Person:Lynn Staples (1)

• 1909 Border Crossing to USA: Age 1 yr, 5 mon, born Canada, English heritage, grandmother is Emma Staples of Wardsville, ON, destination is Mattoon, IL. Debarred, appealed Apr. 4, 1909, dismissed Apr. 12, 1909.
• 1910 Border Crossing to USA: Age 2 yr, 6 mon, born Canada, English heritage, resident of Windsor, ON, grandmother is Emma Staples of Wardsville, ON, destination is Detroit, MI.
• 1920 Census: Racine, RACINE, WI, page 7A, line 50, age 12, CAN, CAN, CAN.
• 1930 Census: Rochester St, Detroit, Wayne, MI, page 22A, line 19, age 22, IL, CAN, CAN, salesman.
• 1940 Saginaw Directory: Staples, Lynn W. (Virginia S) sls eng SSG DIV GMC, h 922 Court.
• 1946 Saginaw Directory: Staples, Lynn W. (Virginia S) asst genl mgr Sugar Beet Prod Co, h 203 Ardussi.

Birth registration application was made on the 8th of March, 1935 by his grandmother Helen Wellwood who certified that both of Lynn's parents were dead.

2008 Note from one of Lynn's sons: My father spent the early years of the 1930's as a pilot in the Yukon Territory developing, building, and running several gold mining operations for a group of investors from New York and Saginaw, which ultimately is what drew him to the Saginaw area. He was an accomplished business man working in his career in companies both huge, medium and down to small enterprises of his own.

1930's note (undated) from Lynn to his grandmother which confirms that he worked in gold mining and was a pilot: Dear Grandma, Elinor writes that you are not feeling so well and I'm terribly sorry to hear it. Do drop me a line and say that you are up to your old self again and that you'll get ready for that airplane ride I'm coming back to give you this fall. The gold mine I told you about is doing fine and I am now General Manager of it. I'll bring you back a sample when I come in October. Say hello to all the folks and get better in a hurry. Love, Lynn Staples, Carcross, Yukon Territory.

1936, Sept., 25th article in the Daily Olympian of Olympia, WA, described a trip Lynn made in a flying boat from Carcross, Yukon to Vancouver, BC. The plane was forced down by bad weather for three days and then resumed flight only to run out of fuel over the Queen Charlotte Sound. The plane and the two passengers drifted for 19 hours before a fishing boat found it and towed it to Port Hardy where it took on fuel and continued to Vancouver. One of the passengers was Mrs. Henry Field, the daughter-in-law of Marshall Field, the merchandising magnate and the other was a mechanic, George Land.

1. ↑ Ontario Archives. Archives of Ontario, Birth, Reel 933 series
   reel 50, item # 903208, 30 Jan 2005.
2. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, M42.

   Obtained from Rootsweb.com, Social Security Death Index Search Results.
   http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
   Staples, Lynn
   Birth: 30 Sep 1907
   Death: Dec 1977
   Last Residence: 48602 (Saginaw, Saginaw, MI)
   Last Benefit: 48602 (Saginaw, Saginaw, MI)
   SSN: 380-09-0234
   Issued: Michigan

3. ↑ Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, M42.
4. ↑ Birth address: Bruce Ave. & Pitt St., Windsor, Ontario.
5. ↑ From Saginaw News, 23 Dec, 1977 Obituary: Staples, Lynn Wellwood, 1630 Brockway St, Saginaw, MI. Passed away at his home Thursday Evening, Dec 22, 1977. Aged 70 years. He was born in Windsor Ontario on Sept 30, 1907. Moving to the U.S. as an infant. Graduated from Racine High School in Racine, Wisc. and attended Lake Forest Academy College in Lake Forest, Ill. He was a pilot in the National Guard Corps. For six summers he was a bush pilot in Yukon for the Inka Mining Corp., of which the investors were prominent Saginaw businessmen. He made the first landing on ice in a flying boat. In 1937 he joined Saginaw Steering Gear, went from sales engineer to personnel director to war contractor/coordinator during World War II. He won the E. Award. He left General Motors in 1946 to become general manager of Sugar Beet Products and eventually became its president. He then became production manager of the Kroehler furniture company. Mr. Staples returned to Saginaw to be the general manager of the former Saginaw Wire ProductsCompany.
   He was a member of the First Congregational Church, the Saginaw Club and the Saginaw Country Club. He married Virginia J. Spray, Sept 2, 1935, who survives him. He also leaves one daughter and three sons. Mrs. Nancy Dofflemeyer of Exeter, CA; Mark Wellwood Staples, from Wallingford, PA; Stephen Judd Staples, Bolinas, CA; and Guy Wilson Staples, Saginaw. Eight grandchildren, one sister, Mrs. Elinor Wolf of Detroit.
   A memorial service will take place 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at the First Congregational Church with Rev. John Iliff officiating.