![]() ![]() In 1932 Phil worked at Paragon Studio with J Hamilton Stevens, Sam M Schoke and Louis F Westbrook. In 1930, on March 8, their son Phil Culbertson David was born, and about this time they moved to an appartment in 5525 Enright Avenue. Phil now worked for The Triad Studios, one of the midwest's largest advertising art agencies doing advertising illustration, fashions, photo retouching and cartoons. The young couple made their home in 5316 Pershing Avenue. She wore an arm bouquet of spring flowers, and the seremony was witnessed by a small gathering of friends. The bride was unattended and wore a simple shell-pink frock. William Growe, pastor of the Westminister Presbyterian Church. The marriage in 5881 Plymounth Avenue was soleminized by Dr. In 1929, Phil married Helen Culbertson in a small ceremony at the house of his uncle and aunt, Ralph Waldo and Florence Bugbee. Phil continued to study figure painting and illustration at Washington Art School at night, and in 1928 he got a job in the Post-Dispatch Art Department. course in showcard lettering.įor a display adverticing company his first job was to letter "Merry Christmas" - 25 feet long, but he no idea how to lay it out and they had to call an outsider to do that. Phil started teaching himself lettering at night from library books, and took a Y.M.C.A. The chief draftsman suggested lettering as a way of selling himself to some commercial art house. About this time he also designed a streemlined coffin for a St. ![]() With some help from his roommate he teached himself trigonometry after his work, at night. Then Phil went to Florida as a draftsman with an civil engineer and when returned he got a job in a office of a consulting engineer. He worked in the radio concern, mainly with experimental research, until they demanded he invented an entirely new circuit for them. ![]() His next job was for a radio concern and he got a first-class ham license (9 EDD). But Phil had a form of sleeping sickness, as an after-effect of the flu epidemic in 1918, company had to transfer him to outside work with the installation crew. But in 1921, at the end of his sophomore year, his family was in financial trouble and Phil had to quit school to support himself and his family.ĭue to his training in mechanical drawing the 15 years old Phil got himself a job as a draftman for the tecnical department of the Bell Telephone Company in St. With every hope of becoming an engineer Phil enroled Soldan High School in 1919. In 1918 the family lived in 5915 Minerva Avenue, and Charles as an inspector for Wagner Electric Mnfg Co. He was a mechanical engineering professor at Washington University and he encouraged Phil to take a manual training course at high school. Also doing a war job during the summer was his pal's father, Franz A. When Phil was 12 years old he got a summer job as a tool boy in the Liberty Motors plant. My family neither encouraged nor discouraged me they just went along and accepted my dark fate." Phil later told that: he was a regular kid as a boy, with the exception that he got deeply interested in drawing at the age of 6: "I had a mania for parades”, he says. In 1910 the family lived in 4023 Green Lea Place and Charles worked as a salesman, real estate. On December 8, 1907, Phil's baby sister, Emily Price, was born. When Phillip Marquis was born, on Mathe family lived in 1155 Bayard Avenue. When their first son, Hugo Herchenrath, was born on December 23, 1902, the family had moved to 1462 Belt Avenue in St. Charles worked as a dealer in general merchandise and the newly married couple lived in the house of Charle's father, James H. Charles Henry Davis (1873-1956) and Ethel Herchenrath (1874-1936) married on April 30, 1900, in Franklin, Howard, Missouri.
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