Genealogical Record: Pamela Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Pamela Chew

10030

John James (Jack) Chew
Soldier
Civil Servant
Professor

1923-25: Philadelphia, PA, USA
1925-27: Charleston, SC, USA
1927-29: Samoa
1929-32: Philadelphia
1932-35: Canal Zone
1935-38: San Diego, CA, USA
1938-42: (-1940 at 68 85th St, 1940- in Quarters M, Navy Yard) Brooklyn, NY, USA
1942-43: Washington, DC, USA
1943-44: New York, NY, USA
1944-47: U.S. Army in Missouri, Philippines, Japan, Germany, rose from Pvt. to M/Sgt.
1947-48: New York
1948: Zürich, CHE
1949-50: New York
1950-51: Lund, SWE
1951-55: Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
1955-63: State Department, serving in Washington and Tokyo, with a year in 1960-61 on leave in Wakefield, RI, USA
1963-66: SUNY Buffalo, NY, USA
1966-date: Department of Anthropology, U of Toronto, ON, CAN

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John James Chew
Captain, CEC, USN

*1893 03 18 Washington DC, USA
+1984 03 02 909 Hillwood Avenue, Falls Church, Fairfax, VA, USA

Studied engineering at Cornell, tuition paid by a client of his father's. Also held a reserve commission in the Army. Buried at Arlington Cemetery.
US SSN 226-54-1432.

Is the Lieut. J. J. Chew listed as superintendent of public works on page 64 in the 1928 USGPO publication "American Samoa: Joint hearings before the Committee on territories and insular possessions...".

Enumerated in 1940 census in Brooklyn, Assembly District 9, 68 85th St. as the 47-year-old male head-of-household naval captain living with his wife, two children, and two parents-in-law. They reported that five years previously they had been living in the Canal Zone, Panama, and their in-laws had been in Mountain Lake, NJ.

Awarded Legion of Merit for "exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the Government of the United States as Director of Finance and Operating Department, Bureau of Docks, from 15 December 1941 to 1946".

Is the Captain John J. Chew (CEC) listed as the Inspector General of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, living in D.C., on page. 188 of the "Official Register of the United States" (1951, 1954 and no doubt other editions).

Is the Captain J.J. Chew who signs a letter on page 228 of the "Investigation of Military Public Works: Hearings... 82d Congress, 2d Session" in 1952.

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Robert Smith Chew
1848 10 10-1923 01 13
10021 <53:5
Robert Smith Chew
10043 <71:6 >12641:80
Elizabeth Ringold Smith
10044 <71:6 >2164:81
Mary Emott (Minnie) Cady
1862 09 14-1943 01 05
10034 <53:5
Howard Cleveland Cady
10045 <59:6 >163:11
Mary Denison Heard
10046 <59:6 >1878:80
Jessie Katherine Lobdell

*1888 08 04 Bronx, NY, USA
+1975 10 01 Falls Church, Fairfax, VA, USA

US SSN 225-66-4636

JC 10003: had cousins named "Big Bill" Rutan and "Cousin Dorothy" Rutan McMaster (sp?). Dorothy visited us in Toronto, and is listed as DR 110460 pending connection to the main tree.

Alzheimer's Disease.

Listed in 1900 census in Paterson, Passaic Co., NJ, with parents and brother.

1920 census in Boonton, Morris Co., NJ, USA mentions Dorothy Rutan as her parents' niece.

Marriage announced in Army-Navy-Air Force Register and Defense Times, Volume 72

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Frederick Watkins Lobdell
1866-1942
10041 <39:5
William Canfield Lobdell
10047 >72:14
Catherine Anne (Katie) Watkins
10048 >6:2
Jessie Belle MacPherson
1869-1941
10042 <39:5
John MacPherson
10049 <45:6 >2:1
Isabel Somerville
10050 <45:6 >2:1
Hermine Fux

*1931 05 24 Lilienfeld, AUT
+2011 01 __ FL, USA

Died in nursing care, with advanced Alzheimer's disease. Father Rudolf (Rudolph?) was a foreman in a brick factory (?), died of tuberculosis; mother was Czech (from Prague?). Married five times, buried with fourth husband in ME, USA.

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Bruce Hay

11313


div. 20__ __ __
Jaclyn Hay

11314

Aaron Rietkerk

100371

Jack McQuiston Rietkerk

100373

Genevieve Lorraine Rietkerk

100374

Krista Hay

11316

Jim Emory

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m. 2013 08 23 Newmarket ON, CAN

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