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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.
Identified as "Louis Tree/No. 87."
This is probably the son of Sam and Lauretta Tree, born in 1885. The 1900 Census describes him, at the age of 15, as a "day laborer," like his father; ten years later he is a "laborer" doing "odd jobs." I'm not sure I've found him in the 1920 Census, but it does show a 35-year-old Louis Tree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with a wife, Myrtle, and baby boy, Samuel, which sounds likely.
We've seen that parlor before — the same wallpaper, calendar and curtains; and if you look under that little table in this picture, you can see the cute little doggie statuette.
So — is that Sam Tree with the doggie? And Louis with the trumpet? And maybe Lauretta with the book? And the elderly lady, that's Grandma Tree visiting from Canada.*
No clue who Mr. Badge is in the other two pictures. I don't see any member of the extended Tree family described in any census as doing something that would involve a badge. Maybe we've got some members of the Stephen Tree family in that big group, but this is getting a little too speculative even for me.
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*Conjecture drawn from the clear blue sky.
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