Photo Number 767

This is a photo from the antique shop in Solway Minnesota.

Grandpa 50 years

Howard Ellsworth 6 months

July 11, 1900

I wonder who the woman was..Grandpas second wife?  Since she was not named..perhaps.

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Photo Number 766

This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.


It is marked R. S. Bishop.  

Bishops were very wealthy farmers from North Dakota.  Possibly he is part of that family. 

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Update from Abra:
1910 Federal Census has Reynolds at age 4, living with his parents, Jay and Emma, in Cassleton, ND. His father is a life insurance salesman.

1920 Federal Census: Reynold is 14, living in Cassleton, ND, with his parents Jay and Emma, and 4 year old sister Marvel. His father is a self- employed life insurance agent.

1925 ND Census:
Reynolds S. Bishop, 19, is listed in the household of his parents, Jay and Emma Bishop (family 131) in the city of Cassleton. There is also a Marvel A. Bishop, female, age 9. However, he is found on another census page for Fargo. There is no address listed, but Reynolds Bishop, age 19, is living in dwelling # 3, and is listed as family #14. Family #13, also of dwelling #3 is Phila Corcoran, age 53, and her daughter, Alice, age 19.(this is important—see next census). Also living in dwelling #3 is family # 14, George (30), Lena (31), and Lois (4) Holicky. There is no other information given, so not sure if it is a house with boarders, or some sort of apartment complex.

1930 Federal Census: Reynolds S Bishop, born 1906 in ND, living in Fargo, Cass, North Dakota. He is head of household and has a wife, Alice, same age, as well as a 2 ½ year old daughter, Phila, AND a mother-in-law, Phila Corcoran, age 60. Reynolds is a department manager in the Life Insurance Industry. (I think his occupation fits with the picture!)


This photo went Full Circle 44 on Jan 31, 2012 

Photo Number 765

This is a photo from the antique shop in Perham Minnesota.

The photographer was O. E. Moilan, he was in Virginia Minn in 1906.

Kusti Ojala something something Minn

In the Center:  Gutsogale Tsorgale= 26 ( circled)

New York Mills Minn

At the bottom it says : Kust Ojala

Someone once told me that many times old photos were marked with crosses above the people who were deceased.   I am not sure if that is correct or not..I suppose it is a possibility.

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Update from Iggy:
 Kust Ojala married Elsa Tuomaala

They had a daughter named Hilma.
Per relatives this is not the Kust or Gust or Gus that married Elsa.

Find A Grave shows a "Gust Ojala" Birth: Nov. 2, 1880 
Death: Nov. 25, 1913 
Prairie Cemetery 
New York Mills
Otter Tail County
Minnesota, USA


Update:
This photo was mailed to Tricia a cousin in Wisconsin on March 06, 2012


This photo went Full Circle 49 on March 19 2012

Photo Number 764

This is a CdV from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

This CdV has a pink backing.  In 1885 it was very popular to button just the top button of your suit coat.

A. Hanson was in Lanesboro during the years 1880 to 1887.  A. Hanson ran the first photo studio in Lanesboro and sold it in 1887 and moved to Tacoma Washington.

Clbr.?? ( edited to Mr.) L.O. Ottestad
C an Carlino street
246a? or 246th?
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Everyone has been busy this morning!  Thanks Abra, Anonymous and Iggy:
Mr. Louis O Ottestad was born the 15th of May 1854 in Oslo, Norway and died the 25 Feb 1926 in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington. He married Anna Thilise Stokke in July, 1883,in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was born the 13th of October 1858 in Trondhjem, Norway and died 19 Jun 1935 in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, USA . They had the following children: Eunice Dorothea Ottestad, Harold F Ottestad (born Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, USA), Louis Edward Ottestad (born Sioux Falls), Lucy Amanda Ottestad (15 Nov 1885 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota), Justin Walter Ottestad (28 Jan 1888 in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota), and Clarence Norman Ottestad (4 Nov 1893 in Bellingham, Whatcom, Washington, USA).


From what I read..his parents were O. B. and Anna Ottestad. In 1867 they moved to Minnesota. Then moved to South Dakota in 1879.  It is unclear if he moved to South Dakota with his parents at that time or moved there after he was married in 1883.    In 1889 he moved to what is now Bellingham Washington and was in the hotel business. 


He could have had his photo taken in Minnesota on a trip back to woo his gal from Minnesota..so we will date this photo  1883. 


Update from Relatives on March 02 2012
Louis O. Ottestad was my grandfather. Photo #764 is not of him; it is of my great uncle Thomas Johnson Stokke, brother of my grandmother Anna Telise Johnson Stokke Ottestad. I have that same photo hanging on my wall.


Doug Ottestad
Update from Doug March 13, 2012

I have one story about Thomas and Anna: In 1858, their grandfather Johan and uncle Knut drowned in Beistad Fjord, Norway, when their fishing boat capsized in a storm. Their grandmother Ane gathered up the rest of the family and sailed across the stormy Atlantic Ocean to the U.S. in the Spring of 1858 - the trip took 11 weeks in their other fishing boat (a sailing vessel). Anna was a babe in arms during the trip. I'm not sure if Thomas made the trip; if so, he would have been a toddler; or he may have been born in Minnesota, where the family ended up. Those old Norskies must have been tough to be able to travel like that!!

----Doug 

Photo Number 763

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique store in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Ardis Orelle Anderson

This Cyko Real Photo Postcard is from 1904 to 1920.

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Photo Number 762

We will look at some more photos with names this week.  Mostly men this week.
This is a photo from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

The photographer is Mrs H A Watrous of Marinette Wis

This may be Alex L. Black or Blade??

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Update: From Iggy and The Archivist
Alex L. Black was born in Wisconsin, USA on 19 Apr 1864 ( 1865?) to Alexander Lowe Black and Eliza Jane Baldwin.

Alexander Lowe married Clair ( Clara) Harrison and had a son named James. Alex passed away on 15 Oct 1922.

Photo Number 761

This is a photo from Buggy Wheel Antiques.

Three generations for sure!

Now we will try this

Alma??

Aunt Emilie Granddaughter

Aunt Emilie Daughter

Aunt Emilie

The photographer is from Norwood Minnesota..but his name is unreadable.  Norwood is in Carver County.

There is some writing in pencil on the back of this photo it is impossible to read.

I will guess that this photo was taken right around 1900-1902.

(High collars and pigeon breasted look.)

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