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From the collection of glass-plate negatives. This is identified as Sam Tree. The dog's name is not recorded.
Sam Tree was born in Canada around 1863. I don't know when he came to "Canada" in Hobart, but he and his wife, Lauretta, and their son Louis lived on Michigan Avenue and were neighbors of the Carlsons. If he's standing out in front of his own house in this photo, that's probably Michigan Avenue.
He described himself to census-takers as a laborer — day (1900 Census), then in a terra cotta yard (1910 Census), then in a steel mill (1920 Census).
There was another family of Trees living next door, but I don't know what relation they were to Sam. The head of that household, Stephen Tree, also came from Canada and immigrated the same year as Sam, and they were only a few years apart in age, so perhaps they were brothers.
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