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Draft Registration WWII Francis Joseph Tobin Philadelphia 1942

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Transcription

Draft card (fourth registration): serial 246, order number T-10,447 [red ink]; name Francis Joseph Tobin; residence 4228 Maywood St., Philadelphia, Penna.; mailing address same; age 20; born Aug. 4, 1921, Philadelphia, Penna.; person who will always know address: Mrs. Anna Tobin, 4228 Maywood St., Phila.; employer E. J. Schoettle Co., 533 North 11th St., Phila.; signed Francis J. Tobin; registrar J. Mathilda [Mathilde?] Heinberger [Heimberger?], Local Board 38, Phila., Pa.; registered February 16, 1942; board stamp "Local Board No. 38, City of Philadelphia, 1129 East Tioga Street [read as Tioga], Philadelphia, Penna."; race white, height 5-7 1/2, weight 145, brown eyes, brown hair, dark complexion, no other identifying marks. Index entries: SSDI: Francis J Tobin, born 4 August 1921, died 6 February 2009, Delaware [County], Pennsylvania. County marriage index: Francis Joseph Tobin, groom, 16 September 1946, Philadelphia, parents Frank Tobin and Anna Magee, spouse Helen Elizabeth Hanlon.

Plain reading

Francis Joseph Tobin was born 4 August 1921 in Philadelphia, lived with his mother Anna at 4228 Maywood Street, and worked for E. J. Schoettle Co. when he registered for the draft on 16 February 1942, aged 20. A man of the same name and birth date died 6 February 2009 in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. A Francis Joseph Tobin, son of Frank Tobin and Anna Magee, married Helen Elizabeth Hanlon in Philadelphia on 16 September 1946.

Notes

PROBABLE for the 2009 death (index only; birth date matches).

A 1940 census index entry "Francis Tobin, born 1921 Philadelphia, parents Patrick J. Tobin and Christine Tobin, Ward 34" is a different man (parents Patrick and Christine against Frank and Anna).