Ulysses Grant Bleasdale was born October 16, 1865, in Orange Township, Ohio, one of seven children of British immigrant Thomas Calvert Bleasdale and Ohio native Mary Adeline Thorp. They farmed. …
This is the first time I’ve posted a Colorado photo, only to relate a tragic backstory rooted in Texas. The story involved brothers Willie and Arthur Halliburton, who signed the…
Photo postcard signed “Ottoni,” (probably Ottoni Matta Pederson), Brush CO, ca. 1908 – 1910.
Photo postcard signed “Ottoni,” (probably Ottoni Matta Pederson), Brush CO, ca. 1908 – 1910.
The girl in the photo wrote on the back of this undated postcard addressed to Ella Pedersen of Brush: “A Merry XMAS and a Happy New Year from your schoolmate,…
The founder of the Eben Ezer Sanatorium was the Reverend Jens Madsen, who was born in Denmark in 1869. In 1893, Madsen emigrated to the United States and entered the…