Finding Uncle Henry

Someone's Uncle Henry Milliken

from Maine

My grandfather as a model~ Ralph Smith at 3 years old

for an advertisement for children's "waists"  in 1897

Leo Otte's (seated far left) bar 1930's in Toledo Ohio

An unknown girl from my husband's Otte side

circa late 1800's

I used the image as a transfer against some old correspondence

from a shop in Delphos that I found with the picture.

Husband David Cory's Great Grandfather Grant Cory 

circa late 1890's  post-Spanish American War.

Grant Cory's Cigar and  Bike shop~ Alexandria, Va

As I was going through the tintypes and cabinet photos that my Dad had picked up at a grange hall sale in Maine, I always like to look up names if there are any on the photos. Google is a good friend at these times. I was able to track down someone's Uncle Henry Milliken  (in the first photo) as possibly being on the Portland, Maine Board of Trade in 1887 and presiding over the marriage of John Blake  & Lena Smith in October 1883 in the town of Ellsworth, Maine, the same town where photo was found. He also was possibly the same Henry Milliken that was born in Bath, Me in 1843.


The second photo is one that had been saved by my family with my grandfather being used as a model for an advertisement for children's "waists" at 3 years old in 1897.


I have access to an album of my husband's family which I've scanned for artwork.


Less is known about my husband's family photo of the young girl with slightly crossed eyes other than it was taken in Delphos, Ohio.


So many of these old photos have no names on them except for the photography shop name  I'm finding.