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Minor mill on Warren Creek by Arcata, California. Mack is the engineer, taken mid 1880s. Photographer unknown
Howard Gunn Butcher was my paternal great-grandfather. On his knee is my father, Joseph H. Manning (right), and Helen DeWiggins (left), my father's first cousin. The photo was taken in Kansas. Mr. Butcher was born in Indiana in 1855, and died in Iowa in 1915.
Died giving birth to Grandfather C. (my paternal grandfather).
I really wanted to share this photo even though it's not large enough. People who have seen it really like it.
My mother's wedding portrait from March 1957. We miss you, Mom! Photo by Sarli, Miami. View full size. Everyone be sure to phone your mom this weekend.
Just days off the erecting floor at Lima Locomotive, Chesapeake and Ohio 4-8-4 Greenbrier type #604 poses for a company publicity photo. The Greenbriers were used in passenger service over the Appalachians from Hinton WV to Charlottesville, Richmond, and Newport News VA. Each of the four original Greenbriers were named after a prominent Virginia statesman. 604 was the Edward Randolph. She's so shiny you could shave in the reflection off the boiler jacket. Unfortunately, she'll never be this clean again!
This is a portrait of the Reinfleisch women (family from my mother's side) believed to be taken either after arriving or shortly before departing from the homestead in Michigan. Date uncertain. The woman in black is almost definitely Beate Reinfleisch, my great-great grandmother, who lost her husband and second son there.
My dad's brother Charlie on a 1949 cruise to the Bahamas in the sailboat they built. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome by Marvin Hall.
My father (Harry E. Nigh, 1880-1972) attended this Sioux Pow Wow in July 1901 in Valentine, Nebraska.
Veritas Max Nigh