WILCOMB, Louise

LOUISE WILCOMB

Identification on photo: LOUISE WILCOMB, age 21 months
Photo taken: J.W. Baker Studio, San Francisco, circa 1895
Purchased: August 2017 at the Madison-Bouckville Antiques Week, New York State

This picture appears to have been taken in the mid-1890s.

Ancestry.com quickly found Louise. She was born 1894 to parents Charles Presby Wilcomb (Curator for the Oakland Public Museum) and Addie Corinne Nichols.

1910 Census California > Alameda > Oakland > 1218 Oak Street
WILCOMB, Charles P., head, 45, born in New Hampshire to NH parents, Museology
WILCOMB, Addie C., wife, 40, married 17y, 1 child, born in NH of NH and ME parents
WILCOMB, Louise, daughter, 16, born in California

1913-Aug-4  Addie Wilcomb died at the age of 43.

1915-Jun-23 Charles Wilcomb died at age 50, following an attack of peritonitis.

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1919-Dec-24 Louise at age 25 married Elliot Blake Jordan (26), son of F.S. Jordan and Mary Blake. Elliot worked for Standard Oil Co. at the time.

1920 - daughter Eleanor Corinne Jordan is born.

Louise lived to age 77, passing in 1971. Her husband passed in 1973.