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An oval head-and-shoulders portrait of an elderly man with a lined face, side-whiskers and a black stock, copied from an early photograph. He died in 1867.

Blacksmith, husband of Polly Collins. The photograph, in an ornate case-style frame, is reproduced from a printed family history and captioned “Eli Woodruff Bruner”. The caption is in the same typewriter face as Polly’s in the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book (page), so the history is probably that book. The photograph uncropped is here.

The same photograph as the oval portrait in the family’s printed history, here uncropped: a bearded man in a broad-brimmed hat, a bow tie and a long coat with a row of buttons, seated, his hands in his lap.

Polly Collins Bruner (1827-1887), wife of Eli Woodruff Bruner. Molata is her story: the photograph shows the darker complexion the family remembered, and the DNA of her descendants bears out the “Molata” of the colonial records. The same photograph as printed in the 1997 Brunner/Bruner Picnic book, with its caption, is here.

The same photograph of Mary Elizabeth “Polly” Collins as the family’s copy, here as printed, in an embossed frame with the typed caption “Mary Elizabeth ‘Polly’ Collins Bruner.” The book is a 1997 family history made for a Brunner/Bruner picnic. The portrait of her husband Eli in the family’s printed copy is captioned in the same typewriter face, so is probably from the same book. The foot of the page is cut off in the screenshot.

A studio portrait of a man with a moustache, in a broad-brimmed hat, a check coat and a neckerchief, seated with a revolver in his hand. Captioned “Eli Heck Bruner”: Eli Hickman Bruner, son of Eli Woodruff Bruner and Polly Collins. He drowned crossing the Grand River in Indian Territory in 1899.

A cabinet card of a young woman, seated, with a basket of flowers in her lap, and a bearded man beside her, before a painted backdrop hung with ivy (page 1). The back (page 2) is printed for Smith’s Studio of Photography, 206 N. Clark St., Chicago, and written in pencil, “8/24/1880 Jennie & Finley Ellingwood (Dr).” They married on 1 Sept 1880, eight days later.

A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman with her hair piled up, in a dress with full white sleeves, reproduced in halftone. Captioned “Jessie Lorene Clifford” on Ancestry. Undated; by the dress, about the time of her marriage to Richard Blackmer Holbrook at Seattle in 1900.

Theresa Panian (1878-1966), later Mrs. Joseph Kuchenmeister of Almena, Wisconsin: mother of Margaret (Kuchenmeister) Hatten. A cabinet portrait of a young woman in a dark, ruffled dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves, a brooch at the collar and a watch on a long chain; the dress puts it in the later 1890s, around the time of her marriage in 1899. The same photograph is on the family history page about her (see A page on Theresa Panian).

A young man in a suit and bow tie standing by a gate (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Cudge about 1911-12 age 16 Richard E. Ellingwood born Feb. 14, 1895.” The family was then at Evanston, Illinois.

An older man with white hair and a white moustache, in a long dark coat, standing on a sidewalk before a frame house (page 1); on the back (page 2), “April 1920 Grandpa Ellingwood” and, in another hand, “DR. FINDLEY ELLINGWOOD.” He died that June.

A sepia portrait of a young woman with her hair waved and gathered low, looking over her shoulder, with a long string of beads: Martha Veronica Dwyer, daughter of Cornelius and Martha.

A yearbook portrait of a young woman with her hair rolled back, smiling. Shared on Ancestry as Ruth Ellingwood’s, from a 1946 school yearbook; she was then at Washington State College, Pullman, where she had gone in 1943, and married Don Dorman that September. The yearbook is not named.

A young soldier in fatigues and cap, holding a carbine, by a tent and a wooden hut (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Dick Ellingwood,” stamped “225.” He was drafted in 1951 and served as a radio specialist until 1953.

A head-and-shoulders photograph of a man of about forty with dark hair, a white shirt collar and a black bow tie. The copy has been heavily retouched, and a photograph of Adam at that age would date from about 1840, the first years of photography; who it shows is not certain.

An oval portrait of a man with swept-back hair and a full beard, in a dark coat and bow tie, captioned “capt richard holbrook 1821-1894.” The museum’s name is printed across the copy.

A head-and-shoulders portrait of a man with dark wavy hair and a heavy moustache, in a dark coat, cut from a larger picture (another sitter’s head shows at the right edge). Believed in the family to be Cornelius S. Dwyer; not yet confirmed.

A full-length studio portrait of a young woman in a dark dress with a checked and buttoned bodice and a ribbon at the throat, a hat in her hand on a table, captioned in the picnic book’s typewriter face “Elizabeth Ellen Bruner.”

A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young man with a moustache, posted to his Find a Grave memorial with the caption that it comes from the Harvard class of 1889’s twenty-fifth anniversary report. The date of the photograph is not known.

A sepia head-and-shoulders portrait, probably a crayon enlargement, of a man with dark hair, a chin beard and a black bow tie: Franz “Frank” Kuchenmeister as a younger man.

A cabinet portrait of an older woman in round spectacles and a dark dress with a lace collar, from the Holbrook family’s photograph album at the Island County Historical Society. Written on the album page beneath: “Mrs. Richard B. Holbrook.”

A small head-and-shoulders picture of a young man with thick dark hair, captioned “Heck Bruner.” It survives only at this size.

A seated man with a heavy moustache, in a three-piece suit and patterned tie, two children’s hands on his shoulders where the picture has been cut from a group. The page is headed “James Finley Bruner & Descendants”; it comes from the book made for the 1997 Bruner picnic of the descendants of Eli Woodruff Bruner.

“Ora” Clifford (born 1873), the eldest child of John and Emma Clifford and brother of Jessie Clifford Holbrook.

A small head-and-shoulders picture of a woman with dark wavy hair and a high dark collar, captioned “Sarah Lucy Tisdell.” She is also in the photograph of the four sisters.

Premier of British Columbia, 1933-1941, and by Cudge’s memoir a cousin of Ruth Short (through her mother, a Pattullo): the son of her uncle George Robson Pattullo.

A studio portrait of a young couple, she standing in a dark bustled dress with a row of buttons, he seated with a baby in white on his knee. The poster dates it to the early 1880s, in Minnesota, and leaves the baby unnamed; a commenter thought it Henry Valentine Dwyer (born 1889). They married about 1882, and their eldest known child, Mary, was born in February 1885.

A street at Zell in 1885: a wheelwright’s shop with wheels in the loft window, a frame house, wagons, and about twenty-five people standing for the camera, from bearded men to small children. Someone in the family has lettered them A to Y and named those they could:

C possibly George Panian Sr, E/H possibly Christoph (wheelwright), F William Banwarth, J possibly Theresia Panian, K possibly Mary Panian, L Juliana Haberkorn Banwarth, N Pete Banwarth, O Anna Haberkorn Panian, P Rose Panian, Q Chlemhart (?), R George Panian Jr, S “Otto” Adolph Banwarth, T Frank (last name unknown), and V Ed (last name unknown). A, B, D, E, G, H, I, M, U, V, W, X, Y are all unknown.

J would be Theresa Panian, aged seven, later Theresa Kuchenmeister: mother of Margaret (Kuchenmeister) Hatten. The Panians had come to Zell from Royalton, Minnesota, about 1882, and left for Almena, Wisconsin, in 1896. The Banwarths were kin through the Haberkorn sisters, Anna (Mrs. Panian) and Juliana (Mrs. Banwarth).

Eight armed men in broad hats before a frame building, numbered 1 to 8 on cards above or beside them: the deputies of the posse that killed Ned Christie in November 1892. Heck Bruner is no. 8, standing at the right with a rifle across his body. The other men are not named here.

Emil as “Paul Jones,” in the suit of paper he made after his naked start from Boston in February 1894. “From a Photo. by Elmer Chickering, Boston,” as printed in the Strand Magazine.

Pages of a “Ward’s Album for Unmounted Photographs” (no. 912/39), its printed label altered in ink to “Mary Short’s Album,” with “Mary I. Short” written in white on the endpaper (page 1). Mary Isabella Short, sister of Ruth (Short) Ellingwood, kept it; family knowledge has the pictures taken at the Short family’s summer place on a lake, perhaps in Michigan or Ontario. They show dunes and pines, a long plank dock with lake steamers, a boathouse and a canoe, porches crowded with young men and women in white and straw boaters, and a party on a hilltop above the water.

Page 15 is labelled in blue ink, with arrows that cross: Beatrice Short at the left, Mary Short in the middle, and Ruth Short Ellingwood at the right, her arms raised over her head, standing on a plank in the shallows by a dock. Ruth looks fifteen to eighteen, which puts the picture about 1908-1911. Page 18 is captioned “Betty Ashcraft [?] at 13 [or 15] months, Lakeside”; Lakeside may name the place. Pages 19 and 20 are two real photo postcards of a spotted horse, “Kitty Bellairs,” addressed to “Miss Edith,” with ink on the page around them beginning “In memory of a famous …” Page 21 is a brick apartment building lettered “6636-38 Kimbark Ave.,” a street on Chicago’s South Side, captioned “May 1st - 1909 - April 24th - 1912”; whose home it was is not known.

Pages 2 to 12 were photographed in the same sitting, on the same grey pages, and are taken to be from the same album. The pages are in the order they were photographed in (Sept 2026), with the inside cover first, which may not be the album’s own order.

Four men standing behind four women in white shirtwaists, each sister seated before her husband. As captioned, left to right: Nell Tisdell and William Victor Wicks; Mary Tisdell and Alexander Dey; Sarah Tisdell and Jack Tracy; Martha Tisdell and Cornelius Dwyer. Dated by the dress to about 1905-1910.

An older man with a white moustache, in a three-piece suit, and a woman in a long white dress, under trees (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Sept-1-1918 - Home” and “12.” Probably Finley and Jennie Ellingwood: the man is very like Finley in the print of April 1920, and 1 September was their wedding day, so this would be their thirty-eighth anniversary.

A woman in glasses sitting on a porch step with a small fair-haired child on her knee (page 1), and the back (page 2): “4/31 [?] / Dick & mom, Ruth Short 1930?” with the stamp of the University Photo Shop, Madison. Dick was born in November 1929; if “4/31” means April 1931, he was about seventeen months old.

Emma (Bruner) Clifford Dunlap with her children, grandchildren and their families, about 1930-32, dated from Baby Dorothy Lee’s age and Emma’s death in December 1933. Among them her son Ora, her daughter Jessie (then Jessie Absolom) with her second husband Thomas, her son Eli, and Jessie’s son Phil Holbrook. The names are the printed caption’s; they are placed on the faces in the caption’s order, left to right along each row, so a few may be off by one in the crowded middle.

Two prints of a small fair-haired boy on his hands and knees, feeding a squirrel by a back stair (page 1), and one of them with the back of the other (page 2): “Dick feeding the squirrell by the back steps at 1744 Jefferson St, Madison,” with the stamp of the University Photo Shop, Madison, Wis. Dick Ellingwood was born at Madison in November 1929 and looks two or three here. The family lived on Jefferson Street before it left Madison for Spokane in 1937 (his father’s memoir, scan 113).

A shop window dressed for “National Baseball Week,” with “Play Ball!” and signs for “Equipment” and “Trophies, Cups, Medals” (page 1). On the back (page 2): “Cudge’s store? Cudge Ellingwood was capt. of Northwestern’s baseball team. Craig Belmondo has his uniform,” with the stamp of the University Photo Shop, Madison. In the Depression Cudge bought the Wisconsin Sporting Goods Company of Madison at a receiver’s sale and ran it with Dutch Midland, who had managed his baseball team (his memoir, scan 115).

Two men in suits sitting on a low stone wall before a brick house (page 1); on the back (page 2), “Nov. 7, 1937 / Winnetka / Cudge [?] + Goz just before we came West.” The family moved from Madison to Spokane that month. Ruth’s brother Jeffrey Short and his wife Nancy had a home at Winnetka (Cudge’s memoir, scan 82); who Goz was is not known, nor which of the two is Cudge.

A man in a three-piece suit standing by a building with “Soft Water” lettered on its window (page 1); on the back (page 2), “1940 Spokane Cudge,” stamped “R75.” Cudge founded the Culligan Soft Water Service at Spokane on 15 February 1940.

A man swinging a sledge at a stake while another holds it and a third looks on (page 1); on the back (page 2): “Ellingwood. Cudge driving a stake for ‘horseshoe’ game at Camp Cowles - Diamond [?] Lake on a Rotary trip in July 1948. Van der Loeff [?] holding the stake,” stamped “076.” Camp Cowles is the Scout camp on Diamond Lake, north of Spokane. Cudge had joined the Rotary Club in 1941 (his memoir, scan 147).

The large house of two storeys and an attic, painted pale yellow, with a pillared porch, that Adam Haberkorn and his sons, George among them, built at Sherrill’s Mound, now on the National Register, with two women going in at the side door. “G. HABERKORN. 1870.” is cut over its door.

A frame house of a storey and a half with a front porch, photographed in 1983. The inventory that goes with it says that Capt. R. B. Holbrook came to central Whidbey Island in 1852 and settled on 160 acres in the centre of San de Fuca, living in a tent through the summer and building a small log cabin in the fall, and that he built this house in 1874. It stood a little west of its present site until it was moved about 1930, and was altered about 1940 and 1950.

Orlando Hines Clifford and his wife Lela, whose maiden name is not yet known. Captioned as printed.

Seven people, most of them elderly, in dark clothes before a pale wall, numbered 1 to 7 in ink along the foot of the print (page 1). The back (page 2) names five of them: “1 Mary Jeffrey Short b 1807 / 2 / 3 / 4 William Jeffrey / 5 Aunt Mary (John’s sister?) / 6 Mrs Short (John’s mother) / 7 John Short.” In pencil down the side, “Copy of old picture taken shortly before Wm Jeffrey’s [?] death,” and at the foot, “Please I have another copy Keep this!”

The names do not all fit. The clothes look of about 1890-1910, after the deaths of Mary (Jeffrey) Short (1883), her husband John Short (1858) and both William Jeffreys in the archive (1852 and 1879), and nos. 1 and 6 would both be John’s mother if John were John Gerald Short. If the picture is as late as it looks, no. 7 might be John Gerald Short (born 1845) and no. 5 his sister Mary (1844-1928) of Woodstock. In the family’s reading (October 2026) the names are mistaken, and one of the women the back calls John’s aunt or mother is his wife, Mary (Pattullo) Short. Who is who is not settled; the back’s names are placed on the faces by the numbers along the foot.

An elderly white-haired man seated and a tall older woman standing with her hand on his shoulder, from a poor copy. Posted as Hickman Bruner and Sarah Bridges. The woman’s dress, with full sleeves puffed at the shoulder, is of the 1890s, while the dates in the archive for their deaths are 1873-74 (neither sourced), so either the dates or the names are in question.

The couple seated side by side, he with a chin beard, she in a dark buttoned dress. Written on the copy: “Frank & Margaret Kuchenmeister (Borell) / Jake’s father & Stepmother.”

Frank and Margaret seated, with young men standing and seated around them and a small boy at the right. The copy was posted upside down, with a note in ink, here at the foot and upside down: “Frank & Margaret Kuchenmeister / Jake in back between them, others are his brothers. / Margaret was a sister to Clara’s grandpa Borrell / and was Jake’s stepmother.” Jake (Jacob, born 1866) was Frank’s son by his first wife, Barbara Blatz; which of the others are Margaret’s own sons, Joseph among them, is not marked. The top of the photograph is cut off in the screenshot.

A woman in a dark dress between a small girl in white and a boy in a sailor suit, captioned in the picnic book’s typewriter face “Georgia Ann Bruner.” The children are not named; the tree that posted it has her married name as Bayless. She died at Seattle in 1901.

The mining camp of Gothic in the Elk Mountains: a two-storey hotel with a long porch, cabins and a rail fence, under a scree slope. It is undated, probably 1880s [?]. Emma (Bruner) Clifford’s household was counted at Gothic in 1880. Molata left this photograph out.

A flat red granite marker: “FRANCIS H. PFEIFFER / 1870 DAUGHTER 1952.” She died in 1954. Lot 59, space A, beside Emil.

A flat red granite marker: “IN MEMORIAM / EMIL C. PFEIFFER / 1865-1935.” He died at Los Angeles in November 1934. Lot 59, space B.

Orlando Hines “Ora” Clifford and his wife Lela, white-haired, standing in a parlour with a bouquet on the table before them, perhaps for an anniversary. The Ancestry caption gives her maiden name as Lela Belle Tatum; it is not yet confirmed by a record.

Ora Clifford standing with a woman before a vine-covered clapboard house. She is not named; she looks like the Lela of the other photographs, but that is not certain.

Dick Holbrook seated on a barge or dock in his canvas diving dress, without the helmet, in a cap, the air hose coiled beside him; men at work on the shore behind. The family remembers it as taken at a dam he was building as an engineer, perhaps on an inspection dive. A sepia print, its corner torn.

“Dick” Holbrook, builder and diver, seated on a barge in his canvas diving dress with a cigarette, his helmet beside him and air hose coiled around. Behind, a river or harbour works with a crane and rock fill. Undated; he dived for the Navy at Pearl Harbor and on dam works across the country.

A log house with a deep porch overgrown with vines, an older woman in a white apron seated on the steps and a man in a dark suit standing beside her. Captioned on Ancestry “Eli Woodruff Bruner & Polly’s House in Arkansas.” Polly was living in Benton County, Arkansas, in 1880, a widow; Eli had died in Colorado in 1879. The couple on the porch are not named, and when it was taken is not known.

Two prints of the Sunset Highway at Spokane, with a roadside house and a billboard on the rise beside it (page 1), and their backs (page 2), each numbered 5: “Party on lots on Sunset Highway. This part sold to a Texan” and “our lots on Sunset Highway (#10) by state weighing station.”

Cudge Ellingwood took the lots in trade for the old truck of his move west. In 1944 he bought the rest of the block at a sale for the heirs of its owners and sold the part a sergeant from Texas wanted for a motel; a few years later the state highway department, which had put a weighing station beside them, bought the rest (his memoir, scans 136-137).

A mounted photograph of a two-storey brick house behind a curving garden path (page 1), and the back of the mount (page 2), written in ink: “Dick / Old J. G. Short Home on Light St [?] / Woodstock, Ont, / House where my mother’s children were all born.” A strip of black tape covers the lower part of the back. J. G. Short is John Gerald Short, organ manufacturer at Woodstock, whose children, Ruth (Short) Ellingwood among them, were born there between 1880 and 1893, before the family moved to Chicago in 1896-97. The note is addressed to Dick, Ruth’s son. When the photograph was taken is not known.

The first page of a transcript of a deposition taken before a Morgan County justice of the peace on 20 October 1856 “to establish blood & parentage of Abraham Collins,” aged 63. The witness traces his father’s line to a great-grandfather of part African blood, proven in a Virginia court, and says his mother “was a Reed and of Portugees extraction” and a sister of John and James Reed, late of Morgan County. The foot of the page is cut off in the screenshot.

The lodge’s return: 42 members, with Albert Bruce as Worshipful Master and Eli Bruner as Senior Warden, and H. Bruner among the members. The Bruner names are highlighted as they were posted.

The first page of a letter to the Yale palaeontologist Othniel C. Marsh, written “eight miles East of Red Cloud agency” after a winter snowed in on the Niobrara with “my Brother and Shelly [?] and two hired men.” Posted on Ancestry as Henry Clay Clifford’s, and described there as the letter in which he reports finding a Brontotherium; the signature is on a later page.

“The body of Eli Bruner, who died at Colorado City, on the 27th inst., was buried yesterday with Masonic honors by the fraternity of this city.” From Molata, chapter nine.

“Died. At his late residence, on Saturday, May 28th, Wm. H. Bell, age 57 years”: an asthmatic who had come to Cloverdale for relief four years before, he relapsed after going to Santa Cruz for the death of his daughter, Mrs. G. W. Frost, and was buried by the Masons at the Riverside Cemetery.

The village of Somerset, laid out in 1856: “Within the next five or six years … Hickman Bruner, a wagon shop, and Eli Bruner, a blacksmith’s shop.”

The page with the report of Alinda Cranney’s wedding to Frank E. Emple. Among the gifts, “Mollie Holbrook and Hattie Swift, knife”; among the guests, “Miss Mollie Holbrook.” Her earliest mention found in a newspaper.

His entry in the pioneers’ necrology: died at Coupeville in May 1894; born at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 7 August 1821; in California 4 March 1851; on Puget Sound in April 1852, “soon thereafter locating on Whidby island.”

“Paul Jones Now Clothed in Brown Paper. Left to Go Round World. Must Return in a Year With $5000.” The scheme, the Globe says, began in the rooms of the Boston Athletic Association.

The freshman class list, with “Holbrook, Frances … Whidley Island, Wash.”

“This week Tuesday Mr. John Kuchenmeister another of our old pioneers died”: in his 79th year, born at Würzburg and married there, in Minnesota about 38 years on the farm he pre-empted, buried from St. Peter’s church.

Her short story, on two pages: a lighthouse keeper’s wife who cannot sleep on stormy nights since her only son, fifteen, took the lighthouse boat out on the straits and was drowned.

Her essay on the abolitionist orator, signed “M. Frances Holbrook, ’98.”

“We go from our alma mater / Out into the world to-day.” Words by M. Frances Holbrook, music by Ruth Jean Vose, for the class of ’98.

The page of the class poem with the stanza on “our pride, E. C. Pfeiffer, ‘Paul Jones’,” who started round the world “Posing at first as the nude in art.”

The page with the Coupeville column: “Mrs. Mollie Holbrook Pfeiffer, late of Emerson college, Boston, together with her husband, Prof. Pfeiffer, will give an entertainment this week at W. C. T. U. hall.”

“Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Pfeiffer, née Frances Holbrook, a twelve-pound daughter,” quoted from “a far western paper dated Aug. 25, 1899.” Signed “L. P.”

The alumni note: she read a paper at a meeting of the Washington State Equal Suffrage Association and was elected its first vice-president for the coming year.

The page with his sworn statement, as circulation manager of the Buffalo Express, that his wife had been “almost completely prostrated” from about 1898 to 1900 and had recovered under Mrs. Wilmans Post’s Mental Science.

Justice Tinker of Aztec married “Eli W. Clifford and Mrs. Mary E. Cavey [?], of Lake City,” a couple “from far distant Hinsdale county, Colorado,” about the beginning of January 1902.

Her essay on the New Thought in the monthly Mind, on four pages. It ends on her college days: “When I was in college I selected my room with great care, as if it were to be my abiding place forever.”

The little steamer Neptune, owned by Capt. E. A. Swift, leaves Seattle for the run between Seldovia and Sunrise City in Cook Inlet, with more than 100 tons of explosives and machinery for the Rainbow Mining Company: “Capt. Ira Meyers will have charge of the vessel in the North. She sails under command of Capt. B. Dennison.” Kept for Capt. Ira Meyers, who in the family’s belief was the Mr. Myers whom Elizabeth Jane Davis married; that is not yet confirmed by a record.

The front page with the item on the high-school girls’ gift of a sterling-silver desk set to Mrs. F. H. Pfeiffer, for her work on the graduation speaking and the play.

The cover of the monthly journal Finley Ellingwood founded, printed in a mauve ink: “Finley Ellingwood MD, Editor and Publisher, 100 State St., Chicago,” vol. 2 no. 1, with “Single Truths from Many Doctors and Many Truths for Each Doctor” and “A Journal of Specific Medicine” down the left side.

The cover of vol. 3 no. 1 of Finley Ellingwood’s journal, “The World in Medicine is Our Field” (page 1), and its second page, an advertisement for Bovinine above the table of contents (page 2).

The table of special certificates, with “Pfeiffer, Mrs. Frances H.” for English, history and oratory, dated May 6, 1909.

The page with “Holbrook, … Frances (Mrs. Charles E. Pfeiffer),” enrolled 1893-95. A possible match only: the husband’s name is given as Charles E.

“Hubert Flynn, eleven-year-old grandson of Justice of the Peace Flynn,” out of danger after two operations at St. Joseph’s Hospital and four months’ treatment for blood poisoning from a rat bite on the finger the May before.

“Justice Shea Resigns on Account of Ill Health and Brother Democrat Is Named”: the county court appointed James M. Flynn, “formerly engineer at Central police station and an old Indian scout,” to take Daniel Shea’s place.

The cover of vol. 8 no. 12 of Finley Ellingwood’s journal, from “32 N. State St. Chicago,” with an advertisement for Fellows’ Syrup and the start of the table of contents.

The cover of vol. 9 no. 2 of Finley Ellingwood’s journal, “the Lobelia number,” with the start of the table of contents.

The page with her four-page pamphlet, “Cinema lyceum,” copyrighted at Los Angeles on 22 Apr 1916.

Her letter on the letterhead of The Cinema Lyceum, 714-715 Story Building, Los Angeles, proposing an educational film with Booker T. Washington’s life as its basis, and recalling that her husband had been with Du Bois at Harvard.

Jessie at 560 Mercer Street, at her son’s bedside the night after he was shot.

Front-page editorial with Dick Holbrook’s photograph: a patrolman surprised four University of Washington students in “an innocent lark”, and Dick, then twenty, was shot through the body. The paper asks why the policeman drew his revolver at all.

The Times’s report of the morning Dick Holbrook was shot by Patrolman J. H. Karlberg, with photographs of the patrolman and, at the right, of Dick (“upper”) and his fraternity brother C. A. Schneider (“lower”).

“Richard Holbrook of Pollock, S. D. age 51, died at a local hospital Saturday evening at 7 o’clock … He is survived by his wife, and two sons, Douglas, age 7, and Donald, age 5.” The notice begins in the middle column and ends at the top of the next.

“Richard Holbrook, Pollock, S. D.” among those who “have entered the Bismarck hospital,” in the paper of the day he died.

Her memoir of “Old Mary,” consort of Tom Squiqui, nominal chief of the Skagits, who nursed the Holbrook children, and of the day her mother said goodbye to her on the shore.

The page with the wheat-harvest photograph taken by Adele Kaehler of Whidby Island and supplied by Mrs. Pfeiffer, who added that Whidby wheat took prizes at the Chicago contest of 1919.

The class’s notice of his death, his career from Boston schoolteacher to the University of Nevada and Los Angeles, his last years as an invalid, and his wife Frances Holbrook, daughter Alice and grandson.

“DWYER. In Santa Clara, May 13, 1947, Martha A., beloved wife of the late Cornelius S. Dwyer,” with her eight living children, a Requiem High Mass at St. Clare’s Church and burial at Holy Cross Cemetery.

William Clifford Flynn, retired real estate broker of Portland, born at Fairfield, Nebraska, on 7 January 1872, with his photograph: a fourth-degree Knight of Columbus, survived by eleven sons and daughters, among them “Mrs. Winifred I. Dwyer, Seattle.”

Capt. Richard Clifford Holbrook, USNR (ret.), who had commanded the 130th Seabee Battalion in the Pacific, died at Hot Springs; survived by his wife, his daughters Frances and Harriet, and his brother Phillip, with burial at Tacoma.

A typed page with her portrait, numbered 21 in a family compilation, headed “Theresa Panian” by hand:

Theresa Panian was born on February 25, 1878, to George Panian and Mary Habercorn in Westphalia, Iowa. She was the second of nine children. In 1881 they moved to Royalton, Minnesota and one year later to Zell, South Dakota. In 1896, when she was eighteen, the family moved to Almena, Wisconsin, where she met Joseph Kuchenmeister. The two were married on October 24, 1899, in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, a small wooden mission church, which would later become the parish school. Theresa was active in the church Alter Society and in the Catholic Aid Society. Her husband served as postmaster, and she managed the post office for some time while he worked in another position. Joseph preceded her in death by fourteen years. After the death of her husband, the family home was sold, and she moved in with her daughter’s family, Laura and Dominic Ritchie, in Barron, Wisconsin. She fell and broke her hip and spent the last year or so of her life in a small nursing home in Rice Lake, Wisconsin. She died on February 7, her husband’s birthday, in 1966 at the age of 84. She is buried with her husband in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Almena.

The Ancestry tree has her mother as Anna Maria Haberkorn (the Zell photograph’s caption also has “Anna Haberkorn Panian”) and her death on 8 May 1966 at Rice Lake, where this page has “Mary Habercorn” and 7 February 1966. Both are on her page until a record settles them.

The cloth-bound volume, its spine lettered “Town Records, Births, Marriages & Deaths, 1665-1725, Town of Beverly.” The births of Ralph and Martha Ellinwood’s and Benjamin and Mary Ellinwood’s children are entered in it.

A calendar picture, a painting of a white frame house joined to “Miesen’s Store”, with a post office sign by the door and two gasoline pumps in front, under a big prairie sky. Written on the calendar’s mount by a family hand: “Do not destroy this”, and “Grandmother Kuchenmeister[’s] childhood home & her father’s store in Zell So Dak”, with “Theresa” above.

Her father was George Panian, at Zell from about 1882 to 1896. The store evidently passed to the Miesens later; the calendar is of the mid-twentieth century.

The short Latin will in the middle of the page, with the margin title “Test[amentum] Rogeri Holbroke”: “Ego Rogerus Holbroke de Chewe,” 8 May 1503. He is to be buried at St Andrew’s, Chew, and his executors are his wife Agnes, John Storowe and “Thome Holbroke filio meo,” his son Thomas. Roger is the earliest Holbroke of the Chew valley found. Whether Thomas Holbrooke of Norton Malreward was this Thomas, or a grandson, is open.

The register copy of the will of “John Horssyngton of the parishe of Coston,” 1 Oct 1536, with the margin title “Test[amentum] John Horssyngton.” It names his wife Agnes, his sons Richard, Giles, Thomas and William, and his brother Walter, and leaves silver to “every one of myn owne children.” No daughter is named. Edith Holbrooke of Compton Dando called a William Horsington her “cousin and godson,” so she may have been born a Horsington, but this will can’t show it. Above it is the end of the will of Nicholas Prowse of Taunton.

The will begins at the foot of the first page, beside the margin title “Test[amentu]m Nich[ola]s Derell”: “I Nycholas Derell of Marksbury,” 22 July 1546, in the 38th year of Henry VIII.

The rest of the will is on the second page. Ten pounds “in the handes of Thomas Holbroke of Norton Malerward”; a yearling “which is with Thomas Holbroke”; 6s. 8d. each “to John Holbroke and Johane Holbroke”; and “Thomas Holbroke of Norton and John Richman of Stanton” are the overseers. These are the earliest records of Thomas Holbrooke of Norton Malreward and of his two eldest children.

The will was entered in the register twice. The second copy (PROB 11/35/101) is fuller: its extra legacies name Thomas Holbroke as a witness and as a trustee.

A second, fuller register copy of the same will, with the margin note “T. Nich[olas] Derell. See another Will folio 3.” Its extra legacies end with twenty pounds to Robert Derell, the goods to stay “in the handes of Thomas Darnbody, parson of ffarnborowe, and Thomas Holbroke of Norton,” who are also its witnesses.

The register copy of Alice Derell’s will, in the middle of the page with the margin title “T[estamentum] Alice Derell.” She leaves “to John Holbroke and to Johan Holbroke, the children of my sonne in lawe Thomas Holbroke, to every of them a cowe,” and makes Thomas Holbroke one of her overseers. Thomas is Thomas Holbrooke of Norton Malreward (d. 1571/2), probably the father of William Holbrooke of Glastonbury. “Son-in-law” could then also mean stepson, so how Thomas was related to the Derells is open. Her own daughter was Agnes Saunders.

The will begins at the foot of the first page, with the margin title “T[estamentum] Robert Holbrooke”: “the ffifteent[h] [?] day of Marche Anno Domini 1616, I Roberte Holbrooke of Quinte Charlton in the Countie of Somersett, yeoman.” He leaves money to his daughters Jone, Katherine and Milliard and his son Robert, and a ewe and a lamb to “William Holbroke the sonne of John Holbrooke my brother deceased.” Robert was the son of Thomas and Edith Holbrooke, baptized at Norton Malreward in 1557/8, and very probably the brother of William Holbrooke of Glastonbury.

The second page has the end of the will: the overseers, the vicar of Compton Dando and the minister of Queen Charlton, and the probate at London on 3 July 1617 to “Elnore Holbrooke,” his widow.

The E page of the county register of returns from the towns. Near the top: “14 March 55 Ralph Elinwood maryed to Ellen Lyn: their son Ralph born 18 March 57. son John born 2d July 59. Joseph bo: 12:3:62”. Further down: “Ralph Elinwood his daughter Mary bo: by Ellen his wife 3:2d:64, daughter Elizabeth born 27 June 66, David born 6 July 70, Benjamin born 1:2mo:68.” The dates are in the old style, with March the first month.

The Beverly register of baptisms for 1667-1668, in the town’s book: each child is entered as “child of” its parents, with the date. Benjamin is there on 17 May 1668: “Benj[amin] … Ralph & Ellen Ellinwood.” His birth, 1 April 1668, is in the county register. The left-hand page of the opening is blank.

Two pages before the family of Ralph and Sarah. On the left, “Benjamin & Mary Ellingwood” (“Benjamin the father died March 28 1731 aged about 64, Sabbath day”) and “Ralph and Martha Ellingwood”, with their children’s births and baptisms. On the right, the marriages: “1682. Marriage of Ralph Ellinwood and Catharine ___ declared null for his incompetence”; Ralph and “Martha Robison” (interlined “Rowlandson of Beverly”), married in August 1691 by Samuel Cheever of Marblehead; John Ellingwood and Elizabeth Rowlinson, 1685; and at the foot, “1 mo: 1677. Ralf Ellenwood, a childe of ye covenant, publickly rebuked and admonished, for stealing meal at mill.”

A page of the town’s register of births: the children of “Benjamin Elingwood by Mary his Wife,” from Ellinor (7 July 1688) and Benjamin (27 Jan 1689/90) to Andrew (22 Oct 1706), Jonathan (1708) and Eunice [1711?], and James, son of John Elingwood by Sarah, 22 Sept 1706. Benjamin was the brother of Ralph Ellinwood II.

The minister of Beverly’s own deposition, in his hand, “John Hale aged 56 years Testifieth 6.7.1692.” He gives the court Dorcas Hoar’s fortune-telling, her book of palmistry, and the thefts from his house fourteen years before, “conveying goods out of my house” to the Hoars’. Ellen (Lynn) Ellinwood, by then Mrs. William Bath, had testified in that theft case in 1678. The Ellinwoods sat under Hale at Beverly, and none of them appears in the trial papers.

A page of the county register of births returned from the towns, 1689-1695. Near the foot of the right-hand page: “Ralph Ellenwood Son of Ralph Ellenwood & Martha his wife was borne 18 April 169[4?].” The last figure of the year is worn away; the Beverly records give 1694. The next entry, Benjamin Walcot, was “Born at Salem 23 April 1695.” This full page replaces an earlier clipping of the same entry.

An opening of the baptisms, October 1696 to 1699, the binding tight. On 5 Sept [1697], “Ebenezer … Ralph … Ellingwood”, a week after his birth. Benjamin and Mary Ellingwood’s Priscilla (March 1697) and David (December 1698) are on the same opening.

Two pages of the town’s register of births, each entry with its year in the margin. On the right: “Ebenezer Elenwood Sonn of Ralph Elenwood by Martha his Wife was Borne on ye Nine & Twentieth day of August in ye year of our Lord God 1697.” On the left, “Priscilla Elenwood ye daughter of Benjamin Elenwood by Mary his wife,” born 3 March 1696/7.

An opening of the baptisms, 1700 to 1705. On 25 Feb [1700/1], “Marth[a] … Ralph … Ellingwood”. Benjamin and Mary Ellingwood’s Samuel (7 Dec 1701) and Robert (30 Dec 1704) are also here.

A family page of the town’s later compiled register: “The family of Ralph and Sarah Ellingwood,” their eight children with births, marriages and deaths, and “Ralph Ellenwood married to Sarah Woodberry of Salem 1712.” In the margin, the division of Ralph’s estate in 1743, “Israel 2 shares,” and “Israel Ellingwood of Boston, coaster,” guardian of his brother Daniel. Below are Martha and Ebenezer of Ralph and Martha, and other Ellingwood families of Beverly.

An opening of the town’s copy of the church baptisms, with the father’s given name and the mother’s or family’s surname for each child. In June 1713, “Sarah … Ralph j[r] … Sarah Ellingwood”; on 3 Oct 1714, “Israel … Ralph j[r] … Ellingwood”, the entry that joins the Beverly Ellinwoods to the Boston Ellingwoods. The “j” marks other fathers on the page too, so it reads as junior. This FamilySearch image replaces an earlier screenshot of the same page.

John Brown’s 698 acres on the Flat River, surveyed by William Churton the same day as Thomas Collins’s tract, “Beginn[in]g at a hicory, on Jas. Watson’s line” and running along Thomas Gibson’s line by the river. The sworn chain carriers were Moses Riddle and Charles Gibson. Brown’s warrant was laid over the community’s improvements on the Flat River. From Molata, chapter two.

“This plan represents a tract of Land, Survey’d for Thomas Collins on Dial’s Creek … Containing Seven hundred Acres. Survey’d the 13th Day of April 1761. W. Churton.” The sworn chain carriers were George Gibson and Paul Collins. The plat shows the square tract with Dial’s Creek running through it, beside the seal. The caption below gives the grant of 13 Oct 1761: SSLG 87-H, Patent Book 14, p. 358.

The town clerk’s return of Orrington marriages to the Lincoln County Court of General Sessions, “A True Return Orrington May 15th 1790.” Among them: “Richard Ellinwood and Hope Holdershaw Married Decemr 24th 1787.” The clerk apologizes for sending only part of the fee, “as Money is Scarce.” On the facing page are returns from Woolwich and Vassalborough.

Pages 77 and 78 of the first census. At the foot of page 77, “Richard Ellingwood 2 1 1”: two men of 16 and over, a boy, and a woman, that is, Richard, his infant son Richard, Hope, and perhaps his brother Ralph. On page 78, “John Haldershaw” and “John Haldershaw jun”, Hope’s father and brother.

The C pages of the Upper District list. Near the foot of the right-hand page is “Collins Meredith,” with 2 [?] white tithables, no slaves, and no horses entered [?]. It is his first year on the Russell County rolls, where he stays until 1809.

Page 119 of George Halliburton’s division. “Rich’d Ellingwood”: two boys under 10, one 10 to 16, a man 26 to 45; two girls under 10, one 10 to 16, and two women 26 to 45. In the column “From whence emigrated” his line carries a ditto under “Cape Cod”. John Haldershaw is four lines above.

The back of the folded inventory of Richard Ellingwood’s estate, as filed. The writing runs down the right-hand panel: “Inventory / Richard Ellinwood,” then a clerk’s note, “not sworn to having been dd [delivered?] into ye Office by Judge Gordon [?],” and the file number “#2056” twice. The inventory itself, of 24 May 1803, lists his store goods, the dwelling house and barn, 72 acres of homestead land and three-quarters of the schooner Hope. Hope Ellenwood, his widow and executrix, swore to it at Castine in November 1803. The faint columns of figures showing through are the inventory on the other side.

The full opening of the General Index to Marriages, Clay County Court. Jesse Collins and Mary Reed are the last entry in the left column, with the later note “of James” beside her name: the clerk’s cross-reference to her father’s consent. Across the gutter are Hiram Collins’s two licenses to Elizabeth Reed and Bradley Collins’s three marriages. The right-hand page alone is also in the Gallery, as “Clay County Court marriage register, the C entries.”

The whole sheet, both sides, with the two Collins households circled. On Bradley Collins’s line the free white columns were filled in and then zeroed. Both households were entered in the columns for free colored persons, with Meredith Collins on the line beneath. Molata prints the two sides separately.

Page 29 of Manchester Township, Dearborn County, in the 1820 census, opening with Robert McCracken, one of the township’s founders. “Richard Ellingwood”: a man of 26 to 45, a woman of 26 to 45, a boy under 10 and three girls under 10, six in all. That is Richard, Hannah, the infant Elijah and the three daughters then living. FamilySearch files the film under Jefferson County, but the same film at the Internet Archive shows the Manchester Township heading two pages before.

“November the 25 1827. Mr Abner Baker Sir ples to grant Jesse Collens lisens to marrey Mary Reed and oblige them. James Read.” Witnessed “Stephen Read” and “Hiram Collins.” It is in James Read’s own hand, and it is the only record that names Mary as his daughter. From Molata, chapter six.

Jesse Collins and Stephen Reed bound themselves to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in £50 for “a marriage intended between the said Jesse and Mary Reed,” both signing with their marks. It goes with James Read’s consent note of 25 November 1827.

A page of the Clay County Court register of marriages, men’s names A to C in order of license: names, the date of the license, the date of the marriage where the certificate came back, and the file box of the loose papers. The Collinses of Jesse’s generation are here: Hiram’s two licenses to Elizabeth Reed (the first never returned, the second married 8 December 1829), Abraham’s to Christina Poulston, Bradley’s three marriages, William’s to Sytha Powell, Andrew’s and James’s. Jesse and Mary’s own marriage of 1827 is on the page before.

A water-damaged opening of the register, with each marriage’s minister. The last entry of 1829, in December, is “Hiram Collins & Elizabeth Read,” by J. Ambrose [?], who also married Jesse Collins and Mary Reed in 1827.

Among the families summoned in March 1829 are “George Collans & Patsy Kirk, Martin Collans & Mary Collans, Moredy Collans and Milly Johnson,” called “To appear at Our next May term to shew Cause if any they can Why, Their Children Shall not be bound out.” The facing page has the commissioners’ plan for a brick clerk’s office for the county.

“Henry Bruner,” with eleven in the household: six boys and four girls under twenty, a woman of 30 to 40 and a man of 40 to 50. Henry Hickman Bruner, born in 1806, would have been in the 20-30 column, which is empty. So the head may be an older Henry, and whose household this was is open. The FamilySearch tree attaches it to Henry Hickman Bruner.

Dwelling and family 29: “Mary Collins,” 46, female, M, with Matilda 20, Reuben 16, Loyd 14, Calaska 12 and Spencer 10. Every line has an M in the colour column. The only mark in the occupation column is the ditto beside Reuben, carrying down “Farmer” from higher up the page. From Molata, chapter seven.

Lines 1-4 of the page, dwelling and family 54: Elijah Ellingwood, 31, carpenter, real estate 00, born Indiana; Mary A., 28, born Maine; Adaline, 8; and Jane, an infant. Finley Ellingwood’s parents and sisters, two years before he was born, in the township where he was born. This FamilySearch image replaces an earlier screenshot of the same page.

Page 139, dwelling 1101, family 1043: Elijah Ellingwood, 40, master carpenter, born Indiana; Mary A., 38, born Maine; Adaline, 18; Jane, 10; Nancy, 8; and Finley, 4 (he was 7).

“46 Regt. Inf. Vols. Co. H. Collins Spencer, Pvt., Age 44 [read as a slip for 24]. Captain Alsup. Enlisted Aug. 17, 64, Spfld Mo. Mustered in Sept. 9, 64, Spfld Mo. Remarks: Killed in action Nov. 3, 64, at Vera Cruz Mo.” From Molata, chapter nine.

Two pages. Page 1, the State Board of Health form, filled in sixty years after her birth and filed at Island County on 17 May 1930 as certificate no. 1: Mollie Frances Holbrook, born 4 Dec 1870 at “Penn’s Cove, or Coveland, (San de Fuca),” to Richard Blackmer Holbrook of Plymouth, Massachusetts, farmer, and Harriet Phillips Low of Deer Isle, Maine. Page 2, the affidavit of Horace Holbrook of Coupeville, born 3 Jan 1863, who swears that he is her brother and that the facts are within his own knowledge; sworn before a notary at Coupeville the same day.

Page 57, lines 18-22: Elijah, 49, carpenter, born Indiana; Mary, 48, keeping house, born Maine; Jennie, 20, teacher; Mary, 14; and Ellsworth, 7. Finley, then 17, is not in the household. Two years later Elijah was dead.

Page 5 of Eli Hathaway’s enumeration: R. B. Holbrook, 49, of Massachusetts; Horace G., 8; Harriett, 36, of Maine; and “Mollie H.”, three months old, born within the year in January.

Peel County marriage registrations, Brampton division, page 150. The middle column, no. 11: James Pattullo, 71, a widowed farmer of Garafraxa, born in Scotland, son of Alexander Pattullo and Mary [?] Watson, married Emeline Trueman [?], 65, a widow born in Vermont, at Brampton on 2 April 1879. He was Halkett Pattullo’s elder brother.

Oxford County marriage registrations, Woodstock division, page 2: the middle column is John G. Short, 31, merchant, born at Newcastle, Ontario, son of John Short and Mary Jeffrey, and Mary Pattullo, 27, born in Ontario, daughter of Halket Pattullo and Jane Robson; married at Woodstock on 5 November 1879 by Rev. W. T. McMullen, Andrew Pattullo a witness.

Page 6 of Thomas Cranney’s enumeration, dwelling 73: R. B. Holebrook, 58, farmer; Harriet, 44; Horace, 17; Molly F., 9, at school; and Rich’d B., 7. The Swift family, with Hattie, is two dwellings on.

Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1880, pages 56-57. The first entry, no. 19, is Jeffrey Robson, born 18 August 1880 to John G. Short, hardware merchant, and Mary Pattullo.

Page 14, lines 45-46: Finley Ellingwood, 27, single, physician, and his brother Ellsworth, 17, printer, keeping house together at Manteno, three months before Finley’s marriage.

Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1884, pages 12-13. The first entry, no. 67, is Jeannie Beatrice, born 22 May 1884 to John G. Short, hardware merchant, and Mary Pattullo.

Page 15 of Jos. C. Power’s enumeration, lines 17 to 21: the Holbrooks, with no ages given, followed by the Swifts.

License no. 3444 and the return of the marriage: Ellsworth V. Ellingwood of Chicago, job printer, born Kankakee, son of Elijah Ellingwood and Mary A. Rice, and Ella Lee Nichols of Gentry County, Missouri, born Gallatin, Missouri, daughter of B. F. Nichols. Married at Geneva on 19 Jan 1885 by Chas. H. Abbott, Congregational minister; his brother Finley was a witness.

Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1886, pages 282-283. On the right-hand page, lower row, middle column: no. 52, Arthur Wendell, born 1 April 1886 to John G. Short, hardware merchant, and Mary Pattullo. He died the next year.

His sworn account of fees and expenses for arresting A. C. [or G.?] Wooten for larceny south [?] of Chelsea in the Indian Territory on 17 September 1892 and bringing him 163 miles to Fort Smith: $68.68 in all, signed “E. H. Bruner, Deputy United States Marshal.” The foot of the form is cut off in the screenshot.

Oxford County birth registrations, Woodstock division, 1893, pages 572-573. On the left-hand page, lower row, first column: no. 22, Ruth Ethelwyn, born 13 January 1893 to John G. Short, manufacturer, and Mary Pattullo, registered 10 February 1893.

The minister’s certificate of the marriage of John [H.?] Dunlap and Mrs. [?] Emma Davis at Delta on 16 August 1893, witnessed by her daughter Jessie Clifford and by Mrs. J. H. Gill, the minister’s wife. The image is dark; the transcription is with the source.

Sworn in Jackson County, Missouri, during his “Paul Jones” walk: born at Portsmouth, 2 May 1865; a journalist of Cambridge; to return about 1 Feb 1895. Aged 29, six feet two and a quarter, with dark brown eyes, dark chestnut hair and a complexion “sallow + tanned.” Vouched for at New York by Arthur F. Pfeiffer, of Tiffany & Co.

Page 136, no. 2446, of the Boston register, where the marriage took place: the same couple, parents and minister as the Cambridge entry, recorded 18 June 1898.

Page 112, entry 383, of the marriages registered at Cambridge, the groom’s city: married 15 June at Boston by Charles R. Tenney, minister, of 28 Glenarm [Street]. He was 33, a publisher, of 57 Wendell Street; she was 27, a teacher, of Coupeville, Washington.

The city’s register across two pages. The entry for 25 Aug 1899 names the parents, Emil C. and Frances H. Pfeiffer (their birthplaces swapped), and on the right-hand page, a line higher, gives the place, 104 Tacoma Avenue, a girl, and the physician J. R. Yocum [?].

Enumeration district 92: E. C. Pfeiffer, born May 1865 in New Hampshire, newspaper man; M. F., his wife, born Dec 1870, teacher, mother of one child; A. P., daughter, born Aug 1899; and H. P. Holbrook, mother-in-law. The house was rented.

Sheet 6, lines 25-32: Finley, physician, born Sept 1852; Jennie S.; and their six children, Elma J., Laura A., Elliott L., Finley F., R. Everett (“Cudge”, 5) and Lloyd. Jennie had borne seven children, six living.

Hyde Park Township, ward 34 of Chicago, enumeration district 1086, sheet 18, taken 8 June 1900. Lines 27-32: John G. Short, 52, born in Canada in December 1847, who came over in 1896; his wife Mary P., 47; and their children “Geoffrey” R. (Jeffrey), 19, Mary I., 18, Jennie B. (Jeannie Beatrice), 16, and Ruth E., 7, who came in 1897.

The license of 30 Nov 1908 and the certificate of marriage: Elliott Lee Ellingwood of Seattle, 24, mechanical engineer, son of Finley Ellingwood and Jennie S. Elliott, and Jennie Henrietta Kendall of Pasadena, 21, daughter of Bela O. Kendall and Jennie Willard, married at Pasadena on 2 Dec 1908 by S. G. Dunham.

Sheet 25B of enumeration district 246, the lodging house of Millard V. Curtis: Frances H. Pfeiffer, 39, married eleven years, a correspondent in a printing house, and Alice P., 10. Emil is not in the household.

The handwritten card of the AMA directory, stamped October 1910 and later “DEAD June 29, 1920”: born at Manchester, Indiana, 12 Sept 1852; schooled at Kankakee; licensed in Illinois, 1878; 2209 Central Street, Evanston; editor of the Chicago Medical Times and author of Ellingwood’s Materia Medica and Therapeutics; an honorary member of the eclectic societies of seven states.

Sheet 10B, lines 56-60: Finley, 57, physician, editor of a medical journal; Jennie S., 52; and the three youngest sons, Finley F., Richard E. and Lloyd.

John G. Short died at his home, E 715 25th Avenue, Spokane, on 20 October 1916, retired, born in Ontario on 22 December 1845, son of John Short, born in England, and Mary Jeffrey, born in Scotland. His daughter Beatrice gave the particulars. He was buried at Greenwood on the 22nd.

Matilda Davis died at 1315 South Wabash Street, Kirksville, on 9 January 1918, aged 86, married, a housewife born in Indiana on 10 May 1831. Her father is given as Jesse Collins and her mother’s maiden name as Mary Reed.

Illinois certificate of death of “Lucy A. Cother,” married, housewife, who died at the Robert Burns Hospital, Chicago, on 21 Nov 1918, of peritonitis after an operation; born January 1883 in Illinois, daughter of Finley Ellingwood, M.D., and Jennie S. “Ellis” [Elliott]; informant her father. A poor photocopy.

Frances H. Pfeiffer, 49, married, lodger, in advertising for a newspaper, and her daughter Alice P., 20, a bookkeeper. Emil is indexed separately in the same census as a boarder.

The typed card of the American Medical Association’s file of deceased physicians, with the notice printed in its Journal: Bennett College of Eclectic Medicine and Surgery, Chicago, 1878; professor of chemistry 1884-1900, and of materia medica and therapeutics 1900-1907; editor of the Chicago Medical Times 1884-1906; “died at Pasadena, Calif., June 29 [sic, 26], from chronic interstitial nephritis.”

California standard certificate of death: Finley Ellingwood, physician, of 614 South Lake Avenue, Pasadena, died 26 June 1920 of chronic interstitial nephritis; born 12 Sept 1852 at Manchester, Indiana, son of Elijah Ellingwood and Mary Rice; informant his son Elliott; cremated at Mountain View on 28 June. A second filed copy of the certificate (image 1711) is the same.

Sheet 2B, lines 89-93: Finley, 67, publisher; Jennie S., 62; Everett R. (“Cudge”), 24, in business efficiency; Lloyd, 23, a student; and their granddaughter Jennie Harriet Cother, 10, daughter of the late Laura (Ellingwood) Cother. Finley died that June.

Alice Phillips Pfeiffer, 21, bookkeeper, of Los Angeles, daughter of Emil Chas. Pfeiffer and Frances Holbrook, married Robert H. Carter, 21, contractor, of Sierra Madre. Her father, E. C. Pfeiffer, signed as witness.

Certificate of marriage, license no. A 30209, filed 19 Aug 1921: Richard Everett Ellingwood (“Cudge”) of Evanston, 26, auditor, son of Finley Ellingwood and Jennie S. Elliott, and Ruth Ethelwyn Short of 901 W. 13th Avenue, Spokane, 28, stenographer, born Ontario, daughter of John Gerald Short (deceased) and Mary Pattullo. Her mother, Mrs. J. G. Short, was a witness. The date of the ceremony is left blank; the family dates it 26 July 1921.

Illinois standard certificate of death: Jennie S. Ellingwood, widow of Finley, died at home, 2209 Central Street, on 23 Sept 1929; born 25 Oct 1857 at Saratoga Springs, New York; her mother Susan Maria [?] Adams; informant her son Lloyd.

Enumeration district 19-144: Emil, 65, head, renting at $24 a month, no occupation, married at 33; Frances, 59, his wife, married at 27.

Died at home, 3715 Keystone Avenue, Palms, aged 69. Advertising manager in a newspaper office until 1918 [?]. The informant signed “Frances H. Pfeiffer.” Cause, after a coroner’s autopsy: hemorrhage from a chronic duodenal ulcer. Cremated at the Los Angeles Crematory.

Sheet 4A of enumeration district 15-5, line 31: Francis Pfeiffer, 69, widowed, owner of her house (worth $400), three years of college, living in the same house in 1935.

Alice Phillips Carter, 46, of North Hollywood, in her second marriage, to Harold Franklin Forrester, 41, of Van Nuys. Her mother is named “Molly Frances Holbrook.”

Eli W. Clifford, of Route 1, Bothell, a widower (wife Gertrude), born 25 Mar 1875 in Iowa, a retired farmer and cattle raiser, died 31 May 1947 of coronary occlusion, aged 72. His father was John Clifford, born in Nebraska [sic], and his mother “Emma Bruner,” born in Missouri. The informant was Mrs. Arthur Bailey of Bothell. He was cremated at Washelli.

State file no. 5201. She died at Resthaven Nursing Home, Mount Vernon, after two years there; her home was Coupeville. Born, by this certificate, 4 Dec 1861 [sic], on Whidbey Island; father Richard Holbrook; mother “Harriet ??”. The informant was Mrs. Harold Forrester of Hollywood, her daughter. Cremated at Washelli Crematory, Seattle.

Elizabeth Jane Myers, a widowed housewife of 1433 10th Street West, Kirkland, born 1 Feb 1883 [as written, “2/1/1883”] in Arkansas, died 10 Dec 1960. Her father was Louis Davis, and her mother’s maiden name was “Emma Brunner.” The informant was her son Louis Myers of Kirkland.

An index page of the Salem copy of the town records, with each entry’s year, book and page. The right-hand column, under “Ellinwood,” lists the children of Ralph and Ellen: Raulph 1657, John 1659, Joseph 1662, Mary 1664, Elizabeth 1666, Benjamin 1668 and David 1670, all at book 1, page 17, and Ralph 1694 at page 165. The left-hand column has two Ralphs, one of 1655 (probably Ralph and Ellen’s marriage [?]), and later Ellinwoods from 1712 to 1775.

Hillsborough is the red block in the middle. The dashed circle marks the Flat River country, where William Churton surveyed 700 acres on Dial’s Creek for Thomas Collins in April 1761. Collet doesn’t name Dial’s Creek, so the circle shows the area, not the tract. The inset shows the whole map. From Molata, chapter two.

The Strait of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet and the islands, from the survey of 1792. “Port Gardner,” “Penns Cove” and “Possession Sound” are at the upper right, where Whidbey Island and Coupeville, the Holbrooks’ home, would be. Molata uses a clean scan of the same chart instead.

The red dot marks Russell County, where Meredith Collins is on the tax rolls from 1799 to 1809. Where in the county he lived isn’t known. The arrow follows the Louisa (Levisa) Fork north toward Shelby Creek, Kentucky, where he owned land by 1816. It shows where the family ended up, not a known route. The inset shows the whole map. From Molata, chapter five.

A hand-coloured map of the United States and the West in 1847, with Oregon, “Upper or New California” and Texas, an inset of Mexico, and a shield with the population of the states. Molata uses Harper’s map of the same year instead.

The country in 1847, with its canals, railroads and stage routes, insets of Oregon and the cities, and the counties’ populations from the census of 1840. Iowa had become a state only the December before, and the Collinses and Bruners were gathering in Appanoose County on its Missouri line. From Molata, chapter eight.

Eastern Kentucky from Morgan and Magoffin to Pike, with Floyd, Johnson, Knott and Letcher. “Shelby or Shelbiana P.O.” marks the mouth of Shelby Creek on the Levisa Fork, just south of Pikeville. Pike was cut from Floyd County in 1821, which moved Meredith Collins to a new county without his taking a step. From Molata, chapter five.

The eastern half of the family’s road, 1694-1827: the Collins line from Orange and Louisa counties and the Flat River, the Reeds from Surry County and the Rowan settlements, through the New River country to Clay County, Kentucky, where Jesse Collins and Mary Reed married in 1827. From Molata.

The whole road, 1694-1887: from Tidewater Virginia through Clay County to Indiana, Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas, with Bradley Collins’s flatboat of 1839, and an inset of the last legs to Colorado and Puget Sound. From Molata.

Clay County, Kentucky, shaded, in the mountain counties, with Laurel, Knox, Leslie and Owsley around it. The Collins and Reed families were there in the 1820s, and Jesse Collins and Mary Reed married there in 1827. From Molata, chapter six.

The island of Ven (Hven) in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden, hand-coloured, from a Blaeu atlas. The cartouche reads Insula Hvaena, sive Venusia, à Guiljelmo Blaeu, cum sub Tychone astronomo operam daret, delineata: drawn by Willem Blaeu while he worked under the astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose observatories stood on the island. The fields, villages and fishponds are lettered in the key at the right.

The Ancestry tree has Sylvia (Anna) Pauline Paulson, mother of Winifred (Flynn) Dwyer, born on Ven on 27 December 1871 (“Landskrona, Isle of Ven”). No record seen names Ven, so it stays possible; her Swedish parish is an open question (see her page). See her page.