Lake Station Schoolchildren, Autumn 1901

From the Elna Hazelgreen collection comes this photograph of Lake Station schoolchildren and staff in the autumn of 1901:


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The good news is that somebody wrote out all the names on the back.



The bad news is that the writer did not explain how the order of names related to the order of children. They seem to match up in terms of gender and apparent age if you start at the left side in the back row, go left-to-right in that row and the middle one, and then go right-to-left in the front row:



That would mean Elna Hazelgreen is at the far left of the front row.

Here's the information I found (if any) from the 1900 Census and 1910 Census about these people:

1901 Lake Station Students by AinsworthIN on Scribd

We've met Olga Foreman before. And Edna Seydel's dad once carried Claus Ziegler around the streets of Lake Station and Hobart in a wheelbarrow.

Blogger won't let me index all these names in one post, so here's something the search engines can read: Conroy, Erlandson, Fabian, Foreman, Fritche, Hazelgreen, Horn, Johnson, Killian, Lenburg, Marquardt, Matson, Miller, Nelson, Papka, Reich, Roper, Seydel, Thorne, Whent.

The Wheelbarrow Party at Rest

I went to Crown Hill Cemetery this morning and happened to find three of the participants in that 1904 wheelbarrow incident.

Claus Ziegler, the Ainsworth saloon owner who bet on the township trustee race:


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Charles Seydel, who lost the bet and had to push Claus around in a wheelbarrow:



Hans Thune, who (I think) ran the "Farmer's Home" saloon/restaurant where the crowd finished up its fun that day:



Here's the Ziegler family marker: