Obit: Warlum, Mida (1909 - 1990)

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Surnames: WARLUM QUINLAN WIESNER

----Source: Tribune-Record-Gleaner 9/ /1990

MIDA WARLUM

Mida Warlum, 81, Neillsville, Clark County, died Friday, Sept. 14, 1990. at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield. Funeral services were held Monday, Sept. 17, 1990, at St Mary's Catholic Church, Neillsville. Father Joseph N. Henseler officiated and burial was in the Neillsville City Cemetery. Friends served as pallbearers.

Mida Quinlan was born July 18, 1909, in Neillsville, to John J. and Clara (nee Wiesner) Quinlan. She received her education in Neillsville and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 1933 with a masters degree. She began teaching school in Ladysmith. She taught there for six years. She married Elliot Warlum in September of 1939 in Neillsville. He survives. She then taught in Granton for several years and later in Neillsville, from where she retired.

Survivors include her husband, Elliot and one son, Michael Warlum, Seattle, Wash.

She is preceded in death by her parents and one sister.

Gesche Funeral Home handled the arrangements.

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Obit: Warlum, Elliot C. (1908 - 1993)

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Email: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: WARLUM QUINLAN WIESNER

----Source: Neillsville Cemetery Records, Wisconsin Death Certificates, Warlum Family Photo Album

           Warlum, Elliot C. (22 Oct 1908 - 11 Jul 1993)

Wisconsin Death Index, 1959- 11 Jul 1997
 

Elliot C Warlum
Certificate Number: 019524
Death : 11 Jul 1993, Clark, Wisconsin
Residence: Clark, Wisconsin

United States Social Security Death Index

Elliot C Warlum 85 yrs.,
Birth Date: 22 Oct 1908
State:  Wisconsin
Last Place of Residence:
Clark, Wisconsin
Previous Residence Postal Code: 54456
Death Date: 11 Jul 1993

Bio: Warlum, Elliot (1908 - 1993)

1920 Census, Pine Valley, Clark Co., Wisconsin, Sheet B, Sheet #5

Household
Peter Warlum Head Male 42 Michigan
Alvina Warlum Wife Female 34 Wisconsin
Elliot Warlum Son Male 11 Wisconsin
Roslyn Warlum Daughter Female 10 Wisconsin
Ella Pollnow Sister-in-law Female 32 Wisconsin

1930 Census, Pine Valley, Clark Co., Wisconsin, Sheet B, Sheet #5

Household
Peat M Warlum Head Male 51 Michigan (plumbing-proprietor)
Alvina Warlum Wife Female 43 Wisconsin
Elliot Warlum Son Male 21 Wisconsin (electrician)
Roslyn Warlum Daughter Female 20 Wisconsin
Ella Pollnow Sister-in-law Female 42 Wisconsin (sales lady, plumbing shop)

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Research

Peter Magnus Warlum owned a gin pole which is a supported pole that uses a pulley or block and tackle on its upper end to lift loads. The lower end is braced or set in a shallow hole and positioned so the upper end lies above the object to be lifted. The pole (also known as a mast, boom, or spar) is secured with three or more guy-wires. These are manipulated to move the load laterally, with up and down controlled by the pulley or block. In tower construction, a gin pole can also be “jumped” up the completed sections of a tower to lift the higher sections into place.


A gin pole being used to install a weather vane atop the 200 foot steeple of a church
 

Roof trusses being erected with gin poles

The gin pole is derived from a gyn, and considered a form of derrick, called a standing derrick or pole derrick, distinguished from sheers (or shear legs) by having a single boom rather than a two-legged one.

Gin poles are also used to raise loads above structures too tall to reach with a crane, such as placing an antenna on top of a tower/steeple, and to lift segments of a tower on top of one-another during erection. When used to create a segmented tower, the gin pole can be detached, raised, and re-attached to the just-completed segment in order to lift the next. This process of jumping is repeated until the topmost portion of the tower is completed. They can also hold a person if strong enough. Thus opening stage uses, such as in magic shows.

Gin poles are mounted on trucks as a primitive form of mobile crane, used for lifting and relocating loads, and salvage operations in lieu of a more sophisticated wrecker.

This page of photos was contributed by Mike Warlum and was found in P. M. Warlum's collection of photos.  It pictures Elliott (b. 1908) and Mida (b. 1909) Quinlan Warlum.  We do not know what they were doing at the time or what equipment is.  Could it be P. M.'s "Gin Pole".  The "Fire Lane 1933" notation could give us a clue, but it is difficult to tell if that picture has anything to do with the one beneath or the one to the right.  If you know, please contact us!