Alice Phillips Pfeiffer

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name
Alice Phillips Pfeiffer
aka
[Alice P. Carter, Alice Phillips Carter, Alice Phillips Forrester, Alice Holbrook Pfeiffer]
sex
female
access
public
summary
Only child of Emil C. Pfeiffer and Mollie (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, born at Tacoma in 1899 and raised in Nevada, East Aurora, New York, and Los Angeles, where she worked as a bookkeeper. She married Robert H. Carter in 1921 and Harold F. Forrester in 1946, and died at Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island in 1987.
born
date
25 Aug 1899
place
Tacoma, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[birth-register-tacoma-1899-pfeiffer, magazine-emerson-college-holbrook-1896-1904]
note
At 104 Tacoma Avenue. The Harvard class bulletin of 1935 has August 24.
died
date
15 Jul 1987
place
Oak Harbor, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[index-island-county-notices-pfeiffer]
note
The Island County death-notice index, from the Whidbey News-Times; the FamilySearch tree has Coupeville.
buried
place
Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
probable
sources
[index-island-county-notices-pfeiffer]
residences
date
1900
place
Seattle, Washington
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1900-seattle-pfeiffer]
date
1907-1908
place
Gardnerville, Nevada
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[newspapers-gardnerville-record-courier-pfeiffer-1907-1908]
date
1910
place
Aurora, Erie County, New York
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1910-aurora-pfeiffer]
date
1920
place
Los Angeles, California
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[census-1920-los-angeles-pfeiffer]
note
A bookkeeper.
date
June 1946
place
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946]
note
11745 Landale Street.
father
id
emil-pfeiffer-1865
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[birth-register-tacoma-1899-pfeiffer, marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921, reports-harvard-class-1889-pfeiffer]
mother
id
mollie-holbrook-1870
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[birth-register-tacoma-1899-pfeiffer, marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921, marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946, death-certificate-frances-pfeiffer-1954]
spouses
name
Robert Hall Carter
married
date
19 Aug 1921
place
Los Angeles, California
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921]
note
Robert H. Carter, 21, a contractor of Sierra Madre, son of Arthur N. Carter. Her mother's typescript has "August 17, 1920."
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921, newspapers-los-angeles-pfeiffer-1922]
name
Harold Franklin Forrester
married
date
4 June 1946
place
North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946]
note
Harold Franklin Forrester, 41, of Van Nuys, an installer for the Southern California Telephone Co. Her second marriage.
basis
documented
confidence
proven
sources
[marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946, death-certificate-frances-pfeiffer-1954]

Her middle name, Phillips, was also her grandmother Harriet (Low) Holbrook's. Mollie's Holbrook chart has "Alice Holbrook Pfeiffer" (scan 5) and her Low chart "Alice H[...]," struck out and corrected by hand to "Phillips" (scan 95). The Emerson College Magazine announced her as "The Daughter of '98," "a twelve-pound daughter" (Emerson College Magazine, 1896-1904: writings by M. Frances Holbrook and notes on Mrs. Frances Holbrook Pfeiffer).

She went with her mother to Gardnerville, Nevada, in December 1907, lodged with her at East Aurora, New York, in 1910, and graduated in 1917 from the classical department of Huntington Hall, South Pasadena, taking a post-graduate course in agriculture in 1918 (Harvard College Class of 1889, secretary's reports and annual bulletins, 1898-1935: Emil Charles Pfeiffer). In 1920 she was a bookkeeper in Los Angeles. She married Robert Hall Carter in 1921, with her father as witness; in Aug 1922 they gave a trust deed on a lot in Glendale to a trustee for her mother (Los Angeles Times and Glendale Evening News, August 1922: Mrs. Frances H. Pfeiffer). Their son, Warren Holbrook Carter, was born at Los Angeles on 8 Sept 1925 and died at Oak Harbor in 2016 (Whidbey News-Times, 2016: obituary of Warren Holbrook Carter (1925-2016)). She married Harold Franklin Forrester in 1946, and as Mrs. Harold Forrester of Hollywood gave the details on her mother's death certificate in 1954.

Open questions

  • When she moved to Whidbey Island, and her obituary (Whidbey News-Times, July 1987).
  • What became of the marriage to Robert H. Carter.
  1. ---
  2. name: Alice Phillips Pfeiffer
  3. aka: [Alice P. Carter, Alice Phillips Carter, Alice Phillips Forrester, Alice Holbrook Pfeiffer]
  4. sex: female
  5. access: public
  6. summary: >-
  7. Only child of Emil C. Pfeiffer and Mollie (Holbrook) Pfeiffer, born at Tacoma in 1899 and raised
  8. in Nevada, East Aurora, New York, and Los Angeles, where she worked as a bookkeeper. She married
  9. Robert H. Carter in 1921 and Harold F. Forrester in 1946, and died at Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island
  10. in 1987.
  11. born:
  12. date: 25 Aug 1899
  13. place: Tacoma, Washington
  14. basis: documented
  15. confidence: proven
  16. sources: [birth-register-tacoma-1899-pfeiffer, magazine-emerson-college-holbrook-1896-1904]
  17. note: At 104 Tacoma Avenue. The Harvard class bulletin of 1935 has August 24.
  18. died:
  19. date: 15 Jul 1987
  20. place: Oak Harbor, Washington
  21. basis: documented
  22. confidence: probable
  23. sources: [index-island-county-notices-pfeiffer]
  24. note: The Island County death-notice index, from the Whidbey News-Times; the FamilySearch tree has Coupeville.
  25. buried:
  26. place: Sunnyside Cemetery, Coupeville, Washington
  27. basis: documented
  28. confidence: probable
  29. sources: [index-island-county-notices-pfeiffer]
  30. residences:
  31. - date: "1900"
  32. place: Seattle, Washington
  33. basis: documented
  34. confidence: proven
  35. sources: [census-1900-seattle-pfeiffer]
  36. - date: 1907-1908
  37. place: Gardnerville, Nevada
  38. basis: documented
  39. confidence: proven
  40. sources: [newspapers-gardnerville-record-courier-pfeiffer-1907-1908]
  41. - date: "1910"
  42. place: Aurora, Erie County, New York
  43. basis: documented
  44. confidence: proven
  45. sources: [census-1910-aurora-pfeiffer]
  46. - date: "1920"
  47. place: Los Angeles, California
  48. basis: documented
  49. confidence: proven
  50. sources: [census-1920-los-angeles-pfeiffer]
  51. note: A bookkeeper.
  52. - date: June 1946
  53. place: North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  54. basis: documented
  55. confidence: proven
  56. sources: [marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946]
  57. note: 11745 Landale Street.
  58. father:
  59. id: emil-pfeiffer-1865
  60. basis: documented
  61. confidence: proven
  62. sources: [birth-register-tacoma-1899-pfeiffer, marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921, reports-harvard-class-1889-pfeiffer]
  63. mother:
  64. id: mollie-holbrook-1870
  65. basis: documented
  66. confidence: proven
  67. sources: [birth-register-tacoma-1899-pfeiffer, marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921, marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946, death-certificate-frances-pfeiffer-1954]
  68. spouses:
  69. - name: Robert Hall Carter
  70. married:
  71. date: 19 Aug 1921
  72. place: Los Angeles, California
  73. basis: documented
  74. confidence: proven
  75. sources: [marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921]
  76. note: 'Robert H. Carter, 21, a contractor of Sierra Madre, son of Arthur N. Carter. Her mother''s typescript has "August 17, 1920."'
  77. basis: documented
  78. confidence: proven
  79. sources: [marriage-license-carter-pfeiffer-1921, newspapers-los-angeles-pfeiffer-1922]
  80. - name: Harold Franklin Forrester
  81. married:
  82. date: 4 June 1946
  83. place: North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California
  84. basis: documented
  85. confidence: proven
  86. sources: [marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946]
  87. note: Harold Franklin Forrester, 41, of Van Nuys, an installer for the Southern California Telephone Co. Her second marriage.
  88. basis: documented
  89. confidence: proven
  90. sources: [marriage-license-forrester-carter-1946, death-certificate-frances-pfeiffer-1954]
  91. ---
  93. Her middle name, Phillips, was also her grandmother Harriet (Low) Holbrook's. Mollie's Holbrook
  94. chart has "Alice Holbrook Pfeiffer" ([scan 5](/books/mollie/#5)) and her Low chart "Alice H[...],"
  95. struck out and corrected by hand to "Phillips" ([scan 95](/books/mollie/#95)). The Emerson College
  96. Magazine announced her as "The Daughter of '98," "a twelve-pound daughter"
  97. (`magazine-emerson-college-holbrook-1896-1904`).
  99. She went with her mother to Gardnerville, Nevada, in December 1907, lodged with her at East Aurora,
  100. New York, in 1910, and graduated in 1917 from the classical department of Huntington Hall, South
  101. Pasadena, taking a post-graduate course in agriculture in 1918
  102. (`reports-harvard-class-1889-pfeiffer`). In 1920 she was a bookkeeper in Los Angeles. She married
  103. Robert Hall Carter in 1921, with her father as witness; in Aug 1922 they gave a trust deed on a lot
  104. in Glendale to a trustee for her mother (`newspapers-los-angeles-pfeiffer-1922`). Their son, Warren
  105. Holbrook Carter, was born at Los Angeles on 8 Sept 1925 and died at Oak Harbor in 2016
  106. (`newspaper-whidbey-news-times-2016-warren-carter`). She married Harold Franklin Forrester in 1946,
  107. and as Mrs. Harold Forrester of Hollywood gave the details on her mother's death certificate in
  108. 1954.
  110. ## Open questions
  112. - When she moved to Whidbey Island, and her obituary (Whidbey News-Times, July 1987).
  113. - What became of the marriage to Robert H. Carter.
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