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Olive Hamilton. The fourth daughter of Samuel and Liza. Olive becomes a teacher, which makes her family proud. She is the mother of the narrator of the novel (and indeed, in real life, the mother of John Steinbeck). Mollie Hamilton. The youngest daughter of Samuel and Liza. Mollie is the lovely one, the sweetheart of the family.
Jun 18, 2003 · Mother Olive Steinbeck. Father John Ernst Steinbeck. Steinbeck hardly knew his grandfather, Samuel Hamilton, who died in 1904, when Steinbeck was two. "He died when I was quite young," Steinbeck wrote, "but it is remarkable how much I remember about him." Samuel was a dreamer, an inventor, an idealist, a maker.
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Olive Hamilton was the mother of the Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck. Olive Hamilton was born in 1866 or 1867 in San Jose, California. She was the daughter of Samuel Hamilton and Elizabeth (Fagen) Hamilton. Olive was the youngest of five daughters in a total of nine children of a Salinas blacksmith who did well for himself and the family....
Parents, Samuel, (b. in Northern Ireland) & Elizabeth (b. in New York) "Liza" Fagan Hamilton. Her parents were married in New York in 1849.
"United States Census, 1880", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6P9-CJB: Fri Oct 06 09:12:14 UTC 2023), Entry for Samuel Hamilton and Eliza Hamilton, 1880."United States Census, 1910", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVLX-THJ: Wed Oct 04 08:03:51 UTC 2023), Entry for John E Steinback and Olive B Steinback, 1910.SOURCE : "BillionGraves Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/2VZ9-F2G: accessed 07 May 2014), Olive Steinbeck, 1934; citing Garden of Memories Cemetery, Salinas, Cal...- Female
- December 11, 1866
- Johann Ernst Steinbeck Sr
- February 19, 1934
- Adam Trask. Adam is the son of Cyrus Trask and the brother of Charles Trask. Adam was forced into the army by his father, whom he respected but did not love.
- Catherine Trask (Kate) Catherine is born without kindness, empathy, or any goodness at all. She learns to manipulate people at an early age, taking pleasure in the destruction and degradation of other people’s lives.
- Caleb “Cal” Trask. Cal Trask is the most obvious figure for the Biblical Cain in the novel: his father Adam loves his twin brother Aron best. Though his father hides Catherine’s identity from the boys, Cal eventually figures… read analysis of Caleb “Cal” Trask.
- Aron Trask. Aron is the beautiful blonde son of Adam and Catherine Trask. He grows up longing for the love of a mother, and his mind is not as complicated as that of his twin brother… read analysis of Aron Trask.
His mother, the strong-willed Olive Hamilton Steinbeck, was a former teacher. As a child growing up in the fertile Salinas Valley —called the "Salad Bowl of the Nation" — Steinbeck formed a deep appreciation of his environment, not only the rich fields and hills surrounding Salinas, but also the nearby Pacific coast where his family spent ...
Jun 18, 2003 · Olive Hamilton becomes a teacher who yearns for metropolitan life. "She was as intuitive as a cat. Her acts were based on feelings rather than thoughts. She had her mother's firm chin and button nose and her father's fine eyes. She was the most definite of any of the Hamiltons except her mother.
Steinbeck’s mother, born Olive Hamilton, was a former school teacher who enforced high academic standards for her children and encouraged a love of literature. John Steinbeck had three sisters: two older sisters Esther and Beth, and a younger sister Mary, whom Steinbeck was close to throughout their childhood together.
