Kate Knerr Alderman ^{1 2 3}

   FamilySearch ID: LF2L-T59

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Residence: Battle Creek City Directory: Alderman Mattison W (Betty) research chemist h291 Main in 1942 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, MI. ⁵

2. Residence: Battle Creek City Directory: Alderman Mattison W (Betty) with Post Cereals h76 W Clinton dr in 1956 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, MI. ⁶

3. Book: Aldermans in America, 1957. ⁷
Mattison Wells Alderman was born in Alcolu, S. C., and lived there until he had finished the 8th grade in school. He left the home village to complete the last two years of his secondary education at Stony Brook Preparatory School, Stony Brook, Long Island, N. Y. It was during those two years that he decided on a profession in chemistry. The next eight years of his life were devoted to preparation for this work. He completed a bachelor's degree in chemistry at Davidson College in North Carolina in June 1935. His education continued without interruption, culminating in receipt of a Ph.D. in chemistry from University of Virginia in June 1939. It was there that he made Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.
Shortly after receipt of his doctor's degree, he went to work for General Foods Corporation in their then new Central Laboratories in Hoboken, N. J. After two years there he was transferred to the Post Cereals Division of General Foods in Battle Creek, Mich. He continued in his career as a chemist until the spring of 1953. Upon his request and with the consent of the management, he was transferred to the marketing side of the business.
During his two years in the metropolitan New York area, he met Betty, daughter of Frank Henry Bury of Allentown, Pa., in which city Betty was born and married. At the time they met, however, she was working in the Flower Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York, she being a registered nurse. She was living in an apartment building adjacent to that in which Mattison was living and they were introduced by mail through a mutual friend who was still attending the University of Virginia. That was in the fall of 1939 and they were married a year later.

Mattison Wells Alderman b. Dec. 4, 1914 married Sep. 18, 1940 Betty Marilyn Bury b. Jan. 26, 1915
Issue:
Kate Knerr \emdash Born: Oct. 21, 1942
Sarah Ann \emdash Born: Apr. 26, 1946
Mattison W., Jr. \emdash Born: Jul. 1, 1947
Mary Malvina \emdash Born: May 17, 1953.

4. Residence: 1962 Darien City Directory: Alderman Mattison W (Betty B) dir of new products NY h 74 Turtle Back la W, New Canaan in 1962 in New Canaan, Fairfield, CT. ⁸

5. Residence: on 1 Aug 1983 in Oakland, Alameda, CA. ⁹

6. Residence: on 19 Jan 1986 in Oakland, Alameda, CA. ³

7. Residence: 1921 Rosecrest Dr, Oakland, CA, 94602 in 1993 in Oakland, Alameda, CA. ¹⁰

8. Residence: from 1 Apr 1993 to 1 Feb 1999 in Lafayette, Contra Costa, CA. ⁹

9. Residence: 1 Hartwood Ct., Lafayette, CA 94549 in 2001 in Lafayette, Contra Costa, CA. ¹¹

Kate married John Dennis Ruby on 16 Apr 1978 in , Alameda, CA.¹ (John Dennis Ruby was born on 4 Jun 1941 ¹¹.)