Converse Morrill Converse and Stella Freed

Husband

Converse Morrill Converse

Born: 10 SEP 1901^[1] at Stamford, Conn.
Died: 27 JAN 1976^[2] at Santa Barbara, Calif.
Married: 08 APR 1930^[3] at Winnemucca, Humboldt Co., Nev.
Father: Walter Coolidge Morrill
Mother: Antoinette Converse

Wife

Stella Freed

Born: ABT 1902^[4]

Converse Morrill was born a Morrill – the son of Walter Coolidge Morrill and Antoinette Macdonough Converse – but he lived his adult life under a doubled surname, “Converse Morrill Converse,” having taken his mother’s maiden name as a second surname. His parents divorced when he was a small child and his mother returned to her maiden name, Converse; much of his youth appears to have been spent abroad, and he is absent from the United States censuses of 1910, 1920, and 1930. When he reappears in American records as a young man the doubled name is already fixed: his 1922 passport application reads “Converse Morrell Converse.” The form held for the rest of his life – through his 1930 marriage in Nevada, his 1940 census household in Santa Barbara, California, and his 1942 draft registration – and, tellingly, he passed it on: his son was registered at birth in California in 1935 as “Converse Morrill Converse.” No adult record ever names him “Morrill” alone; the Morrill survives only as the middle element of the tripartite name. He died in Santa Barbara in 1976. ^[5]

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Children

Living Converse