James Franklin VAN FOSSEN ¹

  General Notes:

1880 IA CENSUS, Linn Co, Otter Creek Twp: James F. Van Fossen, 3, b. IA, father b. OH, mother b. PA. He was living with Peter & Jane Van Fossen. (Listed next to them on the census were Isaac & Phoebe Dicken and Mary Wickham.

1930 IA CENSUS, Linn Co, Cedar Rapids city: James Van Fossen, 53, 1st marriage age 22, b. IA, father b. OH, mother b. PA, car repair, steam railway; wife Blanche B., 42, 1st marriage age 23, b. IA, father b. OH, mother b. PA; dau. Bernice, 17, b. IA, parents b. IA.

James married Mollie Mary TROTH, daughter of Joseph Stanley TROTH and Cynthia SMITH, on 23 Apr 1899 in IA.¹ (Mollie Mary TROTH was born on 22 Apr 1881 in Lafayette, Linn Co, IA,¹ died on 27 Mar 1925 in Center Point, Linn Co, IA ¹ and was buried in Dunkard Cem, Monroe Twp, Linn Co, IA ³.)

James next married Blanche B. (---) on 10 Feb 1929 in probably Linn Co, IA.² (Blanche B. (---) was born on 20 Mar 1888 in IA ² and died on 7 Jan 1968 ¹.)