Jobs' adoptive father, Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993),[3] grew in a Calvinist household,[4] the son of an "alcoholic and sometimes abusive" father.[2]The family lived first on a farm in Germantown, Wisconsin and then later in West Bend, Indiana.[4] He bore a resemblance to James Dean, had tattoos, dropped out of high school, and traveled around the midwest for several years during the 1930s looking for work.[2][4] He eventually joined the United States Coast Guard as a machinist in the engine room.[4] After the end of World War II, he decided to leave the Coast Guard when it docked in San Francisco.[4] He made a bet that he would find his wife in San Francisco and promptly went on a blind date with Clara Hagopian (1924–1986).[5] They were engaged ten days later and married in 1946.[2] Clara, the daughter of Armenian immigrants, grew up in San Francisco and had been married before, but her husband had been killed in the war. After a series of moves, Paul and Clara settled in San Francisco's Sunset District in 1952.[2] As a hobby, Jobs rebuilt cars, but as a career he was a "repo man," which suited his "aggressive, tough personality."[4] Meanwhile, their attempts to start a family were haulted after Clara had an ectopic pregnancy leading them to explore adoption in 1955.[2]