Hart Family - Ourfolk

Jean Young Lidster attended Denison and Northwestern Universities before running into an old boy- friend from Morgan Park High School, Nord Hart, on a train to work.
They began dating again and were soon married. She accompanied him to his last few military posts, before returning to Chicago when she was pregnant.

Worked for her father at J. D. Neilson Leather Cut Sole before she got married.

After graduating from Depauw University Norwood Albert Hart served as an Army officer, as a 1st Lt., towards the end of World War II, but was stateside in the food procurement field, the vocation of his father.

He was nearing the completion of an MBA from Harvard through the Army when his wife, Jean, became pregnant.

He then left the Army to return to Chicago where he worked for his father about 10 years at the South Water Market as a produce wholesaler. This was mostly to aid his father in the business since his older brother,Albert D. Hart, Sr., had pursued another line of work.

Realizing that remuneration from this job was not commensurate with his educational background, he worked as a business machine salesman for many companies, including 'Electrofile' and 'Underwood Typewriter', and 'Acme Visible Records', each being bought out by a larger company.
His products were forerunners of computers, doing many of the same things databases on computers did later. The biggest problem he faced in his career was constantly competing against IBM.

Electrofile machine

Eventually, he became too old in the eyes of his last employer and retired at age 53.
The irony is that his father-in-law, Ralph Eaton Lidster, invested heavily in IBM during the depression.
Part of the money from those investments were what cushioned Nord's retirement years.

'I remember when Dad came home with that brand new '57 Ford Fairlane 500 convertible. He finally traded in the old '49 Ford station wagon he got when he was working for Grandpa at the South Water Market. (Woody and I used to like to watch the road go by underneath it through the rotted holes in the rear floor of the car on the way up to Shorewood.) I 'm pretty sure they used it to deliver produce back in the day.

Being a typical Ford in the day the convertible had lots of problems it seems. Anyway, he traded it in on the new white '59 Cadillac which Woody rolled it into a ditch somewhere around Bethany Beach in '61 or '62 when he was 16 or 17. It had to be towed back to Chicago. I don't remember how we all got home. Possibly in Grandpa's '62 Buick. The 59 Caddy was traded for a one year old black '64 Caddy Sedan DeVille in ''65. The picture was taken in front of 9646 Hoyne with dad, Nonnie and me in front and mom, Woody and Jon in the back.' (Bob Hart 2020)

Nord was a musician who played saxophone and clarinet in high school and college.
He later joined and often led many bands in the Chicago and South Florida areas, quitting only when macular degeneration of his eyes prevented his reading music.
It was one of the greatest disappointments of his life giving up that life-long love.

After a long struggle, Nord died from COPD, having been a life-long smoker

Jean and Nord lived at 9646 S. Hoyne in Chicago, and then at 10120 S. Hoyne.
Then they moved to Deer Creek Country Club Blvd in Deerfield Beach, Fl.