Beerbower Family (Click for Family Tree)

These are the remaining photos in Fannie Chapman’s photo collection. As the owner was sorting through her grandmother’s trunk, she found many images of persons not related, and would like to see them ‘sorted’ into the albums of those who are actually related to these friends of the family and/or students. A. Beerbower (possibly one of our cousins) was in one of the photos in this collection, so he may have also known some of these folks.

Please see previous posts for more about the collection, and contact us if you have an interest in any items in the collection. The owner is eager to find the right homes for these wonderful photos!

Mrs. W. C. Sanderson, no info.  The studio is embossed- almost impossible to read but I think it is Gray Brothers in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Maggie Richer appears to be the daughter of John C. Richer; he was born in 1844 in New Hampshire.

Eva B. Buchannan was born circa 1874 in Missouri and died 1943. She married William A. Goss who was born 1869 also in Missouri. Her father was John H. Buchannan born 1835 in Iowa, and her mother Mary was born 1844 in Canada.

Minnie and Alice were sisters, daughters of Addison B. Parsons.  Minnie was born in 1864 in Maine, and Alice born 1866, Maine.  Alice married Arthur B. Allen.  Written on the back of Alice’s photo: “Mrs. Alice (M.) Parsons Allen died Jan 17, 1898 aged 32 yrs. Mc Falls, Maine.”  Nothing on the back of Minnie’s photo.

Ira Austin

Ira Austin was born in 1812 in New York; he was the brother of Clement Austin in Boulder, Colorado.  Ira was listed as a mill planner in the 1880 business pages of Boulder. Written on the back “Ira Austin Boulder, Colorado” – probably a friend of Volney Chapman, father of Verna and Charlotte Chapman.

George T. Bell born 1862, Illinois; Minnie (MNU) Bell, born 1866, Nebraska; Maura Bell born 1891, Colorado; Winnie Bell born 1886 in Colorado.  (Data from 1900 census.)

Susie’s picture may interest someone.  She was the sister of Talbot, the Artist/Photographer. Susie Talbot Knapp is identified on the album page.  She looks good for her age born in 1866 I believe.  Carrie McDermott died in 1898 I think if my memory is serving me rightly so the picture had to be taken before then. She was also born ten years or so later than Susie.

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

1. Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

 

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Beerbower Family (Click for Family Tree)

What a sweet group of siblings! Today is ‘Sibling Saturday’ and yesterday, November 20, was “Universal Children’s Day,” so it is fitting to showcase some adorable children.

The above photo is from the Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman collection of photographs, and the owner is interested in finding the rightful home for this photo. It is believed that these photos are from friends or students of either Fannie or her sister Ida, both of them schoolteachers. (They could have also been known by A. Beerbower, of whom there is a photo in the collection, and he may be collateral kin to us.)

As the photo has ‘Photo Tent” printed at the bottom, we don’t know where this picture might have been taken, so it makes it harder to identify the folks in the image.

We do know that a photographer named M.E. Chase was in Urbana, Illinois in 1886, and later in Colorado- there will be an upcoming post on this photographer so watch for that with more details.

The Pritchards need to be researched as well, and there were quite a number of Pritchards in Colorado in the 1880 US Federal Census. There were even some families in Ouray County, where M.E. Chase had a studio by at least February 1900. I will leave the further detective work for those related to enjoy- I am eager to get back to the seventeenth century in Puritan New England.

Please do let us know if you are related to this family, if you know more information about this family or photographer, and/or if you are family and interested in the photo.

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

1. See citations with image.
2. A digression: How presumptuous of us earthlings to use the word ‘universal’ for our special days or contest- there was likely no Martian child on the poster for “Universal Children’s Day” nor I have never seen a “Miss Alpha Centauri” in the “Miss Universe” contest- have you?? At least the “World Series” does include Canadian teams now, though it is still not quite appropriate to use the word “World” in that ethnocentric title either. Humans.

 

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Beerbower Family (Click for Family Tree)

This blog has been wonderful “cousin bait.” We have found some new cousins and learned some new family stories. We have also had some folks find us that have family artifacts that they have shared. Sometimes, they have not actually been family,  or they were not very closely related so wished to pass on the item itself, and we were pleased to accept.

We have also found some ‘sadly-not-cousins’- people who contact us, thinking they may be related, but they are sadly not. Today’s post is an example- a person googling A. Beerbower found our posts about the family, so contacted us. I did not think that the image she sent was one of our family, but upon doing more research, well, it appears the image she sent is very likely one of our Beerbower family members. (A. Beerbower will be featured in an upcoming post.)

The pictures belonged to Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman who was born in 1845 in Michigan, the third child of nine born to Lemuel Brown and Catherine Lyman. Fannie trained as a teacher and moved about 1871 to Valmont, Colorado. In 1872 she married Volney Chapman (1823 – 1907). He was one of the original ’49ers but had moved back to his family in Michigan about 1860, only to remove to Colorado after 1870. He and Fannie built a house in Loveland, Colorado which is still standing. They had three children: Lloyd, b. 1876, Verna b. 1877, and Charlotte b. 1879. Fannie sadly died when she was just 41. Her sister Ida also taught but in Kansas, married and also died young.

One of Ida’s descendants said they had some pictures of friends also and he wanted to donate them to a library or archives in Michigan; our correspondent said she will do the same with the pictures no one claims as family.  “Most of the pictures are from Iowa, Michigan and one from Indiana.  The ones I had been able to locate were mostly born in the mid to early 1840’s.  I hate seeing the ones I have found ended up in a dusty basket at an antique store so I have been on a search for family.”

Do let us know if you are related to any of the folks in this post or those upcoming about Fannie’s photo collection.

The above image is labeled 1- Russell, 2- Green, 3-[unreadable- Cook?], 4- Green, 5-nothing written. It was pasted down, no photographer information available.

More to come from Fannie’s collection.

1. The Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

 

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