Answering a Question about Alva Carl Linn

I received a question, wondering what took William Peter Linn's son Alva and his wife Daisy to California. Here is what I know about Alva who appears to have had wonderlust, difficulty in choosing just one profession, or maybe just loved the change:

An advertisement in the December 11, 1913, Dayton Review, shows Alva Linn as proprietor of an auction house.

Alva Linn married Daisy Kirkman in 1915 in Boone County, Iowa, and, in the 1920 US Federal Census are found as renters of a farm in Clay Township in Webster County.

In the 1930 US Federal Census, Alva and Daisy are boarders living in Los Angeles, California. They are listed as proprietors of a restaurant.

In the 1940 US Federal Census, Alva and Daisy are now living in northern California in Squaw Valley Township in Siskiyou County. In that census, everyone was asked if they were living in the same house in 1935. Daisy and Alva had moved from Yreka, also in Siskiyou County. Alva is now listed as being a timber faller in the logging industry. This would have been a very physical job, entailing trimming and cutting down trees, as well as cutting them into smaller pieces and loading them for transportation. In 1940, Alva was in his early 50's.

Daisy Kirkman Linn died in 1964, and, at that time, they were living in Modesto in Stanislaus County. Daisy was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Pleasant Valley, El Dorado County, California.

In 1966, Alva married Vera Burnett. When Alva died at the age of 92, he had been living in a convalescent hospital in Modesto. Alva died in 1981 and is buried next to Daisy in Pleasant Valley Cemetery. His second wife Vera lived to be 93 and is buried in the Modesto Pioneer Cemetery in Modesto, California.

Both Alva and Daisy, and Alva and Vera, had no children.

So, from farmer to auction house proprietor, from restaurant proprietor to timber faller, living in Iowa and then several locations in California, Alva certainly lived an adventurous life!