Henry Augustus Gilruth

1881 - 1969  (88 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and 3 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Henry Augustus Gilruth
  Birth	31 Mar 1881	Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 May 1969	Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida, USA
  Siblings	7 Siblings
  + 1. Grace Gilruth,   b. 20 Feb 1870   d. 1 May 1940, Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia, USA  (Age 70 years) ▻ William Cattron Rigby,  m. 25 Oct 1893   2. Mary Gilruth, Dr.,   b. 3 May 1872   d. 28 Nov 1951  (Age 79 years) ▻ Ernest Lewis McEwen, Dr.,  m. 23 Apr 1898 + 3. Blanche Gilruth,   b. 24 Jul 1874, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA d. 2 Jun 1918  (Age 43 years) ▻ Ira Taylor Carter,  m. 21 May 1902 + 4. James Collin Gilruth,   b. 14 Sep 1876, Mt. Vernon, Iowa, USA d. 5 Dec 1973, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA  (Age 97 years) ▻ Elsie Klotz,  m. 3 Jul 1902   5. Genevieve Gilruth,   b. 13 Jan 1879, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA d. 25 May 1927  (Age 48 years) + 6. Henry Augustus Gilruth,   b. 31 Mar 1881, Davenport, Scott County, Iowa, USA d. 28 May 1969, Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida, USA  (Age 88 years) ▻ Francis Marion Rowe,  m. 24 Aug 1909 + 7. Miriam Gilruth,   b. 28 Sep 1884   d. 29 Dec 1910  (Age 26 years) ▻ Richard Michell,  m. 25 Jun 1908   8. NN Gilruth
  Person ID	I320343	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2001

  
  

  Father	James Henry Gilruth,   b. 7 Apr 1840, Worthington, Ohio, USA d. 5 Dec 1926 (Age 86 years)
  Mother	Sarah Adeline Collin,   b. 3 Jan 1840   d. 28 Dec 1936, Evanston, Cook County, Illinois, USA (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	20 Jun 1869	Mt. Vernon, Linn Co., Iowa, USA
  Family ID	F127700	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Francis Marion Rowe,   b. 14 Jan 1885, Bessemer, Gogebic Co., Michigan, USA d. 3 May 1973, Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida, USA (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	24 Aug 1909
  Superior, Wisconsin
  Children	+ 1. Jean Marion Gilruth,   b. 5 Feb 1911, Nashwauk, Minnesota, USA d. 5 Jul 1943, Midland MI (Age 32 years)   2. NN Gilruth
  Family ID	F127687	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2001

  
  

• Notes

  - Principal, Morgan Park High Schoo, in the Steel company suburb of Duluth, Minn.l; Retired about 1955 - See Note 2 - School Superintendent; Hancock MI. "He was teller than his siblings and his hair was a mixture of the bright red of the three eldest sisters and the black of Jamie, Genevieve and Miriam." Note 1: "DEVORKIN: Going back then to your father, what kind of a person was he, and how would you typify your early relationship with him? GILRUTH: My father really loved to teach. He was a born teacher, but he was not an engineer. He was really not trained in engineering, although at one time in his teaching career, he did teach science, and while he had a science, literature and arts course at Northwestern, there was very little science in it, mostly literature and Greek and Latin. He had eight years of Latin and eight years of Greek and very little mathematics, lots of English." Note 2: "DEVORKIN: So he lost his job. That was about when, what year? It was after World War I, as you say. If you have the years we can always fill that in later, I wouldn't want to distract you, if you have it right in your head, that's great. So you moved from Hancock to Duluth, but evidently your father wasn't able to get a teaching job. Was he blacklisted? GILRUTH: No, no, he was not blacklisted, but there just weren't jobs. This was before the Depression was called the Great Depression, but things were mighty tough. DEVORKIN: In the twenties? GILRUTH: Even in the twenties, yes. So he got a summer job teaching in the Duluth Normal School, and then later on he managed to get a job teaching science in one of the high schools. Finally became the principal of that school. DEVORKIN: How did this affect your family life? How did your mother cope with the lessened status, the move? Why did you move to Duluth as opposed to some place else? Do you have any recollections of that? GILRUTH: Well, my mother always wanted to live in Duluth. That's where her mother lived and her father. She had a sister that lived there. It was a nice city. My father thought it would probably be as easy to make a living there as anywhere. We moved to Duluth in 1922. DEVORKIN: So that was why you moved to Duluth. Your father had summer teaching jobs, but you also indicated that he took on being an insurance salesman for a while. GILRUTH: Yes. DEVORKIN: Was he happy with that? GILRUTH: He hated it. He hated it. He was not an extrovert type of salesman. He hated meeting people and trying to make them buy something they didn't want, which is what a good salesman does. DEVORKIN: Did your mother substitute teach at this time to help out? GILRUTH: She certainly did whenever she could, whenever they needed her. DEVORKIN: What about you, did you take on any summer jobs, paper routes, at this time? GILRUTH: No, I didn't. DEVORKIN: Did you want to, to help the family? GILRUTH: I think I would have, but I never thought of it and they never suggested it. DEVORKIN: At this point, you're not an only child. GILRUTH: No, I had a sister two years older than I. DEVORKIN: What is her full name? GILRUTH: Jean Marian Gilruth. DEVORKIN: How was she affected by this move and what were her interests, how were they developing? GILRUTH: Well, she was a very, very bright girl. I always came along in school after her and I'd hear her teachers say "This boy is in no way like his sister." She was valedictorian in her high school. She went to college, The University of Minnesota with nothing but straight As she never got anything less than an A. She majored in Zoology. And when she graduated with a doctor's degree she promptly got married and never used all that she had learned. She died a very tragic death as a very young mother of cancer in her early thirties." Note 3: GILRUTH: My father always had a few tools, things like hammers, handsaws and chisels. I remember I got a set of chisels from my uncle who knew I liked to work with my hands. My grandmother in Duluth used to give me things like tools for Christmas. Balsa wood was such soft wood that you could make a circular saw just out of an old gear wheel. Education - Northwestern University -