Only child of James and Fannie. He was living with his mother after his father died, until her death. In Johnson Co, IA thru 1920, and then in Springdale, Cedar Co in 1925, and in Wapsinonoc, Muscatine Co in 1930.
In 1940 he is listed with his widowed mother Fannie (72, IA) as age 51 and single. It says he completed 0 yrs of schooling.
At the time of his mother’s death in 1944 Ralph was "deaf, dumb and mostly blind." He was living at the Glenwood Home for the handicapped (in Iowa City) when he died.