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 1902 - 1970
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| Born |
12 Jul 1902 |
Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
ADE0BD7026FC446BAD49A5A947F64471C186 |
| Died |
14 Oct 1970 |
Knoxville, TN [1, 2] |
| Person ID |
I4220 |
OuthouseLine2014 |
| Last Modified |
12 Jan 2012 |
| Father |
Loyal DURAND, b. 31 Mar 1868, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI , d. 3 Oct 1937, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI |
| Mother |
Lucia Relf KEMPER, b. 28 Dec 1871, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI , d. 19 Jun 1969, Glendale, WI |
| Married |
6 Oct 1898 |
Nashotah, Wauk, WI |
| Family ID |
F1579 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- S.R. Durand: "One year [probably in the 1950's] when my brother, on a sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was teaching at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, Mother and my sister Glee spent some time visiting there."
Derek Doran-Wood Note: S.R. Durand: "My brother, Loyal Durand, Jr. was twenty months older than I. He was born July 12, 1902 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the first child of our parents, Loyal and Lucia (Kemper) Durand. In the biographical sketches about my mother and father, I have recorded quite a bit about the family I grew up in, the nice manner in which we lived in the early part of the twentieth century, and the lovely colonial home where we resided in Milwaukee. My brother, two younger sisters and I were the most fortunate of individuals born into this world to have had such wonderful parents. Our childhood was a happy one in a closely devoted family.
My brother was nearly four years old in April, 1906 when we moved to our new home at 384 Lake Drive, now 2112 North Lake Drive. I have several pictures of my brother Loyal Jr. (always called Loy) and me in the garden of our Racine Street home that were taken by my mother, who, during our childhood, was quite interested in photography. My earliest memories of our new home are of playing with my brother in a large sandpile (on a vacant lot north of us) in the summertime, and playing in the snow in our backyard in the wintertime. On the third floor of our home, we had a playroom where we spent many hours on a swing and trapeze, playing with toys, and going through many volumes of bound St. Nicholas magazines preserved from my father's boyhood. I also recall Loy and me crossing the gravel tar-coated street of Lake Drive to stand on a rail fence each day, to watch a boy come to get cows from a field and drive them down Prospect Avenue to be milked in barns behind mansions on the cobblestone street. Often, with our nurse and baby sister Lucia in a carriage, we walked the three blocks to the Lafayette Street bridge over the railroad tracks to watch trains pass by; this was where the railroad left the lakeshore and cut through to follow the Milwaukee River northward.
In 1910, my brother Loy was sent to the Milwaukee Normal Teacher Training School on Downer Avenue, a mile and a quarter north of our home. He entered the third grade, having been taught to read at home by my mother. School commenced at 8:15 a.m., lunch was from 11:45 am to 1:15 pm, and school ended for the day at 3:30. On good days, Loy walked to school, home for lunch, back afterwards, and then home again in the afternoon, a good five miles of walking each school day. I should say jogged and ran rather than walked - after I began school a year later, we ran or roller-skated together, always in a great hurry. When the weather was rainy or very cold, we rode a streetcar which we boarded four blocks north of our home where North Avenue met Lake Drive.
Many days in mid-winter, we struggled through deep snow to the streetcar line and waited a long time in the bitter cold until a snowplow could clear the tracks. On very bad days we stayed at school for lunch. Later, when our sisters (Dit and Glee were our nicknames for Lucia and Elizabeth) were going to this school, too, my mother or father would drive us to school in the morning.
Loy was a brilliant student and always at the top of his class. He enjoyed poring over encyclopedias and history books, and was especially interested in reading about distant countries and studying maps in a large world atlas we had at home. He made many notes in this atlas, and this early interest in geography undoubtedly led him in later life to become an eminent professor of geography and a prolific writer on geographical subjects. He was interested in sports to the extent of participating in baseball games in the spring time and football and soccer games in the fall, organized by boys in our neighborhood. But he did not endeavor to become a good tennis player or golfer because, in the summer time, he suffered from hay fever, which handicapped him greatly for these sports. An interest of my brother when a young boy was drawing cartoons, at which he was very clever. When quite young, he saved the Sunday newspaper comic sections which amused him very much. He drew his cartoons using similar characters to those he found in comic strips and provided much enjoyment for the family with his creations of funny situations and sayings of his characters.
When I was six and Loy was nearly eight years old in 1910, my father bought our first automobile. That summer we made a few trips on gravel roads as far as Delafield, Wisconsin, twenty-eight miles west of our home, where we picnicked with relatives at their country homes. These day-long Sunday trips were really somewhat adventurous in that we never knew how many inner tubes or tires would "blowout" or go "flat" and how many times they would have to be patched and (with inner "shoes" over the blowout holes in the tire) put in and pumped up with a hand-operated air pump. But we enjoyed these Sunday picnics and kept them up for several years.
In the fall of 1911, Loy and I started going to Sunday School at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. My mother or father drove us usually the mile and a half south to the 9:320 a.m. Sunday School service and we walked home afterwards. During mid-winter, we stopped at the Town Club on Farwell Avenue just south of Brady Street to ice skate and to play ice hockey on a portion of the rink on the four tennis courts boarded off or boys' hockey games. We enjoyed stopping, too, at our Uncle Selden and Aunt Sue's home (Dr. and Mrs. Sperry) on Farwell Avenue to be treated to homemade cookies and to see our grandfather, Samuel Kemper, who lived with them. We called him "Bampo". He died at the age of eight-eight in September, 1915.
In 1912 we spent several weeks in the country on a large island in Pine Lake about twenty-five miles west of our home. We occupied the cottage of our Uncle Fred and Aunt Sophy Best. They, with their children, stayed in his mother's summer home while she was in Germany. This was our first experience of country living in the summer time. We watched sailboat races in which my uncle participated on Saturdays and Sundays and we had several motorboat rides around the lake with my uncle. Later in the summer of 1912, we made a long trip in our "Cross Country Rambler" car to Deerwood, Minnesota, which I described briefly in writing about my mother.
During the 1st World War in 1914 to 1918, the boys in our neighborhood played soldier. We built trenches and dugouts in a vacant lot and had great battles with snowballs in the winter time and soft mud balls in the summer time. Fortunately, mother had a large staff of servants to wash our clothes after these battles. During these years, Loy was the principal organizer of a baseball team of neighborhood boys which we named the Lake Drive Lions. We entered a league of boy's teams sponsored by the Milwaukee Journal newspaper. This was along before the days of Little Leagues sponsored by the parents of young boys and there were no adults to umpire and control games. After some good fights with opposing teams from the Irish and Polish wards of the city in which we lost much equipment, we retired from the Journal League. Loy was the catcher on our team, and he ended up several times with a good black eye from catching without a mask or from the fist fights that generally broke up our games. At about this stage of our boyhood, the newspaper sport pages were full of news of prize fights and prize fighters. This was before the time of professional football and some other sports that now fill the sport sections. Many boxers in those days were nicknamed "Kid" so-and-so, and when Loy and I did a lot of boxing in our third floor playroom, we called each other "Kid L" and "Kid S". We continued to call each other by these pseudonyms all our lives as a token of affection for each other.
In the fall of 1914 when Loy became twelve years old, he joined Boy Scout Troop Number 17 at St. Paul's Church. In those days, there were no Cub Scout Troops, and I was mighty jealous that my older brother was a scout before I could become one. Two years later I became a Boy Scout and, for four weeks in July, 1917, we went to a Boy Scout camp when it was first established at Silver Lake, a small lake thirty miles west of Milwaukee. This was a great experience, for we helped to build many of the facilities at the camp.
In the summer of 1918, there was a great need for help in getting in crops on the farms of Wisconsin and an appeal was made for sixteen and seventeen year old city boys to work on farms. Loy became sixteen on July 12, 1918 and through one of the men who worked in my father's large insurance office, it was arranged for Loy to work on his uncle's farm in southern Wisconsin. So for several weeks until school started in September, Loy milked cows in early morning and late evening hours, pitched hay during the day and did other farm work. He was somewhat interested in farming as a career, and had gone for a few weeks in June to the County Agricultural School just west of Milwaukee, but after his experience with actual hard physical labor on a farm, I do not recall his ever talking again about becoming a farmer. I do not think farming offered enough intellectual stimulus to his very keen mind, nor was he physically strong enough at this age for hard farm work. He did go with a friend, Robert Richardson, to a cherry orchard across Lake Michigan in June each of the following two years to pick cherries, at which seasonal work they made good money.
When we were young, we earned fifteen cents a week for cutting and watering grass and helping to plant and maintain a vegetable garden in summer time and shoveling snow off sidewalks and operating the coal-fired house furnace and hot water heater in winter time. We never received an allowance; our father believed we should earn our money. We both had paper routes for a time when in our teens. This was mighty hard work delivering papers often in winter time in sub-zero weather.
Loy entered Riverside High School in the fall of 1916. He rode his bicycle to and from high school a mile and a half each way four times a day. He took a science course that included general science in his freshman year, zoology and botany in his senior year. His only extra-curricular activity that I can recall was joining in his second year the Orient Debating Society. He became president of this group of boys interested in debating in his senior year, which was quite an honor for, I believe, he was the only one not intending to be a lawyer or politician in later life. The big event each year was a debate before the entire school between the Orient and Crescent Debating Societies and, as I recall, Loy in his junior year was one of the three from the Orient Society that won the debate that year.
One of the trials of our boyhood was attending dancing school at the Atheneum (Wisconsin Women's Club) on Saturday afternoons in the winter time during high school age days. Loy did not suffer as much as I did in having to learn ballroom dancing. And he got to go to an evening class for older children after one year. In college days and afterwards, I guess that dancing school paid off, because I, at least, became rather proficient at dancing and enjoyed it very much. There were many big dancing parties at Christmas time which we were invited to; some were tea dances in the afternoon followed by a dinner party and large dance afterwards the Town Club or the Atheneum. «tab»During several weeks of the summer of 1919, our parents rented a cottage on Upper Nebahbin Lake. for short periods from 1916 to 1919, we had spent time in rented cabins in Delafield on Nagawicka Lake, but the summer of 1919 was a memorable one for Loy and me, for we took several day-long canoe trips through the lovely winding Bark River joining small lakes and we swam in the lake two or three times each day. «tab»During part of each summer for many years, Loy and I worked in our father's insurance office. When quite young, one of us would work as an office boy mornings and the other afternoons. When older, we did lots of bookkeeping work as well as driving our car to deliver insurance policies to offices and industrial plants in the city. We walked each day from our father's office (which occupied half of the second floor of the Wells Building) to make deposits in the Marine Bank and another job was to always get the large amount of mail off at 5:30 p.m. Our summer time vacation of a few weeks in the country was usually in August after having worked in June and July. «tab»Loy graduated from Riverside High School at the top of his class in June, 1920. During mornings in the early part of the summer, Loy and I studied French at the college level in a class at the Milwaukee State Teachers' College. We had had the maximum amount of French given in high school, and we were encouraged by my mother to continue studying this language with the hope of being able to travel some day to France. «tab» Later in 1920, our family drove to Rochester, New York, where we had a reunion with many Durand relatives. On this trip, we visited, too, Niagara Falls, which I hardly remembered from previously having been there when a very young boy. Our car had two fold-out seats between the front and rear seats, and my brother and I took turns with our sisters sitting on these hard, uncomfortable seats. When it was our turn to have the back seat, we used up excess energy wrestling for possession of a small pillow. «tab»With the tire troubles often several times a day and engine overheating, we were fortunate to average only about one hundred and fifty miles per day on the loose gravel roads of that era. «tab» In September, 1920, Loy started college at the Milwaukee State Teachers College, now the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. At that time, students could attend any of the Teachers Colleges in the State of Wisconsin for two years and receive full credit when transferring the third year to the Letters and Science Department of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Loy lived at home for the first two years of college work and entered the University of Wisconsin at Madison at the start of his junior year in September, 1922. He pledged Sigma Chi fraternity, the fraternity our father had been a member of during his college days at the University of Wisconsin, and he was initiated into membership in March, 1923. He had made such an outstanding scholastic record in Milwaukee and continued it at Madison that he was honored by being elected to the scholastic honorary society of Phi Beta Kappa in his senior year at college in 1924. In January, 1924, while majoring in geography, he was made an assistant instructor six months before graduating in June, 1924 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. «tab»During the summer of 1924 our entire family made an extensive automobile trip in the eastern part of the United States. My father's great interest was in the history of our country, and he had a large library of historical works and read extensively on historical subjects. We visited the battlefield of Gettysburg where my father, my brother and I tramped over much of the ground where monuments revealed where various regiments had fought. After a few days in Washington, where we saw all the important government buildings, monuments and museums, we visited Mount Vernon, the Yorktown National Monument and Williamsburg, Virginia, which was in the process of being restored to its early Colonial charm. We went to Annapolis to see the Naval Academy and we visited the historical buildings in Philadelphia and the churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church where so many of my mother's ancestors are buried in the church graveyards. We saw, too, Valley Forge and we stopped to call on distant cousins living in the old Beach homestead on the Rariton River near New Brunswick, New Jersey. At New Brunswick, we found the grave of Colonel Daniel Kemper in the Christ Church graveyard. «tab»In New York City our father spent some time with executives of insurance companies he represented, but also took us to many historical places and to the theatre several times. We stopped at St. Paul's churchyard in Norwalk, Connecticut to see the gravestone monument of my mother's grandmother, Ann (Relf) Kemper, wife of Bishop Jackson Kemper. In New Haven, we called on some distant Hillhouse cousins of Dad's living in their large manor home on the Yale University campus. And in Berlin, Connecticut, we saw the old Durand homestead where Dad's father had been born. Then we drove to see the military academy at West Point and we called on two elderly Salisbury ladies at their historic Catskill home, descendants of Captain Sylvestre Salisbury, one of my mother's ancestors. «tab»M brother became a graduate assistant in the Geography Department of the University of Wisconsin in the fall of 1924, thus earning his living while pursuing studies toward a doctoral degree. He and a good Sigma Chi friend, George Bunker, had rooms in a home on Langdon Street just beyond Lake Street, but Loy did most of his studying in his office in Science Hall. He was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1925. In the summer of 1926, he was an assistant of the Wisconsin Geological Survey. «tab»Ater I graduated from the University of Wisconsin in June, 1926, I spent that summer traveling with George Bunker in Europe. On returning in September for a year of graduate work in the Physics Department, Loy and I and a good friend, Bill Crutcher, (who in 1932 married our sister Elizabeth - "Glee") had an apartment together in Sterling Court. Actually, we had only two rooms in one of which we had our desks and bureaus and in the other our beds. We ate all our meals in nearby restaurants or cafeterias. In the summer of 1927, Loy and another graduate assistant made an extensive tour together of Europe. They were in Cracow, Poland at the time of a revolution and were standing just inside the entrance to their hotel when a policeman at the doorway was shot and killed. They were not able to get out of Poland for several days to continue their trip to Czechoslovakia, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and England. From the fall of 1927 through the fall of 1929, Loy lived at the University Club on State Street across from the State Historical Library, and from 1928 to 1930 he was an instructor in the Geography Department. In 1930 he received a Doctor of Philosophy degree. His Ph.D. thesis was published in 1930 and was entitled, "The Geographic Regions of Wisconsin". «tab»A Christmas time 1929, I went from New York where I was an engineer in the International Telephone & Telegraph Company Laboratory to South Bend, Indiana to be best man at the wedding of my brother to Dorothy Lee. We stayed in a hotel where my mother, father and sister Glee were also staying. The wedding was on Christmas Day afternoon and there had been a heavy snowstorm during the night. In walking from the hotel a few blocks to the church, Loy and I were wearing high top hats and were pelted with snowballs by several young boys and arrived somewhat beaten up for the ceremony. However, everything went smoothly and Loy was happily married to a lovely girl who had been one of his students. Loy and Dottie spent a short honeymoon in the south, for Loy had to be back in Madison in January 1930 to resume teaching in the Geography Department where he was an instructor. In June, 1930, he was promoted to be an assistant professor. «tab» I was married in 1931 and Jerry and I were living in Milwaukee after 1932. We drove often to Madison to see Dottie and Loy and they came into Milwaukee often to stay with my mother and father, where we had many happy times together. Loy and Dottie purchased a very nice home on Nakoma Road in the outskirts of Madison and all four of their sons were born during the 1930's in Madison. «tab» Our three daughters Lucia, Jean and Sarah were in between [Loy and Dottie's boys] in age, and many Christmas days with seven small children at my parents' large home in Milwaukee were festive occasions. Each summer Loy and Dottie and their boys spent a few weeks at her parents' cottage at Macatawa on the shore of Lake Michigan. After the boys were older, they went to a summer camp for boys in the Rocky Mountains near Estes Park. «tab» My brother became one of the most distinguished geographers in the United States, largely through writing and having published a great many articles and books on geographical subjects. His first article published in the Journal of Geography in 1925 was entitled, "The Grain Trade of the Great Lakes." «tab» Subsequent to this, he published a great many articles for several years on the dairy industry in Wisconsin and became the most knowledgeable economic geographer in the study of this industry. «tab» Many more of his research articles on many subjects were published in the Journal of Geography and in publications such as the Geographical Review, Wisconsin Dairying, Geographical Press of Columbia University, Journal of Land and Public Utility Economics, Economic Geography, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, etc. His first book was published by the Macmillan Company in 1933, entitled "Home Regions of Wisconsin". In 1937 Loy and two other professors published "The Working World, an Economic Geography," through the American Book Company. My brother did the major writing of this very successful book used by several hundred colleges and universities as their most important textbook for geographical studies. Revised editions were published in 1939 and 1947. «tab» In 1938, my brother and a Professor Whitaker wrote a book entitled, "Workbook for the Working World". This book they revised and rewrote in 1949; it was very successful for use with the "Working World, an Economic Geography." In 1939, my brother supplied a chapter on geography for a book published by John Wiley and Sons entitled "Our Natural Resources and Their Conservation". «tab»From 1944 to 1947, he was geography editor for the World Book Encyclopedia and wrote, checked and verified 259 articles for its volumes. In 1951 a book published by the Thomas Y. Crowall Company became the most important textbook for American universities for use in geographic studies in the next twenty years. It was entitled, "World Economic Geography," and was written by perhaps the four most eminent economic geography scholars in the country at the time: my brother Loyal Durand, Jr.; George T. Renner of Columbia University; C. Langdon White of Stanford University,; and Weldon B. Gibson, of the Stanford Research Institute. This book was revised in 1954, 1961 and in later years, largely through the work of my brother. It was a very large book of 758 pages with more than 500 illustrations and maps, most of which Loy prepared. «tab» Loy was geography editor of Groliers' Encyclopedia in 1958. Also, in 1958, he wrote with three other teachers a widely-used textbook published by the Macmillan Company entitled, "Living Together as World Neighbors". These two books were revised and republished by the Macmillan Company in 1966. In 1960 Loy with two others wrote for publication by the Holt, Rinehart and Winston Company, "World Geography Today". In 1961, he and Prudence Cutright wrote and had published by the Macmillan Company, "Our Canadian Neighbors". And in 1968, Prentice-Hall Company published my brother's last book, "Geography of Anglo-America". «tab» Loy did a lot of extra-curricular consulting work on the economic development and use of land resources. He became Land Planning Consultant for the Wisconsin National Resources Board in 1934, and in 1941 became a Special Land Planning Consultant to the National Resources Planning Board. «tab» During the 2nd World War in the summer of 1944, he served in the Office of Strategic Services (now the C.I.A.), Washington, D.C. and prepared several top secret wartime reports. From 1935 until 1941 he was secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters and editor of their Transactions. «tab» In January, 1944 my brother accepted an offer of an Associate Professorship and Chairman of the Department of Geography at the University of Tennessee and the family moved to a large home at the campus in Knoxville. In 1946 he became a full professor. Because of his distinguished reputation in the field of economic geography, he was invited every summer, usually by several universities, to give special courses, often posing a problem for him as to which offer to accept. He was a visiting professor during summers at universities such as Penn State, the Universities of Utah, Oregon, Colorado, California at Los Angeles, Nebraska, and others. At some of these schools he gave special courses over more than one summer. «tab» From September, 1957 until June, 1958 Loy, on sabbatical leave from the University of Tennessee, was visiting professor at the University of Hawaii. He and Dottie and their son Lee were in Honolulu during this time and my mother and youngest sister, Glee, visited them there. When the University of Tennessee in 1962 wanted land to expand the campus, Loy and Dottie sold their home to the university and purchased a lovely home about a mile from the campus at 3940 Wilani Road. My brother received many honors during his lifetime. In addition to having been elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1924, he was honored by being elected to Phi Beta Kappa Associates, a group of two hundred within Phi Beta Kappa. His biography was first published in "Who's Who in America" in 1952 and in subsequent years; it also appeared in "Who's Who in Education," "The Directory of American Scholars" and "American Men of Science." A biography of his life and achievements appeared in the "National Cyclopedia of American Biography" in 1967. [2]
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- [S94] Rootsweb GEDCOM, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ddoranwood/fam0116 7.htm derek@igc.org (Reliability: 3).
- [S125] DORAN-WOOD, Derek, (Derek Doran-Wood note: My Brother, Loyal Durand Jr., His Family and Ancestry, Author: Durand, Samuel Relf, Publication: Handwritten by author ca1977, transcribed ca1999 by Kemper B. Durand, Repository: personal collection of Derek Doran-Wood, Media: Family Archive CD).
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