Help with Band identities

This photo was sent as a postcard to Jean (Petersen) Jones' great-aunt. Bettie Peterson, in 1909. Jean said, "One of them is Emil Johnson father of Randall Johnson, father of Gary, Othel (Al), and Dean Johnson. I don't know which one he is nor do I know any of the others. 

7-27-2021 via email:
My name is Kathy Johnson, daughter of Maurice and Leona Johnson. Maurice was a brother to Randell Johnson. Emil Johnson was my grandfather.(Emil Johnson is pictured in the first row, second from the right). I have seen this picture at Evelyn Johnson's home where we celebrated Christmas Eve every year. Evelyn was Emil's sister.The baritone that Emil has in the picture I refurbished and learned how to play. I played Christmas tunes on it one Christmas Eve at Evelyn's farmhouse.

7-27-2021
John Noyd said:  Front row right could very well be Almer G Noyd.
Bonnie Ekse said:  I think I’ve seen this photo before, or a similar one of the same band, and the front right tuba player was identified as Milton Lindskoog.

Click on the photo to enlarge it and let us know if anyone recognizes these men. There was a band from Arthur called the Progressive band, but we don't know if it was the same organization.

Click the below for an enlargemnt of a closeup of the band.

 Below is a photo of the Progressive band from Arthur.for comparison.

Old photos of Knudsen, Mickelsen, Teaquist and Huldeen

Not long ago I received a message from Howard Willey saying he had some old photos from Odebolt that he would like to share with any family descendants that might still live in the Odebolt area. I asked him to send scans or phone shots of them.

Howard says:
When my great grandmother immigrated from Denmark in 1883 she settled in Odebolt. She lived there until she got married in 1892, then she lived the rest of her life in Anthon, Iowa. Her name was Anna Knudsen Mickelsen 1865-1917.

(PLEASE RIGHT CLICK EACH PHOTO,
from the menu choose "Open Link in a New Tab",
then click the photo again to enlarge it.)

 

Anna Knudsen Mickelsen

Anna Knudsen Mickelsen

Below: The first person my great grandmother met in Odebolt was Anna Teaquist 1864-1947. Anna Teaquist married John Huldeen. I noticed in the Odebolt graveyard there are several Teaquist and Huldeen graves. Are there any of the descendants still living in the area that are interested in these pictures?

In the round picture Knudsen is on the left and Teaquist is on the right. In the fancy dresses picture are the same ladies, Knudsen on the right. 

                                                 Anna Knudsen Mickelsen and Anna Teaquist Huldeen

 

Anna Teaquist Huldeen and Anna Knudsen Mickelsen

 Below, the woman seated on the left is my great grandmother Anna Knudsen Mickelsen 1865-1917. I’m pretty sure the woman standing second from the left is Anna Teaquist Huldeen 1864-1947. The picture I assume is of a church ladies group or some other club/organization. Hopefully someone recognizes the other ladies

If you can identify any other of these women, please email me ((Barb Girvan Horak) at the email address on the right column. Also contact me if you wish to have Howard's contact info. 

 

Barbershop Men

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Photo believed to be either late 1940s or early 1950s. Please help identify these men!

Front Row: 

1)  Don Rex  2) Harry Sommers   3)               4) Ed Korneisel  5)  Ted Metier  6)  Dr. F.W. Worth  7) Jay Wicker

Middle Row:

1) Don "Spike" Einsphar ??   2) Elwood Deibert     3) Dr. James McAllister    4)            5) ??Russ Peters ??   6) Richard Swanson    7) Don Potter

Back Row

1) Marion Hix??     2)            3)           4)         5) Harry Swanson    6)  Frank Shaw   7) Dwight Meyer

Bonnie Ekse found the following:

The Rotary quartet, called “The Felony Four” in an article in the November 20, 1952 Chronicle. These are the men in the photo holding canes!
    Don Potter (far right, middle row)
    Ted Metier (3rd from right, first row)
    Jay Wicker (far right, first row)
    Ed Korneisel (middle of first row with cane)

 

Bonnie also searched Odebolt newspaper archives from 1/1/1952 to 3/1/1953 for names of Rotary members:
  (Perhaps you can spot some of these men in the photo?)

Dwight V. Meyer (in photo)
Merle Sanders
B. G. Ogden
A. W. Lewis
Dr. James McAllister (in photo)
Nate Skalovsky
Paul Fox
Herbert Turin
E. B. Deibert (in photo)
Richard Swanson (in photo)
Rev. W. B. Bell
Walter Lundblad
Harry Sommers (in photo)
Dr. F. W. Worth (in photo-top hat)
Bob Dannenberg
Marion Hix (in photo)

     (start P. 3, rotary 01/01/1952-03/01/1953
Wally Hamann
Ralph Swanson (in photo)
Francis McCorkindale

 

Went back farther and found:

Rev. Palmer Sellstrom
Dean Brown
Rev. Albert Peters
B. B. Strieby
M. H. Paul
Harry Iversen
 

Identify People from Album

From Erin Bohannon: I acquired an old family album from an auction in Oregon, and many of the photos list an Odebolt photographer.  I was wondering if you might be able to identify any of the photos? Almost all the photos came from Odebolt, with a few others coming from other parts of Iowa.

I belong to several Facebook groups that acquire old photos and try to get them back to family.  This is something we do for free.  This old album has 25 photos.  A treasure trove of family history! Any help at all you can give me would be greatly appreciated.I would really love to get the album back to family. If you use the email just below, they will put you in contact with me.
Thanks for any help you can give!

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If you have information on the identities of some of these people, please contact us at our email address, referring to the Photo #:  

Click on an image and a slide show will come up. If you want to see an enlargement, RIGHT click on the image in the slideshow, and select "View image". The single image will come up. Then click on the image and it should enlarge. (This is for PCs - I don't know how Macs work).

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This is the front and back of the album

PHOTO 1 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

PHOTO 2 - Taken a Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

 PHOTO 3  - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt. This "may" be the same couple as in PHOTO 2.

 

PHOTO 4 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

PHOTO 5 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

PHOTO 6 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

Photo number 6 could be a young John Reynolds, who would have been about 39 when Frey bought the studio.
A known photo of John Reynolds is here:
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~iaohms/reynoldsja.html

 

 

PHOTO 7 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

PHOTO 8 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt. This "may" be the same man as in PHOTO 7.

 

PHOTO 9 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt. The seated couple are the same as PHOTO 8.

PHOTO 10 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

PHOTO 11 - Taken at Fry Studio - Odebolt

 

PHOTO 12 - Photographer is J L Umphrey, Odebolt, Iowa

 

PHOTO 13 -  Photographer is J L Umphrey, Odebolt, Iowa

Appears to be a match to PHOTO 12.

 

PHOTO 14 -  Photographer L. F. Wil....something, Spirit Lake, Iowa

 

PHOTO 15  

 

PHOTO 16 - Photographer Adams, Sac City, IA

 PHOTO 17 - Photographer McLagan, Early, IA

 PHOTO 18 - Photographer Phelps, Muscatine, IA

This appears to be an older photo than most of them.

 PHOTO 19 - The Hoff Studios, Carroll, IA

 PHOTO 20 - Photographer Gunderson, Winona, MN

 PHOTO 21 - Unknown photographer. Appears to be and older photo than the others.

 

PHOTO 22 - Photographer Skewis Photo Studio, Windom, Minnesota

 

PHOTO 23- Hawkins Bros. Photo/Studio

Help Identify Unknown People

 

These are photos from Odebolt photographers that we have collected over time from various auction sites. Click the image or click here to access them.  If you click on the first photo it will open a slide show. 

If you can identify any of them, please comment below.

Help identify old Briggle photos

Please click the above image or  click this link to view the photos. If you click on the first photo, you will start a slide show.

If you have comments about a photo or can identify people in a photo, please leave a comment below this blog post, giving the photo number.


These photos were taken after 1915 (dated by the fact that the bank on Main and 2nd is pictured, and it was built in 1915.)

Kay Summerville Stephan from Ames found some old negatives and, thinking they were scenes taken by family from Odebolt, she had them developed. She donated them to the Odebolt Museum and the curator, Kathy Larson, scanned them in hopes that people will be able to help identify people, or leave comments about the photos.

The photos are associated with the Briggle family. Kay said her grandfather was Harry Briggle. She also mentioned Everett Briggle.  According to Everett Briggle's obituary, both Everett and Harry were sons of John G. Briggle (who owned and operated Briggle's Ice Cream Parlor). Everett's obituary states that he operated the Briggle Brothers Cafe in Odebolt until it was destroyed by fire in 1952.

Information on the Briggle family can be located at
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~iaohms/briggle.html

Briggle's Ice Cream Parlor as pictured at Odebolt History Pages

Interior of Briggle's Ice Cream Parlor

PREVIOUS COMMENTS:

R.J. Rex, Friday, August 12, 2011
I remember going into Briggle's ice cream parlor as a kid. I think there was a saloon in the back of the building. 

Chuck Hanson - Sunday, April 29, 2012
In photo #7: the man on the right is Alfred Meyers. The lad to the left of the man in the white shirt as we view it, bears very strong resemblance to Eugene (Budix) Reynolds

Chuck Hanson added ... Alfred Meyers later became the manager of the Green Bay Lumber Yard.

An old brick

From the Facebook "Odebolt Community News" page, August 22, 2016

Jayne Humphrey Pearce posted:
Hello, I am with the Fort Wallace Museum located in Wallace, Kansas. We tell the story of this frontier fort that was very important to the history of the Smoky Hill Trail and the early Indian Wars. This fort was staffed by troops of the 7th Cavalry, 10th Cavalry, 3rd Infantry and 2nd Infantry from 1865 through 1883.

We recently built a facade to represent one of the original enlisted barracks of Fort Wallace, using salvaged stone once used on the Fort. On one of the stones is the name "A.K. Anderson Odebolt, Ia." I was delighted to find your town online and thought you would enjoy the sight of this lonely soldier's name and the name of his hometown! Does this name ring a bell? Are there any descendants of this man in Odebolt?

(Editor: A search of on-line resources, online Odebolt newspaper archives, and the Odebolt Cemetery did not find this name. It could be that he lived in Odebolt for a time and then moved on. He must have signed the brick sometime before 1882 - see below)

From Wikipedia:
Fort Wallace (ca. 1865–1882) was a US Cavalry fort built in Wallace County, Kansas to help defend settlers against Cheyenne and Sioux raids. All that remains today is the cemetery, but for a period of over a decade Fort Wallace was one of the most important military outposts on the frontier.

I believe this is the facade referred to in the facebook post. (from www.ftwallace.com/)

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Confirmation photo identities

Some time ago I was contacted by Amy Norton who gave me the identity of the minister in a 1928 confirmation photo from the old Mission Covenant Church in Odebolt.  She said that  the minister in the photograph was her great-grandfather, Rev. E. Fred Hall. She also attached a personal photo of her Great-grandfather with his family.   Thank you Amy!

There are two confirmation photos on the page and we would appreciate any help that can be given on identities of the confirmands.

View the page & photos.

Presbyterian Bible School - May 1953

Here's a photo from many years ago, taken in front of the bridal wreath spirea at the edge of the Presbyterian Church lawn in Odebolt.  The tallest person in the back row is Rev. Albert Peters.  I'm wearing a light-colored dress, standing behind the third boy from the right who is seated on the grass.  Scroll down this page to read The Odebolt Chronicle article about the Presbyterian and Methodist Bible schools held at the same time.  Vacation Bible school was a fun highlight of the summer for many of us.

Odebolt's swimming pool opened for the very first time later that summer, on August 7, 1953.  (Read all about it at the Odebolt History Pages.)  We took Red Cross swimming lessons the following summer, passed the swimming test for the deep end, and whiled away many idyllic summer hours at the pool during our growing-up years.

I can put names to more than a dozen faces in this photo.  Who do you recognize?    - Bonnie

The Odebolt Chronicle, May 28, 1953

February 14, 1956: Girl Scouts Give Sweetheart Party

A Valentine's Day Party 60 Years Ago

Who do you recognize in this picture?  Click on it, then click again to make it larger.

Article from the Digital Archives of the Odebolt Public Library and Odebolt Historical Museum:
The Odebolt Chronicle, February 16, 1956

We now have another photo, thanks to Linda Trudeau.  Linda Trudeau and her dad, Larry Trudeau, are at the dessert table, followed by Karen and Kathy Wagner and their dad, Amos Wagner (holding napkin that covers Kathy's face).  Doris Johnson is behind the table arranging drinks.  In the group of men standing at the left of the photo, Bob Girvan is fourth from left, and Bonnie Girvan is beside him with her hand to her mouth.

We promised identifications for this photo originally posted on Valentine's Day 2016.  Can you help us with missing identifications?

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Dads, red numbers:

  1.  Lloyd Lundblad
  2. 
  3.
  4.
  5.  Lawrence Anderson
  6. 
  7.  Grant Langle?
  8.  Rev. Lyle Lieder?
  9.  Harry Sellman
10.  Kermit Johnson?
11.  Bob Girvan
12.  Amos Wagner
13.  Larry Trudeau
14. 
15.  Harvey Keller
16.  Charles Ferguson?
17.  Neil Lashier
18.  Vernon Loger
19.  Ronald Einspahr
20.

Daughters and Mrs. Worth, following circle counter-clockwise:
  1.  Julie Lundblad
  2.  Mrs. Worth (leading the folk dance)
  3.  Judy Lee Anderson (wearing a beanie)
  4. 
  5.  Patty Langle
  6. 
  7.
  8.  Linda Peters
  9.  Jennifer Sellman
10.  Susie Johnson
11.  Bonnie Girvan
12.  Linda Trudeau
13.
14.  Cheri Keller
15.  Jayne Lashier
16.  Polly Loger

Who played the piano?

Help identify Swedish men

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The photo was taken at Frey's Studio, 3rd and Main St. in Odebolt in 1897.
Standing from Left: Anton Nilsson ... Julius Nilsson .... August Johnson (Johansson)

Sitting from left: John Monson ... Olander "Ole" Johnson ... Nils Johnson (Johansson) ...Taylor Johnson

The above photo was sent by Anders Nilsson from Bastad, Sweden, asking for identities, which have now been found.  

Anders' grandfather was Julius Nilsson/Nelson, who returned to Sweden in 1897; Julius' brother is Anton Nilsson; cousins are John Monson and Ole Johansson/Johnson (married "Anna" in Odebolt on Jan. 23, 1901).  August and Nils Johnson (Johansson) are brothers.


Update - From an Anders Nilsson email, January 5, 2017:
In June 2014 I sent you a mail asking or help to identify 3 of the 7 persons on photo taken in Odebolt about 1897.  In December 2016 I received a mail from Nan Johnson in Shepardstown, WV, telling that she is almost sure that one of the men is Taylor Johnson, her grandfathers father (and I agree). Taylor Johnson was born in Sweden as Tiliander Jonsson.  Then I believe that the two remaining are the brothers Nils and August Johnson (Johansson). I thank you for your effort to help me and I hope I will be able to visit Odebolt the coming years.

All the Best for 2017
Anders Nilsson.

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Old Photo

This circa 1905 photo is my grandmother, Hulda Meyer, with her students. Her parents were Frederich Meyer & Sophia (Frevert) Meyer of Odebolt.  She was born in 1885 and went to Charles City College, later moving to California where she married in 1909.

I would like to know if anyone in Odebolt might recognize the students as their grandparents or relatives or possibly the schoolroom setting from other photos. 
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