Category: emigration
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Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., Buffalo NY
On Sept. 12, 1918, when William Kemp registered for the WW1 draft (even if they didn’t think of it that way then) he was working as an assembler at the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. in Buffalo, NY. Below is an 1918 Pierce Arrow Model 66, sold by Sotheby’s. Asking price $650,000-$750,000.
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William N. Kemp
William Nelson Kemp, carpenter, died on Jan. 6. 1939. He was 52. His death certificate states that he had been born on Jan. 14, 1886, in Delaware, Penn., that his father’s name was Edward, and that Edward had been born in Manchester, England. At the time of William’s death the family lived in Palatine, Ill. Alice…
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By 1930 the Kemp family was living in Chicago. They had moved from North Collins to Buffalo, New York, in time for the 1920 state census. At that time William Kemp worked as a landscaper and a gardener. In the 1925 New York State census he is listed as a machinist. In Chicago in 1930 William…
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