In Re Estate of Whitehouse

Edmund I. Whitehouse was born in London, England, came to this country with his parents when about fourteen years of age, and settled on a farm near Grimes, Polk county, Iowa. It appears that he continued living at Grimes and was engaged in farming there until sometime after reaching manhood, when he moved to Des Moines and engaged in the loan business. In 1892 he was married to Effie Van Dorn and about 1894 James E. Whitehouse, the contestant herein, was born as the issue of that marriage. About seven or eight months after the birth of the child Mrs. Whitehouse died, and thereafter the…