Tiny photograph of Tom Wiley, husband of Mabel W. Waldron, Thomaston, Maine

Small photograph of a man identified on reverse as Tom Wiley, husband of Mabel W.  I believe this is Thomas E. Wiley, the husband of Mabel W. (Waldron) Wiley, of Thomaston and Rockland, Maine.

From online research, hopefully correct:

Thomas E. Wiley indicated on the 1900 Census of that he was born in November of 1864 in Maine; this could be off by a year, as is frequently the case.   I don't have a death date for him, but I can't find him in the 1930 Census.  He was a merchant.

I haven't found anything about his parents.  I found a Thomas Wiley in the 1880 Census of Searsmont, Maine, but his birth year was given as 1871.  This Thomas was the son of Ephraim W. Wiley.

In 1887 Thomas E. Wiley married Mabel W. Waldron, who was born 3 May 1868 in Maine, the daughter of George Waldron and his wife Caroline P. (Hall) Waldron.  George Waldron was a stonecutter.  I haven't yet determined his parents, though I found a possible George Waldron living in Frankfort, Maine, in the 1850 and 1860 Censuses, the son of Daniel and Mehitable.

The George Washington Waldron in the 1850 Census of Calais, Maine, was not Mabel's father, as he died in 1858, before she was born.

Mabel's mother Caroline P. (Hall) Waldron was a bit easier to trace.  She was born 24 August 1833 in Maine, the daughter of Ambrose and Caroline P. (Clark) Hall.  Her paternal grandparents were Isaac and Ann (Anderson) Hall.  I don't have the parents of Caroline P. (Clark) Hall or if Clark was indeed her maiden name.

I find Thomas and Mabel in the 1900 and 1910 Censuses of South Thomaston, Maine, and in the 1920 Census of Rockland, Maine.  As noted above, I didn't find Thomas in the 1930 Census.    It's possible the Mabel W. Wiley living as a boarder with the Roberts family in Reading, Massachusetts in the 1930 Census is our Mabel (Waldron) Wiley, but she gave her birth state as Massachusetts, though this could be an error.  I found a reference online that Mabel died in 1941, just days after Pearl Harbor.

I found that Thomas and Mabel (Waldron) Wiley had a son Clifford, who was born in 1888 and died in 1895.  In the 1910 Census, there is a Dorothy Leach, age 3, indexed as a daughter of Thomas and Mabel.  Thomas, Mabel, Mabel's mother Caroline Waldron and Angeline Lawry, age 7, who is surprisingly listed as a servant, are the last entries on one page, and Dorothy Leach is the first entry on the next page.   Perhaps the Wileys took in Angeline and Dorothy?  I hope the girls had a happy childhood.

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Brochure from Thorp & Martin of Boston, Massachusetts on Eclipse of January 1925

Neat folded cardstock piece printed on the occasion of the January 1925 eclipse.  It originally contained a pair of colored glasses, but those are not present, probably having been used during the eclipse.

Once in your lifetime.  Eclipse of the Sun, Boston, Mass., January 24, 1925

The right pane has slits which were meant to hold the glasses in place.

This is About How the Sun
Should Look from Boston
At the Height of the Eclipse


A Primer on the Eclipse
Starts: 8:04 A.M.                January 24
Height: 9:17 A.M.        Eastern standard time
Ends: 10:36 A.M.


Facts Furnished by Harvard Observatory
At its height one-one hundredth of the Sun's diameter will remain uncovered and shining.
How dark will Boston be?  Not even the astronomers know.
When was the last such eclipse darkening Boston?
1806 (Bowditch records.)
When will the next visit us?  In 1932.
The shadow seen January 24 will move slowly from the upper right to the lower left of the Sun's disc.


Even when darkest remember we are Boston's leading stationers.


WE INVITE YOU


TO WATCH THE 
ECLIPSE OF THE SUN
JAN. 24, 1925
With Greater Comfort Because of Using These
T & M COLORED GLASSES
Furnished with the compliments of
THORP & MARTIN
Company
Stationers, Wholesale and Retail
66 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass.

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c. 1919 brochure advertising Giacomo Rimini, Italian Baritone

Circa 1919 or 1920 brochure on Giacomo Rimini, Famous Italian Baritone.  Available for Concerts, Recitals, Festivals, etc..  Jules Daiber, Exclusive Management.  Concert Bureau Aeolian Hall, New York City, Mason & Hamlin Piano Used, Vocation Records.

The Italian Baritone, GIACOMO RIMINI, was born in Verona and is twenty-nine years old.  He came with the recommendation of Toscanini, who chose him for the role of Falstaff in Verdi's masterpiece of the same name for the benefit of the Italian War Fund, which Toscanini conducted at Milan, several years ago.


Before coming to the Chicago Opera Association, he was a member of the Dal Verme Company in Milan, where he distinguished himself in a revival of Verdi's Falstaff.  After making his debut in his native city, he sang in the opera houses of Padua, Roviga, and other cities of Italy, thereby obtaining a large repertoire  His success led to engagements in Venice, Palermo, Naples and Rome.


In several seasons past he has appeared at the Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires and scored in the title roles of "Rigoletto", "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", "Falstaff", "Pagliacci", and other roles of the Italian school.


During the summer season of 1917, at Mexico City, this young Italian baritone was immensely successful in all the parts he undertook to portray.


Critics have declared him one of the best interpreters of "Falstaff" ever seen on the operatic stage, and his Figaro last season with Galli-Curci was a real triumph.  He also scored tremendously in "Francesca da Rimini".  His versatility is enhanced by his ability to portray comedy and character parts as well as the heavier dramatic roles.


Rimini's tremendous successes in Buenos Aires during the summer of 1918, where he appeared as "Falstaff" in "Aida" and "Ballo in Maschera" have brought this young artist greater artistic fame than one would have ever dreamed.


His joint recital tour with Rosa Raisa is entirely booked and will take these two artists to the Coast next spring.


Owing to the unprecedented success and phenomenal triumph of Giacomo Rimini's appearances in joint-recital with Rosa Raisa,the world's greatest dramatic soprano (three concerts in one week in New York to capacity audiences, 15,000) these two artists are being booked jointly for recitals, etc., making a specialty of duet-singing, which today is a novelty on the concert and recital stage.

The page above contains many favorable comments from critics, such as Felix Borowski of the Chicago Herald; Herman Devries of the Chicago Evening American; Edward C. Moore of the Chicago Daily Journal.

GIACOMO RIMINI
The Distinguished Young Baritone of the Chicago Opera Association will make
VOCALION RECORDS
Exclusively


The fame of Giacomo Rimini extends to many European music-centers in addition to the prestige he has attained in this country.


For the past two years Rimini has been one of the leading baritones of the Chicago Opera Association, where he has achieved phenomenal success in Falstaff, Tosca, Aida, Il Barbiere di Silviglia, Isabeau and the Jewels of the Madonna.


This gifted artist's repertoire includes seventy operas and an extensive selection of concert songs.


Rimini's voice - of rich, sonorous quality - is reproduced with amazing naturalness on the new Vocalion records.


Ask to hear Rimini's superb Vocalion record of the famous baritone aria from the Masked Ball.  ERI TU (Is It Thou?)
No. 54008 12-in. $2.00
THE AEOLIAN COMPANY
AEOLIAN HALL, NEW YORK
London--Paris--Melbourne--Sydney--Madrid


See a similar advertising piece for Soprano Rosa Raisa.




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Photograph of a child in the family of Cora Maude Remick, born 1868 in Maine

Note:  Be sure to read the comments section, which has much more information on the Remick/Conroy family and a guess as to the identity of the child. 

Enlarged photograph of a beautiful young child, not identified but in the family of Cora Maude Remick, who married Eugene F. Conroy, according to a page of genealogy that came with the photograph.  Unfortunately I have only the last page.

Transcript:

Cora Maude Remick, April 30, 1868, married July 30, 1886 to
Eugene Francis Conroy, born March 17, 1884 [sic - 1864]
Children
Madeline Agnes Conroy, born May 2, 1890.  Single
Eugene Francis Conroy, Jr., born February 28, 1892,
  married Marie E. McIntyre, October 8, 1919
Lloyd Elwood Conroy, born July 17, 1902,
  married Catharine Veronica Wallace, April 30, 1924,
   Patricia Conroy, born to Catharine and Lloyd, July 29, 1925.


Celia's husband - George Wellington Downing, born Calais, Maine, 
   October 1869, died November 21, 1894.


Walter Boyd Remick married to Hazel Porter, June 20, 1901.
                                                   Hazel Porter died May 25, 1910


Walter married 2nd time to Caroline Elizabeth Link, July 31, 1923.
      Caroline Elizabeth born, Chicago, Illinois


Lloyd Thomas Remick married Mary Elizabeth Cook, July 20, 1907
    Mary Elizabeth born Milford, Massachusetts 1883


From online research, hopefully correct:

Cora Maude Remick was born 30 April 1868 in Maine, the daughter of John G. Remick, born in Otis, Maine, and his wife Sarah E. (Dexter) Remick, born in Dedham, Maine.  Her paternal grandparents were Elkanah and Nancy Jane (Bunker, I think) Remick of Mount Desert Island and Otis, Maine.  Her maternal , grandparents were Thomas Burrill Dexter, born in China, Maine, and his wife Mary Rideout (Blood) Dexter, born in New Hamphire; they had moved to Dedham, Maine.

I don't have any information on the parents of Eugene Francis Conroy, and I'm not sure of his birthdate.  The transcript has an obvious typo, but even 1864 is at odds with an entry for his birth month and year in the 1900 Census of March 1861.  I'm accustomed to the 1900 Census being off by a year either way, but this would be 3 years.

Eugene Francis Conroy and Cora Maude (Remick Conroy had three children: Madeline Agnes, Eugene Francis, Jr., and Lloyd Elwood.  It's possible that the young girl in the photo is one of their children.  The handwritten sheet mentions a daughter born to Lloyd Elwood Conroy in 1924.

Another possibility is that the little girl isn't a direct descendant of Cora Maude Remick at all, but rather a descendant of one of her siblings, perhaps even identified on one of the preceding missing sheets of family genealogy.

If you have any corrections, additions or insights regarding the information presented above, particularly if you recognize the young girl from family albums, please leave a comment in the comments box or contact me directly.

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1911 Photograph of young Mildred Pratt, Bath, Maine

1911 photograph of Mildred Pratt of Bath, Maine, taken by Holmes Studio, Bath, Maine.  The photograph was used as a Christmas card by Willard Oliver to his sister Nellie.

Written on the back of the photograph: Bath, Dec. 1911.  A Christmas Card from Brother Willard to Sister Nellie.  Little Mildred Pratt, one and one half years old.  Our Darling little Niece.  Clinton and Kittie's darling Child.  May the coming year being Peace and Prosperity to you all.  Brother Willard.

From online research, hopefully correct:

Mildred Pratt was born about 1910 in Maine, the daughter of Clinton Fielding Pratt and his wife Kittie B. (Larrabee) Pratt.   I don't have the names of Clinton's parents, but I believe his mother was Ida M. Oliver, the younger sister of Willard and Nellie (Oliver) Erskine, judging from the clues on the reverse of the photograph.  Willard and Nellie had an older sister, Lena, but she married Louis Genthner and raised her family in Massachusetts.

Kittie (Larrabee) Pratt was born about April 1886 in Minnesota, the daughter of Walter and Minnie (?) Larrabee.

By the time of the 1900 Census, Clinton Fielding Pratt was living with his grandmother Philena (?) Oliver and uncle Willard in Bath, Maine.  I don't know what had happened to his parents.

Clinton Fielding Pratt and Kittie B. Larrabee married 17 July 1909.   I don't know if they had other children, in addition to Mildred.  In the 1910 Census, Clinton and Kittie were living with daughter Ruth M. in Bath, Maine.  I'm assuming that the initial M. stood for Mildred, but I can't be sure.   She could have been Ruth Mildred Pratt or Mildred Ruth Pratt, or neither.

By the 1920 Census, Kittie had apparently divorced Clinton F. Pratt and was living with husband Gordon F. Preble and her daughter Mildred Pratt in Woolwich, Maine.  In 1920 Clinton Pratt married Bertha M. Crosman and had at least two more children with her.

As for Mildred Pratt, I lost track of her with the 1920 Census.   Interestingly, I found an entry in the Maine Marriages online database for the marriage of Mildred F. Preble of Bath, Maine, and James F. Cameron of Ohio, in 1928; and another for Mildred F. Preble of Bath and John H. Stuart of Bath in 1935.   However, if our Mildred is Mildred Ruth or Ruth Mildred, she wouldn't have the initial F.  Never say never, though.

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Photograph of Geneva M. Branch at 11 months; Waterville, Maine studio

Photograph of Geneva M. Branch at the age of 11 months; photo by S. L. Preble, Waterville, Maine.

From online research, hopefully correct:


Geneva M. Branch was born about 1911 in Waterville, Maine, the daughter of Chester Arthur Branch and his wife Lena (Richards, I think) Branch of Waterville, Maine.  Her paternal grandparents were Winthrop M. and Emma (Hodges) Branch.  I haven't yet learned the names of the parents of Geneva's mother Lena, or if indeed Richards was her maiden name.  Geneva had a sister, Barbara, who was born in 1912.  She married William A. Chase in 1964.


Geneva M. Branch married Erroll P. Libby or Saint Albans, Maine, on 2 July 1932.  He was born 27 April 1909, the son of Chester Ellery Libby and his wife Susie E. (Emery) Libby.


Sadly, Geneva died in 1938; I'm not sure if she and Erroll had any children.  Erroll P. Libby married a second time in 1939, to Leona Sitnik.


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2 Photos Leroy Lewis Greely, Portland, Maine, age 1 and age 3

Photograph of Leroy Lewis Greely (1899-1949), Portland, Maine, at age 1, photo by Hanson studio of Portland.

Photograph of Leroy Lewis Greely at age 3 or 4; photo by a Portland, Maine studio.

From online research, hopefully correct:

Leroy Lewis Greely was born at Portland, Maine, on 10 April 1899, the son of Burnard L. and Harriet (?) Lewis.  His paternal grandparents were, I believe, Eliphalet and Abbie (Abbott) Greely.  I don't have information on the maiden name of Leroy's mother Harriet, or the names of her parents, but she indicated on the Census forms that she was born in Canada.

Leroy Lewis Greely married Hope Gertrude Davis (1900-1970), who was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the daughter of Joseph Carlton Davis and his wife Clara Louise (Peckham) Davis.  Leroy and Hope had at least one child, a son.

A reader forwarded a photograph of Clara Louise (Peckham) Davis when she was small. The identification on the reverse notes that Clara was the daughter of Thomas Peckham and Mary (DeBaun) Peckham.

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