Son of Joseph Whims and Hanna A. Bird. Husband of Lyla Lucille Scott, whom he married in 1914. Leslie L. Whims was a Rochester auto dealer and insurance agent. He founded the Whims Insurance Agency in Rochester in 1917 and built the Whims building at 430 S. Main Street in Rochester in 1926.
From:Avery, Lillian Drake, 1856-1930, George N. 1873-1957 Fuller, and Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. An Account of Oakland County. [Dayton, Ohio]: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925, p.446:
Mr. Whims was born on the old homestead farm in Brandon township, November 3, 1892, and he is now one of the progressive young business men in the thriving little city of Rochester. He supplemented the discipline of the district school by attending the high school at Orion, and it was not long after he had attained to his legal majority that he engaged independently in the implement and feed business at Rochester, in March, 1914. This enterprise he has since continued with marked success, but since 1915 he has given much of his time to the management of his garage and automobile business, as local agent for the Dodge automobiles. He is the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred nine acres, near Orion, is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. August 20, 1914, Mr. Whims was united in marriage to Miss Lyla L. Scott, who likewise was born and reared in Oakland county and who is a daughter of the late Robert Scott, her parents having been residents of Rochester, this county, at the time of their death. To Mr. and Mrs. Whims have been born two children: Frances L. was born September 15, 1917, and Vern L. was born December 15, 1920.
From:Avery, Lillian Drake, 1856-1930, George N. 1873-1957 Fuller, and Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. An Account of Oakland County. [Dayton, Ohio]: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925, p.446:
Mr. Whims was born on the old homestead farm in Brandon township, November 3, 1892, and he is now one of the progressive young business men in the thriving little city of Rochester. He supplemented the discipline of the district school by attending the high school at Orion, and it was not long after he had attained to his legal majority that he engaged independently in the implement and feed business at Rochester, in March, 1914. This enterprise he has since continued with marked success, but since 1915 he has given much of his time to the management of his garage and automobile business, as local agent for the Dodge automobiles. He is the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred nine acres, near Orion, is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. August 20, 1914, Mr. Whims was united in marriage to Miss Lyla L. Scott, who likewise was born and reared in Oakland county and who is a daughter of the late Robert Scott, her parents having been residents of Rochester, this county, at the time of their death. To Mr. and Mrs. Whims have been born two children: Frances L. was born September 15, 1917, and Vern L. was born December 15, 1920.
Son of Joseph Whims and Hanna A. Bird. Husband of Lyla Lucille Scott, whom he married in 1914. Leslie L. Whims was a Rochester auto dealer and insurance agent. He founded the Whims Insurance Agency in Rochester in 1917 and built the Whims building at 430 S. Main Street in Rochester in 1926.
From:Avery, Lillian Drake, 1856-1930, George N. 1873-1957 Fuller, and Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. An Account of Oakland County. [Dayton, Ohio]: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925, p.446:
Mr. Whims was born on the old homestead farm in Brandon township, November 3, 1892, and he is now one of the progressive young business men in the thriving little city of Rochester. He supplemented the discipline of the district school by attending the high school at Orion, and it was not long after he had attained to his legal majority that he engaged independently in the implement and feed business at Rochester, in March, 1914. This enterprise he has since continued with marked success, but since 1915 he has given much of his time to the management of his garage and automobile business, as local agent for the Dodge automobiles. He is the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred nine acres, near Orion, is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. August 20, 1914, Mr. Whims was united in marriage to Miss Lyla L. Scott, who likewise was born and reared in Oakland county and who is a daughter of the late Robert Scott, her parents having been residents of Rochester, this county, at the time of their death. To Mr. and Mrs. Whims have been born two children: Frances L. was born September 15, 1917, and Vern L. was born December 15, 1920.
From:Avery, Lillian Drake, 1856-1930, George N. 1873-1957 Fuller, and Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. An Account of Oakland County. [Dayton, Ohio]: National Historical Association, Inc., 1925, p.446:
Mr. Whims was born on the old homestead farm in Brandon township, November 3, 1892, and he is now one of the progressive young business men in the thriving little city of Rochester. He supplemented the discipline of the district school by attending the high school at Orion, and it was not long after he had attained to his legal majority that he engaged independently in the implement and feed business at Rochester, in March, 1914. This enterprise he has since continued with marked success, but since 1915 he has given much of his time to the management of his garage and automobile business, as local agent for the Dodge automobiles. He is the owner of a well improved farm of one hundred nine acres, near Orion, is a Republican in politics and is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity. August 20, 1914, Mr. Whims was united in marriage to Miss Lyla L. Scott, who likewise was born and reared in Oakland county and who is a daughter of the late Robert Scott, her parents having been residents of Rochester, this county, at the time of their death. To Mr. and Mrs. Whims have been born two children: Frances L. was born September 15, 1917, and Vern L. was born December 15, 1920.
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LESLIE L.
1892-1968
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LYLA L.
1893-1980
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