| Birth | 1 Sep 1920 | Avoca, Pottawattamie County, Iowa | | | |
| Residence | Abt Jan 1925 | with his parents and maternal grandmother on Glenn Ave. - Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa | | | |
| Residence | 4 Apr 1930 | with his family at 137 Third St. - Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa | | | |
| Graduation | 1941 | Amherst College | | | |
| Marriage | 9 Oct 1941 | Living | | | |
| Military | Abt 1946 | served on a destroyer in the Aleutian Islands in the U.S. Navy | | | |
| Occupation | 1948 | worker in the Treasury Dept., of the Caterpiller Tractor Company - Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois | | | |