Month: August 2010
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Photo of Dorothy and Mary Lou Noyes
Artistic license taken Original courtesy of Nancy Benton Sisters Dorothy Noyes and Mary Lou Noyes, daughters of Ray Noyes and Elizabeth “Bettie” Brewer Noyes. Gram always took pride in having been a fashionable dresser in her youth. The photo was perhaps taken in Liberal, Missouri but is not outside the family home. The style would…
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“Typical Clapboard Boom Town Structure” in Osage County, Oklahoma
Photoshopped Original I picked the bottom photo up from the Tribute to Osage County website, seeing it was a McWhirt. Ruby’s not down the line of Addie McKenney who married Samuel Cornelius McWhirt, but she was a relative. Thought I’d play with this with a quick coloring to see what it looked like. From the…
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Freethoughter G. W. McKinney
Samuel Porter Putnam’s “400 Years of Freethought”, published by The Truth Seeker Company in 1894, appears to have been a subscription periodical as the rear of the book lists subscribers from all the states. In the list of subscribers we see, in “Indian Territory”, one subscriber, a G. W. McKinney. Perhaps I’m assuming too much,…
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Photo of Cora and Pansy Noyes as Children, Liberal, Missouri
A nice photo of Cora and Pansy Noyes, daughters of Ray Noyes and Elizabeth Jane “Bettie” Brewer. Cora was born 1897 and Pansy was born 1895. The photo seems to me about 1900. I tried a restoration plus a colored version. Lost the full size of the colored version somewhere along the way. The place…
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Census data for George H. Walser
Thought it would be interesting to see what census data I could find on the family of George H. Walser, founder of Liberal, Missouri. George’s father being Mark Walser, in 1830 the family was in Langley, Dearborn, Indiana Source Citation: 1830 U S Census: Langley, Dearborn, Indiana, Page: 255; NARA Roll: M19-27; Family History Film:…
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Review of the “Primitive Expounder”
From Volume VIII, December 20, 1845, of “The Star in the West” PRIMITIVE EXPOUNDER The first number of a new Vol. was received to day, Dec. 13th. We have always read this paper with pleasure, for it is conducted with prudence and with an eye to enlighten as much as possible those who sit in…
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Review of the Alphadelphia Tocsin
From Volume VIII, December 12, 1845, of “The Star in the West” ALPHADELPHIA TOCSIN The best paper we have ever seen devoted to Association or Fourierism is one of the above title, published in Alphadelphia, Michigan. It is clear, explicit and practical–and therefore a useful agent in the dissemination of the views of Association. In…
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WHO STOLE THE BEEF
From Volume VIII, December 20, 1845, of “The Star in the West” SUMMARY JUSTICE—’WHO STOLE THE BEEF?’ The Primitive Expounder at Alphadelphia, Michigan, tells a good story about the exposure of two Methodist preachers who lately held forth at a Camp Meeting at Romulus in that State. It seems the Methodists, at their Camp Meetings…
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The Race of Gray Eagle
NOTE: The story concerns W. W. Baker who was married to Isabel Frances “Fanny” Hackney, daughter of William Hackney and Sarah Shannon. Unfortunately, the below article does not reveal the Sac Indian with whom W. W. Baker had formed a partnership in the training of the horse, Gray Eagle, for a run against the Fox.…
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May 20 1844 Letter from Schetterly to The Phalanx on the Alphadelphia Association’s Progress
NOTE: One of the more interesting things about this article, to me, is that at the time the society was given as having “upwards of” 1300 members, with at least 100 rejected. This far exceeds the typical assessment of numbers belonging to the society. Addressed here are the association’s early attempts to prepare for on…