Alice Phillips Pfeiffer

“Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pfeiffer, née Frances Holbrook, a twelve-pound daughter,” quoted from “a far western paper dated Aug. 25, 1899.” Signed “L. P.”

The city’s register across two pages. The entry for 25 Aug 1899 names the parents, Emil C. and Frances H. Pfeiffer (their birthplaces swapped), and on the right-hand page, a line higher, gives the place, 104 Tacoma Avenue, a girl, and the physician J. R. Yocum [?].

Enumeration district 92: E. C. Pfeiffer, born May 1865 in New Hampshire, newspaper man; M. F., his wife, born Dec 1870, teacher, mother of one child; A. P., daughter, born Aug 1899; and H. P. Holbrook, mother-in-law. The house was rented.

Sheet 25B of enumeration district 246, the lodging house of Millard V. Curtis: Frances H. Pfeiffer, 39, married eleven years, a correspondent in a printing house, and Alice P., 10. Emil is not in the household.

Frances H. Pfeiffer, 49, married, lodger, in advertising for a newspaper, and her daughter Alice P., 20, a bookkeeper. Emil is indexed separately in the same census as a boarder.

Alice Phillips Pfeiffer, 21, bookkeeper, of Los Angeles, daughter of Emil Chas. Pfeiffer and Frances Holbrook, married Robert H. Carter, 21, contractor, of Sierra Madre. Her father, E. C. Pfeiffer, signed as witness.

Alice Phillips Carter, 46, of North Hollywood, in her second marriage, to Harold Franklin Forrester, 41, of Van Nuys. Her mother is named “Molly Frances Holbrook.”

The class’s notice of his death, his career from Boston schoolteacher to the University of Nevada and Los Angeles, his last years as an invalid, and his wife Frances Holbrook, daughter Alice and grandson.

State file no. 5201. She died at Resthaven Nursing Home, Mount Vernon, after two years there; her home was Coupeville. Born, by this certificate, 4 Dec 1861 [sic], on Whidbey Island; father Richard Holbrook; mother “Harriet ??”. The informant was Mrs. Harold Forrester of Hollywood, her daughter. Cremated at Washelli Crematory, Seattle.