[10 October, 1933] [Salem, Oregon] Dear Grandmother and Grandfather: Are you behaving with the dignity proper to such elevated stations? We got Mother’s letter yesterday and were properly thrilled and excited — as was the whole Blind School. We didn’t expect it quite so soon. They are all right, are they? I’m glad it’s all [more...]
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[10 October, 1933] [Salem, Oregon] Dearest Jean, How proud you sound! If you knew how cocked up we are to be a nuncle and a naunt, you’d think we’d had the baby. I’m so glad she’s here and that everything’s all right. What does she look like, aside from being the most beautiful and marvellous [more...]
1933 SEP 15 PM 10 21 NA91 50 NL SALEM ORE 15 MRS F W COLE 6220 MAIN ST INTERBAY TAMPA FLO I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT PAPA IS HAPPY AT LAST NOW YOU HAVE ONLY THE SAME GLAD MEMORIES OF HIM I HAVE HE WAS THE FINEST KINDEST MOST PERFECT GENTLEMAN ON EARTH AND [more...]
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[Probably 1910s or 1920s] I’ve just found these photos in my grandfather’s scrapbook, unlabeled. The house, I am sure, is his grandparents’ house on Piermont Avenue in Grand View-on-Hudson, New York; the man is almost certainly is grandfather, William Cook Disbrow, Jr., as his age is about right and his face is very, very similar [more...]
As printed in The New York Times, 27 June, 1919: DISBROW. — At Grand View-on-Hudson, on June 24, 1919, Elizabeth Bulger, wife of William C. Disbrow. Funeral service private.
