Chaddock-Bio-Uncle Harry #1 (Ivan)

Uncle Harry was the oldest of the four.  There were three boys and my mother, who was almost exactly 20 years younger than Harry.  --Undoubtedly a surprise baby!  As such she was Harry's baby sister and their lives turned out to be closer than the others.
 When Mother was in high school she had what was called "a nervous breakdown" and never finished high school, and after an interval, joined Harry as a bookkeeper at the store.  She stayed there a  year or two, then she went back to Batavia, where she commuted to a position as the bookkeeper for the Bonalevo Farms which was on the Attica road.  There she met my father who was the Assistant Manager,  but that is another story!
  Harry had a hardware store on Main Street in Perry, "H.H.Chaddock Hardware" for about 35 years.  He had played football for Batavia High School and was well known in Batavia. His store weathered the depression adequately, up to the time of his death. He and Aunt Louise belonged to the Country Club, although to my knowledge he did not play golf.
  Uncle Harry was Bob Chaddock's and my "rich uncle".  At 11 Dolbeer Street in Perry appeared the first pop-up toaster, electric mixer, the first electric refrigerator, the first console radio, the first Willys-Knight, the first Buick, the first chocolate mousse(refrigerator prepared) in the family. Toss salad was first served there in my memory, as the first cranberry sauce as(opposed to cranberry jelly). I'm sure there many other items in this category, but this is the memory of  teen-ager, at the time.
  The Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays were rotated among the family homes. One of my outstanding memories was at 11 Dolbeer, when Lois, Lawrence and I cranked and cranked to no avail to solidify the sherbet.  Finally, one of us tasted the slush, which as sweet as could be.  The house had been out of rock salt so sugar hd ben substituted thinking it had been salt! After that the sherbet sure tasted delicious, when it was finally ready!
  One Christmas we were towed behind a car on the icy, slippery streets of Perry on sleds which must have been Lois' and/or Frances'.  We survived!  Once "sugaring off" was the occasion for a lasting memory.
  Uncle Harry had nicknames for most of us.  Mine was "Skeezix"after the character of the same name in the comic, "Gasoline Alley". It seemed that as an infant I had had a curl in the center of my scalp, which resembled that of Skeezix.
Lois was called "Goody Two Shoes" after her thump-thump coming down the thickly carpeted stairs as a toddler. Fran undoubtedly had one but she was old enough that I was not exposed to it.

Harry Hiram Chaddock B- 11 Jul 1878 D- 11 Jul 1937
Anna Louise Buell Chaddock B-17 Feb 1876   D 21 Feb 1962