Wilton Ambrose Wooliever was also known as Wilton A. (Ambrose) Wooliver. He was also known as Wilton Ambrose Wooliver.
1 He was a Real Estate Salesman.
8 * 4th great-grandson to Georg Philip (Windemoed) Windemuth
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Michigan Births, 1867-1902
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Return of Births in the County of Lapeer for the year ending December 31st A.D. 1872
Record Number: 2411
Name: Wilton A. Wooliver
Date of Birth: 24 Jun 1872
Birthplace: Burlington, Lapeer, Michigan
Gender: Male
Race: W
Father's Name: Wm. Wooliver
Residence: Burlington
Father's Birthplace: Canada
Father's Age: -
Father's Occupation: Farmer
Mother's Name: Mary J. Wooliver
Mother's Birthplace: Canada
Mother's Age: -
Christening Date: -
Christening Place: -
Film Number: 2297931
Digital Folder Number: 4206330
Image Number: 301
Frame Number: -
Reference Number: item 2 p 24 rn 2411
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TWELFTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES: 1900
State: Oregon
County: Lane
Township or other division of County: Saginaw Precinct
Enumeration Date: 6 day of June, 1900
Supervisor's District No. 220
Enumeration District No. 114
Sheet No. 3 B
Line No: 79-81
Street, Avenue, Road, etc: -
House number or farm: -
Dwelling No: 67
Number of family in order of visitation: 67
Name: WOOLIEVER, WILTON
Relation: Head
Color or Race: W
Sex: M
Date of Birth: June 1872
Age at last birthday: 27
Whether single, married, widowed or divorced: M
Number of years married: 2 [1898]
Place of birth of this person: Michigan
Place of birth of father: Canada
Place of birth of mother: Canada
Occupation, Trade, or Profession: Book Keeper Smelter
Can read: yes
Can write: yes
Can speak english: yes
Ownership of home: R
Name: WOOLIEVER, ANNA E.
Relation: Wife
Color or Race: W
Sex: F
Date of Birth: May 1872
Age at last birthday: 27
Whether single, married, widowed or divorced: M
Number of years married: 2
Mother of how many children: 1
Number of these children living: 1
Place of birth of this person: Minnesota
Place of birth of father: Germany
Place of birth of mother: Minnesota
Can read: yes
Can write: yes
Can speak english: yes
Name: WOOLIEVER, IRENE M.
Relation: Daughter
Color or Race: W
Sex: F
Date of Birth: Aug 1898
Age at last birthday: 1
Place of birth of this person: British Columbia ?
Place of birth of father: Michigan
Place of birth of mother: Minnesota
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FOURTEENTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES: 1920
State: Michigan
County: Oakland
Township or other division of County: Royal Oak Township
Name of Incorporated Place: Ferndale Village
Supervisor's District No. 6
Enumeration District No. 213
Sheet No. 14 B
Enumeration Date: 26 & 27 day of February, 1920
Line No: 63-64
Street, Avenue, Road, etc: Nine Mile Road
House number or farm: -
Dwelling No: 327
Number of family in order of visitation: 340
Name: WOOLIVER, WILTON A.
Relation: Head
Home owned or rented: R
Sex: M
Color or Race: W
Age at last birthday: 48 [1872]
Single, married, widowed or divorced: M
Able to read and write: yes
Place of birth person, mother tongue: Michigan
Place of birth of father, mother tongue: Canada English
Place of birth of mother, mother tongue: Canada English
Able to speak english: yes
Occupation / Industry: Architect
Name: WOOLIVER, ANNA
Relation: Wife
Sex: F
Color or Race: W
Age at last birthday: 50 [1870]
Single, married, widowed or divorced: M
Able to read and write: yes
Place of birth person, mother tongue: Michigan
Place of birth of father, mother tongue: Ireland, Irish
Place of birth of mother, mother tongue: Canada English
Able to speak english: yes
Occupation / Industry: Manager, Roller Rink
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The Crow's Nest
Newsletter of the Ferndale Historical Society Spring 2009
LIFE WITHOUT A BAND-AID: MEDICAL CARE IN EARLY FERNDALE - AND AFTER
Jean Spang
Babies born at home, death by diphtheria, molasses as "tonic," whooping cough, broken bone setting, iodine for sore throats and injuries--such were some of the medical concerns and cures for residents of the area that was to become Ferndale in the early 20th Century. Early on, as the local population increased, several doctors set up practices in the region, and pharmacist William Rodgers opened a drugstore on Woodward. But official concern for medical care access dates only to March 1920 (two years after Ferndale's incorporation as a village in 1918), when the First Village Commission "considered" asking voters for a $25,000 bond issue to build a hospital. Ultimately the Commission took no action--nor was architect Wilton A. Wooliever's offer of his large house at 814 W. 9 Mile for use as a hospital accepted. Highland Park General Hospital, on Glendale in Highland Park, which had opened in 1918, remained the village's closest major hospital. By the later 1920s, two "hospitals" had opened in Ferndale in close proximity to each other: The Lilly Maternity and Emergency Hospital, founded by nurse Muriel M. Lilly, whose family lived upstairs at the 155 Vester site, began operation in 1927. And, on the north side of 9 Mile, next to the police station, Ferndale General Hospital, at 127 E. 9 Mile, located almost directly behind Lilly's, opened about the same time, with Dr. A. A. Stuart "in charge" (as city directories indicate). During its busiest years, the Lilly Clinic welcomed many babies into the world (delivery cost: $58) and, as evidenced by the Clinic's meticulously kept records, complete with newspaper clippings covering their most notorious cases, repaired myriad injuries--many caused by Ferndale residents' unfortunate encounters with cars ("laceration caused by car at Ridge Rd. --3 sutures, 3 clips: $2"). No records remain of the specific cases treated at Ferndale General, but Dr. Stuart, along with other doctors in the village at the time, had a busy practice in the growing community.
Both Lilly Maternity and Emergency Hospital and Ferndale General Hospital were among the first casualties of the Depression: Lilly closed in 1929; Ferndale General, a few months later. Local doctors, including Dr. Stuart, bartered for their services during the worst years of the Depression. One example: After the closure of Ferndale General, Dr. Stuart's relatives recall that his small frame house, Pinecrest at Albany, was enlarged and remodeled by patients who could afford medical care only by offering their skills--which varied considerably from patient to patient. The result, as the family fondly recalled, was "The House that Jack Built," walls out of alignment, doors installed backward, and, in one case, a window inserted upside-down. Still, thanks to his patients, the doctor was able to provide a house for several family members who moved back home to "wait out the Depression"--and his patients got needed medical care. Concern for a local hospital continued until 1931 when Eva E. Clemenshaw, who had been a nurse in World War I, purchased a large residence, the home of former Village Commissioner Gordon Damon, at 181 Ardmore, and remodeled it into a hospital named "Ardmore." Space concerns soon required a move to new facilities, which oddly, turned out to be the Wooliever house, which, since rejection of Wooliever's original offer to the city, had been converted in a tea room, the Nine Oaks Inn. Renovated, the tea room opened as a hospital, Ardmore, on W. 9 Mile, in 1933, becoming the center for Ferndale medical care. Doctors most instrumental in the early success of Ardmore were Dr. Burdette O'Connor, who served in the British Army, World War I, who lived and had his office in the Badder Building (corner Woodward/9 Mile); Dr. Ralph Norris, who had an office on Vester; Dr. Charles A Mooney, who had come to Ferndale in 1920, was appointed as school physician in the fall of that year, and by 1922 was Village Health Officer; and Dr. H. Coleman Crissman, an obstetrician. Other doctors who soon arrived in the city and used Ardmore facilities included: Drs. Sol Lewis, Eugene Spoehr, and William F. Stanley. By the late 1930s, many doctors from surrounding communities, Hazel Park, Highland Park, Royal Oak, and even Clawson, used Ardmore facilities, making it an important regional medical care hospital. Eva Clemenshaw died suddenly in 1944 at the age of 51. Her hospital was then purchased by Drs. Earl and John Flick, brothers. Upon Earl's death, Dr. John Flick made substantial additions to the building and operated the hospital as a private facility for some 20 years. By then, the hospital had a board of directors, appointed by Dr. Flick and family members, who sold the hospital to a non-profit corporation in the late 1960s. This was at the time when Blue Cross was forming--a large insurance company that was reluctant to admit participation in its programs by an privately owned hospital. As a result, Ardmore ultimately closed in 1976. The building was owned briefly by the Salvation Army, and in 1989 was torn down to make way for retail businesses. (CVS Pharmacy and adjoining mall now occupy the site.) Today, Ferndale has some 40 doctors of varying specialties. Beaumont and Providence are the nearby hospitals of record. (Highland Park General closed in 1976, the same year as Ardmore.) And several local clinics provide ready medical care for area residents. (FernCare, the free medical clinic set to open soon on E, 9 Mile is the latest such facility.) Gone are the days of "house calls," babies born at home, diphtheria worries, and a doctor "melting down" children's penny suckers on his basement stove, bottling the "syrup," and distributing it free of charge to his patients as "cough medicine." And rare indeed is the patient in Ferndale who can even think of bartering his services for medical care . . . FamilySearch.org
Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925
Return of Marriages in the County of ___ for the Quarter Ending ___ A.D., 19__
Record Number: 126300
Date of License: Jan 18, 1916
Full Name of Bridegroom: WILTON A. WOOLIEVER
Age: 42 [1874]
White, Black, Mulatto, etc: White
Residence: Detroit, Mich.
Birthplace: Michigan
Occupation: Architect
Name of Father: WILLIAM
Maiden Name of Mother: MARY J. WINTER
Time Previously Married: one
Full Name of Bride, and Maiden Name of Bride if a Widow:
ANNA G. HARRISON
Age: 49 * this may be 40 [1876]
White, Black, Mulatto, etc: White
Residence: Detroit, Mich.
Birthplace: Michigan
Occupation: -
Name of Father: GUINAN
Maiden Name of Mother: -
Time Previously Married: one
Date of Marriage: Jan 20, 1916
Place of Marriage: Detroit, Mich.
Name and Official Station of Person by Whom Married: Rev. Loretta Harrison
Witness to Marriage / Names / Residences:
Edward Collins
James Shur(?) / Detroit, Mich.
Film Number: 2342717
Frame Number: -
Digital Folder Number: 4209305
Image Number: 520
Reference Number: v 6 p 41 rn 126300.