Autograph album kept from 1878 to 1885 by owner Emma C. Lang of Mishawaka, Indiana. She received the album on October 7, 1878.
It appears from inscriptions that Emma was a student at the Northern Indiana Normal and Business Institute at Valparaiso, Indiana.
Ownership page:
Shared page to which Emma was a contributor, presumably from her time at Northern Indiana Normal & Business Institute:
The album measures approximately 7" by 4-1/4" and contains the sentiments of about 50 people, some of whom also inscribed shared pages, one of which also features Emma's autograph. An alphabetical list of the inscribers, together with any personal information they offered, appears at the end of this post.
Surnames in the Album
From brief online research, hopefully correct - corrections and additions requested:
Emma C. Lang was born July 11, 1859 in Indiana, the daughter of Frederick Lang and Ernestina M. (Frank) Lang. Emma's FindaGrave memorial notes that she was born in 1853, but her parents married in 1857.
One page inscribed in German is too faint for my German friend to decipher, except for the word "Lang". This page might have been inscribed by one of Emma's parents or paternal grandparents, though I believe that Emma's father's parents had both died by the time she started her album.
Another page was inscribed by Emma's Grandmother Frank, who would have been Catharine (Roupp) Frank
Read more about the Lang family in Mishawaka, Indiana, in Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana: Together with Biographies of Many Prominent Men of Northern Indiana and of the Whole State, Both Living and Dead, published by the Goodspeed Brothers in 1893. As noted in the section dealing with the Lang family, Emma had already died by this point, in 1890.
On January 19, 1887 in St. Joseph County, Indiana, Emma C. Lang married Frank Edward Milburn. They had a son, William Frank Milburn, born in 1888, before Emma's untimely death in 1890. Frank later married Edith Drinkwater and had several more children.
Emma's buried in the Mishawaka City Cemetery at Mishawaka, Indiana, with Lang and Milburn relatives.
Sources:
- U.S. Federal Censuses
- Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana: Together with Biographies of Many Prominent Men of Northern Indiana and of the Whole State, Both Living and Dead, published by the Goodspeed Brothers in 1893
- Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007
- South Bend and the men who have made it. Historical, descriptive, biographical, by Tribune Printing Company of South Bend, Indiana, 1901 - for maiden name of Emma's maternal grandmother, in biography of her son Charles Frank of Mishawaka, Indiana
- FindaGrave.com
If you have corrections and/or additions to the information above, or information on any of the inscribers listed below, please leave a comment or contact me directly.
Inscribers in the Album
- ?; inscribed on December 31, 1878. Member of F.L.O.B.S.
- Frank S.; inscribed on January 19, 1879
- ?; perhaps Mary
- Dora
- Pode or Bode
- Carrie Bell of Perrysville, Indiana; inscribed at Northern Indiana Normal & Business Institute at Valparaiso, Indiana, on January 2, 1880
- Mate Best; inscribed on October 29, no year written
- Esse C. Bissell of South Bend, Indiana; inscribed on May 24, 1885
- Cora Bliss; inscribed at College Hill on January 16, 1880
- Mattie Booth of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on November 1, 1878. Shared the page with Hattie L. Eberhart; Estelle M. Loring; and Ida E. Sandiland
- Anne E. Boyd, one of the F.L.O.B.S.; shared the page with Dora A. Ford; Bessie Oliver; and Flora G. Schock
- Anna Boyd of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on October 17, 1878
- Ella Boyd; inscribed on December 16, 1878
- C. H. Brinsmaid of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on November 19, 1878. Perhaps Charles H. Brinsmaid
- Lydia Brinsmaid; inscribed on December 5, 1881
- Estelle M. Brown; inscribed November 19, 1878
- Milroy Burt; inscribed at High School on February 7, 1879. Milroy Burt lived at Mishawaka, Indiana, where Emma also presumably lived.
- Eugene Butterworth of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on January 15, 1879
- Jennie Byrkit; shared the page with Emma Lang; Deo Chipman; Jennie Pomeroy; W. J. Pomeroy; and Dwight Cooley
- Jennie Byrkit
- M. Amelia Cameron of Bedford, Ohio; inscribed at Valparaiso, Indiana, on January 11, 1880, presumably at Northern Indiana Normal & Business Institute
- L. Carrington of Grand Rapids, Michigan; inscribed at Valparaiso, Indiana, on January 21, 1880, presumably at Northern Indiana Normal & Business Institute
- Deo Chipman; shared the page with Emma Lang; Jennie Pomeroy; Jennie Byrkit; W. J. Pomeroy; and Dwight Cooley
- Deo C. Chipman; inscribed at Battle Creek, Michigan, on December 15, 1879
- Dwight Cooley; shared the page with Emma Lang; Deo Chipman; Jennie Pomeroy; Jennie Byrkit; and W. J. Pomeroy
- Anna Dixon of Pontiac, Illinois; inscribed at College Hill on January 17, 1880. Perhaps at Northern Indiana Normal & Business Institute
- Hattie L. Eberhart of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on November 1, 1878. Shared the page with Mattie Booth; Estelle M. Loring; and Ida E. Sandiland
- Nellie Eberhart; inscribed at Mishawaka, Indiana, on January 16, 1879. "One of the girls". "H.D."
- Maggie Elder; inscribed on April 25, 1879
- A. L. Faulkes of Burr Oak, Michigan; inscribed on January 22, 1880. Possibly Arthur L. Faulkes
- Dora A. Ford; F.L.O.B.S.; shared the page with Anne E. Boyd; Bessie Oliver; and Flora G. Schock
- Catharine (Roupp) Frank, Emma's grandmother, who wrote her inscription in German
- M. A. Frank; called herself Emma's aunt. Possibly Mary A. (Buchheit) Frankel) Frank, wife of Charles Frank, who was a brother to Emma's mother Ernestina M. (Frank) Lang.
- Emma C. Lang of Mishawaka, Indiana; album owner
- Emma Lang; shared the page with Deo Chipman; Jennie Pomeroy; Jennie Byrkit; W. J. Pomeroy; and Dwight Cooley
- ? Lang; extremely faint and in German. Possibly one of Emma's parents or paternal grandparents.
- Estelle M. Loring of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on November 1, 1878. Mentioned "St. Petersburgh". Shared the page with Mattie Booth; Hattie L. Eberhart; and Ida E. Sandiland
- Dora Marrifield of Valparaiso, Indiana; inscribed on January 18, 1880
- Bertha Marter
- May McKee; inscribed on February 6, 1879
- Clara Miller of Coloma, Michigan; inscribed at East Hall No. 26, on December 23, 1879
- Ella Minnick; inscribed on January 8, 1880
- Bessie Oliver; F.L.O.B.S.; shared the page with Anne E. Boyd; Dora A. Ford; and Flora G. Schock
- Bessie Oliver; inscribed on March 18, 1879
- Jennie B. Pomeroy of Kalamazoo, Michigan; inscribed on November 23, 1879
- Jennie Pomeroy; shared the page with Emma Lang; Deo Chipman; Jennie Byrkit; W. J. Pomeroy; and Dwight Cooley
- Mana Pomeroy of Kalamazoo, presumably Kalamazoo, Michigan
- W. J. Pomeroy of Kalamazoo, Michigan; inscribed on December 10, 1879. Mentions Valparaiso, so presumably inscribed at the Northern Indiana Normal & Business Institute
- W. J. Pomeroy; shared the page with Emma Lang; Deo Chipman; Jennie Pomeroy; Jennie Byrkit; and Dwight Cooley
- Anna Rosewarne; inscribed on May 22, 1883. "Your musical sister"
- Ida E. Sandiland of Mishawaka, Indiana; inscribed on November 1, 1878. Shared the page with Mattie Booth; Hattie L. Eberhart and Ida E. Sandiland
- Sophia Sandmeier of New Carlisle, Indiana; inscribed in February 1879
- Flora Schock; inscribed at Misawaka, on January or June 19, 1879. Perhaps Mishawaka, Indiana
- Flora G. Schock, F.L.O.B.S.; shared the page with Anne E. Boyd; Dora A. Ford; and Bessie Oliver
- Ella Sherritt
- Ella Smith of Alton, Illinois; "Happy New Year"
- Hattie L. Smith of New Carlisle, Indiana; inscribed on February 3, 1879
- A. A. Southworth, Teacher of Penmanship and Art, Valparaiso, Indiana; inscribed in 1880. His death notice said that he was one of the noted penman of America. http://ybinpfg.inportercounty.org/Data/Obits/Southworth5477.html
- Lonie Vance; inscribed on December 23, 1879. "Come once come again to Art hall"
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