Feers Photograph Collection

Albert Gurney Feers was the son of H.F. and Allannette Cass (Gurney) Feers. Born in 1883 in Davenport, Albert had sisters Allannette "Edith" and Anna "Irene". His father was a police officer and firefighter in Davenport.

Albert followed the blacksmith trade and eventually attended veterinary school in Chicago, IL graduating in 1908. He married Clara Caroline "Carol" Burkhard in 1909 and brought her to Davenport to lived with his parents. Their daughter, Carol "Beatrice", was born in 1910.

Albert Feers worked at Crex Carpet harvest camps in Minnesota and Wisconsin for several years moving his family with him. In 1915 a son Willard was born to the couple but he died in 1917 suffering from a bowel obstruction.

Feers enlisted in World War I and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps of the U.S. Army. He trained at Camp Greenleaf in Georgia and served at Camp McClellan in Alabama.

After the war, another son was born, Albert Reginald. Not long after, the family moved to Los Angeles, California to live and work. The couple divorced and in 1940 Albert married a second time to Chritine Severine (Frederiksen) Martensen Orr in Yuma, AZ. They remained in California as did his first wife Carol and their children. Carol died in March 1973 and Albert in July 1973.

Christine Severine Frederiksen was the daughter of Christian S. and Anna Margarethe (Hansen) Frederiksen and she grew up in Moline, Illinois. Her father died when she was sixteen years old, leaving her widowed mother, one brother Sivert and one sister, Thakla.