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c1912 postcard view of a celebration in downtown Columbia City, Indiana. This was a scene on Van Buren Street at the intersection of Line Street. The photographer was on the second floor of the building at the northwest corner of that intersection and facing southeast when he took the photograph. The crowd and activities in this scene were on Van Buren Street and Line Street was in the lower right-hand corner. An automobile was towing a bi-plane, but had stopped in the street. A bandstand was set up in the intersection. It appears they were preparing to move the bandstand to let the automobile and bi-plane pass. One band member was carrying his horn, but most instruments were lying on the bandstand. A couple of boys with bicycles were behind the bandstand and a dog was watching the activities.
Many of the signs in this scene are unreadable because of the quality of the photograph. However, the 1910 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set is helpful in identifying some of the businesses. For example, there is no visible sign on the two-story wood frame building at the left edge of this view, but the map set shows a bowling alley in that building in 1910. That building (213 West Van Buren Street) was on the east side of the alley between Line and Chauncey Streets. On the west side of the alley (215 West Van Buren Street), the map set shows a harness and repository business. The advertising in one of the display windows appears to include the word BUGGIES. Next door, the dark sign with the white border included the word FURNITURE, but the remainder of the sign is unreadable. The map set shows a furniture business at that location (217 West Van Buren Street). The name EYANSON was carved in the stonework at the top of the façade on the next building to the west. Signs advertising a DENTIST had been mounted in the second-floor windows. The banner downstairs advertised EYANSON’S SALE. This was the C. J. Eyanson’s Sons Co. store. The 1910 map set shows a clothing, boots and shoes business at this location (219 West Van Buren Street).
Next door to the west, three men were watching the festivities from a balcony. Below them, the easternmost (left in this view) display window included the word MARKET while a SHOES sign was hanging in the westernmost window. The 1910 map set shows a meat market and a shoe store at these locations. The word GROCERIES was printed on the side of the awning at the corner business (225 West Van Buren Street). The visible portion of the name on the front of that awning was _OUNTZ & HALLAUER. Online references to this grocery typically use the Yontz & Halleur spelling of the business name. The 1910 map set shows a grocery at this location. One of the signs on the side of the building advertised HONEST SCRAP chewing tobacco.
Numerous flags were on display in this scene, and they included three different designs: pre-1908, 1908-1912 and post-1912 when Arizona and New Mexico were added to the Union.
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Lefevre-Utile Biscuits c1912 (reproduction of their advertising portraits by famous artists) ~ artist signed by A Piot ~ Etienne Adolphe Piot 1850-1910
White Bay Power Station was initially built by NSW Rail Commissioners to provide power for Sydney's growing rail network.
The power station was constructed in two stages. The first stage, built between 1912 and 1917, consisted of a boiler house, standing roughly where the present boiler house stands, and part of the turbine hall and switch house. The second stage, which commenced in 1925, saw the completion of the turbine hall and switch house.
After the Second World War, the first boiler house was demolished and, between 1950 and 1958, replaced in two stages with the present boiler house.
By the 1970s, demand for power from White Bay had diminished to such an extent that the second boiler house was pulled down and the turbines sold. The power station was decommissioned on 25 December 1983.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the power station was gradually stripped, except for items identified for heritage conservation
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c1912 postcard view of the Main Street Bridge in Lafayette, Indiana. This view was from the West Lafayette side of the Wabash River looking east-southeast toward downtown Lafayette. The bridge provided a vehicular connection between the two cities as well as an interurban and streetcar link. The area was served by the T.H.I. & E. (Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern) and the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley (later the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana) traction companies.
The predominant landmark in this scene beyond the bridge was the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, located on the south side of Main Street between Third and Fourth Streets. Among the visible business signs was the WM. FOLCKEMER & SON sign at the left edge of the postcard. This sign was on a four-story building (202 Main Street) that stood along Second Street. The 1907 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows a furniture, undertaking and casket business in this building. The Folckemer furniture factory was located a short distance away at Brown and Fourth Streets. Another barely readable sign advertised ___ISON BROS. The Jamison Bros. Department Store stood across the street from Folckemer’s on the northwest corner at Main and Second Streets. Below those two signs was another that advertised the LAFAYETTE LUMBER & MFG CO. The sign also advertised INTERIOR FINISH — STORE FIXTURES — LUMBER, LATH & SHINGLES. The office (208 North Second Street) was located midway between Main and Ferry Streets. Their planing mill was at the southwest corner at Second and Ferry Streets. Lumber was stored along the river.
Another sign was visible through the bridge structure to the right of the Jamison sign. It advertised ____ HOTEL. The 1907 Sanborn™ map set shows the Hines Hotel southeast of the intersection at Main and Second Streets. The 1915 map set shows the St. Nicholas Hotel at that location. The 1909-1910 Polk city directory listed the St. Nicholas Hotel at 205-211 Main Street.
The signs that could be seen through the bridge structure on the right advertised the FRED REULE business. The 1909-1910 Polk directory listed products including hardware, agricultural implements, seeds and carriages. The business occupied much of the block south of Columbia Street between First and Second Streets. The 1907 map set didn’t identify the business owner’s name, but the 1915 map set identified this as The Johnson Hardware Co. Below that business in this scene, a sign advertised the H. B. LYMAN business. This was Harry B. Lyman and the advertisements in the Polk directory listed products such as lime, cement, plaster, sewer pipe and fire brick. The business address was listed as 110-112 North Second Street, but the business occupied the south half of that block between Main and Columbia Streets.
At the right edge of this scene, the sign advertised a FIREPROOF GARAGE. The 1915 Sanborn™ map set shows this garage on the south side of Columbia Street between First and Canal Streets. Notes on the map sheet say the structure was built with a capacity of 25 cars in 1911 using fireproof construction techniques. That means this postcard photo was taken between the time the garage was built in 1911 and the occurrence of the Great Flood in March of 1913 that damaged this bridge. Shortly after the flood, the Tippecanoe County Commissioners decided to spend $250,000 for a new 740-foot-long concrete replacement bridge.
Signs on both sides of the entrance to the streetcar/interurban section of the bridge warned DANGER STOP KEEP OUT. Below the sign on the right, the posters advertised “THE PINK LADY.” It was a 1911 Broadway musical comedy. A poster on the other side of the bridge announced COMING: ABORN _______ GRAND OPERA COMPANY MADAM BUTTERFLY. Online newspaper archives include reports of the Aborn English Grand Opera Company performing “Madam Butterfly” in Nebraska in late 1911 and in Pittsburgh and Providence in early 1912.
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Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
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But lots going on in the photo. One open top along side a closed top tram. Both going to Hampton Court. The uniformed man on 168 seems to be looking for or has dropped something. Further back, there is a policeman possibly controlling pedestrians. And I wonder what EPPS’S COCOA does for you?
Photographer unknown. Precise location by John Howe.
Graeme Butler images from the 1992 survey for the Macedon Ranges Cultural Heritage and Landscape Study published 1994
Dreamthorpe was part of Nathanial Ronalds' (Melbourne florist) house and nursery, set on 22.1/2. acres purchased from the Waterfalls Estate, prior to 1887{ RB1886, c101 no Ronalds; RB1887,283 1st entry}. Reputedly Ronalds sent flowers daily from Macedon to his Swanston Street shop, `Ronalds' Central', while his residential address was in New Street, North Brighton. This shop was later called simple `RONALDS' and was managed by a Miss Fawcett{ WD1899-1900}. By 1893 Mr & Mrs David T Davies had purchased the nursery and added the brick butter factory there{ RB1893,68 NAV increase to 1894 in Mrs DT (Susan) Davies' name; Milbourne, p.76}. The factory was opened in 1893 and was stated by dairying expert, a Mr Wilson, to be `..one of the best equipped factories in the colony' but it was closed in the following year and purchased by the Pioneer Dairy Co{ ibid.; M Hutton pers.com.}. From 1895, Ronalds leased 4.1/2. acres of the Lillies Leaf estate from G Bevis on Brougham Road{ RB1895,644}. He was joined there by his wife, Agnes Ronalds, in 1896 who had a cottage on lot 10 of the same estate (now Apsley){ RB1896-7,889}. Nat died in 1898 but Agnes remained there for many years with a large family, becoming known in the area as Granny Ronalds{ M Hutton pers.com. cites GMM&DHS files}. One of Nat's daughters, Mary, also opened a nursery on the other side of the road (Brookdale, q.v.) in c1927. Meanwhile Dreamthorpe nursery and house had been purchased by gardener, Richard Healy (or Healey) from the Davies estate{ RB1909-10,731; RB1898,718}. Healy ran the nursery there until it was acquired by Judge Henry Edward Hodges, then care of the High Court, c1912-13. The house was enlarged (front rooms) for Judge Hodges (knighted 1918, died at Dreamthorpe 1919) in c1914 and was rated in his wife's name (Alice B Hodges) by c1917. The added rooms had art-metal ceilings and seaweed in the walls for insulation Visitors to the garden in the 1920s described it so: `..apparently careless profusion of trees and flowers. Amongst the ash elm and maple trees, resplendent golden oaks caught the eye and viburnum and clematis harmonised with the alluring colour scheme. Here one saw miniature lakes, winding paths decked with forget-me-nots, shady nooks beneath noble trees and an appealing play of light and shadow through the leaves of myriad tints{ `Gisborne Gazette' 20.11.25}. The name `Dreamthorpe' was recorded in rate books of the 1940s when the property was owned by Catherine M Walker and the house still stood on 22 acres{ RB1945-6,952}. However it was reputedly named so much earlier, by Mrs Hodges, who was also responsible for much of the garden's development, after it ceased to be a nursery{ Gisborne & Mount Macedon District Historical Society- M.Hutton typescript Dreamthorpe 1987}. The garden was also the venue for many community occasions during Lady Hodges' tenure, with many fetes raising money for a variety of charities. Judge Hodges (1844-1919) Hodges was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a ship's captain, and came to the colony in 1854 seeking gold{ JM Young ADB V9}. He took up teaching on the Bendigo goldfields. He obtained a BA at Melbourne University in 1870 and took up private tutorship of the familes of JG Francis and Sir William Stawell. Reputedly, he was also the tutor for the Hamilton children and subsequently came back to the Macedon area, older and more successful. He was called to the bar in 1873 and quickly established a lucrative practice, being appointed an acting Judge of the supreme Court in 1889 (permanent by 1890){ ADB V9}. Here he established a reputation for logical but a sometimes severe demeanour in court, being sometimes prone to sarcasm and emotional outbursts which led to an unprecedented resolution in 1913 from the bar criticising his behavour in court. Alice Hodges was his second wife (m 1909), the widow of Robert Chirnside of Caranballac. As Lady Hodges she lived on at Dreamthorpe there until her death in 1942.
Chocolat d'Aiguebelle "European Royalty & Palaces" series of 12 issued c1912
No1 King Albert of Belgium and the Royal Palace of Brussels
c1912 postcard view of the E. L. Osbon Groceries and Meats business in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 1905 R. L. Polk directory listed Emmet L. Osbon as a grocer at 1328 West Washington Street. The 1899 directory had listed Emmet L. Osbon as a painter. In the 1909 and 1910 directories, Emmett L. Osbon was listed as a salesman. The 1912 and 1914 directories listed him as a paperhanger living at 401 South Warman Avenue.
The American flag hanging in the window had 48 stars. That style flag replaced the 46-star flag in 1912. So, this photo was taken in 1912 or later and the Polk directories indicate the Osbons were living on Warman Avenue at the time. We know this isn’t their grocery on West Washington Street because that was a two-story building according to the 1914/1915 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Indianapolis. That map set also shows the Warman Avenue address on the southeast corner at Ida Street as a business rather than a residence.
All of this suggests the scene is probably Warman Avenue. If so, then this view was looking east-southeast from the west side of Warman Avenue with Ida Street running along the north side of the building (left in this scene). However, this building appears to be wider than the structure shown in the 1914/1915 map set (and the Baist 1908 map set as well). Judging by the proximity of the adjacent residence, this structure fills the lot whereas the structure shown in the map sets does not. The south portion of this building may have been added to provide living quarters, and that change was either not incorporated into the map sets or occurred after their publication. This makes some sense since the Polk directories identified this address as the Osbon residence rather than their business location.
This scene probably shows Mrs. Osbon and their children. Mrs. Osbon was probably managing the store while Mr. Osbon was out hanging wallpaper.
The large sign painted on the side of the building advertised TAGGART’S BREAD. The 1912 directory listed that bakery at 18-34 North New Jersey Street. The sign on the corner of the building above the woman’s head advertised P and G WHITE NAPTHA SOAP. The smaller sign below that one advertised _______ SOUPS. The small sign behind the woman advertised CHEW and SMOKE MAIL POUCH (tobacco). The small sign on the other side of the door advertised FELS-NAPTHA (laundry soap).
A box inside the window advertised _____ SEEDS, WORTH THE MONEY. The girl standing in front of that window was standing in front of a STAR TOBACCO advertising sign. The boy next to her was standing in front of another CHEW and SMOKE MAIL POUCH sign.
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According to the standard catalog of Farm Tractors, the Ajax Auto Traction Company was in business around 1912 and closing shortly after that. Some google searching came up with dates of 1909-1912, and also a picture of a No 2 tractor. No information on how many were made or if any still exist.
Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office: LPIC147/6/242
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c1912 postcard view of South Main Street in Elkhart, Indiana. This view was looking northwest from a point south of Hickory Street (now known as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive). The sign on the utility pole at the left edge of the scene announced INTERURBAN CARS STOP HERE. The 1910 and 1917 Sanborn™ fire insurance map sets for Elkhart show a vacant lot on that south corner of the intersection. On the west corner, the sign advertised SUB-POST OFFICE. A U.S. MAIL box stood on the sidewalk. Both map sets show a drugstore on that corner (817 South Main Street). Next door, the small sign hanging from the single-story frame building advertised THE SOUTH SIDE CLEANERS. The 1910 map set shows a confectionery business at that address (811 South Main Street). In 1917, a shoe repairing business was located there.
Farther up the street was a two-story brick building. The sign on the side of that building advertised WILLIAM H. THEIS HARDWARE AND STOVES. A 1912 city directory¹ listed Wm. H. Theis under the “Hardware, Stoves and Tinware” category with an address at 805 South Main Street. Both map sets show the building (with the three bay windows) on the south corner at St. Joseph Street (St. Joe Street today). The map sets also show a hardware store in the south end of that building (805 South Main Street).
The streetcar had a CLEVELAND AVE sign on the front.
The structures on northeast side of Main Street were wood frame and a mix of houses and businesses that included the Monger Lumber Company.
1. Polk’s Elkhart City Directory 1912, Volume II (Detroit, Michigan: R. L. Polk & Co., 1912). Available online at archive.org/details/elkhartindianaci00unse_0.
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Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
The original building of the Sydney Fire Station, completed in 1888, is a rare example of Victorian Free Classical architecture. (Its design was influenced by the experiences of the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade.) In 1912 the NSW fire brigade built the new administration building on Castlereagh Street to the north, and in 1927 it converted the ground floor for two engine bays.
In 1923 it purchased the Boot Factory next door and converted it into a gymnasium, workshops and a dormitory. The need for new, larger premises was voiced as early as 1934 but decades passed and these did not eventuate. In 2003 work commenced to refurbish and adaptively reuse the old building, and to construct new accommodation on the Boot Factory site.
The administration building and its façade, engine bays, front rooms and main staircase were retained and refurbished, and a new building incorporating purpose-built engine bays and state-of-the-art facilities constructed next door.
Photographed 6 October 2013, Waikaraka Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Memorial to Neil William GILROY incorporated. For his photo see comments section.
In loving memory of Elizabeth
beloved wife of William VIS
Died 30 Dec 1922 aged 65 yrs
Rest in Peace
Also of the above
William VIS
Died 6 July 1930 aged 73 yrs
Memorial Plaque or “Dead Mans Penny”[7] in centre of headstone - to Neil William Gilroy
Neil was born c1895 [2], the son of Elizabeth and her first husband Robert GILROY and was killed in action 7 June 1917 aged 30.
Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 202, 24 August 1917, Page 3
“Corporal Niel [sic] William Gilroy, reported killed in action, left New Zealand wit the Seventh Reinforcements. He was the youngest son of the late Robert Gilroy, of Coromandel, and prior to enlisting he was in the employ of the Ponsonby Pottery Works. His mother resides at Ryle Street, Ponsonby.”[10]
Private William GILROY’s Cenotaph database record:
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/5563.detail?Or...
His military records are available but with restrictions:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=16786450
ELIZABETH:
Robert GILROY and Elizabeth nee COLEMOSS married c1869 [4]
There is a picture of Elizabeth COLEROSS on ancestry.co.uk
Robert GILROY died 1910 [3] aged 75
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14509, 25 October 1910, Page 6
“Mr Robert GILROY died at his residence, Paget-street, Coromandel, on Sunday at the age of 75. The deceased has been a resident of Coromandel for over 40 years, and when a young man he went to sea. On a voyage to India his ship was wrecked in the Indian Ocean, and he and nine others got off on a raft. All his companions perished, and after nine days Gilroy was rescued by a passing ship. The deceased leaves a wife and nine children.”[8]
Another report states he had lived in the area over 47 years and had 10 grow up children.[9]
Another report states Robert was a native of Dundee, Scotland; arrived NZ onboard ‘Zealandia’ 1860 and arrive in Coromandel April 15, 1863. Cause of death: cancer of the throat from which he suffered for some considerable time.[11]
Elizabeth GILROY then married William VIS c1912 [1]
VIS Died 30th December 1922 at 18 Ryle Street, Elizabeth Vis, married woman, Roman Catholic, aged 66 years. Born Auckland, daughter of James Colemoss, military pensioner, and Mary Moffatt (Moorfoot?), married (1) to Robert Gilroy with issue living - Males - aged 51, 46. Females aged - 50, 43, 41, 37, 33. Married (2) at age 55 to William Vis. Buried Waikaraka Cemetery. [6]
WILLIAM:
Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 158, 7 July 1930, Page 1
On July 6 1930, at the residence of his step-daughter, Mrs. R. DALTON, 32 Williamson Avenue, Grey Lynn, William, relict of the late Elizabeth VIS, in his seventy-fourth year. R.I.P. Private interment. [5]
Other probably children of Elizabeth and Robert GILROY
1870/13572 John Henry
1872/15002 Margaret Elizabeth
1874/32251 Robert James
1876/16822 Thomas Godd
1879/11884 Margaret Ann
1881/17432 Mary Georgina
1883/10220 James Neil
1885/17398 Emily Ellen
1887/9091 Mabel Maud
1889/11963 Anne Rose
SOURCES:
[1]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1912/2206
[2]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1895/16057
[3]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Death registration 1910/655
[4]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1869/4755
[5]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[6]
ouraucklandstuff.freeservers.com/AuckDeathsV - Z.htm
[7]
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.
The plaques (more strictly described as plaquettes) were made of bronze, and hence popularly known as the "Dead Man’s Penny", because of the similarity in appearance to the somewhat smaller penny coin. 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a total of 450 tonnes of bronze, and continued to be issued into the 1930s to commemorate people who died as a consequence of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Plaque_%28medallion%29
[8]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[9]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[10]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[11]
We many never know why this charming group of Winster's Edwardian girls were gathered thus. I suppose the hat ought to be a big clue.
However, we are fortunate in that we can identify some of the children.
From left to right - Amy Bateman (later married Walter Bacon), Cissy Rains (later Watts), Laura Wilson, Unidentified, Kathleen Thomas, Unidentified, Bessie Moseley, Gladys Stone, Rosie Hodgkinson (later Maskrey) and Lilian Gregory (later Hodgkinson).
This image is reproduced by kind permission of Roland Corfield.
According to the standard catalog of Farm Tractors, the Ajax Auto Traction Company was in business around 1912 and closing shortly after that. Some google searching came up with dates of 1909-1912, and also a picture of a No 2 tractor. No information on how many were made or if any still exist.
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
c1912 postcard view of the E. L. Osbon Groceries and Meats business in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 1905 R. L. Polk directory listed Emmet L. Osbon as a grocer at 1328 West Washington Street. The 1899 directory had listed Emmet L. Osbon as a painter. In the 1909 and 1910 directories, Emmett L. Osbon was listed as a salesman. The 1912 and 1914 directories listed him as a paperhanger living at 401 South Warman Avenue.
The American flag hanging in the window had 48 stars. That style flag replaced the 46-star flag in 1912. So, this photo was taken in 1912 or later and the Polk directories indicate the Osbons were living on Warman Avenue at the time. We know this isn’t their grocery on West Washington Street because that was a two-story building according to the 1914/1915 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Indianapolis. That map set also shows the Warman Avenue address on the southeast corner at Ida Street as a business rather than a residence.
All of this suggests the scene is probably Warman Avenue. If so, then this view was looking east-southeast from the west side of Warman Avenue with Ida Street running along the north side of the building (left in this scene). However, this building appears to be wider than the structure shown in the 1914/1915 map set (and the Baist 1908 map set as well). Judging by the proximity of the adjacent residence, this structure fills the lot whereas the structure shown in the map sets does not. The south portion of this building may have been added to provide living quarters, and that change was either not incorporated into the map sets or occurred after their publication. This makes some sense since the Polk directories identified this address as the Osbon residence rather than their business location.
This scene probably shows Mrs. Osbon and their children. Mrs. Osbon was probably managing the store while Mr. Osbon was out hanging wallpaper.
The large sign painted on the side of the building advertised TAGGART’S BREAD. The 1912 directory listed that bakery at 18-34 North New Jersey Street. The sign on the corner of the building above the woman’s head advertised P and G WHITE NAPTHA SOAP. The smaller sign below that one advertised _______ SOUPS. The small sign behind the woman advertised CHEW and SMOKE MAIL POUCH (tobacco). The small sign on the other side of the door advertised FELS-NAPTHA (laundry soap).
A box inside the window advertised _____ SEEDS, WORTH THE MONEY. The girl standing in front of that window was standing in front of a STAR TOBACCO advertising sign. The boy next to her was standing in front of another CHEW and SMOKE MAIL POUCH sign.
From a private collection.
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In loving memory of
John Eugene CULLEN
4/1565 N.Z Tunnelling Company 1914-18
Died 16th February 1953
Aged 84
“He devoted his life to his fellow men”
Wesley Division F Row 4, Plot 31
Portrait photo in comments section: Sourced from Selena of Palmerston North with permission 16/11/2013.
Born: 26 April 1876 according to military enlistment form, however further in on medical board document dated 21 Feb 1918, states he was aged 49 at the last birthday, making him born c1869.
Military records state born in “Arowat, Victoria” – probably likely to be Ararat.
Note that his headstone states 84 years and family information from Ancestry.com states he was born 1868 Ararat, Australia.
Enlisted 16 Oct 1915
Employer at time of enlisting: Public Works Dept, Poverty Bay, Surfaceman. Noted elsewhere states he was also a Printer.
His next of kin is given as “son J W [John White] CULLEN of 7 Miro Street, Auckland.
John appears to have married Lydia Elizabeth WILLIAMS C1896[4]. The following children were born to a Leah Lillian and John Eugene CULLEN according to the NZ Dept of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes . This appears to be John CULLEN in this grave, as the Franklin mentioned, enlisted in WW1 with service number 12/2260 of the Auckland Infantry Brigade with his father noted as John Eugene CULLEN living at 7 Miro Street. Franklin’s military records are also available online at archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005365&am...
Often the informants for births deaths and marriages could misspell or omit names at time of registration.
1 - Clara Bethel Pearl CULLEN born c1895 [5] Died aged 7 weeks c1896 [8]
2 - Franklin Gladstone Eugene born c1896 [7]
8 August 1915 Gallipoli, wounded in left shoulder
12 August 1915 embarked on the Aquitania for London
17 Sept 1915 was in King Georges hospital, London
25 April 1916 [ANZAC day] embarked SS Athenic for NZ from London
He received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Star medal
He is noted as being born 26 April 1892 at Pukahu and dying on 6 Jan 1972 on death documentation in his military records with next of kin noted as Mrs A.R.M.E. CULLEN, 144 Te Mata Road, Havelock North.
Discharged from active service 14 Nov 1916 due to war wounds.
Noted as 2nd son of John Eugene CULLEN paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS... newspaper portrait. So who was the firstborn son? Not John White CULLEN [SEE FURTHER DOWN] as he was supposedly born 1912, not before 1896.
3 - Rosalind Iris Elizabeth CULLEN born c1903 [6] mothers name given as Leah Elizabeth
I can find no death in indexes for Leah, Lillian or Lydia CULLEN – John Eugene’s first wife.
John later married Emily Mary COX. NZ Dept of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes has 1928 [1] as the registration but it may be that a new marriage certificate was applied for that year.
The child with Emily:
John White CULLEN is noted on NZ dept of Internal Affairs as born c1929 [3] or it is probable that a new birth certificate was acquired as it appears John White CULLEN was born c1912 according to other sources.
Further to John Eugene CULLEN’s war service:
Theatres of operation: Western European: 1916.17.18
Admitted to hospital in France 31 March 1917 with slight hernia
Discharged from military at Etaples due to no longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service. Address to be discharged to: 29 Charlotte Street, Mt Eden, Auckland
Disability: [a] overage and [b] inguinal hernia
Essential facts in the history of the disability:
In October 1916 felt pains in left inguinal region. Paraded sick – did not leave the line. Left line March 22nd 1917 with the rupture - sent to 6 stationary Hospital for 11 days, - then to 18 General for operation – there contracted Trench Fever (no operation performed). Then to 5 Con. Con [illegible]. Arrived in Etaples May 1817, cooking whilst in depot. Had to give [illegible] of pain Jan 15th 1918.
Causation of the disability:-
(a) Natural (b) Active service (tunnelling)
Present condition of the patient:
There is a well marked inguinal hernia on left side. Easily reducible.
Looks his age but appears to be fine, is very [illegible].
Recommendation:
That he be sent to New Zealand.
Allowance was being paid for 1 child during war service.
Awarded: British War medal; Victory medal
Occupation noted at John Eugene’s death: Journalist
Emily, John Eugene’s 2nd wife died 10 September 1949 aged 69. The cemetery database states same division [Wesley F] and row [4]as John but plot 3 not 31. Am wondering if this is an error and she is in fact buried with John.
John Eugene’s military records are available to read online:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005375&am...
SOURCES:
[1]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1928/3934
[2]
Military records
[3]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1929/20564
[4]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1896/369
[5]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1895/8926
[6]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1903/6773
[7]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1896/14140
[8]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Death registration 1896/14140
Menzies' auction on 30 November in Sydney offer 186 lots presenting a wonderful variety of artworks at price points that will suit all budgets.
You could aspire to major works by Australian masters like Jeffrey Smart or Fred Williams (whose "Waterpond, Cottlesbridge" gets cover lot credentials) or you could go for much more modestly priced photographs or prints by Marc Chagall, Max Dupain, Bill Henson or Callum Morton.
With only four weeks to Christmas, this last of the "big" auctions in 2017 might be just the perfect opportunity to get something unique for someone special.
Have a look online, and of course, personal viewing is always highly recommended.
The public preview is open from Thursday, 23 November, at the Menzies premises at 12 Todman Avenue, Kensington, and online at the Menzies website.
We will be attending the auction, and happy to assist you with independent pre-sale advice and due diligence report. Contact us by phone on 02 9977 7764 and email info@bhfineart.com for more information.
And Dave's Faves from the Menzies auction are:
[caption id="attachment_4422" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 1, Russell Drysdale, Pub in Wilcannia 1963, est. $18,000-24,000. No lockout laws here[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4423" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 19, Lloyd Rees, The Red Door 1945, est. $20,000-30,000. Not just a red door[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4424" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 22, Arthur Streeton, Sunday Morning from Cremorne 1907, est. $200,000-300,000. Dreamscape[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4425" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 25 A.H. Fullwood, The Swing 1892, est. $50,000-70,000. Underrated Fullwood's master work[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4426" align="alignleft" width="214"] Lot 28, Brett Whiteley, Untitled (Abstract) c1961, est. $40,000-60,000. Whiteley's abstracts remain inexpensive[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4428" align="alignleft" width="236"] Lot 30, Justin O'Brien, Young Girl in Mantilla 1995, est. $45,000-65,000. Poetic Portrait[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4427" align="alignleft" width="227"] Lot 29, Grace Cossington Smith, Still Life with Lilies, 1966, est. $50,000-70,000. A still life with movement[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4429" align="alignleft" width="223"] Lot 34, Charles Blackman, Girl with Striped Dress 1954, est. $100,000-140,000. Girl with Grit[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4430" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 41, Jeffrey Smart, The Yellow Line 2007, est. $550,000-700,000. A Road to Somewhere[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4431" align="alignleft" width="283"] Lot 43 Fred Williams, Waterpond, Cottlesbridge 1976, est. $350,000-450,000. If you're "Dunmoochin" then buy it[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4432" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 52, Keith Haring, Untitled 1984, est. $30,000-50,000. Don't "roo" the day[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4433" align="alignleft" width="261"] Lot 53, Garry Shead, Intimate Couple 2000, est. $35,000-45,000. Always buy art with passion[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4434" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 54 John Perceval, Kathy in the Studio 1964, est. $35,000-45,000. Not Maja, not Olympia - Kathy![/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4435" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 61, Lloyd Rees, Autumn Mist, Parramatta 1925, est. $60,000-80,000. Soak up the atmosphere[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4436" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 63, J.J. Hilder, The Drovers 1912, est. 12,000-16,000. Larger than life[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4437" align="alignleft" width="278"] Lot 83, Bronwyn Oliver, Hook 1991, est. $15,000-20,000. A bit of a catch[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4438" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 90, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cricketers (I) 1976, est. $18,000-24,000. Ashes to ashes[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4439" align="alignleft" width="222"] Lot 92 Howard Arkley, Mask for Baudelaire 1994, est. $8,000-12,000. Starkly[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4440" align="alignleft" width="246"] Lot 95, Criss Canning, Red Dahlias 2002, est. $10,000-15,000. Canny[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4441" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 100, Sidney Nolan, Charging Elephant c 1963, est. $9,000-12,000. Who's hunting who?[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4442" align="alignleft" width="220"] Lot 108, John Coburn, The Park by the Lake, est. $12,000-16,000. A Greater Shade of Blue[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4443" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 116, Arthur Boyd, Europa and the Bull, c1948, est. $12,000-16,000. Bull in a china shop[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4444" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 143, Ernest Buckmaster, Untitled (Misty Morning), est. $4,000-6,000. I'm all misty-eyed[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4445" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 146, Thea Proctor, The Masked Ball (Fan Design), c1912, est. $4,000-6,000. I'm a fan[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4446" align="alignleft" width="251"] Lot 156, Bill Henson, Untitled 1985/86, est. $5,000-7,000. Reach for the sky on this one[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_4447" align="alignleft" width="300"] Lot 163, Callum Morton, Eames Depot, Nevada, 2001, est. $3,000-5,000. Hammer it down![/caption]
The blog post Dave’s Faves for Menzies 30 Nov. 2017 is republished from: BH Fine Art
c1912 postcard view of the E. L. Osbon Groceries and Meats business in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 1905 R. L. Polk directory listed Emmet L. Osbon as a grocer at 1328 West Washington Street. The 1899 directory had listed Emmet L. Osbon as a painter. In the 1909 and 1910 directories, Emmett L. Osbon was listed as a salesman. The 1912 and 1914 directories listed him as a paperhanger living at 401 South Warman Avenue.
The American flag hanging in the window had 48 stars. That style flag replaced the 46-star flag in 1912. So, this photo was taken in 1912 or later and the Polk directories indicate the Osbons were living on Warman Avenue at the time. We know this isn’t their grocery on West Washington Street because that was a two-story building according to the 1914/1915 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set for Indianapolis. That map set also shows the Warman Avenue address on the southeast corner at Ida Street as a business rather than a residence.
All of this suggests the scene is probably Warman Avenue. If so, then this view was looking east-southeast from the west side of Warman Avenue with Ida Street running along the north side of the building (left in this scene). However, this building appears to be wider than the structure shown in the 1914/1915 map set (and the Baist 1908 map set as well). Judging by the proximity of the adjacent residence, this structure fills the lot whereas the structure shown in the map sets does not. The south portion of this building may have been added to provide living quarters, and that change was either not incorporated into the map sets or occurred after their publication. This makes some sense since the Polk directories identified this address as the Osbon residence rather than their business location.
This scene probably shows Mrs. Osbon and their children. Mrs. Osbon was probably managing the store while Mr. Osbon was out hanging wallpaper.
The large sign painted on the side of the building advertised TAGGART’S BREAD. The 1912 directory listed that bakery at 18-34 North New Jersey Street. The sign on the corner of the building above the woman’s head advertised P and G WHITE NAPTHA SOAP. The smaller sign below that one advertised _______ SOUPS. The small sign behind the woman advertised CHEW and SMOKE MAIL POUCH (tobacco). The small sign on the other side of the door advertised FELS-NAPTHA (laundry soap).
A box inside the window advertised _____ SEEDS, WORTH THE MONEY. The girl standing in front of that window was standing in front of a STAR TOBACCO advertising sign. The boy next to her was standing in front of another CHEW and SMOKE MAIL POUCH sign.
From a private collection.
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Photographer: RCAHMS
Date: c1912
Reference: SC1173144
Find more images of dovecots from the archive at Historic Environment Scotland: canmore.org.uk/
Public house. c1596; facade heavily restored c1912, replacing c1800 brick front. Timber-frame with plaster infill; tile roof with rear brick stacks. 3 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range. 1st and 2nd floors jettied on brackets, moulded bressumer to 2nd floor; two C20 gables to attic with enriched barge-boards. Entrance to left end has stained-glass overlight to plank door. Ground and 1st floors have 3-light wooden mullioned and transomed windows, those to ground floor with continuous row of small square lights above; attic has 2-light windows; all with leaded glazing. Upper floors have square framing with concave-sided diamonds. Early C20 bracketed timber sign board. Rear wing with cross-axial stack... HISTORICAL NOTE: said to have been the place where the plague of 1564 started and to have been an inn from 1718; name changed from the Greyhound to the Garrick in 1795, in honour of David Garrick, who did much for the town's tourist trade by his encouragement of enthusiasm for Shakespeare. ==============================House. C15; front, dated 1596, largely rebuilt after fire of 1595, when rear extended; C18 and C19 rear additions; restored 1905-9, for Marie Corelli and Everard Morris, and 1980s; being extensively restored April 1991. Timber-frame with plaster infill on rubble plinth; tile roof with rear brick stacks. Right-angle plan. 2 storeys with attic; single-window range. 1st and 2nd storeys are jettied on consoles; gable with enriched barge-boards. Entrance to right has Tudor-headed wide-board studded door with strap hinges and 6-pointed handle plate. 5-light wooden ovolo-mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing; that to ground floor with enriched sill, that to 1st floor is consoled oriel, that to 2nd floor is bracketed oriel with lean-to roof. Timber-framing is enriched with a great variety of carved decoration: ground floor has consoles with figures; 1st floor has enriched timber-framing, bressumer and consoles, fleurs-de-lys flank lettering: TR: AR: 1596 (Thomas and Ann Rogers); 2nd floor similar, enriched bressumer, masks to window brackets and some decorative framing over window. The plaster panels were sunk and carved with various patterns in 1972. Stack has 2 shafts with triangular fillets. Narrow left return has enriched rainwater gear. Rear has 2-storey gabled wing with single-storey range and 2-storey cross-range; timber-frame with brick infill; 2-light windows. Cross wing has segmental-headed entrance with heavy frame to door and segmental-headed entry with gate; later entrance and window; rear has some square framing... HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the home of Catherine Rogers, mother of John Harvard, the founder of Harvard University USA. It was restored by the novelist Marie Corelli, the work financed by Everard Morris of Chicago, and presented to Harvard University for use by students and visiting Americans. EH Listing
Photographed 6 October 2013, Waikaraka Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Memorial to Neil William GILROY incorporated. For his photo see comments section.
In loving memory of Elizabeth
beloved wife of William VIS
Died 30 Dec 1922 aged 65 yrs
Rest in Peace
Also of the above
William VIS
Died 6 July 1930 aged 73 yrs
Memorial Plaque or “Dead Mans Penny”[7] in centre of headstone - to Neil William Gilroy
Neil was born c1895 [2], the son of Elizabeth and her first husband Robert GILROY and was killed in action 7 June 1917 aged 30.
Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 202, 24 August 1917, Page 3
“Corporal Niel [sic] William Gilroy, reported killed in action, left New Zealand wit the Seventh Reinforcements. He was the youngest son of the late Robert Gilroy, of Coromandel, and prior to enlisting he was in the employ of the Ponsonby Pottery Works. His mother resides at Ryle Street, Ponsonby.”[10]
Private William GILROY’s Cenotaph database record:
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/5563.detail?Or...
His military records are available but with restrictions:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=16786450
ELIZABETH:
Robert GILROY and Elizabeth nee COLEMOSS married c1869 [4]
There is a picture of Elizabeth COLEROSS on ancestry.co.uk
Robert GILROY died 1910 [3] aged 75
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14509, 25 October 1910, Page 6
“Mr Robert GILROY died at his residence, Paget-street, Coromandel, on Sunday at the age of 75. The deceased has been a resident of Coromandel for over 40 years, and when a young man he went to sea. On a voyage to India his ship was wrecked in the Indian Ocean, and he and nine others got off on a raft. All his companions perished, and after nine days Gilroy was rescued by a passing ship. The deceased leaves a wife and nine children.”[8]
Another report states he had lived in the area over 47 years and had 10 grow up children.[9]
Another report states Robert was a native of Dundee, Scotland; arrived NZ onboard ‘Zealandia’ 1860 and arrive in Coromandel April 15, 1863. Cause of death: cancer of the throat from which he suffered for some considerable time.[11]
Elizabeth GILROY then married William VIS c1912 [1]
VIS Died 30th December 1922 at 18 Ryle Street, Elizabeth Vis, married woman, Roman Catholic, aged 66 years. Born Auckland, daughter of James Colemoss, military pensioner, and Mary Moffatt (Moorfoot?), married (1) to Robert Gilroy with issue living - Males - aged 51, 46. Females aged - 50, 43, 41, 37, 33. Married (2) at age 55 to William Vis. Buried Waikaraka Cemetery. [6]
WILLIAM:
Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 158, 7 July 1930, Page 1
On July 6 1930, at the residence of his step-daughter, Mrs. R. DALTON, 32 Williamson Avenue, Grey Lynn, William, relict of the late Elizabeth VIS, in his seventy-fourth year. R.I.P. Private interment. [5]
Other probably children of Elizabeth and Robert GILROY
1870/13572 John Henry
1872/15002 Margaret Elizabeth
1874/32251 Robert James
1876/16822 Thomas Godd
1879/11884 Margaret Ann
1881/17432 Mary Georgina
1883/10220 James Neil
1885/17398 Emily Ellen
1887/9091 Mabel Maud
1889/11963 Anne Rose
SOURCES:
[1]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1912/2206
[2]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1895/16057
[3]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Death registration 1910/655
[4]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1869/4755
[5]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[6]
ouraucklandstuff.freeservers.com/AuckDeathsV - Z.htm
[7]
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.
The plaques (more strictly described as plaquettes) were made of bronze, and hence popularly known as the "Dead Man’s Penny", because of the similarity in appearance to the somewhat smaller penny coin. 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a total of 450 tonnes of bronze, and continued to be issued into the 1930s to commemorate people who died as a consequence of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Plaque_%28medallion%29
[8]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[9]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[10]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[11]
Photographed 6 October 2013, Waikaraka Cemetery, Auckland, New Zealand
Memorial to Neil William GILROY incorporated. For his photo see comments section.
In loving memory of Elizabeth
beloved wife of William VIS
Died 30 Dec 1922 aged 65 yrs
Rest in Peace
Also of the above
William VIS
Died 6 July 1930 aged 73 yrs
Memorial Plaque or “Dead Mans Penny”[7] in centre of headstone - to Neil William Gilroy
Neil was born c1895 [2], the son of Elizabeth and her first husband Robert GILROY and was killed in action 7 June 1917 aged 30.
Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 202, 24 August 1917, Page 3
“Corporal Niel [sic] William Gilroy, reported killed in action, left New Zealand wit the Seventh Reinforcements. He was the youngest son of the late Robert Gilroy, of Coromandel, and prior to enlisting he was in the employ of the Ponsonby Pottery Works. His mother resides at Ryle Street, Ponsonby.”[10]
Private William GILROY’s Cenotaph database record:
muse.aucklandmuseum.com/databases/Cenotaph/5563.detail?Or...
His military records are available but with restrictions:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=16786450
ELIZABETH:
Robert GILROY and Elizabeth nee COLEMOSS married c1869 [4]
There is a picture of Elizabeth COLEROSS on ancestry.co.uk
Robert GILROY died 1910 [3] aged 75
New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14509, 25 October 1910, Page 6
“Mr Robert GILROY died at his residence, Paget-street, Coromandel, on Sunday at the age of 75. The deceased has been a resident of Coromandel for over 40 years, and when a young man he went to sea. On a voyage to India his ship was wrecked in the Indian Ocean, and he and nine others got off on a raft. All his companions perished, and after nine days Gilroy was rescued by a passing ship. The deceased leaves a wife and nine children.”[8]
Another report states he had lived in the area over 47 years and had 10 grow up children.[9]
Another report states Robert was a native of Dundee, Scotland; arrived NZ onboard ‘Zealandia’ 1860 and arrive in Coromandel April 15, 1863. Cause of death: cancer of the throat from which he suffered for some considerable time.[11]
Elizabeth GILROY then married William VIS c1912 [1]
VIS Died 30th December 1922 at 18 Ryle Street, Elizabeth Vis, married woman, Roman Catholic, aged 66 years. Born Auckland, daughter of James Colemoss, military pensioner, and Mary Moffatt (Moorfoot?), married (1) to Robert Gilroy with issue living - Males - aged 51, 46. Females aged - 50, 43, 41, 37, 33. Married (2) at age 55 to William Vis. Buried Waikaraka Cemetery. [6]
WILLIAM:
Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 158, 7 July 1930, Page 1
On July 6 1930, at the residence of his step-daughter, Mrs. R. DALTON, 32 Williamson Avenue, Grey Lynn, William, relict of the late Elizabeth VIS, in his seventy-fourth year. R.I.P. Private interment. [5]
Other probably children of Elizabeth and Robert GILROY
1870/13572 John Henry
1872/15002 Margaret Elizabeth
1874/32251 Robert James
1876/16822 Thomas Godd
1879/11884 Margaret Ann
1881/17432 Mary Georgina
1883/10220 James Neil
1885/17398 Emily Ellen
1887/9091 Mabel Maud
1889/11963 Anne Rose
SOURCES:
[1]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1912/2206
[2]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1895/16057
[3]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Death registration 1910/655
[4]
NZ Dept of Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1869/4755
[5]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[6]
ouraucklandstuff.freeservers.com/AuckDeathsV - Z.htm
[7]
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.
The plaques (more strictly described as plaquettes) were made of bronze, and hence popularly known as the "Dead Man’s Penny", because of the similarity in appearance to the somewhat smaller penny coin. 1,355,000 plaques were issued, which used a total of 450 tonnes of bronze, and continued to be issued into the 1930s to commemorate people who died as a consequence of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Plaque_%28medallion%29
[8]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[9]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[10]
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=s...
[11]
Victorian Alpine Huts survey, for Parks Victoria 1994-5.
In 1865, E George Treasure married Emily Langford and by the early 1870s had moved to Victoria to work at a Seymour vineyard. George Treasure junior had been born to the family at Wangaratta, in 1873, and the next two children at Wandiligong, in 1875 and 1877, as a mark of their gradual progress towards the Dargo area. Treasure worked on reef mining at Wandiligong, doing underground work as he had done in New South Wales. He moved to another mine, the Alpine, for a healthier working environment, in 1877 { Stapleton: 28-}. In 1878, E George Treasure (then described as a Harrietville miner), selected land at Kings Spur on the Dargo High Plains{ Stephenson: 107-}. The family (3 boys, one girl) made an arduous journey on horseback via Mt Freezeout and the Lankey's Plain, to a bark roof two-room log hut built on the High Plains near Kings Spur on the eastern edge of Gow's Plains, by George and his mining associate, Harry Stitt in late 1877. The hut had a verandah at the entry, a slab chimney `stoned up' to 7-8 feet high, two modified armchairs and bush furniture made on the spot. This served as the residence for a small dairy farm which provided for the miners who crossed to the Grant and Crooked River goldfields{ Stephenson}. The house became a licensed hotel and a store was added. Three miles south there was also Gow's hotel, the `half-way house'. Cessation of mining around 1900 meant the store was wound down. George and Emily purchased a 700 acre property at Lindenow (Grassvale) while their son Harry remained at King's Spur. George senior died at Lindenow of cancer in 1901, aged 58 { Stapleton: 116}. Emily then arranged the gradual transfer of the High Plains holdings to her sons who managed the properties and stock in the interim. Emily died in 1939, aged 90. Harry L Treasure (George's son) selected the 200 acre property Castleburn (45 miles distant on the Stratford side of Dargo, later enlarged to 3000 acres), c1904, to serve summer grazing. This was after his marriage in 1903 to local girl, Clare Gamel. About the same time he and his father-in-law built a new shingle and paling house at Mayford, east of the King's Spur property, as a winter base. From 1907 Harry's brothers sold him their shares and eventually departed north. Gamel built Harry another house, Rockalpine, in 1910 - located further to the south on the Dargo Road. The family spent the winter at the house in c1912 after the house at Mayford was burnt, leaving only some old huts. Harry, Clare and family developed their High Plains holdings in the inter-war period, including a near 100,000 acre grazing lease, George's 600 acre selection, a fenced freehold at Riley's Creek to spell the cattle on their way to the mountains in summer, and `a sheltered saddle near Mt Ewan…another substantial hut and set of bush yards capable of holding large mobs' { Stapleton: 159}. The 1939 fires meant losses for the family as for many others in the region but they saved the homestead complex, losing 700 stock, fences, and several huts and yards. The family worked hard to replace them, splitting some 4000 snow gum posts in the following season along with woolly but rails for yards and gates but wire and snow gum droppers replaced the old logs in the fences. Harry and his three sons (Don, Jack & Jim) rebuilt the Mt Ewan hut and yards as a `magnificent new log hut' { Stapleton: 214}. The paling hut beside the 1939 log hut was reputedly built for Freda Treasure (Harry & Claire's daughter) as her bedroom in about 1945- presumably allowing the men to sleep in the 1939 log hut { Kosciuszko Huts Association website 2004}. However a picture of Freda at Mt Ewan (in her 20s-30s?) has her seated on her bunk, next to her saddle, knitting in the log hut. Educated at MLC in the 1930s, Freda married Wally Ryder, from another pioneering cattle family, in 1957. She shifted to Tawonga as a result but maintained a keen interest in the High Plains along with her brothers{ Stapleton: 219}. Harry gave her a paddock at Castleburn, known as Bryce's and she became known by local scribes as `Maid of the Mountains' or `Cowgirl of the Alps'}. Harry gave her a 28,000 bush grazing block to work after 1939, known as Jones' where she used an existing hut and yards. She lived there through winter with her cattle, visited occasionally by her mother. Freda died in 1988, one year after Wally { Stapleton: 267-}. Harry Treasure served as an Avon Shire councillor 1918-1949, often riding to the council meetings at Stratford. Harry made many submissions to government inquiries concerning the causes of the 1939 fires and alpine grazing. He died at Rockalpine in 1961{ Stephenson}. As a postscript, Sydney (Jack) Treasure (son of Harry) sought a selection on the High Plains in the 1940s but met with government opposition{ HO15895}. Some 20 years later the Treasures tried again stating that they had added many improvements to their grazing block (4A) and desired some freehold security. Their father and grandfather had held it for some 80 years{ HO15895}. The improvements on the adjoining freehold which served the grazing lease then included four residences (Harry's sons), sheds, fences, stockyards (CAs 2,2A,4,5){ HO15895 }. The department granted a seven year lease instead, noting the good management of the property.
c1912 postcard view of the Main Street Bridge in Lafayette, Indiana. This view was from the West Lafayette side of the Wabash River looking east-southeast toward downtown Lafayette. The bridge provided a vehicular connection between the two cities as well as an interurban and streetcar link. The area was served by the T.H.I. & E. (Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern) and the Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley (later the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana) traction companies.
The predominant landmark in this scene beyond the bridge was the Tippecanoe County Courthouse, located on the south side of Main Street between Third and Fourth Streets. Among the visible business signs was the WM. FOLCKEMER & SON sign at the left edge of the postcard. This sign was on a four-story building (202 Main Street) that stood along Second Street. The 1907 Sanborn™ fire insurance map set shows a furniture, undertaking and casket business in this building. The Folckemer furniture factory was located a short distance away at Brown and Fourth Streets. Another barely readable sign advertised ___ISON BROS. The Jamison Bros. Department Store stood across the street from Folckemer’s on the northwest corner at Main and Second Streets. Below those two signs was another that advertised the LAFAYETTE LUMBER & MFG CO. The sign also advertised INTERIOR FINISH — STORE FIXTURES — LUMBER, LATH & SHINGLES. The office (208 North Second Street) was located midway between Main and Ferry Streets. Their planing mill was at the southwest corner at Second and Ferry Streets. Lumber was stored along the river.
Another sign was visible through the bridge structure to the right of the Jamison sign. It advertised ____ HOTEL. The 1907 Sanborn™ map set shows the Hines Hotel southeast of the intersection at Main and Second Streets. The 1915 map set shows the St. Nicholas Hotel at that location. The 1909-1910 Polk city directory listed the St. Nicholas Hotel at 205-211 Main Street.
The signs that could be seen through the bridge structure on the right advertised the FRED REULE business. The 1909-1910 Polk directory listed products including hardware, agricultural implements, seeds and carriages. The business occupied much of the block south of Columbia Street between First and Second Streets. The 1907 map set didn’t identify the business owner’s name, but the 1915 map set identified this as The Johnson Hardware Co. Below that business in this scene, a sign advertised the H. B. LYMAN business. This was Harry B. Lyman and the advertisements in the Polk directory listed products such as lime, cement, plaster, sewer pipe and fire brick. The business address was listed as 110-112 North Second Street, but the business occupied the south half of that block between Main and Columbia Streets.
At the right edge of this scene, the sign advertised a FIREPROOF GARAGE. The 1915 Sanborn™ map set shows this garage on the south side of Columbia Street between First and Canal Streets. Notes on the map sheet say the structure was built with a capacity of 25 cars in 1911 using fireproof construction techniques. That means this postcard photo was taken between the time the garage was built in 1911 and the occurrence of the Great Flood in March of 1913 that damaged this bridge. Shortly after the flood, the Tippecanoe County Commissioners decided to spend $250,000 for a new 740-foot-long concrete replacement bridge.
Signs on both sides of the entrance to the streetcar/interurban section of the bridge warned DANGER STOP KEEP OUT. Below the sign on the right, the posters advertised “THE PINK LADY.” It was a 1911 Broadway musical comedy. A poster on the other side of the bridge announced COMING: ABORN _______ GRAND OPERA COMPANY MADAM BUTTERFLY. Online newspaper archives include reports of the Aborn English Grand Opera Company performing “Madam Butterfly” in Nebraska in late 1911 and in Pittsburgh and Providence in early 1912.
From a private collection.
The full postcard image can be seen here.
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In loving memory of
John Eugene CULLEN
4/1565 N.Z Tunnelling Company 1914-18
Died 16th February 1953
Aged 84
“He devoted his life to his fellow men”
Wesley Division F Row 4, Plot 31
Portrait photo in comments section: Sourced from Selena of Palmerston North with permission 16/11/2013.
Born: 26 April 1876 according to military enlistment form, however further in on medical board document dated 21 Feb 1918, states he was aged 49 at the last birthday, making him born c1869.
Military records state born in “Arowat, Victoria” – probably likely to be Ararat.
Note that his headstone states 84 years and family information from Ancestry.com states he was born 1868 Ararat, Australia.
Enlisted 16 Oct 1915
Employer at time of enlisting: Public Works Dept, Poverty Bay, Surfaceman. Noted elsewhere states he was also a Printer.
His next of kin is given as “son J W [John White] CULLEN of 7 Miro Street, Auckland.
John appears to have married Lydia Elizabeth WILLIAMS C1896[4]. The following children were born to a Leah Lillian and John Eugene CULLEN according to the NZ Dept of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes . This appears to be John CULLEN in this grave, as the Franklin mentioned, enlisted in WW1 with service number 12/2260 of the Auckland Infantry Brigade with his father noted as John Eugene CULLEN living at 7 Miro Street. Franklin’s military records are also available online at archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005365&am...
Often the informants for births deaths and marriages could misspell or omit names at time of registration.
1 - Clara Bethel Pearl CULLEN born c1895 [5] Died aged 7 weeks c1896 [8]
2 - Franklin Gladstone Eugene born c1896 [7]
8 August 1915 Gallipoli, wounded in left shoulder
12 August 1915 embarked on the Aquitania for London
17 Sept 1915 was in King Georges hospital, London
25 April 1916 [ANZAC day] embarked SS Athenic for NZ from London
He received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Star medal
He is noted as being born 26 April 1892 at Pukahu and dying on 6 Jan 1972 on death documentation in his military records with next of kin noted as Mrs A.R.M.E. CULLEN, 144 Te Mata Road, Havelock North.
Discharged from active service 14 Nov 1916 due to war wounds.
Noted as 2nd son of John Eugene CULLEN paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=AS... newspaper portrait. So who was the firstborn son? Not John White CULLEN [SEE FURTHER DOWN] as he was supposedly born 1912, not before 1896.
3 - Rosalind Iris Elizabeth CULLEN born c1903 [6] mothers name given as Leah Elizabeth
I can find no death in indexes for Leah, Lillian or Lydia CULLEN – John Eugene’s first wife.
John later married Emily Mary COX. NZ Dept of Internal Affairs historic BDM indexes has 1928 [1] as the registration but it may be that a new marriage certificate was applied for that year.
The child with Emily:
John White CULLEN is noted on NZ dept of Internal Affairs as born c1929 [3] or it is probable that a new birth certificate was acquired as it appears John White CULLEN was born c1912 according to other sources.
Further to John Eugene CULLEN’s war service:
Theatres of operation: Western European: 1916.17.18
Admitted to hospital in France 31 March 1917 with slight hernia
Discharged from military at Etaples due to no longer physically fit for war service on account of illness contracted on active service. Address to be discharged to: 29 Charlotte Street, Mt Eden, Auckland
Disability: [a] overage and [b] inguinal hernia
Essential facts in the history of the disability:
In October 1916 felt pains in left inguinal region. Paraded sick – did not leave the line. Left line March 22nd 1917 with the rupture - sent to 6 stationary Hospital for 11 days, - then to 18 General for operation – there contracted Trench Fever (no operation performed). Then to 5 Con. Con [illegible]. Arrived in Etaples May 1817, cooking whilst in depot. Had to give [illegible] of pain Jan 15th 1918.
Causation of the disability:-
(a) Natural (b) Active service (tunnelling)
Present condition of the patient:
There is a well marked inguinal hernia on left side. Easily reducible.
Looks his age but appears to be fine, is very [illegible].
Recommendation:
That he be sent to New Zealand.
Allowance was being paid for 1 child during war service.
Awarded: British War medal; Victory medal
Occupation noted at John Eugene’s death: Journalist
Emily, John Eugene’s 2nd wife died 10 September 1949 aged 69. The cemetery database states same division [Wesley F] and row [4]as John but plot 3 not 31. Am wondering if this is an error and she is in fact buried with John.
John Eugene’s military records are available to read online:
archway.archives.govt.nz/ViewFullItem.do?code=21005375&am...
SOURCES:
[1]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1928/3934
[2]
Military records
[3]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1929/20564
[4]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Marriage registration 1896/369
[5]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1895/8926
[6]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1903/6773
[7]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Birth registration 1896/14140
[8]
NZ Dept Internal Affairs: Death registration 1896/14140