1940 Census: Mrs. Helen H. Hollander, age 67, farmer
Robert, age 32, electrician - private contract
Helen (Robert's wife), age 23
Dorothy Mae, age <1
Edward, age 28, farm labor
Frances (Edward's wife), age 31
Robert Hollander was one of the area's first electricians, wiring many houses in St. Charles County.
An article in the St. Charles Cosmos-Monitor of August 9, 1941, stated the following: "Mrs. Henry Hollander is a widow who was victimized by the defense measure. She had to abandon her 60 acres farm that was also well improved, and now lives with her son in St. Charles."
Location: 698884 4287416
Acreage: 64.32
Contract price: $7,000
Property condemned on April 8, 1941
Condemnation price: $2,960
Today: concrete and stone foundations, two open cisterns
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| On the farm around 1915 |
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August 7, 1898
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