Hugo Summerfield: Who Was He?

Hugo Summerfield was born 22 Feb 1869 in Freystadt, Germany to Mary & C. Mayer Summerfield.


Inmate: #732 Berkeley, CA Jail
Arrested 10 June 1916
Crime: Vagrancy & Begging 
Age: 48

He was an Inmate in the Nevada State Prison in 1890, for burglary, did 4 1/2 years.

Was arrested 22 July 1916 in Oakland for vagrancy was sentenced to 75 days.

1906 he he was in Folsom Prison 


Inmate: #6369 Folsom Prison
Rec: 4 Feb 1906
Crime: Forgery

I found very little about him, but there was also a Hugo Summerfield from Massachusetts who moved to Detroit that was born in Germany..I am wondering if it's him...I found 2 passport photos I am sure it's my Hugo, from 1924 & 1920.


1920

1924

His sibling were:


Adolph Summerfield
1866–
Agnes Summerfield
1870–
Max Summerfield
1872–
Oscar Summerfield
1874–
Martha Summerfield
1875–1924
Louisa Summerfield

1880–

The story turns really sad with his sister Martha she was born 19 July 1875 in Sacramento, CA, she married Stonewall Jackson Holliday in 1898. They had 2 children.

Marguerite Roberta Holliday
1898–1991
Ernest Delos Holliday

1901–1974

Ernest was deaf.

At some point Martha and Stonewall separate. Stonewall was an adventurer who went on expeditions and hunting trips.   



14 Nov 1924

Ukiah, California

Martha was running a rooming house. Louis Johnson was obsessed with her, he snuck into her room as she slept and attacked her with a hatchet, then he cut his artery on his arm to kill himself. Here's some newspaper articles.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41838101/martha_summerfield/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41837954/martha_summerfield/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41838203/martha_holliday/

I found her funeral record which had me searching newspaper articles, she was only 49 years old. 



Later the same year of 1924 Stonewall falls ill.



Looked like he was improving by Sep.


By November he would blew his brains out.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41838805/jack_holliday/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41839126/stonewall_holliday/

Here is his funeral record and why I looked up newspaper articles for him.


 All of this information and nothing for poor Hugo. 


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