Iowa Family Group Sheet for the Louis Arthur GEROLAMY Family

Submitted by: Robert Harvey 


HUSBAND: 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

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CHILDREN

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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


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