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- Owen Norris Churchill worked throughout most of his life for the Illinois
Central Railroad. This necessitated some amount of travel, and
consequently he was known to have lived in several different states. Owen
Norris Churchill met his wife, Mary Mageline Nolan, when he was a resident
engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad, who had employed him to build
a steel trestle/viaduct near Linton, Indiana about 1910. After that he
and his wife were known to have lived in a construction camp in North
Platte, Nebraska. By Septemger of 1914, they were known to be residing in
Lousiville, Kentucky, and by 1918 they were living in Chicago, Illinois.
While there, Owen Norris Churchill was employed in the accounting
department of the Illinois Central Railroad. He remained in that capacity
until his retirement in 1946 at age 65, at which time he and his wife
moved to an apartment in Beverly Hills, California. While in Chicago,
Illinois, he legally changed his name. Named at birth Otto Norris
Churchill, on April 15, 1919 he by an affidavit through the Mutual Life
Insurance Company of New York changed his name legally to Owen Noris
Churchill.
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