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 written on backJohn Fitch (already found his rightful home with a descendant)John Fisk, Russell, MassachusettsA. Hyatt, Oskaloosa, Iowa, nothing on reverseJos[eph?] Carrall, Iowa City, nothing on reverse.W. W. Giles, Washington, D.C. Possibly wearing a clerical collar?
Please do let us know if any of these gentlemen are your folks!
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Posted with permission of the current owner of these photographs, in hopes they might find their proper home.
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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 Stranok (?), Muscatine, Iowa; nothing on reverse of image. (Click to enlarge.)“Frances Darwin Pinkney, Michigan, received Jan. 3, 1868” on reverse. (Click to enlarge.)Miss Fannie H. Brewster, very faded ink, no information on back. (Click to enlarge.)
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Frances Isabella (Brown) Chapman Collection of Photos.
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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 isvery likelyone 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:
The Frances “Fannie” Isabella (Brown) Chapman Photo Collection
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1857 Medical Electrician advertisement, appendix- no page, in “Smiths Brooklyn Directory for year ending May 1 1857,” via InternetArchive. (Click to enlarge.)
I hate today’s cooky cutter medical care and insurance desk jockeys telling a doctor what they can prescribe, operate on, etc., but we really have it good today despite all that. So many terrible diseases have been eradicated (though some are coming back, distressingly) and with all the wonderful tests and medications available, especially antibiotics, our lives and longer and more comfortable than those of our ancestors.
The above ad was found in an 1857 Brooklyn, New York City Directory, when I was searching for our Springsteen family. They were not there, as expected, since they had moved to Indianapolis about 1853, but there were interesting ads that I have been sharing. I don’t know if this therapy was available when they were in Brooklyn, or if it was available in Indianapolis, but I hope they did not partake of this cure!
A few notes to help understand the ad:
N. B. stands for “nota bene,” Latin for ‘note well.’ It was used to point out very important aspects. (Still used today in some circles. The medieval form was a hand with finger pointing, and we have that today in emojis!)
Electricity in various forms was a new ‘toy’ in 1857 and they weren’t sure how to use it. Many a diabolical-liking apparatus was used to shock people into sanity, reduce ‘nervous’ diseases, etc.
“Sulfur baths” at “Sulfur Springs” were used to cure diseases for hundreds, maybe even thousands of years. Having an “Electro-Medicated and Sulfur Vapor Bath” (were they combined, or two separate treatments?) available prevented sick persons from having to travel, often far, to partake of the natural cure.
“Dropsy” is a swelling we call ‘edema’ today, especially that caused by congestive heart failure. A big shock to the heart could definitely make it beat differently.
1857 Medications for sale, page 241, in “Smiths Brooklyn Directory for year ending May 1 1857,” via InternetArchive. (Click to enlarge.)
If one was afraid of the Medical Electrician, one could always go to the local druggist or apothecary to get something to cure whatever ailment was a problem. Drugs, of course, were made from plant extracts (before Big Pharma), and pharmacy textbooks even into the 1950s taught how to gather and process plants to make effective medicines, and compounding them was a part of a druggist’s training. Homeopathic medicines today still use some remedies such as these- cloves in a toothache medicine is one example- but thankfully our drug ads cannot guarantee a complete cure as these did in 1857.
Can you imagine what Jeff and Ann Connor Springsteen would think of our tv ads for Cialis today??
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See citations with images.
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It must have been one of those days, or I had been researching waaaaay too long (probably the latter). Seeing this ad while I was searching page by page for Springsteen ancestors in the 1857 Brooklyn City Directory, it just hit me funny. A ‘mangle’??
Even though I read old books and history and love archaic terms, I had never heard of a mangle before. This certainly looked like one could get a hand or long hair ‘mangled’ in it, and I knew that was true because my grandmother had a wringer washer and we kids played with it when she wasn’t looking. I had long hair and, well, we won’t go there…
I had never seen a wringer with a table attached though, nor one so large, so time for some research.
Wikipedia to the rescue, which is hard for me to say, but I have found it is more accurate than I used to give it credit. Wikipedia says the machines are called ‘mangles’ in the UK, but ‘wringers’ here in the US. Looks like they were called ‘mangles’ here for some time too- the British influence on our country was strong.
The earliest and most simple mangle was a cylinder that was wrapped with a wet cloth that had just been laundered, like a tablecloth or sheet, and rolled with a flat board pressed along the top to get the excess water out before line drying, or to remove wrinkles. (Our colonial ancestors probably used one.) The wringer for a washer was invented in the 1840s, , which would have saved women a lot of time. A wringer would have really helped in the winter, too, when clothing and household items had to be hung indoors because of inclement weather- getting most of the water out before hanging meant your head would not be dripped on while eating dinner, sewing, etc.
Heat was later added to the cylinders to help dry and press cloth. My mother and grandmother both had mangles, though we called them ‘ironers.’ They are large machines that put off a lot of steam and heat. A foot pedal or knee lift raised or lowered one of the rollers so that you could put a piece of cloth in, then lower the cylinder and iron away. My mother was SO good at using hers- she could iron a man’s shirt or pants with it! Really fast, too.
Mangles are not really used anymore except in commercial applications, such as hotels that dry and press their long tablecloths on them. Smaller mangles, such as those of my mother and grandmother, can be seen today in smaller laundries like the neighborhood dry cleaners.
Sure seems like the above mangle would have taken up a lot of room, even the smaller one. The table likely folded up, but that would still be a lot of space required. I wonder if Jefferson and Anna (Connor) Springsteen had a ‘mangle’ in their house in 1850s Brooklyn?
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