This is a cabinet card marked Mc Gee.
This must have been a photo that was meant for his Aunt Belle. I will tentatively date this Cabinet Card in the 1880’s.
Do you suppose he was a music teacher? At first glance I thought perhaps this was a foreign Cabinet Card…his hat and the baton in his hand made him look Swiss to me for some reason..( I read Heidi as a child and I have an overactive imagination! )
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My paternal grandfather's middle name was McGhee and my maternal Grandfathers surname is Ghee.
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, I am reminded of Fibber McGee and Molly, not that I ever heard them. My grandmother would shout, "Fibber! Fibber McGee!" whenever we grandkids started weaving a tall tale.
ReplyDeleteI think we have a use for Ockham's Razor with this photo.
The only "Belle"s we know of in this album is Nettie's mother, Isabelle Marian Mccomb and Harry Summit's wife. Given the time frame, Nettie's mother would "fit". As we know, Nettie's parents moved from outside Chicago to the far Council Bluffs suburbs were her father continued to farm.
I've found at least one, very large family of McGee's living in and farming around Macedonia, IA.
I have to draw pictures to see who would call Nettie's mom "Aunt", but any of her brother and sister's children would. Not that I know which of them might of married a McGee.
Whatever he is holding seems far too big to be a director's baton. Maybe he worked with horses?
ReplyDeleteLooks like a riding crop to me.
ReplyDeleteWhat about a Master's (school etc) pointer?
ReplyDeletegreat picture, not sure what he is holding.
ReplyDeleteOld McGee is a hustler and that's a pool cue he's holding. Watch out for McGee. He's slippery.
ReplyDeletehe's quite a handsome fellow --
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