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Marriage of Parents Wesley B. Karr and Emma C. Williams md 4 May 1879, Warren Co, Iowa
1900 IA CENSUS Fred Carr [sic] (b Nov 1882, Nebraska, occupation stenographer) enumerated with Emma Carr [sic] (b Nov 1860, Kentucky, divorced, occupation housekeeper); they were boarders with the Fred Racon family
1910 OR CENSUS Fred W. Karr (27y, b Nebraska, occupation assistant superintendent, steel company) enumerated with mother Emma C. (49, b Kentucky, widowed, mother of 3 children, 1 living at time of census)
WWI Draft Registration Card Fred Williams Karr, 35, 421½ 6th, Portland, Oregon; b 30 Nov 1882; occupation material tracer, Northwest Steel Company; nearest relative wife [sic] Emma C. Karr, 421½ 6th, Portland
1st MARRIAGE Fred W. Karr (36y, of Chicago, Ill, b Nebraska, son of Wesley Karr and Emma Williams) and Marion McNamara (33y, of Chicago, Ill, b Utah, dau of James McNamara and Jennie Gibson) md 17 Sept 1919, Vancouver, Clark co, Washington
1920 OR CENSUS Fred W. Karr (37y, b Nebraska, occupation traffic manager, steel company) enumerated with wife Marion (37y, b Utah) and mother Emma (59y, b Kentucky, widowed)
NOTE wife Marion Karr died 20 May 1922 in Portland [death notice Oregonian 22 May 1922, 11:1]. She was the mother of Fred’s daughter Valerie Ethel Karr
2nd MARRIAGE to Ethel M. Burkholder by 1930
1930 OR CENSUS - Fred W. Karr, age 47, married at age 41, occupation paper mill laborer, b. Nebraska, is enumerated with wife Ethel May, age 47, married at age 41, b. Oregon, along with daughter Ethel V., age 7, b. Oregon. Also enumerated with the family is Sussan V. Burkholder, identified as mother [she is the mother of Ethel May], age 75, widowed, b. Iowa.
1940 OR CENSUS Fred W. Karr (57y, b Nebraska, occupation store keeper) enumerated with wife Ethel M. (57y, b Oregon, occupation store clerk) and daughter Valerie E. (17y, b Oregon); family was living in same house in 1935
WWII Draft Registration Card Fred Williams Karr, 59, 888 N Liberty, Salem, Oregon; b 30 Nov 1882, David City, Nebraska; occupation own grocery store and restaurant; person who knows address wife Mrs Fred W. Karr
BIOGRAPHICAL:
Owned Karr's Tavern in what became Boon's treasury in the 1960's. Building was originally the business of H. D. Boone the Territorial Treasurer and later the first Treasurer of the state of Oregon.
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