Circa 1900 to 1920
Cass County, Michigan
The Andrus Collection
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007grainboiler
Grain boiler
| Edwardsburg Photos
Circa 1900 to 1920 Cass County, Michigan The Andrus Collection Page 1 |
007grainboiler Grain boiler |
Photos property of Dean Andrus and @ copyrighted with special permission given to the Cass County Genweb to use them on site.
To find out about purchasing a CD, which has approximately 339 photos, not all of the photos are here on site, contact Mr. Dean Andrus at - hazard139@aol.comDean Andrus, son of Charles Andrus who, with his Uncle George Andrus and Grandfather, Henry Andrus owned and operated the Edwardsburg Argus for many years. Dean grew up in Edwardsburg and as kid found a box of 350 glass plate negatives of photos taken of the Edwardsburg area from 1900 to 1920 or so by George. The story of my finding them and finally scanning them and producing a CD of the images is attached in the introduction that Dean wrote to go along with the CD which he donated to the Edwardsburg Library, the Edwardsburg Area Historical Museum and to this web site (most recently) Dean had recently been in touch with a cousin, Ben Kinsey, who had submitted a number of items for our inclusion on this GenWeb site and this has led Dean to consider submitting the photos for use on the site to make them more widely available to the public and hopefully get some help in identifying some of the people and places depicted.
This collage includes photos of churches, streets, houses, barns, schools, businesses, cottages, lake, auto livery, horse and buggy, funeral home, hearse, etc. and a lot of people. Those of Dean's family have been identified along with a few of the others and the Museum has identified a few more. They take walks around town yearly to try and identify other homes in the photos.
Can you help identify anyone or place in the collage of photos below? Some have been identified and others are a mystery.
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photos for additional information
 001grainmill Grain Mill |
 002mainstreet Main street loking East from Argus Off. |
 003hillview View from W. or Town |
 005school School house |
 006depot Edwardsburg Depot |
 017birdhouse Birdhouse |
 008grain-boilers Grain mill boiler |
 009depot Earlier photo of Depot |
 010main_drugs Main Street |
 011cass_st East Side of Cass Street |
 012shermanhouse Sherman House |
 013church Methodist Church |
 014pcardmulti Collage for post card |
 015bankint Bank Interior |
 016house-couple Mr. & Mrs. Aiken |
 018housecouple House at 69124 Maple Street |
 018ahousecouple See Below |
 019house_5 House on Cass Street |
 021house-farm House with windmill - unidentified |
 022house unidentified |
 023house unidentified |
 024house Aldrich Farm |
 025house Unidentified |
 026house Winslow House |
 027house Tuesley house |
 028house Methodist Parsonage |
 029cabin Cabin with unknown boy |
 030house Ezra Miller house |
Reference Number and description
001 grain mill - Grain Mill, boiler, Steam engine, belts & pulleys for drying grains. October, 1909.
002 Main Street looking east from Argus Office.
003 hillview - West of town, near present school and Barber house, Baptist and Methodist churches. Baptist church was moved north or town near Shanahan's and used as a barn.
004* Cass St. looking south from Main St. M. F. Truitt Tobacco and Cigars, J. M. Hicks Meat Market, Tuesley Bakery, Rinehart Grocery, Claire See page 9
005 school - Schoolhouse in the center of the block, as viewed from the Methodist Church on Church St. Torn down in 1923.
006 depot - Depot, Grand Trunk Railroad, built in 1872, photo in 1914 - Wilmer Dempsey by auto.
007 grainboiler - Grain Mill Boiler installation on October 1909. Carpenter Crain Co. (later, Wendt). Brickin in the boilers for drying grain by Charlie and George Haines, Dave Niver
and Charles Andrus mixing mud for them.
008 grain_boilers - Grain mill boiler installation with large steam engine flywheels showing.
009 depot - Depot, Grand Trunk Railroad, with lumber yard office behind.
010 main_drugs - Main Street looking west from Cass St. B. O. Fisk Drug Store, Post Office, Carlisle House, Schock House, Dan Barber's Store.
011 cass_st - East Side of Cass Streeta; Ford Garage and Auto Livery. Merle Claire second from left.
012 shermanhouse - Sherman house on Main Street - Meeting room upstairs.
013**church - Methodist Church built 1892 and parsonage built about 1913. Steeples removed in 1924 after windstorm damage. Rev. Anderon's horse in background.
014 pcardmulti - Collage for post card. Presbyterian Church in 1912 before moving and rebuilding.
015 bankint - Bank interior, in the Manchow Building, with Harley Carlisle in the teller's cage.
016 house-couple House at 69124 Main Street at Lake St. Mr. and Mrs. Aiken in photo.
018 & 018a - Runkle house at 69124 Maple street - and 018a is a close up of Henry and Adelaide Runkle.
019 house_5 - House on Cass Street. Robert Snyder home, later Lee home. 6 people in yard. Anyone know who they are?
021 house_farm - House with windmil - unknown residence
022* house - Unidentified house omitted from page - see page 9
023 house - Unidentified house
024 house - Henry Aldrich farm on Conrad Road., 3/4 miles N. of US 12.
025 house - Unidentified house with auto and windmill
026 house - Pierce Winslow house where Charles and Letta Andrus lived until building theri own. Zendella (Truitt) Andrus is seated in the yard.
027 house - George Tuesley house, 27203 US12, first house west of ChicagoRoad. School. Beopple family in car.
028 house- Methodist Parsonage, 1872 to 1912, Probably Rev. C. Anderson standing near window.
029 cabin - Summer cottage with small unidentified boy
030 house - Ezra Miller house, known as the Biron home. Intersection of Main and Jefferson Street.
* Indicates newly scanned negatives, shown as “not printed” on the Flip Album
CD due to under- or over-exposure.
** Indicates rescans of negatives of poor quality on the Flip Album CD.