Category: Beerbower Family

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Sibling Saturday: The Pritchard Children, from the Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

This entry is part 1 of 8 in the series The Frances "Fannie" Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection
The Pritchard Children, from the collection of Frances "Fannie" Isabella (Brown). Edited to provide more contrast. (Click to enlarge.)
The Pritchard Children, from the collection of Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown). Edited to provide more contrast. (Click to enlarge.)

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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Family Friends Friday: Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

This entry is part 4 of 8 in the series The Frances "Fannie" Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection
W. Elliot Taylor
W. Elliot Taylor, Esq. Appears to have “Burns” written at the bottom- probably Burns, Michigan. (Click to enlarge.)

Beerbower Family (Click for Family Tree)

If these are all friends and family of Fannie (Brown) Chapman, and if ‘A. Beerbower’ is one of our family members, they might be friends of his too, thus they must also be friends of family… sort of like Google Circles or Facebook friends of friends, right?

Today we are posting the remaining gents in the Fannie Belle Brown Chapman collection of photographs. See previous posts for more information about Fannie, her sister Ida and this collection. (An upcoming post will have the A. Beerbower images.)

Rev. D. D. Campbell, Kansas Conference CC
Rev. D. D. Campbell, Kansas Conference CC written on back
John Fitch
John Fitch (already found his rightful home with a descendant)
John Fisk Russell, Massachusetts
John Fisk, Russell, Massachusetts
A. Hyatt, Oskaloosa, Iowa
A. Hyatt, Oskaloosa, Iowa, nothing on reverse
John Carrall, Iowa City.
Jos[eph?] Carrall, Iowa City, nothing on reverse.
W. W. Giles, Washington, D.C.
W. W. Giles, Washington, D.C. Possibly wearing a clerical collar?

Please do let us know if any of these gentlemen are your folks!

Notes, Sources, and References: 

  1. Posted with permission of the current owner of these photographs, in hopes they might find their proper home.

 

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Wishful Wednesday: Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series The Frances "Fannie" Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection
Miss Florence Lucy Gaylord, Michigan
Miss Florence Lucy Gaylord, Michigan. (Click to enlarge.)

Beerbower Family (Click for Family Tree)

Today we are posting the pictures of most of the ladies in the Frances “Fannie” Isabella Brown Chapman Collection. We are wishing that descendants of these lovely ladies will find this post and have a new photo to add to their family treasure chest.

See previous post for more information about the collection.They were friends of Frances Isabella (Brown) Chapman, and possibly of our family’s A. Beerbower. (More to come about him.)

Annie S., Muscatine, Iowa
Annie Stranok (?), Muscatine, Iowa; nothing on reverse of image. (Click to enlarge.)
Frances Darwin Pinkney, Michigan
“Frances Darwin Pinkney, Michigan, received Jan. 3, 1868” on reverse. (Click to enlarge.)
Miss Fannie H. Brewster
Miss Fannie H. Brewster, very faded ink, no information on back. (Click to enlarge.)

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

  1. Frances Isabella (Brown) Chapman Collection of Photos.

 

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Mystery Monday: The Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series The Frances "Fannie" Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection
Seven young men, friends of Fannie Belle (Brown) Chapman?
Seven young men, friends of Fannie Belle (Brown) Chapman? (Click to enlarge.)

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.

 Notes, Sources, and References: 
  1. The Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection

 

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Sentimental Sunday: Blue Laws and the Newfangled Movies

1923 Prohibition on Sunday Movies, in Marion {OH] Daily Star, 17 Apr 1923, Vol. XLVII, No. 122, page 1. Used with kind permission of the Marion Daily Star.
1923 Prohibition on Sunday Movies, in Marion [OH] Daily Star, 17 Apr 1923, Vol. XLVII, No. 122, page 1. Used with kind permission of the Marion Daily Star.

Sunday Blue Laws prohibiting sales of certain items, most notably liquor but also non-necessities, were around for many years, prevalent even into the 1970s. Some cities/states still have them, and lives have to be planned around them, but they do give employees time off to worship (if they worship on a Sunday- not all religions do) and/or be with family.

Transcription of 1923 article above:

SUNDAY MOVIE LAW UPHELD BY COURT

Columbus, April 17 — The su-

preme court today again up-

held the constitutionality of the 

state law prohibiting Sunday motion

pictures, when it refused to hear

the appeal of Walter K. Richards

from the decision of the Hancock

county courts, prohibiting him from

operating his motion picture theater

in Findley on Sunday.

It was surprising to see that movie theaters were included in these type of laws. This newspaper article from Marion, Ohio indicates that a court appeal was brought to the State Supreme Court by a theater owner after he lost his case to stay open on Sunday in Findley, Hancock County, Ohio.  The income lost from not being open that one day was probably significant, especially since many persons would be off work on Sundays and have more time to see a movie. Despite the hardship to his business, the Ohio Supreme Court concurred with the opinion of the lower courts, and Walter K. Richards was not allowed even to appeal.

What was shown in a movie theater back then would have been silent films with an organist playing a soundtrack- ‘talkies’ didn’t come around until 1927.

It would be interesting to know if stage productions were allowed on Sundays in Ohio in 1923.

Some of our ancestors lived in Ohio in 1923- wonder how they felt about prohibiting theaters from opening on Sundays? We do know that many members of the Beerbower/Peters family were very religious, so it is likely they applauded the courts for upholding the law and Sunday as a day of rest. Although many of our then-young ancestors were very active in church groups, how likely was it that they would have wanted to go to the movies on a Sunday with their sweetheart or friends? Probably not all of our ancestors were religious enough to consider closing movie theaters on Sunday required by the church, and some likely worked six days a week- they would have liked a bit of entertainment on their day off. Don’t forget that there was no television or cable tv in 1923!

 

This court case also shows how judicial attitude changes over time as the pendulum swings back and forth. Today, our courts strongly uphold the rights of businesses, especially in cases that affect their bottom line.

So, were these “the good ole days,” or not?? Are you sentimental for a time when family and church were a societal focus, or more sentimental for the Sunday afternoons you may have spent at the movies with family or friends?

 

 

Notes, Sources, and References: 

1) 1923 Prohibition on Sunday Movies, in Marion [OH] Daily Star, 17 Apr 1923, Vol. XLVII, No. 122, page 1. Used with kind permission of the Marion Daily Star.

 

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