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Language of Material: English.
Scope and Contents
This series contains biographical information on Elizabeth Gehring, Ethel Wikel, Madeline Woolston, and Ralph Dox. The information
was compiled by the donor. No information on Edward Gehring was included.
Elizabeth Margaret Gehring was born on 1 November 1894 in Pennsylvania. In the 1920s, she and her husband, William, lived
in Erie, New York. At some point between 1920 and 1930, she became a housekeeper for Ralph Dox and moved into his home in
Niagara, New York. William's status is unknown. She relocated to Van Nuys, California, in the mid-1940s to live near her mother.
Elizabeth died on 8 April 1983 at the age of 88.
Ethel Elizabeth Wikel was born on 6 April 1874 in Pennsylvania. At some unknown date, she moved to Van Nuys, California with
her family. She died on 15 January 1946 at the age of 71.
Madeline Woolston was born in 1907 in Pennsylvania. By 1940, she had moved to Van Nuys, California with the rest of her family.
Ralph Watson Dox was born on 9 May 1885 in Lockport, New York. He attended Columbia University, where he became an officer
of the Philharmonic Society and the Barnard Literary Association. Dox graduated from Columbia Law School in 1909 and served
as vice counsel to the United States at Nuremberg, Germany. When the United States was drawn into the First World War in 1916,
he returned to New York to work in private practice. He lived in Lockport until his death on 3 March 1951 at the age of 65.
Edward Donald Gehring was born on 18 August 1923 in Pennsylvania and died on 12 February 2011 in Van Nuys, California at the
age of 87.