Notes for: Ruby D. Bodine
From Ronny Bodine:
On 5 June 1917, Leo Henry Bireline registered for the World War 1 draft in Champaign County, Illinois. He reported he was born 19 June 1894 in Danville, was married and had a child. Leo and Ruby Bireline lived in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois 1920-1930 where Leo worked as a bookkeeper for a sheet metal company in 1920 and as a tinner in 1930.
From: A Standard History of Champaign County, Illinois, by J. R. Stewart, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1918.
Leo H. Bireline, one of the youngest business men of Champaign, is successfully engaged in the metal roofing business, an industry which he learned during his youth, his father being also connected with the same line of business. Mr. Bireline was born in Danville, Illinois, June 19, 1894, a son of Henry and Emma (Diehl) Bireline, both of whom were also natives of Danville. His parents are still living at Danville and his father conducts a roofing and sheet metal works in that city. There were five children in the family: Catherine Ellen, wife of W. A. Meek of Danville; Robert, who is associated with his brother Leo in business at Champaign; Leo; Florence and Emily, both at home with their parents. Leo H. Bireline grew up in Danville, attended the city schools, spent two years in high school and finished his education in Brown's Business College at Danville. There he took a bookkeeping and general business course, and with that equipment and with the experience he had acquired under his father he came to Champaign to take charge of the local branch of the sheet metal and roofing business. This business in its subsequent growth now requires all his time and active attention. The headquarters of the business is a large building 25x125 feet, with ample facilities for a perfect service in their particular line. Mr. Bireline married Ruby Bodine, a native of Kingman, Indiana, but reared in Danville. They have one child, Margaret. Mr. Bireline is a Republican in politics, is a thirty-second degree and Consistory Mason, and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He and his family are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Children: Margaret (1918), Robert A. (1922).