Leonora Frake (1907-1990) oral history: Wilmette Public Library Local History Collection

Leonora Frake (1907-1990) oral history

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BM: This is May 10 [year unidentified]. My name is Briggs Masselli. I'm going to be interviewing Mrs. Frake on Techny Rd. in Northbrook. Mrs. Frake would you give me your whole name and tell me where you were born, where you grew up, and where you live now?
 
LF: My name is Leonora Caroline Frake.
 
BM: And what was your Maiden Name?
 
LF: My name…maiden name...was Leonora Thalmann
 
BM: And where were you born?
 
LF: I was born on Lake Ave. At that time it was called Gross Point
 
BM: [indistinct] And where do you live now?
 
LF: I live at 1665 Techny Rd. in Northbrook
 
BM: I want your maiden name now.
 
LF: My maiden name was Leonora Caroline Thalmann. I was born June 18, 1907.
 
BM: And you still maintain a home?
 
LF: and I have a home at 2820 Orchard Lane, Wilmette.
 
BM: Mrs. Frake, tell me about your Grandfather Thalmann.
 
LF: My Grandfather Thalmann was born in Trier, Germany in 1842, and migrated to the United States in 1847. My grandmother, Caroline Thalmann, came over from Westphalen, Germany as a young teenager.
 
BM: Do you remember what her maiden name was?
 
LF: Her maiden name was Willman.
 
BM: How do you spell that?
 
LF: W-I-L-L-M-A-N. Or it could be another "N" on the end. [indistinct] She married my grandfather at St. Joseph Church in Wilmette.
 
BM: Oh, I see. And what year was that?
 
LF: [indistinct]
 
BM: But they were married at St. Joe's.
 
LF: Um hum. And they had lived in Chicago. And he was a carpenter. And he was in construction. And they had two children that died then. There were four, and died as infants. And Katherine Schmit, she was born in Chicago and so was Joseph Thalmann his oldest son. And they remained in Chicago until the Chicago Fire.
 
BM: But he was living and working in Chicago?
 
LF: And when the fires came so near their home they had to leave and they pushed a buggy and wheelbarrow with their possessions and buried what they wanted to salvage, and they came to their parents' home and they lived on Hibbard Road, which was called at that time Thalmann road.
 
BM: Um hum.

Frake, Leonora Caroline Thalmann, 1907-1990

, Interviewee

Maselli, Briggs

, Interviewer

Miller, Karen

, Transcriber

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Interview of Leonora Frake by Briggs Maselli on May 10 [year unknown] at a location on Techny Road in Northbrook, Illinois.

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Wilmette Public Library

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Wilmette, Illinois

Date of Original:

About 1975

Date Of Event:

About 1975

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Oral histories
Frake, Leonora Caroline Thalmann, 1907-1990

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English

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