With the premiere of Ken Burns’ three-part, six-hour documentary on Ernest Hemingway last week, I thought I’d look at the family’s roots in Oak Park, specifically his uncle George Hemingway (1876-1953), who was a local realtor and developer. George was the younger brother of Ernest’s father Clarence. In 1895, at just 19 years old, George opened his own real estate office at the Dunlop Brothers’ Oak Park Trust and Savings Bank Building, built in 1887, at 101 N. Marion Street, “for the transaction of the general real estate, insurance and loan business,” according to a 1927 article in Oak Leaves newspaper.
George Hemingway and Oak Park
George Hemingway and Oak Park
George Hemingway and Oak Park
With the premiere of Ken Burns’ three-part, six-hour documentary on Ernest Hemingway last week, I thought I’d look at the family’s roots in Oak Park, specifically his uncle George Hemingway (1876-1953), who was a local realtor and developer. George was the younger brother of Ernest’s father Clarence. In 1895, at just 19 years old, George opened his own real estate office at the Dunlop Brothers’ Oak Park Trust and Savings Bank Building, built in 1887, at 101 N. Marion Street, “for the transaction of the general real estate, insurance and loan business,” according to a 1927 article in Oak Leaves newspaper.