to bed.
He was devoted to Nora, his wife, and missed her sorely during the 25 years that he lived after her death.
Note: Oliver attended at least 1 yr at Hastings College in Hasting, Nebraska, USA. He and Nora lived on a McPherson Co, Nebraska, Farm. he took a short automotive course in Kansas City; returned and lived i
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