Oliver Bullock and How He Wooed Her

(Click on image to enlarge)
Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

This is the only photo I've been able to find of Oliver Bullock. Handwritten on the back is "Jan. 1st, 1900," which would make him about 14 years old. Still wearing short pants, and I'd like to know what he's got stuffed into his coat pockets.

In another file I came across a postcard that Oliver sent in 1908 to Olga Neef, his future wife:


(Click on image to enlarge)
Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

Oh, Oliver, you're so romantic!

I suppose Olga was at Valparaiso University training to be a teacher, residing in Lembke Hall.


(Click on image to enlarge)
From the collection of S. Shook, courtesy of the Northwest Indiana Genealogical Society.

By 1911 she was on the faculty of Hobart High School.


(Click on image to enlarge)
From the Hobart High School Aurora yearbook of 1911. Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

I don't know when exactly they were married — sometime between the spring of 1911, and early 1914 (their first child was born that year).

Here's Olga as a member of the Old Maids' Basketball Team in 1907 (next to her future cousin-in-law Ruth Bullock Mackey):


(Click on image to enlarge)
Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.