Lewis Adolph - Elizabeth Olds
Home built 1910 or before
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G-4.1-2 Lewis Adolph (1870-1954).
1120 Adolph Road
Union Township
Union City, Michigan
After his first paying job, working for a neighbor for $15.00 a month,
Lewis traveled westward as a windmill salesman and publicity man for
a traveling medicine show. He returned home to marry Elizabeth aids
in 1895.
Her parent's wedding gift to the couple was sixty acres of land that
was later expanded into three hundred acres. No information is available
as to when it was built, but Lewis Adolph and his wife, the former Elizabeth
Rose Olds, moved to the above pictured house, located on Adolph Road in
Union Township, in 1910.
Along with farming, Lewis and Elizabeth operated a cider mill just
west of the Olds gristmill on Stancer Road. They also processed 5 gallon
crocks of apple jelly and 5 gallon pails of molasses that they shipped out
West to homesteaders.
They had three children: Clara (French), Frederick and LaVendee
(Fulton). An old account book notes that when Clara, the first child was
born in 1896, Dr Frankhauser drove his new buggy with a span of ponies
seven miles to deliver the baby.. The cost was $7.50. Lewis and Elizabeth
retired in 1935 and moved into Union City.
After their son Frederick, a school administrator, retired, ownership
passed to Neil Adolph Fulton. The home is no longer in the family.
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