Descendants of Charles Woolverton




Theodore R. (Ted) Brown and Mary Delphine Housel




Husband Theodore R. (Ted) Brown

           Born: 4 Jul 1901 - IA
       Baptized: 
           Died: 8 Jun 1935 - Dakota City, Humboldt County, IA
         Buried:  - Union Cemetery, Humboldt, Humboldt County, IA
       Marriage: 10 Dec 1927 - Marshalltown, IA
   Marr. Status: Divorced on 4 Apr 1930



Wife Mary Delphine Housel 1

           Born: 7 Nov 1903 - Nichols, Tioga County, NY
       Baptized: 
           Died: 5 May 1984 - Fort Dodge, Webster County, IA
         Buried:  - Union Cemetery, Humboldt, Humboldt County, IA


         Father: Lorenzo William (Ren) Housel 1
         Mother: Mina Harriet Finch 1



   Other Spouse: Charley Christensen 1 - 2 Sep 1931 - Humboldt, Humboldt County, IA


Children

General Notes: Husband - Theodore R. (Ted) Brown

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Birth: Jul. 4, 1901
Iowa, USA
Death: Jun. 8, 1935
Dakota City
Humboldt County
Iowa, USA

Ted Brown left Friday for Hollywood, California, where he will attend high school this winter. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA, September 8, 1921)

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Starting Oil Stations in Humboldt and Dakota
So many new oil stations have been started in Humboldt and vicinity recently that it is hard to keep track of them all.

A report that seems to be authentic is to the effect that two stations will be erected in Dakota City in the near future. One is to be the property of the garage there and the other will be erected by Ted. R. Brown and his father. This latter stations is said to be planned on an extensive scale, and will contain a ladies rest room and lavatory and other conveniences for tourists who pass through the place.

It seems that this thought would bring a fair profit, for there is no reason why Dakota City can not share the trade of the autoists that travel up Primary roads sixteen and ten – for there is a multitude of them and they usually want to buy something in the oil or gas line. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, July 27, 1923)

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WE ARE in favor of
AN AUTO horn license
AND IF it were left to
US WE’D charge the soft
VOICED horns only a
NOMINAL amount and soak
IT TO the loud raucous
ONES good and plenty.
FOR example, we were
CROSSING the street
YESTERDAY at Wilder’s corner
AND OUR mind was about
A THOUSAND miles away
WHEN ALL at once
TED BROWN let out a
BLAST on that wild honker
OF HIS right behind us
AND WE don’t know how
HIGH we jumped but when
WE CAME down TED was a
HALF block away and we were
IN no danger at all,
BUT badly rattled
SO let’s stick a good
STIFF tax on those kind
OF HORNS and not do
QUITE so much acrobatics.
H.C. HUBBARD
(Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, October 10, 1924)

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Brown Service Station Leased for May First
The Brown’s Service Station at Dakota City has been leased to give possession May 1, and it is understood that representatives of the Standard Oil people are back of the lease. Ted Brown who has managed the station since its erection, has not decided what he will do after the station lease becomes effective, but expects to leave Humboldt county. He has been an accommodating station and is very popular with the trade. The station has done an excellent business. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, April 13, 1927)

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Mr. Ted Brown who has been spending some time at Anderson, Indiana, returned Saturday for a few days visit with friends and relatives. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, July 27, 1927)

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Ted Brown has returned to his work at Anderson, Indiana, after spending several days visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brown before they left for California. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, October 26, 1927)

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The marriage of Miss Delphine Housel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Housel of Humboldt, and Mr. Theodore Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brown of Dakota City was solemnized in Marshalltown last week, Saturday. The bride has been attending school in Ames and the groom has been working in Indiana and the announcement comes as a surprise to most of their friends. Their future plans have not been made known to Humboldt friends. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA, December 15, 1927)

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Dakota City – Ted Brown who has spent the winter in California came Friday for a visit at the parental W.O. Brown home. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, May 22, 1929)

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Humboldt Boy Has Peculiar Accident
Humboldt Independent – While swimming in the river south of the Berkhimer bridge last Saturday, Ted Brown met with a rather serious accident. After swimming for a considerable distance he undertook to climb into Bert Gotch’s motor boat at the rear end while it was running. It was the business end of the boat and he got tangled up with the propeller and had a long gash cut in each leg, requiring the aid of a doctor, six stitches being necessary to close one cut and eight the other. (Renwick Times, Renwick, IA, June 13, 1929)

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Ted Brown of Waterloo visited over Sunday with friends in town. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA, December 17, 1929)

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Dakota City
Ted Brown returned Monday from Waterloo where he has had employment. He has taken over the Brown filling station again. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA January 14, 1930)

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Mary Delphine Brown vs. Ted R. Brown, divorce granted. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, April 4, 1930)

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Dakota City Man Found Dead in Bed
Theodore (Ted) Brown Passed Away Sometime Saturday Morning
Theodore (Ted) Brown, thirty-three years of age, passed away while asleep in his bed sometime Friday night or Saturday morning. He had returned the night before as usual and retired and had not complained of any illness. When his mother, with whom he made his home, called him at about eight o’clock Saturday morning, he was found dead in his bed.

Medical help was immediately called and pronounced the cause of death heart disease, and said that he had been dead several hours when called. Every circumstance indicated that he had passed peacefully away during his sleep.

The funeral will be held at the Springvale Chapel in Humboldt, Tuesday, June 11, at 2:30 o’clock, Rev. Thos. A. Lutman officiating.

Theodore Brown was the only son of Mrs. W. O. Brown. He was the proprietor of the Brown service station in Dakota City, that he had conducted for many years. Himself and mother lived in a residence beside the station.

He was a graduate of the Humboldt schools and had attended college. His father, the late W.O. Brown, passed away several years ago.

The deceased is survived by his mother, Mrs. W. O. Brown, and two sisters, Mrs. John Schumaker of Anderson, Indiana, and Mrs. Edith Heath of California.

Mr. Brown would have been thirty-four years of age July 4th, next. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA, June 11, 1935)


NOTES:
- Mary Delphine (HOUSEL) CHRISTENSEN never spoke much about this marriage except to say that after the marriage, she was "dropped off at 'the convent'" in Anderson, Indiana with $200 in a savings passbook at the local bank (a passbook that is still with the family). She sued for what she called an 'annulment' shortly after the marriage. It took Ted several years to add his signature to the paperwork. Ted and Delphine had no children (hence Delphine's 'convent' comment).

- Though the article does not say, and though I have been unable to locate a grave marker for Ted at the Union Cemetery, it is hard to imagine that his family would have buried him anywhere else given that so many of them came back to Humboldt from afar to have their mortal remains interred.

Family links:
Parents:
William Orville Brown (1858 - 1929)
Mary May Smith Brown (1868 - 1948)

Siblings:
Jane Elizabeth Brown Schuhmacher (1894 - 1968)*
Edith Brown Heath (1896 - 1991)*
Theodore R. Brown (1901 - 1935)

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Union Cemetery
Humboldt
Humboldt County
Iowa, USA

Created by: CC-Genealogy
Record added: Jun 21, 2015
Find A Grave Memorial# 148132212


General Notes: Wife - Mary Delphine Housel

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Birth: Nov. 7, 1903
Nichols
Tioga County
New York, USA
Death: May 5, 1984
Fort Dodge
Webster County
Iowa, USA

Mary Delphine (known as Delphine to all) was born to Lorenzo William and Mina (FINCH) HOUSEL in Nichols, N.Y. She grew up in Humboldt, attending first the Humboldt City schools. She then attended Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and then Iowa State College in Ames. She worked on her father's political campaigns of the late 20s and early 30s. After a marriage that did not work out, she married a simple hard working son of an immigrant: A farmer who appreciated her love of education and politics. The union of Charley and Delphine produced five children (two who died as infants). Delphine was left to raise her three sons alone when Charley died suddenly. With the help of both her family, and that of her husband's family, she managed to maintain the farms, and send all three sons to college. This despite a hip that was destroyed by a childhood disease.

She remained active in local politics all of her life; She filed papers to run for State Representative from the Democratic party in 1952, but it seems that she did not actively campaign. In the 1970s she became a co-chair of the Humboldt county Democratic party and hosted the wife and also the mother of our 39th President to a "Tea" early in his campaign for President of the United States. Delphine also remained active in the Congregational Church and in its quilting club.

Her creative mind, beautiful singing voice, and knowledge of family history are missed even to this day.

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Housel-Brown
The marriage of Miss Delphine Housel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Housel of Humboldt, and Mr. Theodore Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brown of Dakota City was solemnized in Marshalltown last week, Saturday. The bride has been attending school in Ames and the groom has been working in Indiana and the announcement comes as a surprise to most of their friends. Their future plans have not been made known to Humboldt friends. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA, December 15, 1927)

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Mrs. Delphine Housel Brown of Anderson, Indiana, was an Easter guest here in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Housel. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, April 11, 1928)

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Bryn Mawr Graduate Campaigns for Father
DES MOINES, Ia., Oct.11 -
IF L. W. Housel, of Humboldt, is successful this fall in his campaign for governor of Iowa, he can thank his daughter, Mrs. Delphine Brown, for a large share of his success. Mrs. Brown came to Des Moines when the Democratic headquarters were opened and took over the management of her father's campaign. Although not a practical politician, Mrs. Brown has been busy in her twenty-four years. A graduate of Bryn Mawr, she has taken post graduate work at Iowa State College and studied at the Des Moines College of Art.
(Brooklyn Standard Union, Thursday, October 11, 1928)

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Mary Delphine Brown vs. Ted R. Brown, divorce granted. (Humboldt Republican, Humboldt, IA, April 4, 1930)

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Housel-Christians’n Wedding Solemnized
The marriage of Miss Delphine Housel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Housel of this city, and Charles Christiansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mads Christianson of Dakota City, was solemnized at the home of the bride’s parents Wednesday, September 2, at 4:30 in the afternoon. The Rev. H.O. Spellman of Clarion who was formerly pastor of the Congregational church here officiated.

The bride was charming in a white organdie gown. She carried a bouquet of pink roses and was attended by Miss Mabel Marsh who wore a blue crepe dress. William Housel, brother of the bride, was best man. The single ring ceremony was performed by the Rev. Spellman in the library of the Housel home, which was attractively decorated with golden rod and garden flowers. Only the immediate family were present.

A three course dinner at five o’clock followed the service. Mr. and Mrs. Christiansen left during the evening for various points in the southern part of the state.

Mrs. Christiansen is the only daughter of L.W. Housel, well-known Humboldt attorney, and Mrs. Housel. She attended Humboldt high school and completed a two years’ preparatory course at Bryn Mauer school in Pennsylvania where she later studied for three college years. The groom is a graduate of Humboldt high school and has been engaged in farming for a number of years. The couple will make their home on the groom’s farm north of Dakota City. (Humboldt Independent, Humboldt, IA, September 8, 1931)



Family links:
Parents:
Lorenzo W. Housel (1873 - 1935)
Mina Harriet Finch Housel (1874 - 1966)

Spouse:
Charley Christensen (1901 - 1944)

Children:
Charles William Christensen (1932 - 2007)*
Christian Christensen (1934 - 1934)*
Mary Joan Christensen (1938 - 1938)*

Sibling:
M. Delphine Housel Christensen (1903 - 1984)
William Parley Housel (1908 - 1978)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
Union Cemetery
Humboldt
Humboldt County
Iowa, USA

Created by: CC-Genealogy
Record added: May 23, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 52757086


Research Notes: Wife - Mary Delphine Housel

== Biography ==
Grandmother was born a very beautiful young child on November 7, 1903. All indications were that she was headed for a very happy life as the daughter of family very influential in turn of the century Iowa politics. Then, before she was ten, she was stricken by a disease commonto children of that era, and nearly died from it. The resultant aftermath was a youthful girl with a terrible limp a who had a slight deficit in school to make up, whose parents hid her away (because in early20th century politics, a handicapped child would certainly result in a political loss). After catching up in some of her schooling, she was 'sent away' to school in the east (Philadelphia) eventually startingprep and post secondary education at Bryn Mawr. Delphine finished her education at Bryn Mawr, only to find herself enrolled at The Des Moines College of Art (which she did not care for), and then graduate studies at the Home Economics College of Iowa State College in Ames. She quickly found that the living accommodations and campus at Iowa State were not conducive for a handicapped woman to be able to attend all ofher classes on time. Around this time, she became reacquainted with Ted Brown, the ne'er-do-well nephew of her father's gubernatorial running mate. It seems that they may have been encouraged by her father and his uncle to become close, and so on December 10, 1927 at Marshalltown Iowa, nearly a full year before her father was on the ballot in the 1928 Iowa Gubernatorial elections, the handicapped daughter was successfully married off to the problem nephew. The day of their marriage, Mary Delphine and Ted Brown left Marshalltown to drive to Indiana to'visit' his grandparents. It is here where grandmother relates that she was "unceremoniously dumped at 'The Convent'" with a passbook savings account showing $200 from a local bank. Ted then returned to his business in Iowa. Two weeks later, "Delphine" (we believe this is when she dropped her grandmother's first name and went with her middle name exclusively) returned to Humboldt, Iowa with DEMANDS of her parents. The first was an annulment of the marriage. The second was to be involved in a significant way in the political campaign of her father. We believe the third was to be treated by her parents as if she was a beloved child, not one with some horrible abnormality. The response to these demands made in late 1927? While paperwork was filed to annulthe marriage, Ted did not sign those papers until April 4, 1930 (wellafter her father's unsuccessful run for Governor). We also know thatDelphine was at least made to think that she was playing an importantrole in her father's campaign because of an article in the Brooklyn (NY) Standard Union Newspaper (Thursday, October 11, 1928) where it says,
: "Bryn Mawr Graduate Campaigns for Father
: DES MOINES, la., Oct.11 -: IF L. W. Housel, of Humboldt, is successful this fall in his campaign for governor of Iowa, he can thank his daughter, Mrs. Delphine Brown, for a large share of his success. Mrs. Brown came to Des Moines when the Democratic headquarters were opened and took over the management of her father's campaign. Although not a practical politician, Mrs. Brown has been busy in her twenty-four years. A graduate of Bryn Mawr, she has taken post graduate work at Iowa State College and studied at the Des Moines College of Art."
After Ted finally granted her the annulment, she set her cap on a wonderful little boy she had met long ago in the Humboldt (Springvale) Community Schools before she became ill, and before his eye was damaged in a farm incident. The now much older children (approaching 30) found in each other, acceptance and care which their lives had not seen before. On September 2, 1931 at a service held at her parents home, Delphine Housel married her long forgotten childhood crush Charley Christensen. Together, they brought five children into this world (though two of those only lived briefly). They lived on a farm just across thehighway from Dakota City (in the area where now Montana Avenue is located). It is here where Charley with his father Mads farmed several parcels of land that lined the railroad tracks that cut northwestward toward the small town of Rutland. Some of this land was purchased by Delphine's grandfather (a prominent Lawyer, Politician, Bank President and land speculator during his time), then passed to her parents, and then to her and Charley upon their marriage. She and Charley had 13 happy years together (even though W.W.II came along). Unfortunately Charley died in November 1944 as a result of his eye injuries as a youngman, and complications which lead to a heart attack. This left Delphine and her three sons (the eldest being 12) to manage the farm. Thissoon lead to leasing the land to surrounding farmers. She was unableto drive a car with a clutch, so for the final days before the end ofthe war, and until cars with automatic transmissions became available, her young sons would often sit to either side of her on the bench driver's seat, one operating the gas and clutch, the other operating theshift, she operating the steering wheel and the brake. Other trips into town may have been made via tractor (which she had no problems operating).
In the early 1950s, she submitted paperwork to run for state representative from Humboldt County. Despite this, her name was never presented on any ballot.
In the mid 1950s, her mother built a new smaller house in Humboldt, and asked her daughter and remaining grandson (the others had gone awayto school) to come live with her. Eventually, it was just Delphine and her mother. Then simply Delphine living there alone. She maintained her participation in the quilting club at church (now only a block away...so close that on a good day, even she could walk there). She also maintained a keep interest in politics, becoming the County Co Chair of the local Democratic Party. Her interest in politics came into full bloom around the campaign of Jimmy Carter.
Mary was born in 1903. She was the daughter of and . She passed away in 1984.

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Notes: Marriage

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Sources


1. WikiTree Wolverton Family.


Sources


1 WikiTree Wolverton Family.

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