My father is Floyd Lanphier, born May 10, 1907. He is the eldest son of Casper Lanphier. Casper lived in Lansing, Michigan, joined the US Navy and fought in the Spanish American War. Left the Navy when the ship was in San Francisco,California. Hitchhiked up to Ft. Bragg/Mendocino California and became a sawyer. Married Emily Olson, my paternal grandmother around 1903. Eldest daughter, Fay, born in 1905 was Miss America in 1925. Then my father in 1907, then Clyde, Roy, Dolly and Gerald.