Red velvet album in very poor condition. Gift of Susan Carver Buchanan. Album is that of Ellwood Townsend and his wife, Ida Diller, who were from Smyrna, Sadsbury Township, Lancaster County. Album contains cabinet cards.
Photograph- Gentlemen standing on the steps of the Stockyard Hotel.
Description
Gentlemen standing on the steps of the Stockyard Hotel. First row, left to right: George Kocher, George Adams, J. C. Schrack, Harry Stauffer, Harry Snavely, Frank C. Musser. Second row, left to right: H. P. Kennedy, Andrew Frantz, Isaac Douts, Louis Lyons, Herbert Kress, James Sherer, Eugene Wingender. Third row, left to right: Maurcie Brubaker, Edward Shultz, John Miller, Isaac N. Eby. Back row, left to right: David Fulmer, James Caldwell, Walter Dunlap, W. Scott Grube, E. E. Maybee, Oliver Brubaker, Isaac Musser, J. R. P., Jonas Minnich, B. D. Fox, Thomas Scanlon, William Young, William Troutman.
This collection of photographs pertains to the family of Fanny Grove (b. 1874, d. bet. 1930-1938), daughter of Amos Grove (b. 1837, d. 1893) and Sarah O'Brien (b. 1840, d. 1924) of Marietta and Fanny Grove's husband, Henry Spangler Rich (b. 1867, d. 1938). Henry S. Rich was a prominent businessman in Marietta - a banker with First National Bank of Marietta and as an insurance agent, among other businesses. The Rich family lived at Prospect Place, a home on Fairview Avenue in Marietta. Amos Grove, father of Fanny Grove Rich, owned the Accomac, a summer vacation spot on the York County side of the Susquehanna River. He also maintained the boarding and mess tents at the Landisville Campmeeting.
