Résumé

Principal, Robert W. Chittock, Landscape Architect, Seattle, WA, c. 1963-1973.

College

B.A., Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon (U of O), Eugene, OR, 1956.

Relocation

Born in Eugene, OR, Robert W. Chittock lived with his parents at 770 West 6th Avenue West in Eugene, according to the 1940 US Census. They owned their own residence that had an estimated value of $3,000 at the time, while many of their neighbors rented. They had resided in this same dwelling in 1935 as per the census. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Eugene, Lane, Oregon; Roll: m-t0627-03368; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 20-48, accessed 02/21/2021.)

Robert attended his hometown university, the University of Oregon.

The landscape architect died in King County, WA, at the age of 83. (See Department of Health, Death Index, 1907-1960; 1965-2017 - Robert - W - Chittock, Department of Health, Death Index, 1907-1960; 1965-2017, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, accessed 02/21/2021.)

Parents

His parents had both been born in the West. His father, Cleo David Chittock (born 09/13/1908 in Ashton, ID-d. 07/15/1986 in Eugene, OR), worked as a retail refrigeration service manager for the J.O. Olsen Manufacturing Company in Eugene in 1940. He worked as a service manager for an electric refrgerator store in 1930, as well. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1930; Census Place: Eugene, Lane, Oregon; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0047; FHL microfilm: 2341680, accessed 02/21/2021.)

His mother Thelma J. Sly (born 01/08/1909 in Cottage Grove, OR-d. 02/08/1996 in Seattle, WA) managed the household. Cleo and Thelma married on 11/23/1929 in Lane County, OR. (See Ancestry.com Source Information Oregon, U.S., Marriage Indexes, 1906-2009 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2000, accessed 02/21/2021.)

His father had completed two years of high school, his mother, four years, as noted in the 1940 US Census. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1940; Census Place: Eugene, Lane, Oregon; Roll: m-t0627-03368; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 20-48, accessed 02/21/2021.)

Thelma's mother was Ethel Winnifred Cottle (born 09/25/1878 in IA-d. 02/14/1922 in Lane County, OR) who, at one time, attended the University of Oregon, and father, Frank Joseph Sly (born c. 1882 in SD), who worked as a farmer in Creswell, OR, in 1918. (See Ancestry.com, Source Information U.S., School Catalogs, 1765-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012, accessed 02/21/2021 and Ancestry.com, Source Information U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005, accessed 02/21/2021.) Ethel and Frank married on 12/08/1907 in Lane County, OR. (See Ancestry.com, Source Citation Year: 1910; Census Place: Cottage Grove Ward 2, Lane, Oregon; Roll: T624_1282; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 0149; FHL microfilm: 1375295, accessed 02/21/2021 and and Ancestry.com, Source Citation Oregon State Archives; Salem, Oregon; Oregon, Marriage Records, 1906-1910, 1946-1966, accessed 02/21/2021.)

Cleo's father was William Levi Chittock (born 09/08/1867 in Rockport, OH-d. 06/10/1941 in Santa Clara, OR) and his mother, Etta Jane Honess (born 12/14/1875 in Polk County, NE-d. 06/16/1969 in Eugene, OR).