The Mueller-Harder Family

[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 to my grandfather’s face at the same age.

More research to do….

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.

[prob. 1910s or early 1920s]
Eau Claire, Wisc.

Wish we knew the date, but the letter actually tells us a great deal.

Headquarters
Woman's Relief Corps,
Department of Wisconsin
Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic.
Office of Ada B. Cooper, Department President.
Eau Claire, Wisc.,.........191_

Dear Betty,
We have a baby and its name is baby Jean
and it is laughing all the time. its eyes
are blue. and I thank you for the fan you
sent me and I haven't evr
seen a fan like that Befor.
I am going to have my picture
taken with baby Jean and
I will send you a picture of
me and baby Jean.
Yor Casun Ada Marion Kasten.

[Between 1911 and 1915]

A new car, perhaps? Clearly the Coles are pleased with their fancy machine. I don’t yet know exactly when the Coles and Coopers left Black River Falls, Wisconsin, for Florida — but obviously this is Florida.

Left to right, Frank Lafayette Cooper (?), Ella Bowman Cole, Francis Wayland Cole, and Rachel Cole Cooper (?). Not sure of the dog’s name. The date could be anywhere from 1911 to 1915. The back of the photograph is labeled by Jean Cooper Disbrow:

early, undeveloped
7 miles out of Tampa, Fla.
1912 — — —

Left to right, Rachel Cole Cooper (?), Francis Wayland Cole, Frank Lafayette Cooper (?), and Ella Bowman Cole. The date could be anywhere from 1911 to 1915. The back of the photograph is labeled by Jean Cooper Disbrow:

Interbay — 1914 — — — — ?

[Spring, 1911]
[Interbay, Florida]