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Warren William Day

Male 1882 - 1966  (84 years)


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  • Name Warren William Day 
    Birth 26 Jul 1882  Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Census 7 Jun 1900  Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 17, born May 1883 in IL, at school, living with mother 
    Census 23 Apr 1910  Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 27, born IL, living with mother 
    WW1 Reg Card 12 Sep 1918  Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 36, born 26 Jul 1882, architect, NOK Ethel H Day 
    Census 15 Jan 1920  Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 37, born IL, Architect, parents born IL/IL 
    Census 7 Apr 1930  Mount Vernon, Westchester, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 46, born IL, marr at 25, independent architect, parents born IL/IL, mother in house 
    Census 15 Apr 1940  Urbana, Champaign, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    age 57, born IL, C5 ed, residing Campaign in 1935, manager of retail tabacco shop 
    Death 18 Dec 1966 
    Burial Springdale Cemetery, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2006  Family Tree
    Last Modified 15 Jan 2019 

    Father John Wentworth Day,   b. 5 Aug 1856, Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jun 1926, Toledo, Lucas, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Kate Delaney Moore,   b. 16 Jan 1856, Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 31 Dec 1934, Champaign, Champaign, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Marriage 8 Apr 1880  Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F535  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ethel Annetta Hollister,   b. 21 Aug 1888, Bellevue, Jackson, IA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Aug 1980, Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)  [1
    Marriage 7 Sep 1910  Champaign, IL Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Shirley Wentworth Day,   b. 23 Sep 1913, Peoria, Peoria, IL Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 May 1998, New York, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years)
     2. Muriel Hollister Day,   b. 3 Oct 1917, Chicago, Cook, IL Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1984, New York, New York, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
    Family ID F537  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Jun 2017 

  • Headstones
    Warren & Ethel (Hollister) Day Gravestone
    Warren & Ethel (Hollister) Day Gravestone
    DAY
    WARREN W. / 1882 - 1966
    ETHEL H. / 1888 - 1980
    Plot: South Bend

  • Notes 
    • from "History of Illinois and her people" by George Washington Smith, vol. 4 277-278 (hathitrust.org)
      WARREN. W. DAY is one of the skilled and successful registered architects engaged in practice in the city of Peoria, and special interest attaches to his career by reason of his being a native son of the city and a scion of honored pioneer families that were here founded in an early day. Warren W. Day was born in Peoria on the 26th of July, 1882, and is a son of John Wentworth Day and Kate Delaney (Moore) Day, both likewise natives of Peoria, where the former was born August 5, 1856, and the latter on the 16th of January of that same year. Larkin B. Day, grandfather of the subject of this review, was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire, on December 2, 1831, and came to Illinois in the '50s. He established his residence in Peoria, which was then a small city, and here with his brothers Lucius L. and Charles B., he founded the firm of Day Brothers, with which for many years he was associated in the conducting of a substantial and prosperous wholesale and retail dry goods business. His wife, whose maiden name was Caroline Amelia Wentworth, was born at Alstead, New Hampshire, on November 18, 1831, a representative of a sterling New England colonial family. With the exception of a year or so Larkin B. Day and his wife continued their residence in Illinois until their deaths. John Wentworth Day was reared and educated in Peoria, where he early became associated with the business of Day Brothers, being numbered among the representative citizens and business men of his native city. His widow, Mrs. Kate M. Day, who is still a resident of Peoria, is a daughter of William and Maria Amelia (Delaney) Moore, the former of whom was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1809, and the latter of whom was born at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1833. William Moore was one of the pioneer settlers, and came to Illinois in 1836 and a few years later moved to Peoria, where he established a foundry, one of the first in this section of the state, and where he continued to operate his foundry until the time of his death. Warren W. Day, the only child to attain to adult age, continued his studies in the Peoria public schools until , he had completed his junior year in the high school. He then spent five years in the business world and in foreign travel, after which he entered the University of Illinois, from which institution he was graduated in 1910, with the degree of Bachelor of Science. With excellent technical training for the work of his chosen profession Mr. Day was early privileged to gain practical experience of valuable order, for after leaving the University he was for one season retained as superintendent of construction in connection with Illinois state work. He then made another extended trip abroad, and upon his return he engaged in the practice of his profession in his native city of Peoria, where his success stands in evidence of both his technical and artistic ability and his personal popularity. His prominence in his profession is attested in his being (1924) president of the Central Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. His political allegiance is given to the republican party, and he and his wife hold membership in the Congregational Church. In the Masonic fraternity he is affiliated with the Scottish Rite body and also the Mystic Shrine. He is a member of the Theta Delta Chi college fraternity, the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs, the National Society of Scabbard and Blade, the International Optimist Club, the Theta Delta Chi Club of New York City, the University Club of Peoria, the Art Institute of Peoria, the Illinois Valley Yacht and Canoe Club, the Peoria Illini Club, the Peoria Association of Commerce, the Illinois Society of Architects, and the American Institute of Architects, and he has the brevet rank of captain in the Illinois National Guard. In the World war he served in France as a Directeur in Les Foyers du Soldat of the French Army. He has made five trips abroad, and as a keen observer has greatly broadened his intellectual ken through this medium, besides having further fortified himself for the work of his profession. On September 7, 1910, Mr. Day was united in marriage to Miss Ethel Annetta Hollister, also a graduate in 1910 of the University of Illinois, who was born at Bellevue, Iowa, on August 21, 1888, and whose father, Professor Horace A. Hollister, occupies the professorship of education in the University of Illinois. The honeymoon of Mr. and Mrs. Day was passed in a seven months trip around the world. Both are popular factors in the social and cultural circles of their home city, Mrs. Day being a member of the Peoria Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Peoria Woman's Club, the Art Institute of Peoria, and the College Woman?s Club of Peoria, of which latter she is a past president. They have two daughters: Shirley Wentworth and Muriel Hollister.

  • Sources 
    1. [S19] Smith, George Washington, History of Illinois and her people, (American Historical Society, Chicago, 1927), 277-278.