Notes from Mindy C. Pugh: Mae was evidently especially good at retail sales in the years before her marriage. While still in Alpena she was a clerk at the I. Cohen store there (according to "Polk's Alpena City and County Directory, 1905-1906"--which also shows that she was still living with her father and step-mother at 113 E. Clark Street). As of the 1910 census she had moved to Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, where she worked as a department store saleslady.
On November 27, 1910, at Elyria, Mae was married to Carl G. Friday, a prominent local business who had inherited his family's furniture and undertaking company. Carl Friday was well-regarded in the community and seen as a civic leader; read his "Find a Grave" page (linked) for a long biographical essay on him that was published during his lifetime in "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative ...," Volume 2; by George Frederick Wright. That essay ends with the following statement about Mae: "Mr. Friday was united in marriage with Miss R. Mae Arpin, of Alpena, Michigan, who was reared and educated in the city of her birth and is now well and popularly known in social circles of Elyria."
The single photograph I have of Mae (shown on this page) shows a well-dressed Mae; her face is cropped from a photo showing her standing with her step-mother Eda S. Arpin, her maternal aunt Alma Meske, and with Alma's daughter Clara Meske, on the Meske's front yard at 923 S. Third St. in Alpena, Michigan. The ages of the four figures suggests that Mae might have paid this visit to Alpena not long after her 1910 marriage.
Carl Friday died in 1919 and was buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery in Elyria; a stone for Mae was set nearby with her birth year and space left for an eventual date of death.
As a still-young and wealthy widow with no children, Mae was free to pursue her interests, which included serving as a prominent clubwoman in northwest Ohio. In 1946 she was serving as president of the Lakeside Federation; a current website (2015) for this organization states that "groups of women from this area (NW Ohio) have been meeting annually to hear speakers of interest, as well as to exchange information, since 1894." Further research will no doubt reveal that Mae was prominent in other organizations and had leadership roles in the Lakeside Federation long before 1946.
New York passenger lists show that on March 23, 1927 she returned to the U.S. after a trip to Europe on board the luxury liner the "Olympic" (sister ship to the "Titanic"), having embarked at Cherbourg, France.
Mae apparently not only presided over organizations that sponsored speakers, but was a speaker herself. The one anecdote about Mae that my mother--Doris A. (nee Papke) Pugh--told me dates from around 1929. At that time my mom's family had a new cabinet radio (a Sparton "Equasonne" model 79-A) in their living room in Alpena. My mother remembers her mother Clara (nee Meske) trying to pick up a radio broadcast featuring Mae that was emanating from Ohio--but was unable to find it. There must have been telephone communications between relatives that had alerted Clara to the broadcast. My mother also added that Mae was a prominent advocate of women's issues and rights.
At some time between 1927 and the 1930 census, Mae married Charles Shaw Ashbook, an Elyria drugstore pharmacist who was around fourteen years her senior; as of 1930 they were living at 123 West Bridge Street. By the 1940 census Mae Ashbrook had moved to Cleveland (3773 33rd Street); that census shows her as living alone but not divorced. Charles S. Ashbrook died March 6, 1944 in Trumbull, Warren County, Ohio.
Following her marriage to Charles S. Ashbrook she went by "Mae F. Ashbrook"--the "F" clearly standing in for her former married name Friday.
Public records show that "Mae F. Ashbrook," aged 88, died in a long-term care facility on May 22, 1968 in Wyandot, Ohio. One would have to obtain her death certificate to determine if she was actually buried in the spot reserved for her next to her first husband Carl G. Friday or was buried elsewhere.
On November 27, 1910, at Elyria, Mae was married to Carl G. Friday, a prominent local business who had inherited his family's furniture and undertaking company. Carl Friday was well-regarded in the community and seen as a civic leader; read his "Find a Grave" page (linked) for a long biographical essay on him that was published during his lifetime in "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative ...," Volume 2; by George Frederick Wright. That essay ends with the following statement about Mae: "Mr. Friday was united in marriage with Miss R. Mae Arpin, of Alpena, Michigan, who was reared and educated in the city of her birth and is now well and popularly known in social circles of Elyria."
The single photograph I have of Mae (shown on this page) shows a well-dressed Mae; her face is cropped from a photo showing her standing with her step-mother Eda S. Arpin, her maternal aunt Alma Meske, and with Alma's daughter Clara Meske, on the Meske's front yard at 923 S. Third St. in Alpena, Michigan. The ages of the four figures suggests that Mae might have paid this visit to Alpena not long after her 1910 marriage.
Carl Friday died in 1919 and was buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery in Elyria; a stone for Mae was set nearby with her birth year and space left for an eventual date of death.
As a still-young and wealthy widow with no children, Mae was free to pursue her interests, which included serving as a prominent clubwoman in northwest Ohio. In 1946 she was serving as president of the Lakeside Federation; a current website (2015) for this organization states that "groups of women from this area (NW Ohio) have been meeting annually to hear speakers of interest, as well as to exchange information, since 1894." Further research will no doubt reveal that Mae was prominent in other organizations and had leadership roles in the Lakeside Federation long before 1946.
New York passenger lists show that on March 23, 1927 she returned to the U.S. after a trip to Europe on board the luxury liner the "Olympic" (sister ship to the "Titanic"), having embarked at Cherbourg, France.
Mae apparently not only presided over organizations that sponsored speakers, but was a speaker herself. The one anecdote about Mae that my mother--Doris A. (nee Papke) Pugh--told me dates from around 1929. At that time my mom's family had a new cabinet radio (a Sparton "Equasonne" model 79-A) in their living room in Alpena. My mother remembers her mother Clara (nee Meske) trying to pick up a radio broadcast featuring Mae that was emanating from Ohio--but was unable to find it. There must have been telephone communications between relatives that had alerted Clara to the broadcast. My mother also added that Mae was a prominent advocate of women's issues and rights.
At some time between 1927 and the 1930 census, Mae married Charles Shaw Ashbook, an Elyria drugstore pharmacist who was around fourteen years her senior; as of 1930 they were living at 123 West Bridge Street. By the 1940 census Mae Ashbrook had moved to Cleveland (3773 33rd Street); that census shows her as living alone but not divorced. Charles S. Ashbrook died March 6, 1944 in Trumbull, Warren County, Ohio.
Following her marriage to Charles S. Ashbrook she went by "Mae F. Ashbrook"--the "F" clearly standing in for her former married name Friday.
Public records show that "Mae F. Ashbrook," aged 88, died in a long-term care facility on May 22, 1968 in Wyandot, Ohio. One would have to obtain her death certificate to determine if she was actually buried in the spot reserved for her next to her first husband Carl G. Friday or was buried elsewhere.
Notes from Mindy C. Pugh: Mae was evidently especially good at retail sales in the years before her marriage. While still in Alpena she was a clerk at the I. Cohen store there (according to "Polk's Alpena City and County Directory, 1905-1906"--which also shows that she was still living with her father and step-mother at 113 E. Clark Street). As of the 1910 census she had moved to Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, where she worked as a department store saleslady.
On November 27, 1910, at Elyria, Mae was married to Carl G. Friday, a prominent local business who had inherited his family's furniture and undertaking company. Carl Friday was well-regarded in the community and seen as a civic leader; read his "Find a Grave" page (linked) for a long biographical essay on him that was published during his lifetime in "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative ...," Volume 2; by George Frederick Wright. That essay ends with the following statement about Mae: "Mr. Friday was united in marriage with Miss R. Mae Arpin, of Alpena, Michigan, who was reared and educated in the city of her birth and is now well and popularly known in social circles of Elyria."
The single photograph I have of Mae (shown on this page) shows a well-dressed Mae; her face is cropped from a photo showing her standing with her step-mother Eda S. Arpin, her maternal aunt Alma Meske, and with Alma's daughter Clara Meske, on the Meske's front yard at 923 S. Third St. in Alpena, Michigan. The ages of the four figures suggests that Mae might have paid this visit to Alpena not long after her 1910 marriage.
Carl Friday died in 1919 and was buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery in Elyria; a stone for Mae was set nearby with her birth year and space left for an eventual date of death.
As a still-young and wealthy widow with no children, Mae was free to pursue her interests, which included serving as a prominent clubwoman in northwest Ohio. In 1946 she was serving as president of the Lakeside Federation; a current website (2015) for this organization states that "groups of women from this area (NW Ohio) have been meeting annually to hear speakers of interest, as well as to exchange information, since 1894." Further research will no doubt reveal that Mae was prominent in other organizations and had leadership roles in the Lakeside Federation long before 1946.
New York passenger lists show that on March 23, 1927 she returned to the U.S. after a trip to Europe on board the luxury liner the "Olympic" (sister ship to the "Titanic"), having embarked at Cherbourg, France.
Mae apparently not only presided over organizations that sponsored speakers, but was a speaker herself. The one anecdote about Mae that my mother--Doris A. (nee Papke) Pugh--told me dates from around 1929. At that time my mom's family had a new cabinet radio (a Sparton "Equasonne" model 79-A) in their living room in Alpena. My mother remembers her mother Clara (nee Meske) trying to pick up a radio broadcast featuring Mae that was emanating from Ohio--but was unable to find it. There must have been telephone communications between relatives that had alerted Clara to the broadcast. My mother also added that Mae was a prominent advocate of women's issues and rights.
At some time between 1927 and the 1930 census, Mae married Charles Shaw Ashbook, an Elyria drugstore pharmacist who was around fourteen years her senior; as of 1930 they were living at 123 West Bridge Street. By the 1940 census Mae Ashbrook had moved to Cleveland (3773 33rd Street); that census shows her as living alone but not divorced. Charles S. Ashbrook died March 6, 1944 in Trumbull, Warren County, Ohio.
Following her marriage to Charles S. Ashbrook she went by "Mae F. Ashbrook"--the "F" clearly standing in for her former married name Friday.
Public records show that "Mae F. Ashbrook," aged 88, died in a long-term care facility on May 22, 1968 in Wyandot, Ohio. One would have to obtain her death certificate to determine if she was actually buried in the spot reserved for her next to her first husband Carl G. Friday or was buried elsewhere.
On November 27, 1910, at Elyria, Mae was married to Carl G. Friday, a prominent local business who had inherited his family's furniture and undertaking company. Carl Friday was well-regarded in the community and seen as a civic leader; read his "Find a Grave" page (linked) for a long biographical essay on him that was published during his lifetime in "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative ...," Volume 2; by George Frederick Wright. That essay ends with the following statement about Mae: "Mr. Friday was united in marriage with Miss R. Mae Arpin, of Alpena, Michigan, who was reared and educated in the city of her birth and is now well and popularly known in social circles of Elyria."
The single photograph I have of Mae (shown on this page) shows a well-dressed Mae; her face is cropped from a photo showing her standing with her step-mother Eda S. Arpin, her maternal aunt Alma Meske, and with Alma's daughter Clara Meske, on the Meske's front yard at 923 S. Third St. in Alpena, Michigan. The ages of the four figures suggests that Mae might have paid this visit to Alpena not long after her 1910 marriage.
Carl Friday died in 1919 and was buried in Ridgelawn Cemetery in Elyria; a stone for Mae was set nearby with her birth year and space left for an eventual date of death.
As a still-young and wealthy widow with no children, Mae was free to pursue her interests, which included serving as a prominent clubwoman in northwest Ohio. In 1946 she was serving as president of the Lakeside Federation; a current website (2015) for this organization states that "groups of women from this area (NW Ohio) have been meeting annually to hear speakers of interest, as well as to exchange information, since 1894." Further research will no doubt reveal that Mae was prominent in other organizations and had leadership roles in the Lakeside Federation long before 1946.
New York passenger lists show that on March 23, 1927 she returned to the U.S. after a trip to Europe on board the luxury liner the "Olympic" (sister ship to the "Titanic"), having embarked at Cherbourg, France.
Mae apparently not only presided over organizations that sponsored speakers, but was a speaker herself. The one anecdote about Mae that my mother--Doris A. (nee Papke) Pugh--told me dates from around 1929. At that time my mom's family had a new cabinet radio (a Sparton "Equasonne" model 79-A) in their living room in Alpena. My mother remembers her mother Clara (nee Meske) trying to pick up a radio broadcast featuring Mae that was emanating from Ohio--but was unable to find it. There must have been telephone communications between relatives that had alerted Clara to the broadcast. My mother also added that Mae was a prominent advocate of women's issues and rights.
At some time between 1927 and the 1930 census, Mae married Charles Shaw Ashbook, an Elyria drugstore pharmacist who was around fourteen years her senior; as of 1930 they were living at 123 West Bridge Street. By the 1940 census Mae Ashbrook had moved to Cleveland (3773 33rd Street); that census shows her as living alone but not divorced. Charles S. Ashbrook died March 6, 1944 in Trumbull, Warren County, Ohio.
Following her marriage to Charles S. Ashbrook she went by "Mae F. Ashbrook"--the "F" clearly standing in for her former married name Friday.
Public records show that "Mae F. Ashbrook," aged 88, died in a long-term care facility on May 22, 1968 in Wyandot, Ohio. One would have to obtain her death certificate to determine if she was actually buried in the spot reserved for her next to her first husband Carl G. Friday or was buried elsewhere.
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