Person:William Chivvis (7)

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William Rinehart Chivvis
b.3 Jun 1858 Memphis,, TN
d.9 Sep 1917
Parents and Siblings
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m. Aft 1831
  1. William Rinehart Chivvis1858 - 1917
Spouse and Children
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m. 26 Oct 1886
  1. Leland Chivvis1887 - 1959
  2. Norman Chivvis1891 - 1962
  3. Ruth Chivvis1894 - 1917
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Facts and Events
Name William Rinehart Chivvis
Alt Name William Reinhart Chivvis
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3][4][5][13] 3 Jun 1858 Memphis,, TN
Residence[1][9][16] 1874 St. Louis,, MOmove
Education[5][17] Aft 1875 St. Louis,, MOeducation
Marriage 26 Oct 1886 St. Louis,, MOto Ada Mary Chaphe
Other[2] Abt 1886 St. Louis,, MOchurch membership
Residence[18] 1900 St. Louis,, MOresided
Census[19] 7 Jun 1900 St. Louis,, MOcensus 1900
Residence[2][18] 1906 St. Louis,, MOmove
Residence[5][18] 1906 St. Louis,, MOresided
Other[2] 1906 St. Louis,, MOchurch membership
Graduation[10][20] 1912 St. Louis,, MOhigh school graduation
Baptism[11][21] 2 May 1915 St. Louis,, MO
Residence[7][22] 1917 St. Louis,, MOresided
Illness[7][23] 26 Aug 1917 St. Louis,, MOillness
Occupation? lumber business
Occupation? secretary
Death[6][4][7][8][14] 9 Sep 1917
Funeral[7][24] 11 Sep 1917 St. Louis,, MOfuneral
Burial[7][15] 11 Sep 1917 St. Louis,, MO
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Youth

"3. Willie - born in Memphis June 3, 1858 - they wrote to me about him, that he was too lovely for anything." -Chivvis Family Record handwritten p. 10:

"Most people (as you say of your Father) take their lineage lightly - and without his excuse, of beginning life with the strange experience of changing home and Country in the confusion and desperation of the [Civil] Wars end! (The Worlds'[sic] some of us thought.)" -Langdon Cheves letter to Leland Chivvis 4/10/1924:

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St. Louis Lumber Business

"Early in life he [William Rinehart Chivvis] and Mrs. Chivvis united with the Hyde Park Congregational Church, St. Louis, and in 1906 with the First Congregational Church on Delmar Boulevard, having moved to that section of the city." -N8. Chaffee Genealogy

"CHIVVIS, William Reinhart, wholesale hardwood lumber; .... Began business career in the employ of Liebke & Schrage, lumber manufacturers, as bookkeeper, Oct. 1, 1883; when firm was incorporated, 1894, became secretary and so continued until Oct., 1901, then established himself in the wholesale hardwood lumber business on own account, which he still conducts. Independent in politics. Congregationalist. Club: congregational. Office and yards: Main and Lesperance Sts. Residence: 3627 Cook Ave." -Book of St. Louisans, 1906 p. 118

"William Reinhart Chivvis, 59 years old, general manager of the Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company, foot of Lafayette avenue, died at his home, 4232 West Pine boulevard, yesterday afternoon from a complication of diseases. He had been ill but two weeks.... He leaves a widow, Mrs. W. R. Chivvis, former state president of the Federated Woman's Clubs of Missourai, now a director in the national organization; a daughter, Miss Ruth Chivvis, and two sons, Leland and Norman. The funeral will be from the family residence to Bellefontaine Cemetery at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon." -newspaper clipping William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill Two Weeks:

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Record of the Chivvis Family" 10 typewritten pages.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Chaffee Genealogy. (Grafton Press, NY).

    558

  3. ↑ 8 pages by Nancy Chivvis copy in files of SHC.

    drawn tree w/ letter to SHC 7/8/1986 gives year 1858

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Chivvis, Leland & Mary Glasgow Physical Genealogy Chivvis, Nancy.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 The Book of St. Louisans, 1906.
  6. ↑ 8 pages by Nancy Chivvis copy in files of SHC.

    drawn tree w/ letter to SHC 7/8/1986 gives year 1917

  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill Two Weeks St. Louis, MO 9/10/1917.
  8. ↑ Missouri Historical Society. Necrologies. (Missouri Historical Society).
  9. ↑ Memphis City Directory 1860 microfilm 705:1 at Library of Congress.
  10. ↑ Mary Institute Alumnae Directory 1859-1985 125th Anniversary Edition.
  11. ↑ Chivvis, Mary Ellen picture notations Pier Cove, MI.
  12.   The Book of St. Louisans, 1906.

    118 CHIVVIS, William Reinhart

  13. ↑ 1900 census St. Louis, MO Ward 19 E.D. 298 Sheet 7 microfilm 897:
    6/7/1900 at 4227 Pairie Ave dwelling 114 family 140 William R.
    Chivvis, gives age 41, birthdate June 1858, birthplace Tennessee
    Nancy Chivvis "Physical Genealogy for the descendents of Leland
    Chivvis & Mary Glasgow":
    "William Rinehart Chivvis, 1858-1917, died age 59..."
    Book of St. Louisans, 1906 p. 118:
    "CHIVVIS, William Reinhart, wholesale hardwood lumber; born Memphis,
    Tenn., June 3, 1858; son of Daniel S. and Harriet (Reinhart)
    Chivvis..."
  14. ↑ newspaper clipping "William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill
    Two Weeks" in Mo Hist Soc Necrologies Vol 10:
    "William Reinhart Chivvis, 59 years old, general manager of the
    Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company, foot of Lafayette avenue,
    died at his home, 4232 West Pine boulevard, yesterday afternoon from a
    complication of diseases. he had been ill but two weeks.... He
    leaves a widow, Mrs. W. R. Chivvis, former state president of the
    Federated Woman's Clubs of Missourai, now a director in the national
    organization; a daughter, Miss Ruth Chivvis, and two sons, Leland and
    Norman."
    Nancy Chivvis "Physical Genealogy for the descendents of Leland
    Chivvis & Mary Glasgow":
    "William Rinehart Chivvis, 1858-1917, died age 59 cirrhosis of the
    liver, 'drank himself to death.'"
  15. ↑ newspaper clipping William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill
    Two Weeks:
    "William Reinhart Chivvis, 59 years old, general manager of the
    Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company, foot of Lafayette avenue,
    died at his home, 4232 West Pine boulevard, yesterday afternoon from a
    complication of diseases. He had been ill but two weeks.... He
    leaves a widow, Mrs. W. R. Chivvis, former state president of the
    Federated Woman's Clubs of Missourai, now a director in the national
    organization; a daughter, Miss Ruth Chivvis, and two sons, Leland and
    Norman. The funeral will be from the family residence to
    Bellefontaine Cemetery at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon."
  16. ↑ Memphis City Directory 1874 at Lib of Cong p. 78 lists no Chivvis.
    The Record of the Chivvis Family p.9
    "After the death of her husband, Harriet Rinehart Chivvis, moved from
    Memphis to St. Louis in 1875 with her two sons and daughter. They
    established a home in North St. Louis."
    Mary Glasgow Curtis "The Chivvises" 8/1999:
    "William Rinehart Chivvis came to St Louis with his mother, Harriet
    Rinehart Chivvis, from Memphis, Tennessee, in l875 after his father
    Daniel Spader Chivvis died. The Chivvises had moved to Memphis around
    l857, which would mean that they spent the Civil War there. Prior to
    l857 they had been in Cincinnati Ohio, New York City, New Jersey and
    Virginia."
    Langdon Cheves letter to Leland Chivvis 4/10/1924:
    "Most people (as you say of your Father) take their lineage lightly -
    and without his excuse, of beginning life with the strange experience
    of changing home and Country in the confusion and desperation of the
    Wars end! (The Worlds'[sic] some of us thought.)"
  17. ↑ Book of St. Louisans, 1906 p. 118:
    "CHIVVIS, William Reinhart, wholesale hardwood lumber; born Memphis,
    Tenn., June 3, 1858; son of Daniel S. and Harriet (Reinhart) Chivvis;
    educated in public, private and business schools of St. Louis;..."
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Chaffee Genealogy:
    "Early in life he [William Rinehart Chivvis] and Mrs. Chivvis united
    with the Hyde Park Congregational Church, St. Louis, and in 1906 with
    the First Congregational Church on Delmar Boulevard, having moved to
    that section of the city."
    Book of St. Louisans, 1906 p. 118:
    "CHIVVIS, William Reinhart, wholesale hardwood lumber; .... Began
    business career in the employ of Liebke & Schrage, lumber
    manufacturers, as bookkeeper, Oct. 1, 1883; when firm was
    incorporated, 1894, became secretary and so continued until Oct.,
    1901, then established himself in the wholesale hardwood lumber
    business on own account, which he still conducts. Independent in
    politics. Congregationalist. Club: congregational. Office and
    yards: Main and Lesperance Sts. Residence: 3627 Cook Ave."
  19. ↑ 1900 census St. Louis, MO Ward 19 E.D. 298 Sheet 7 microfilm 897:
    "4227 Pairie Ave dwelling 114 family 140:
    Chivvis William R. Head W[hite] M[ale] [born] June 1858 [age] 41
    M[arried] 13 [years married] [born in] Tennessee [father born in] New
    York [mother born in] Ohio [occupation] Secretary "Lumber Co" 0
    [months not employed] Yes [can read] Yes [can write] Yes [can speak
    English O[wn home, not rent] F[ree, not mortaged] H[ome, not farm]
    Ada M Wife W[hite] F[emale] [born] Nov 1864 [age] 35 M[arried] 13
    [years married] [mother of] 3 [children] 3 [children living] [born in]
    New York [father born in] New York [mother born in] New York Yes [can
    read] Yes [can write] Yes [can speak English
    Leland Son W[hite] M[ale] [born] Aug 1887 [age] 12 S[ingle] [born in]
    Missouri [father born in] Tennessee [mother born in] New York
    [occupation] At School Yes [can read] Yes [can write] Yes [can speak
    English
    Norman Son W[hite] M[ale] [born] Feb 1891 [age] 9 S[ingle] [born in]
    Missouri [father born in] Tennessee [mother born in] New York
    [occupation] At School Yes [can read] Yes [can write] Yes [can speak
    English
    Ruth daughter W[hite] F[emale] [born] Dec 1894 [age] 5 S[ingle] [born
    in] Missouri [father born in] Tennessee [mother born in] New York"
  20. ↑ Mary Institute Alumnae Directory 1985:
    "Class List - Deceased: 1912...CHIVVIS, Ruth (Mrs. R. C.
    Hayden)...GLASGOW, Ellen Morgan (Mrs. George W. Lane)" [42 girls in
    class]
  21. ↑ picture in MEC leather bound book does not specify baptism, but it
    might be:
    "Redeemer Church St. Louis; 2nd of May 1915
    Leland Chivvis
    Mary Glasgow Chivvis
    Charles J. Miller
    Mary T. Miller
    Wm. R. Chivvis
    Adelaide Le Baume [later Cherbounier]"
    [Adelaide lived in Ferguson and was Mary Glasgow's close friend.]
  22. ↑ newspaper clipping William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill
    Two Weeks:
    "William Reinhart Chivvis, 59 years old, general manager of the
    Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company, foot of Lafayette avenue,
    died at his home, 4232 West Pine boulevard, yesterday afternoon from a
    complication of diseases. He had been ill but two weeks."
  23. ↑ newspaper clipping William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill
    Two Weeks:
    "William Reinhart Chivvis, 59 years old, general manager of the
    Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company, foot of Lafayette avenue,
    died at his home, 4232 West Pine boulevard, yesterday afternoon from a
    complication of diseases. he had been ill but two weeks...."
  24. ↑ newspaper clipping William R. Chivvis, St. Louis Lumberman, Dies, Ill
    Two Weeks:
    "William Reinhart Chivvis, 59 years old, general manager of the
    Chivvis Wholesale and Retail Lumber Company, foot of Lafayette avenue,
    died at his home, 4232 West Pine boulevard, yesterday afternoon from a
    complication of diseases. he had been ill but two weeks.... He
    leaves a widow, Mrs. W. R. Chivvis, former state president of the
    Federated Woman's Clubs of Missourai, now a director in the national
    organization; a daughter, Miss Ruth Chivvis, and two sons, Leland and
    Norman. The funeral will be from the family residence to
    Bellefontaine Cemetery at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon."
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