Iowa Family Group Sheet for the Louis Arthur GEROLAMY Family Submitted by: Robert HarveyHUSBAND: Louis Arthur GEROLAMY Birth date: 1867 Birthplace: Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa Death date: May 27, 1909 Place of death: El Paso, Texas Burial date: May/June, 1909 Burial place: Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids Other Spouse: Father: A. William GEROLAMY Mother: Harriet Seymour THORPE Marriage date: Marriage place: WIFE: Birth date: Birthplace: Death date: Place of death: Burial date: Burial place: Other Spouse: Father: Mother: CHILDREN None listed. Documentation and Sources: Death: Texas Death Index, El Paso 1903-2000, certificate # 23430 (Obit - The Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette - Saturday, June 5, 1909) Burial - Oak Hill Cemetery, Cedar Rapids Block 66, Lot 73, per Oak Hill Cemetery website. (his mother is also buried in the same block and lot.) Louis was a noted portrait artist who trained in Chicago. He opened his 1st studio at 205 West Madison then 591 West Madison in Chicago, another in Denver Colorado(1890),then Cedar Rapids (1903/1904). He had an apartment building built in 1905 at 616 4th Avenue East, Cedar Rapids - Gerolamy Flats which has was restored about 2007/2008. Re: early history see Origin, Growth and Usefulness of the Chicago Board of Trade, Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1885-86, page 268. Biography and picture: see Brewer, Luther Albertus, History of Linn County Iowa: From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume II, The Pioneer Printing Company, Chicago, 1911, page 174-177. For restoration of Gerolamy Flats at 606 4th Ave SE (aka The Palace) see: The Gazette, Sat 14, July 14, 2007, page 4A ************************************************************** Copyright (c) 2016 by Robert Harvey. All rights reserved. http://www.iagenweb.org/state/disclaim.htm **************************************************************