This is the brother of my grandfather, Clarence.He was married to Catherine Gandt and had two daughters,Theresa & Grace. His parents were William and CATHERINE (Lizzie). He grew up in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. He was a railroad engineer and was killed as a result of an accident on the job in 1917 in Elizabeth, N.J.
World War 1, the Mexican Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Easter Rising in Ireland . . . the sinking of the Titanic and the Lusitania. Spanish flu killed well over 20 million people world wide ...