Ralph Jose Dalton

  General Notes:

Family recollections have it that Ralph Jose was a very intelligent individual who was exceedingly difficult to live with.

"She was married to my Uncle Ralph, and I believe they had a son. Well, by his admission he wasn't a good husband, and they separated. She married again, but the first marriage had never been divorced. I think she had 2 kids by the second husband. I cannot right now think of his name. When Ralph died, he left his insurance and everything he had to Stell. He knew about the second husband. He also left $500 to Aunt Helen, Aunt Nora and my Mother. That was in 1948, and that is when my Mom took her one and only trip back to New York for a reunion with her sisters. Oh, I think Aunt Huldah was there too... They all stayed with Stell. No one ever blamed her for anything. I remember Mom telling me that Stell had told them about "their big day" when she had married her second husband legally."

...Helen Gauthier Hallberg, 13 August 2004

  Things to check:

His 1942 draft registration lists Richard Kimball, 71 Union St., Bridgewater as the "Name and Address of Person Who Will Always Know Your Address". ⁵

  More of his medical data:

"He had been ill over a long period and for the last five months was at the hospital where the end came." -- Obituary.

  In his life:

• In 1900 he lived at 73 West 99th Street in Manhattan, New York, New York. ⁸

• Ralph was counted in the 1900 US census for Manhattan, New York, New York. ⁸ ED 537, SD 1, Sheet 9A.

As Ralph R.

• He was counted in the 1910 US census for Manhattan, New York, New York. ⁹ Supervisor's Dist. 1, Enumeration Dist. 602, Sheet 17B.

• In 1910 Ralph lived at 120 West 101st Street in Manhattan, New York, New York. ⁹

• He worked as a building electrician in 1910. ⁹

• In 1917 he lived at 575 West 166th Street in New York City, New York, New York. ⁴

• Ralph worked, in 1917, as an engineer in Astoria, Queens, New York. ⁴ The source is unclear, but appears to say "G Engineer".
He was employed at this time by the Hotel Bossert. He lists its address as "Hicks & Remsen Sts Brooklyn". The hotel's address in 2003 is listed as 98 Montague Street, one block from Hicks.

• He was described as medium height, medium build, with grey eyes and black hair in 1917. ⁴

• He registered for the draft in precinct 42 on 6 June 1917 in New York City, New York, New York. ¹⁰

• In 1920 he lived at 4367 Kendall Avenue in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. ¹¹

• Ralph worked, in 1920, as a stationary engineer in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. ¹¹

• He was counted in the 1920 US census for Ozone Park, Queens, New York. ¹¹ ED 367, SD 4, sheet 7A.

• From 1934 to 1947 he lived in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. ⁷

• Ralph worked, from 1934 to 1947, as a plant engineer at the George O. Jenkins Company in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. ^{5 7} The George O. Jenkins Company was a manufacturer of fiber materials for the shoe, auto and electrical industries.

• In 1942 he lived at 21 Main in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. ⁵

• He was a member of Fellowship Lodge, AF&AM, 1947, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts. ⁷ "AF&AM" stands for Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Freemasons, in other words.

Ralph married Stella M. Hill, daughter of Henry G. Hill and Matilda A. <Hill>, before 1917.¹ (Stella M. Hill was born in August 1895 in New York ^{9 8 12}.)