Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is located in Midtown Manhattan, New York and was designed in the Art Deco style.  It is 1250 ft tall without the pinnacle; add that in and another 200 or so feet makes it a whopping 1453ft tower! It cost approx $41 million dollars to build which would be a little over $635 million today - WOW! It was at one time the world's tallest building.  The building was designed by William F Lamb and the contractor for the job was The Starrett Brothers and Eken Company.  The excavation started on January 22, 1930 and construction itself started on St Patrick's Day, March 17; the ribbon cutting event occurred on May 1, 1931.

What does this have to do with the Vincent family?

Harriet Amelia, 'Millie', Vincent, born in Nova Scotia, was the daughter of my John William Vincent and married a Mr James King.  James worked as a bookkeeper for the railroad company.  The couple moved west with her brother Robert for a bit and then landed in New Haven, CT.  I believe James died before 1915, most likely in Connecticut, because by 1915, Harriet and her surviving children were living in Elizabethtown, New York.  Harriet was a dressmaker; Fred was a stenographer; and Olive and Creighton were working for a hotel.

Creighton Vincent King, was born in 1895 in Boston, MA and would have been 20 years of age in 1915 working as a bell boy at the hotel.  By 1925, he had married Clida McNeelan and was working as a used car salesman. In 1930, they are in San Francisco - she with her mother & he at a hotel.

In 1942, he registers for the war.....

 




Who would have thunk it!