Cemeteries
It was the custom back in the "Gay Nineties" for many Clintonians to hang group photographs of professional men in their parlors.
One of these early groups is shown here, identified as follows:
In the group of insurance men in the upper left hand corner, reading left to
right to the center are:
first row, E. M. Tremain, M. E. Lesse, Peter Matzen;
second row, J. D. Lithgrow, D. L. Ryder;
third row, Lee Browning, N. A. Patterson;
fourth row, W. E. Zingg;
bottom of group, Edgar Pritchard;
above center at top, R. N. Markham.
The group of doctors in upper right hand corner are:
top row left to right from center, A. W. Blunt, C. W. Meyers, E. M. McAfee;
second row, Wesley Peck, D. M. Finley;
third row, T. F. Molt, E. R. Mullett;
bottom, H. S. Farnsworth.
Newspapermen in the top central group are:
Col. F. W. Mahin, top;
Clarence A. Fay, D. H. Winget and C. H. Dean, left to right.
Lawyers shown are:
top row, left to right, C. H. George, A. H. Paddock, Frank Thornburg, A. L.
Schuyler, H. F. Bowers, Thomas Hall, Robert Baldwin;
bottom row, left to right, Isaac Baldwin, Col. James Van Deventer, A. R. McCoy,
L. F. Sutton.
In the group of bankers starting at the extreme left and reading left to
right are:
William Corbin, Marvin Ingwersen, George Haywood, Murray Haywood, W. F. Coan, J.
P. Gage, E. S. Bailey, J. G. Cornue, J. A. Townsend, Henry Gode and Thomas
Richardson.
The clergymen on the left is the Rev. Patterson and the one on the right, the Rev. J. D. Burrell.
In the miscellaneous group are:
top, Taft;
second row, Judson Hyde, Charles Bixbee;
third row, unidentified, William Dixon, unidentified;
fourth row, unidentified, W. F. Forsee, L. H. Roberts, John Raymond;
fifth row, Thomas Hurley, unidentified, E. Sheppard, Jerry Keefe, Frank Ankeny'
sixth row, unidentified, C. C. Fenlon, J. R. Morgan, J. B. Johnson, Henry Specht,
J. Q. Jeffries;
group of four at bottom left, Frank Schmidt, J. H. Flangan, William A. Siddle,
John M. Stich;
center bottom group, G. L. Temple, J. H. Petersen, George Greeley, Albert Bush;
group of four, bottom, right Capt. C. H. King, J. F. Jacques, two at bottom
unidentified.
[If you can tell us who any of the unidentified are, I'd be glad to add them here.]
SOURCE: Centennial Edition, Clinton Herald, Clinton Iowa, 18 June 1955
