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Ransom Eli Olds

BIRTH: 3 Jun 1864, Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio
DEATH: 26 Aug 1950, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan
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Father: Pliny Fisk Olds (28 Sep 1828 - 1 Jul 1908)
Mother: Sarah Whipple (24 Apr 1824 - 7 Aug 1910)

Family 1: Metta Ursula Woodward (6 Jun 1864 - 2 Sep 1950)

MARRIAGE: 5 Jun 1889, Lansing, Ingham, Michigan

Gladys Marguerite Olds (15 Jan 1892 - ____)
Bernice Estelle Olds (16 Apr 1894 - ____)
Mildred Lucile Olds (9 Sep 1899 - 21 Sep 1899)
Ralph Eli Olds (15 Jul 1902 - 20 Aug 1902)

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|--Ransom Eli Olds 
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|                                                                                        _Francis Whipple ____+
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|                                                                  _Benjamin Whipple ___|_Abigail Lamson _____
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|_Sarah Whipple ______|
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                      |_Laura Mixer ________|
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Notes

!IDENTITY: A pioneer of the American automobile industry, Ransom Eli Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Comlpany in Lansing, Michigan on 21 Aug 1897. Oldsmobile automobiles are named after Ransom Eli Olds. --Wikipedia.

!SOURCE: _The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States_ (New York: J.T. White, 1942), F:392-3.

!SOURCE: Email from Blaine Whipple to Weldon Whipple, 12 Sep 1998.

!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer, 20 Sep 2001.

!SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Abt 1590-1647: An American Story (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2007), 2:G577, 2:G759-G763.

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